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2012Metaprogramming for Madmen (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
140 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2012YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (slate.com)
140 points | 2 years ago with 155 comments
2005Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (randomhacks.net)
139 points | 8 years ago with 113 comments
2005Logarithmic Maps of the Universe (astro.princeton.edu)
139 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2009How do trains stay on track? (materials.mcmaster.ca)
139 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments
2009Cloudflare Beta (projecthoneypot.org)
139 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2010Power Laws and Rich-Get-Richer Phenomena (cs.cornell.edu)
139 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2011CS143: Compilers (keithschwarz.com)
139 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2011Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (npr.org)
139 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2012What Is Bayesian/Frequentist Inference? (normaldeviate.wordpress.com)
139 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2012What will programming look like in 2020? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
139 points | 3 years ago with 146 comments
2012Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com)
139 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2001Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work (businessweek.com)
138 points | 14 years ago with 57 comments
2002Rubbish (wweek.com)
138 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2003Understanding Image Sharpness (normankoren.com)
138 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
2004What colour are your bits? (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
138 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2005Lost in the Meritocracy (theatlantic.com)
138 points | 12 years ago with 61 comments
2005Programming with Punched Cards (columbia.edu)
138 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2007The art of sharpening pencils (matthewjamestaylor.com)
138 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
2007Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (greem.co.uk)
138 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2007Sleep and Mortality: A Population-Based 22-Year Follow-Up Study (fermatslibrary.com)
138 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2009How I Hire Programmers (aaronsw.com)
138 points | 10 years ago with 38 comments
2009The Strangest Book on the Theory of Computation (recursed.blogspot.com)
138 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2010Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (scientificamerican.com)
138 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
2012Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (postgresql.org)
138 points | 10 years ago with 45 comments
2012From Java code to Java heap (ibm.com)
138 points | 9 years ago with 85 comments
2012What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (tor.com)
138 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments
2000Basics of Concrete Barriers (highways.dot.gov)
137 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2005Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable (pmi.org)
137 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2007A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers (betterexplained.com)
137 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments
2007How to hire the best people you've ever worked with (pmarchive.com)
137 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
2008“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (lightspeedmagazine.com)
137 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
2010The structures of computation and the mathematical structure of nature (rutherfordjournal.org)
137 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2010Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (web.archive.org)
137 points | 8 years ago with 77 comments
2010How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask Its True Debt (spiegel.de)
137 points | 10 years ago with 93 comments
2012Page Weight Matters (blog.chriszacharias.com)
137 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2012A very casual introduction to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
137 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2002The IPv6 mess (cr.yp.to)
136 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 129 comments
2004Consider the Lobster (gourmet.com)
136 points | 10 years ago with 48 comments
2006Loopless Code (jsoftware.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 129 comments
2007The origin of circuits (damninteresting.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2007Jewish Calendar Demystified (stevemorse.org)
136 points | 2 years ago with 90 comments
2009Be sceptical of your own work (terrytao.wordpress.com)
136 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2010Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2011Nerds, we need to have a talk (thingist.com)
136 points | 12 years ago with 85 comments
2011Nobody Cares (bhorowitz.com)
136 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2011Why do Windows functions begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
136 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2011What It's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs (inventor-labs.com)
136 points | 9 years ago with 43 comments
2011Donut math: how donut.c works (a1k0n.net)
136 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
20111991's PC technology was unbelievable (zdnet.com)
136 points | 4 years ago with 235 comments
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