Lev Landau's “Theoretical Minimum”(physics.stackexchange.com)70 points by belter 3 years ago | 45 comments
How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)129 points by edent 3 years ago | 33 comments
How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)200 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 130 comments
Why don't we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”? (2012)(math.stackexchange.com)98 points by curling_grad 3 years ago | 74 comments
Why did base64 win against uuencode?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)200 points by egorpv 2 years ago | 91 comments
What process created this X11 window?(unix.stackexchange.com)105 points by signa11 3 years ago | 61 comments
