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2010A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (ribbonfarm.com)
146 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2010What Car Thieves Think of the Club (freakonomics.com)
146 points | 6 years ago with 125 comments
2010Creating Pixel Art (pixeljoint.com)
146 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
2011"Another World" source code review (fabiensanglard.net)
146 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2011The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (dorophone.blogspot.com)
146 points | 10 years ago with 113 comments
2012Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar (newatlas.com)
146 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2012What Killed the Linux Desktop (tirania.org)
146 points | 8 years ago with 293 comments
2012CSE 392 – Programming Challenges (www3.cs.stonybrook.edu)
146 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2000Unix Wars (livinginternet.com)
145 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments
2000Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (wired.com)
145 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2002Security in Plan 9 (9p.io)
145 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2003Geek Social Fallacies (plausiblydeniable.com)
145 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2004Great Hacker != Great Hire (ericsink.com)
145 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 104 comments
2007There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (terrytao.wordpress.com)
145 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2007Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (pa3fwm.nl)
145 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2008What Sucks About Erlang (damienkatz.net)
145 points | 7 years ago with 103 comments
2008Differential Forms and Integration (math.ucla.edu)
145 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2009Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (research.microsoft.com)
145 points | 10 years ago with 87 comments
2011MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
145 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments
2011Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller (gizmodo.com)
145 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2011Job interviews go both ways (diegobasch.com)
145 points | 11 years ago with 80 comments
2012Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (harpers.org)
145 points | 6 years ago with 122 comments
2012Controversial Programming Opinions (programmers.blogoverflow.com)
145 points | 4 years ago with 328 comments
2012Engineering Statistics Handbook (itl.nist.gov)
145 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2012The Nature of Code (natureofcode.com)
145 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2012Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (0fps.net)
145 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2003John Carmack's adolescent years (books.google.com)
144 points | 10 years ago with 77 comments
2003The Clock (techno-logic-art.com)
144 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2006How JPEG actually works (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
144 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2006A book list for OS kernel developers and device driver writers (jdebp.eu.)
144 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2006The “C Is Efficient” Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)
144 points | 9 years ago with 102 comments
2006Why I often implement things from scratch (armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com)
144 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments
2006RSS Autodiscovery (rssboard.org)
144 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2007Loudness (chicagomasteringservice.com)
144 points | 8 years ago with 82 comments
2009Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (detexify.kirelabs.org)
144 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2009Lambda Calculus Examples (ics.uci.edu)
144 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2009The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (ubiquity.acm.org)
144 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2010The Shannon Limit (news.mit.edu)
144 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2010Emacs is Dead (tkf.github.io)
144 points | 12 years ago with 110 comments
20108880 Super Car (technicopedia.com)
144 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2012What made Bell Labs special? (stat.columbia.edu)
144 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2012Generating all permutations, combinations, and power set of a string (exceptional-code.blogspot.com)
144 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2012Edge of the Abyss (smh.com.au)
144 points | 9 years ago with 32 comments
2000Red Hat Is Not Linux (web.archive.org)
143 points | 2 years ago with 184 comments
20011% the Code (colorforth.com)
143 points | 9 years ago with 152 comments
2001Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (marksimonson.com)
143 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2002Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine (arxiv.org)
143 points | 7 years ago with 70 comments
2005Ten Rules for Web Startups (evhead.com)
143 points | 10 years ago with 11 comments
2006Web designers should get good training in typography (ia.net)
143 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments
2006A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality, by Eric Schmidt (google.com)
143 points | 15 years ago with 33 comments
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