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1.
Tower of Babel
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1 point
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btrask
on Feb 13, 2021
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Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia (2001)
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well.com
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2 points
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btrask
on Sept 25, 2020
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Venture Capital’s Biggest Fear (2011)
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red-sweater.com
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btrask
on Sept 6, 2020
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WebKit Shutting Down (April Fools 2007)
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webkit.org
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13 points
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btrask
on Sept 2, 2020
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1 comment
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How do you use Leanplum tracking in Firefox?
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support.mozilla.org
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on Aug 5, 2020
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GNU Hello: another implementation of the classic program that prints Hello World
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gnu.org
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btrask
on June 14, 2020
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“Humans had finally become a multi-planetary species” (2016)
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2 points
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btrask
on Dec 20, 2019
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N-Rays
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1 point
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on July 7, 2019
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Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
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9 points
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on May 20, 2019
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2 comments
10.
Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)
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xkcd.com
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340 points
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on Dec 21, 2018
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269 comments
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How to commit fraud and get away with it: A Guide for CEOs (2013)
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macroresilience.com
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on Nov 6, 2018
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No, it’s not the Incentives–it’s you
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talyarkoni.org
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on Oct 25, 2018
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Gene drive
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wikipedia.org
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on Aug 10, 2017
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14.
How sandboxing works in Fuchsia
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googlesource.com
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243 points
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on June 18, 2017
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167 comments
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July 12th: Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
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battleforthenet.com
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160 points
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on June 6, 2017
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42 comments
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Jitterdämmerung: Advantages of JITs less than promised (2015)
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metaobject.com
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4 points
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on June 5, 2017
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Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf]
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lamport.azurewebsites.net
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9 points
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btrask
on Jan 30, 2017
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1 comment
18.
Thinking for Programmers, by Leslie Lamport [video]
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youtube.com
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13 points
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btrask
on Jan 30, 2017
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19.
The struggle with Rust
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ayende.com
)
3 points
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btrask
on Jan 25, 2017
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DRAM latency then and now
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gist.github.com
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2 points
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btrask
on Jan 23, 2017
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Works like the train toilet
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everything2.com
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2 points
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btrask
on Jan 20, 2017
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Things you probably didn’t know about Google BigQuery
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medium.com/google-cloud
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1 point
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on Jan 17, 2017
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Immunity-aware programming
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wikipedia.org
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1 point
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btrask
on Jan 17, 2017
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The Ancient Sendmail Capabilities Issue
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sites.google.com
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2 points
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btrask
on Jan 14, 2017
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Versioning in the libvirt library
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berrange.com
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2 points
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on Jan 14, 2017
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China brain
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wikipedia.org
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4 points
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btrask
on Jan 10, 2017
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27.
Cypherpunk Desert Bus: My Role in the 2016 Zcash Trusted Setup Ceremony
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petertodd.org
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2 points
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btrask
on Jan 9, 2017
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28.
Fast coroutines in C from BSNES
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byuu.org
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26 points
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btrask
on Dec 17, 2016
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2 comments
29.
The Challenge of Computer Mathematics [pdf]
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ru.nl
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7 points
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btrask
on Oct 31, 2016
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30.
Nicola's Decentralized Research reading list
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github.com/nicola
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15 points
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on Oct 19, 2016
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