No. 25Unchecked
America will collapse by 2025 (2010)
salon.com · Learning & ideas
30.2durability64% evidence confidence
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No. 26Unchecked
How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015)
npr.org · Learning & ideas
37.2durability100% evidence confidence
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Persistence16.4/20
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No. 27Unchecked
On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
arxiv.org · Learning & ideas
36.8durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 28Unchecked
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance
technologyreview.com · Learning & ideas
33.8durability70% evidence confidence
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Sustained discussion7.5/10
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No. 29Unchecked
An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
hckrnews.com · Design & interfaces
48.0durability100% evidence confidence
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Persistence20.0/20
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No. 30Unchecked
I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing (2008) [pdf]
nickbostrom.com · Learning & ideas
31.9durability79% evidence confidence
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Persistence16.1/20
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No. 31Unchecked
User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints
rachelbythebay.com · Learning & ideas
30.5durability64% evidence confidence
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No. 32Unchecked
Everyone has JavaScript, right?
kryogenix.org · Software engineering
40.9durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 33Unchecked
Benford's Law
en.wikipedia.org · Learning & ideas
44.5durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 34Unchecked
ZeroTier - Simple Software Defined Networking
zerotier.com · Software engineering
37.6durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 35Unchecked
The Mercury programming language
mercurylang.org · Software engineering
37.5durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 36Unchecked
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
arxiv.org · Learning & ideas
37.8durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 37Unchecked
Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine
startpage.com · Security & privacy
41.2durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 38Unchecked
A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)
blog.regehr.org · Learning & ideas
38.3durability93% evidence confidence
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No. 39Unchecked
Learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse C# programmer
lukeplant.me.uk · Software engineering
30.8durability64% evidence confidence
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No. 40Unchecked
Are Flat Earthers Being Serious?
livescience.com · Learning & ideas
29.3durability48% evidence confidence
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Sustained discussion7.5/10
Persistence11.6/20
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No. 41Unchecked
Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf]
cs.kent.ac.uk · Software engineering
37.7durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 42Unchecked
Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)
joelonsoftware.com · Learning & ideas
44.2durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 43Unchecked
Fixing Unix Filenames (2012)
dwheeler.com · Systems & infrastructure
38.4durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 44Unchecked
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
pudding.cool · Learning & ideas
41.6durability100% evidence confidence
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No. 45Unchecked
Node OS
node-os.com · Learning & ideas
37.7durability86% evidence confidence
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Persistence15.4/20
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No. 46Live
Standard Ebooks
standardebooks.org · Learning & ideas
89.2durability100% evidence confidence
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Repeat traction30.0/30
Sustained discussion10.0/10
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No. 47Unchecked
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists? (2023)
newyorker.com · Learning & ideas
28.2durability59% evidence confidence
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Independent discovery14.7/20
Sustained discussion5.0/10
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No. 48Unchecked
The brain is not a computer
aeon.co · Hardware & making
40.8durability100% evidence confidence
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