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2012The Case for the /usr Merge (freedesktop.org)
136 points | 2 years ago with 159 comments
2012A Tour of Acme (research.swtch.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2012My Laptop Bit Me – The Shocking Truth (enclydion.blogspot.com)
136 points | 6 years ago with 116 comments
2012Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (arstechnica.com)
136 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2002HyperCard: What Could Have Been (wired.com)
135 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2005Ideas for Startups (paulgraham.com)
135 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
2005How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (gamasutra.com)
135 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2005Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom (damninteresting.com)
135 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2009The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (web.mit.edu)
135 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2009JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language (lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov)
135 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2011The Society of Mind (ocw.mit.edu)
135 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2011The Terrible Secret (blog.corememory.io)
135 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments
2011How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (code.mixpanel.com)
135 points | 12 years ago with 43 comments
2012Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (npr.org)
135 points | 10 years ago with 95 comments
2012Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (ahefner.livejournal.com)
135 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
2000The Evolution of Operating Systems (brinch-hansen.net)
134 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2002Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (bellard.org)
134 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2003Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake (usu.edu)
134 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2006Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (washington.edu)
134 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2006Andrew Mason asking for advice on "selling a website idea" (sitepoint.com)
134 points | 12 years ago with 24 comments
2006PC Assembly Book (pacman128.github.io)
134 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2007What things cost in Ancient Rome (constantinethegreatcoins.com)
134 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2010Computing 10,000X more efficiently (web.media.mit.edu)
134 points | 11 years ago with 58 comments
2011Cardinality Estimation (cs.princeton.edu)
134 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
20111% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (feross.org)
134 points | 12 years ago with 90 comments
2000Scooping the Loop Snooper (lel.ed.ac.uk)
133 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2000So you want to contact Brian Eno? (music.hyperreal.org)
133 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2004The Graphing Calculator Story (nucalc.com)
133 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2005How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (spiders.ucr.edu)
133 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments
2005Paul Graham Is Wrong (aaronsw.com)
133 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2005TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (stuartcheshire.org)
133 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2006Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (seedmagazine.com)
133 points | 15 years ago with 19 comments
2006The Unix spirit set free: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (docs.huihoo.com)
133 points | 11 years ago with 80 comments
2008My Job Interview at Google (catonmat.net)
133 points | 5 years ago with 155 comments
2010Don’t invert that matrix (johndcook.com)
133 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2010Cow Clicker (cowclicker.com)
133 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
2011Thinking, Fast and Slow (nytimes.com)
133 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2011In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (nicklevine.org)
133 points | 6 years ago with 126 comments
2011Race Condition vs. Data Race (blog.regehr.org)
133 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2011Joel Sposky's Take On Equity Allocation In A New Software Startup (money.stackexchange.com)
133 points | 11 years ago with 65 comments
2011Simple Made Easy (infoq.com)
133 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2012Ramanujan Factorial Approximation (johndcook.com)
133 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2012Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (hanselman.com)
133 points | 2 years ago with 123 comments
2012A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (jonmillward.com)
133 points | 4 years ago with 255 comments
2012Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (dothemath.ucsd.edu)
133 points | 6 years ago with 170 comments
2012In a Remote Part of Utah, Life Alone in a Hangar (nytimes.com)
133 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2000Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (mathforum.org)
132 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2000The wet bird (oyonale.com)
132 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2000Paul Erdős (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
132 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
2003The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (catb.org)
132 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
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