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1.	The Emoji Problem: Part I (2022)(artofproblemsolving.com) 2 points by downbad_ 4 days ago \| 0 comments
2.	BuyMeACoffee dropped support for many countries, and nobody cares (2024)(zverok.space) 1 points by downbad_ 4 days ago \| 0 comments
3.	NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)(nbcnews.com) 4 points by downbad_ 4 days ago \| 0 comments
4.	How Obama's BlackBerry got secured (2023)(electrospaces.net) 22 points by downbad_ 5 days ago \| 10 comments
5.	Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014)(mako.cc) 11 points by downbad_ 5 days ago \| 0 comments
6.	On Loyalty to Your Employer (2018)(medium.com) 2 points by downbad_ 5 days ago \| 0 comments
7.	Why is C the symbol for the speed of light? (2004)(math.ucr.edu) 7 points by downbad_ 5 days ago \| 0 comments
8.	The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003)(fathom.lib.uchicago.edu) 3 points by downbad_ 5 days ago \| 0 comments
9.	When Not to Obey Orders (2019)(warontherocks.com) 3 points by downbad_ 5 days ago \| 0 comments
10.	Richard Feynman's blackboard at time of his death (1988)(digital.archives.caltech.edu) 4 points by downbad_ 5 days ago \| 0 comments
11.	Why is zero plural? (2024)(ell.stackexchange.com) 5 points by downbad_ 6 days ago \| 1 comment
12.	Always Go to the Funeral (2005)(npr.org) 8 points by downbad_ 6 days ago \| 5 comments
13.	Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success Story (2021)(oecdecoscope.blog) 1 points by downbad_ 6 days ago \| 1 comment
14.	What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Do? (2018)(twobithistory.org) 2 points by downbad_ 6 days ago \| 0 comments
15.	The Taming of the Screw (2000)(americanhistory.si.edu) 1 points by downbad_ 6 days ago \| 0 comments
16.	I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)(mtlynch.io) 5 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| 0 comments
17.	Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021)(seirdy.one) 2 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| 0 comments
18.	Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)(franceshocutt.com) 2 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| 0 comments
19.	Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think (2023)(commoncog.com) 2 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| 0 comments
20.	The Waiting Time Paradox, Or, Why Is My Bus Always Late? (2018)(jakevdp.github.io) 2 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| 0 comments
21.	The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)(bbc.com) 2 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| 0 comments
22.	First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us (2022)(henrikkarlsson.xyz) 2 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| 0 comments
23.	Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)(diaspora.glasswings.com) 1 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| 1 comment
24.	Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)(kalzumeus.com) 2 points by downbad_ 8 days ago \| 0 comments
25.	You spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)(kenthendricks.com) 2 points by downbad_ 8 days ago \| 1 comment
26.	Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)(sites.lsa.umich.edu) 4 points by downbad_ 8 days ago \| 0 comments
27.	You Are Not Late (2014)(kk.org) 3 points by downbad_ 8 days ago \| 0 comments
28.	A Brief History of the U.S. Trying to Add Backdoors into Encrypted Data (2016)(atlasobscura.com) 3 points by downbad_ 9 days ago \| 0 comments