No. 1993Unchecked
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
sfwriter.com · Learning & ideas
38.5durability100% evidence confidence
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Sustained discussion10.0/10
Persistence16.1/20
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No. 1994Unchecked
SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)
sqlite.org · Systems & infrastructure
39.3durability70% evidence confidence
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Sustained discussion7.5/10
Persistence14.4/20
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No. 1995Unchecked
Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
anders.unix.se · Software engineering
36.8durability98% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Independent discovery17.4/20
Persistence14.4/20
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No. 1996Unchecked
Project Fi by Google
fi.google.com · Learning & ideas
34.1durability46% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Independent discovery12.0/20
Sustained discussion5.0/10
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No. 1997Unchecked
Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
stallman.org · Learning & ideas
49.5durability95% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Persistence16.4/20
Sustained discussion7.5/10
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No. 1998Unchecked
Thoughts on Flash
apple.com · Learning & ideas
46.8durability100% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Independent discovery18.0/20
Persistence16.4/20
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No. 1999Unchecked
How to Destroy the Earth (2006)
qntm.org · Learning & ideas
42.0durability100% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Persistence17.9/20
Independent discovery16.6/20
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No. 2000Unchecked
Evolution of Hacker News
techcrunch.com · Learning & ideas
30.3durability39% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Persistence11.3/20
Independent discovery10.1/20
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No. 2001Unchecked
The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register (2012)
randomascii.wordpress.com · Learning & ideas
24.6durability48% evidence confidence
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Persistence12.0/20
Independent discovery10.1/20
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No. 2002Unchecked
What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)
medium.com · Learning & ideas
27.9durability48% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Persistence12.8/20
Independent discovery10.1/20
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No. 2003Unchecked
Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
fastly.com · Learning & ideas
25.8durability32% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Sustained discussion5.0/10
Persistence9.1/20
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No. 2004Unchecked
Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
github.com · Systems & infrastructure
24.3durability39% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Independent discovery10.1/20
Sustained discussion5.0/10
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No. 2005Unchecked
In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)
npr.org · Learning & ideas
21.9durability32% evidence confidence
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Sustained discussion5.0/10
Persistence9.1/20
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No. 2006Unchecked
Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications
github.com · Software engineering
31.7durability100% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Persistence16.6/20
Independent discovery12.6/20
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No. 2007Unchecked
Vim Anti-Patterns
sanctum.geek.nz · Learning & ideas
30.6durability46% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Independent discovery12.0/20
Sustained discussion5.0/10
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No. 2008Unchecked
On Repl-Driven Programming
mikelevins.github.io · Software engineering
27.7durability55% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Independent discovery12.0/20
Persistence10.7/20
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No. 2009Unchecked
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
norvig.com · Software engineering
51.2durability100% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Sustained discussion10.0/10
Persistence18.7/20
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No. 2010Unchecked
The Silence Is Deafening
devonzuegel.com · Learning & ideas
21.9durability32% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Sustained discussion5.0/10
Persistence9.1/20
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No. 2011Unchecked
The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table”
colintoh.com · Web & internet
25.6durability64% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Persistence14.6/20
Sustained discussion5.0/10
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No. 2012Unchecked
How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?
gravityandlevity.wordpress.com · Learning & ideas
23.5durability32% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Persistence10.7/20
Sustained discussion5.0/10
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No. 2013Unchecked
Lightweight versions of websites without all the bloat
github.com · Learning & ideas
30.2durability79% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Persistence14.2/20
Independent discovery13.5/20
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No. 2014Unchecked
The fastest math typesetting library for the web
katex.org · Web & internet
38.0durability79% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Sustained discussion10.0/10
Persistence14.5/20
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No. 2015Unchecked
Angular 2 Final Released
angular.io · Learning & ideas
38.3durability68% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Independent discovery14.7/20
Persistence11.2/20
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No. 2016Unchecked
The seven programming ur-languages (2021)
madhadron.com · Software engineering
28.7durability39% evidence confidence
Strongest evidenceshare of maximum
Independent discovery10.1/20
Sustained discussion5.0/10
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