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1. Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative (stanford.edu)
843 points by ryzvonusef on Dec 18, 2022 | 1758 comments
2. “Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.” (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
496 points by x43b on Dec 4, 2021 | 393 comments
3. On Corpspeak (goodreason.substack.com)
231 points by signa11 on Aug 23, 2022 | 118 comments
4. An odd discovery on Spotify (robinsloan.com)
1056 points by breathenow on Aug 23, 2022 | 429 comments
5. Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town (justinmcelroy.com)
540 points by annapowellsmith on July 29, 2022 | 186 comments
6. The Preprocessor Iceberg Meme (jadlevesque.github.io)
273 points by camel-cdr on July 14, 2022 | 135 comments
7. The Grug Brained Developer (grugbrain.dev)
1068 points by huimang on June 22, 2022 | 374 comments
8. The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (tmm.cx)
344 points by erik on May 15, 2022 | 149 comments
9. Korn Meets KoRN (kornshell.com)
344 points by sgt on March 24, 2022 | 79 comments
10. A word used only by Postgres developers
286 points by ccleve on March 10, 2022 | 156 comments
11. Debugging Compilers with Optimization Fuel (ezyang.com)
20 points by goranmoomin on Jan 26, 2022 | 6 comments
12. An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet (thecut.com)
565 points by Jugurtha on April 8, 2021 | 279 comments
13. Man explodes his Tesla car with 30 kg dynamite after told repairs is expensive (freepressjournal.in)
34 points by mardiyah on Dec 20, 2021 | 12 comments
14. Nocom – 2b2t Minecraft server exploit using Monte-Carlo localization (github.com/nerdsinspace)
208 points by cyber_kinetist on Dec 19, 2021 | 80 comments
15. A stranger secretly lived in my home (theguardian.com)
167 points by Gupie on Sept 10, 2021 | 185 comments
16. Booting from a vinyl record (boginjr.com)
979 points by ruik on Nov 22, 2020 | 157 comments
17. My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry (zwobble.org)
701 points by mwilliamson on Aug 1, 2021 | 189 comments
18. Man-made super flu could kill half of humanity (rt.com)
272 points by munin on Nov 26, 2011 | 148 comments
19. Defer, Panic, and Recover - Go blog (golang.org)
40 points by pufuwozu on Aug 4, 2010 | 12 comments
20. Stamping the joy out of collectors (notalwaysright.com)
158 points by jasonhansel on April 17, 2021 | 128 comments
21. The Adams Event (unsw.edu.au)
90 points by layer8 on Feb 19, 2021 | 21 comments
22. Non-Posix File Systems (weinholt.se)
388 points by nsm on Sept 8, 2020 | 155 comments
23. If English were written like Chinese (1999) (zompist.com)
228 points by rogerbraun on Aug 20, 2016 | 94 comments
24. What Happened to Lee (wired.com)
1298 points by jgrahamc on April 15, 2020 | 280 comments

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