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1981.

Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship (blogs.wsj.com)

260 points by sethbannon on Nov 23, 2014 | 95 comments

1982.

Python and Flask Are Powerful (jeffknupp.com)

260 points by nichochar on Jan 19, 2014 | 75 comments

1983.

On bananas and string matching algorithms (wabbo.org)

260 points by cjbprime on Aug 23, 2014 | 62 comments

1984.

Fastsocket – A highly scalable socket for Linux (github.com)

260 points by nicolast on Oct 22, 2014 | 43 comments

1985.

Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf] (static.googleusercontent.com)

260 points by coderush on Dec 7, 2014 | 43 comments

1986.

Why I’m Giving Up My Passport (nytimes.com)

259 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 8, 2014 | 277 comments

1987.

Half a decade with Go (blog.golang.org)

259 points by geetarista on Nov 10, 2014 | 250 comments

1988.

Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings (chrome.blogspot.com)

259 points by slb on Feb 6, 2014 | 153 comments

1989.

Writers who will be entering the public domain in 2015 in many countries (publicdomainreview.org)

259 points by benbreen on Dec 23, 2014 | 150 comments

1990.

A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself (npr.org)

259 points by rrauenza on Nov 3, 2014 | 149 comments

1991.

Myths About Working as an Engineer at a Startup (karllhughes.com)

259 points by karlhughes on Aug 28, 2014 | 137 comments

1992.

Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro (rileybrandt.com)

259 points by _tznn on Mar 27, 2014 | 125 comments

1993.

Did The Harappan Civilization Avoid War for 2,000 Years? (io9.com)

259 points by fillskills on Nov 18, 2014 | 117 comments

1994.

Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society (nytimes.com)

259 points by tysone on Dec 4, 2014 | 111 comments

1995.

The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB (techreport.com)

259 points by ferrari8608 on Sep 23, 2014 | 110 comments

1996.

One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos (theguardian.com)

259 points by swatkat on May 1, 2014 | 106 comments

1997.

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (smithsonianmag.com)

259 points by spking on Feb 18, 2014 | 103 comments

1998.

A Minecraft world that has been played for 3.5 years (minecraft.xandorus.com)

259 points by rocky1138 on Nov 23, 2014 | 103 comments

1999.

My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom in Y Combinator (medium.com)

259 points by nnnnnn on Oct 14, 2014 | 97 comments

2000.

Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute (cnet.com)

259 points by jjp on Aug 13, 2014 | 88 comments

2001.

NYC taxi visualization (nyctaxi.herokuapp.com)

259 points by lalwanivikas on Jul 14, 2014 | 77 comments

2002.

Haste language (haste-lang.org)

259 points by kruipen on Apr 2, 2014 | 73 comments

2003.

Women's underwear gets an upgrade (artinfactmag.com)

259 points by lisch on Jul 11, 2014 | 70 comments

2004.

Tor Challenge (eff.org)

259 points by middleclick on Jun 5, 2014 | 65 comments

2005.

The $12 “Gongkai” Phone (2013) (bunniestudios.com)

259 points by megablast on Nov 22, 2014 | 61 comments

2006.

Nvidia submits patches to open source driver (lists.freedesktop.org)

259 points by tbrock on Feb 3, 2014 | 57 comments

2007.

CISPA is back with a new name (cispaisback.org)

259 points by fur0n on Jul 11, 2014 | 41 comments

2008.

Metacademy (metacademy.org)

259 points by edwardio on Apr 20, 2014 | 33 comments

2009.

Uber ordered to halt transportation services in Germany (dw.de)

258 points by sschueller on Sep 2, 2014 | 425 comments

2010.

Steve Jobs's response after getting a Google employee fired. (pando.com)

258 points by omegant on Mar 26, 2014 | 271 comments