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1591.

RMS Quits GNU Project (stallman.org)

70 points by eivarv on Sep 28, 2019 | 24 comments

1592.

Show HN: Quickly generate REST API (for Postgres db)

70 points by _c6yb on Sep 9, 2019 | 17 comments

1593.

Simjacker: SIM card flaw lets hackers hijack any phone by sending SMS (simjacker.com)

70 points by ohashi on Sep 13, 2019 | 15 comments

1594.

A Taxonomy of Moats (reactionwheel.net)

70 points by pagade on Sep 21, 2019 | 6 comments

1595.

Did Setting a Timeline Doom the Fight Against Global Warming? (onezero.medium.com)

69 points by 4mpm3 on Sep 5, 2019 | 136 comments

1596.

Chef CEO Defends Contract with ICE (blog.chef.io)

69 points by mbbennis on Sep 20, 2019 | 107 comments

1597.

A list of the top recipients on Patreon shows an obsession with the ordinary (bloomberg.com)

69 points by atlasunshrugged on Sep 2, 2019 | 106 comments

1598.

Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work (npr.org)

69 points by everybodyknows on Sep 20, 2019 | 102 comments

1599.

Houses are assets, not goods (bankunderground.co.uk)

69 points by AndrewDucker on Sep 6, 2019 | 98 comments

1600.

Orangutan with Human Rights Begins New Life in Florida (bbc.com)

69 points by brudgers on Sep 28, 2019 | 63 comments

1601.

A Low-Fare Loophole for International Travelers (wsj.com)

69 points by prostoalex on Sep 9, 2019 | 52 comments

1602.

Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G (anandtech.com)

69 points by rbanffy on Sep 6, 2019 | 42 comments

1603.

On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper (twitter.com)

69 points by tosh on Sep 23, 2019 | 31 comments

1604.

Where Dollar Bills Come From (npr.org)

69 points by danso on Sep 8, 2019 | 27 comments

1605.

Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace (gizmodo.com)

69 points by dwighttk on Sep 7, 2019 | 26 comments

1606.

Energy of the 229 Th nuclear clock transition (nature.com)

69 points by Tomte on Sep 12, 2019 | 26 comments

1607.

Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars (electrek.co)

69 points by evo_9 on Sep 19, 2019 | 17 comments

1608.

How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (1993) (fudco.com)

69 points by jp57 on Sep 17, 2019 | 15 comments

1609.

Starship – a cross-shell prompt written in Rust (starship.rs)

69 points by dsego on Sep 17, 2019 | 14 comments

1610.

Immune Cells Measure Time to Identify Foreign Proteins (quantamagazine.org)

69 points by Anon84 on Sep 28, 2019 | 8 comments

1611.

The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (2013) (engineering.linkedin.com)

69 points by the-enemy on Sep 13, 2019 | 1 comments

1612.

A recent study of Harvard’s admissions practices (bloomberg.com)

68 points by doppp on Sep 24, 2019 | 112 comments

1613.

Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians? (cbc.ca)

68 points by alexeyindeev on Sep 26, 2019 | 104 comments

1614.

Greta Thunberg: 'How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood' (youtube.com)

68 points by qgi on Sep 23, 2019 | 89 comments

1615.

I dropped out of MIT and started a new college in San Francisco, AMA (reddit.com)

68 points by DesaiAshu on Sep 26, 2019 | 74 comments

1616.

President Tyler, born in 1790, still has two living grandsons (2018) [video] (youtube.com)

68 points by smacktoward on Sep 13, 2019 | 52 comments

1617.

SoftBank and WeWork Are as Bad as Each Other (bloomberg.com)

68 points by LordAtlas on Sep 11, 2019 | 36 comments

1618.

Ask HN: Why Services like Facebook ads/stripe are closing Venezuelan accounts?

68 points by firekvz on Sep 1, 2019 | 29 comments

1619.

GNU Wget2 1.99.2 (Beta) (lists.gnu.org)

68 points by lelf on Sep 6, 2019 | 27 comments

1620.

The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995) (fermatslibrary.com)

68 points by denzil_correa on Sep 25, 2019 | 27 comments