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2003P-Values are not Error Probabilities (uv.es)
132 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments
2006The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (devblogs.microsoft.com)
132 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2007Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (theguardian.com)
132 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2008Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
132 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments
2009Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com)
132 points | 13 years ago with 3 comments
2009Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (math.ucr.edu)
132 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2011In defense of the Google Chef (blog.rongarret.info)
132 points | 11 years ago with 86 comments
2011Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (sixrevisions.com)
132 points | 12 years ago with 85 comments
2011Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (bbc.com)
132 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2011The Coming War on General Computation (opentranscripts.org)
132 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2012Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (swissinfo.ch)
132 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments
2012Working on The Witness, Part 1 (mollyrocket.com)
132 points | 11 years ago with 21 comments
2012Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (calnewport.com)
132 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments
2004Third-polarizing-filter experiment demystified (alienryderflex.com)
131 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2004Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into another port? (blogs.msdn.com)
131 points | 10 years ago with 152 comments
2005Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics (nothings.org)
131 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2005Most Published Research Findings Are False (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
131 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2005The Feynman File (discovermagazine.com)
131 points | 12 years ago with 9 comments
2006Why We Banned Legos (rethinkingschools.org)
131 points | 3 years ago with 408 comments
2009Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (cemerick.com)
131 points | 6 years ago with 136 comments
2009Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (eli.thegreenplace.net)
131 points | 11 years ago with 69 comments
2010Lockfree Algorithms (1024cores.net)
131 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments
2010Coin washer keeps Westin St. Francis' change shiny (sfgate.com)
131 points | 5 years ago with 114 comments
2010The Prolog Story (kylecordes.com)
131 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2010Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong (journal.dedasys.com)
131 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments
2011The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (evanmiller.org)
131 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2011Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors? (oli.jp)
131 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments
2011Composers as Gardeners (edge.org)
131 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2012If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter (quoteinvestigator.com)
131 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2012When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed (theweek.com)
131 points | 1 year ago with 78 comments
2012The Worst (moxie.org)
131 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2000When Radiohead sampled Paul Lansky (paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu)
130 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2003Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (gutenberg.org)
130 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
2003A Sudden Illness (newyorker.com)
130 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2006Do Portia Spiders Have a Mind? (dichotomistic.com)
130 points | 9 years ago with 53 comments
2007Software Is Hard (gamearchitect.net)
130 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2007So You Think You Have a Power Law (bactra.org)
130 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments
2007Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (archive.boston.com)
130 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2008From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (theguardian.com)
130 points | 11 years ago with 101 comments
2009The B Lane Swimmer (holly.witteman.ca)
130 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2010What Should a 4 Year Old Know? (magicalchildhood.wordpress.com)
130 points | 10 years ago with 130 comments
2011Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (chronicle.com)
130 points | 10 years ago with 73 comments
2011Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t (blog.aaroniba.net)
130 points | 12 years ago with 58 comments
2012Chinese Crankshafts (flycorvair.net)
130 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2012Principles of high-performance programs (blog.libtorrent.org)
130 points | 11 years ago with 22 comments
2012Amish Counter Top Kitchen Appliances Run Off Compressed Air (sufficientself.com)
130 points | 5 years ago with 170 comments
2012DNA has a 521-year half-life (nature.com)
130 points | 3 years ago with 94 comments
2003Printing and binding your own books and manuals (uazu.net)
129 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2004My First Death Threat (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
129 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2004A pair of dice which never roll 7 (chiark.greenend.org.uk)
129 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
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