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351 threads.

• Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS

  Hacker News · ▲ 166 · 95 comments · 2014 · Page

• Ruby is a dying language (?)

  r/programming · Thread · Page

• Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx

  Hacker News · ▲ 131 · 91 comments · highscalability.com · 2012 · Page

• Barman backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL

  Hacker News · ▲ 70 · 9 comments · pgbarman.org · 2012 · Page

• What is the best scientific paper you have read?

  r/askscience · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages [tarball]

  Hacker News · ▲ 83 · 15 comments · dl.getdropbox.com · 2009 · Page

• Hacker News | How to handle 1000′s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS

  Hacker News · ▲ 255 · 78 comments · markmaunder.com · 2011 · Page

• link to another of richard dawkin's books.

  r/atheism · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | Ask HN: I'm an unemployed programmer in SF that will work for minimum wage

  Hacker News · ▲ 127 · 135 comments · 2011 · Page

• Yup, you just saw that

  r/videos · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | No, shut up. What statistical programming languages can learn from Dropbox.

  Hacker News · ▲ 98 · 53 comments · erehweb.wordpress.com · 2011 · Page

• Hacker News | ITerm 2

  Hacker News · ▲ 185 · 80 comments · sites.google.com · 2011 · Page

• Hacker News | Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?

  Hacker News · ▲ 184 · 118 comments · 2011 · Page

• Hacker News | Easing into SICP

  Hacker News · ▲ 299 · 46 comments · 2011 · Page

• Hacker News | Vim Recipes

  Hacker News · ▲ 174 · 26 comments · vim.runpaint.org · 2011 · Page

• Hacker News | Why I love math

  Hacker News · ▲ 231 · 42 comments · 2010 · Page

• Respectful question: You guys actually like this stuff?

  r/math · Thread · Page

• Why Use R? (A nice introduction to R's advantages)

  r/programming · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript

  Hacker News · ▲ 164 · 34 comments · blog.reybango.com · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | Starting with Lisp: A collection of beginner pointers

  Hacker News · ▲ 63 · 23 comments · dreamincode.net · 2010 · Page

• Leaving .net

  r/programming · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | Leaving .net

  Hacker News · ▲ 355 · 213 comments · whatupdave.tumblr.com · 2010 · Page

• Vala: the language C++ should have been

  r/programming · Thread · Page

• I don't think I could have drawn a more perfect little Grammar Nazi.

  r/pics · Thread · Page

• Starbucks Hacks

  r/Frugal · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why

  Hacker News · ▲ 258 · 202 comments · 2010 · Page

• Some dumb questions about Practical Common Lisp

  r/lisp · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | Why Emacs is great - SLIME repl for developing in-browser javascript

  Hacker News · ▲ 95 · 23 comments · github.com · 2010 · Page

• Give Me Something To Read

  Hacker News · ▲ 78 · 7 comments · givemesomethingtoread.com · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News discussion on Algorithms and Data Structures by N. Wirth [pdf]

  Hacker News · ▲ 87 · 20 comments · www-old.oberon.ethz.ch · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | Cool stuff you can do with netcat

  Hacker News · ▲ 126 · 39 comments · en.wikipedia.org · 2010 · Page

• Steam Halloween 2010 Sale

  r/gaming · Thread · Page

• Land of Lisp released! Includes music video...

  r/lisp · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | Todos: a Backbone.js example Single-Page-App (with LocalStorage)

  Hacker News · ▲ 169 · 28 comments · documentcloud.github.com · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | What algorithm blows your mind? (Reddit compsci)

  Hacker News · ▲ 129 · 66 comments · 2010 · Page

• REDDIT: What algorithm BLOWS YOUR MIND?

  r/compsci · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | Ask HN: How do you tune your life?

  Hacker News · ▲ 99 · 40 comments · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | Ask HN: How do you secure yourself on public WiFi?

  Hacker News · ▲ 86 · 71 comments · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | How to write cross-platform code

  Hacker News · ▲ 109 · 40 comments · blog.backblaze.com · 2010 · Page

• GNU Parallel: Run any shell command on multiple cores and even across multiple clients

  r/programming · Thread · Page

• A letter from Gandhi to Hitler

  r/politics · Thread · Page

• what's different about lua

  Hacker News · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

  Hacker News · ▲ 131 · 61 comments · 2010 · Page

• What's the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read in your life?

  r/AskReddit · Thread · Page

• Hacker News | Ask HN: Good books?

  Hacker News · ▲ 181 · 167 comments · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | LaTeX CV Templates

  Hacker News · ▲ 95 · 56 comments · jblevins.org · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | Yosefk - My history with Forth & stack machines

  Hacker News · ▲ 147 · 43 comments · yosefk.com · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich

  Hacker News · ▲ 383 · 219 comments · seattle20.com · 2010 · Page

• Hacker News | Python+Scipy+Matplotlib vs Matlab?

  Hacker News · ▲ 73 · 44 comments · 2008 · Page

• Hacker News | Ask HN: Is a phD a good way to focus & motivate you?

  Hacker News · ▲ 39 · 56 comments · 2010 · Page