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2003Jacksonpollock.org (jacksonpollock.org)
165 points | 4 years ago with 151 comments
2003Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (lists.kde.org)
165 points | 12 years ago with 51 comments
2006Argentina on Two Steaks a Day (idlewords.com)
165 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2009My $3.3M Mistake (sivers.org)
165 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2009Yakhchal: Ancient Refrigerators (eartharchitecture.org)
165 points | 7 years ago with 49 comments
2009Sugar, acid and teeth (dbskeptic.com)
165 points | 12 years ago with 102 comments
2011If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (rachelbythebay.com)
165 points | 9 years ago with 112 comments
2011Math behind rotation in MS Paint (math.stackexchange.com)
165 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2011Why 3D doesn't work and never will (rogerebert.com)
165 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 91 comments
2011The Dangerous Power of Crowds (newyorker.com)
165 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2012The Best Magazine Articles Ever (kk.org)
165 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2012The Lambda Calculus for Absolute Dummies (palmstroem.blogspot.com)
165 points | 11 years ago with 34 comments
2001NES Game Genie Technical Notes (tuxnes.sourceforge.net)
164 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments
2003How to Write Unmaintainable Code (github.com)
164 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments
2005A Rocket to Nowhere (idlewords.com)
164 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2007Kelly Criterion (r6.ca)
164 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments
2007Self-Control Relies on Glucose as a Limited Energy Source (fermatslibrary.com)
164 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2009The $300M Button (articles.uie.com)
164 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments
2009Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (science.org)
164 points | 2 years ago with 75 comments
2009NASA Open Sources Apollo 11 Code (apcmag.com)
164 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments
2011Why is finance so complex? (interfluidity.com)
164 points | 10 years ago with 144 comments
2011Free Software Is More Reliable (gnu.org)
164 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments
2012KH-11 spysat design revealed by NRO’s telescope gift to NASA (americaspace.com)
164 points | 5 years ago with 113 comments
2012Goto in Bash (bobcopeland.com)
164 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2012Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills (edith.reisen)
164 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments
2001In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (joelonsoftware.com)
163 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 112 comments
2002Levels of code in Forth programming (ultratechnology.com)
163 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2005This Is Water (fs.blog)
163 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments
2006Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (ai.googleblog.com)
163 points | 2 years ago with 193 comments
2006So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org)
163 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
2007'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (phys.org)
163 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments
2010Self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination (law.utexas.edu)
163 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2004Switcher (folklore.org)
162 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2004Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (9p.io)
162 points | 6 years ago with 219 comments
2005AMD Killed the Itanium (utcc.utoronto.ca)
162 points | 2 years ago with 236 comments
2007The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
162 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2008Why Apple Chose Clang (opensource.apple.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments
2009Design of LuaJIT 2.0 (lua-users.org)
162 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2010Binary Decision Diagrams (crypto.stanford.edu)
162 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments
2010How to Detect a Toxic Customer (softwarebyrob.com)
162 points | 12 years ago with 64 comments
2011Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (web.archive.org)
162 points | 5 years ago with 101 comments
2012Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (blog.reverberate.org)
162 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2012Using Unix as an IDE (sanctum.geek.nz)
162 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments
2003How to make a complete map of every thought you think (users.speakeasy.net)
161 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2006Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (rgoarchitects.com)
161 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2007The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (marktarver.com)
161 points | 1 year ago with 130 comments
2008Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (web.mit.edu)
161 points | 7 years ago with 154 comments
2008Dynamic Languages Strike Back (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
161 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2010World War II – Not remotely believable (squid314.livejournal.com)
161 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 3 comments
2012How doctors choose to die (theguardian.com)
161 points | 10 years ago with 81 comments
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