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1. How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017)

   514 points • 157 comments • feb 24, 2019

2. “Illegal” Lego Builds (2006) [pdf]

   379 points • 56 comments • feb 24, 2019

3. Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas

   355 points • 286 comments • feb 24, 2019

4. ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts

   322 points • 199 comments • feb 24, 2019

5. CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014)

   301 points • 66 comments • feb 24, 2019

6. Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart

   291 points • 136 comments • feb 24, 2019

7. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

   276 points • 132 comments • feb 24, 2019

8. Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments

   273 points • 70 comments • feb 24, 2019

9. Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes

   273 points • 418 comments • feb 24, 2019

10. Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)

    270 points • 341 comments • feb 24, 2019