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1741.

MIT Media Lab hid excessive chemical dumping from regulators (propublica.org)

60 points by catacombs on Sep 20, 2019 | 15 comments

1742.

Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPhones from 4s to X (github.com)

60 points by modinfo on Sep 27, 2019 | 14 comments

1743.

High in the Cascades, a lone fire lookout still keeps watch (nytimes.com)

60 points by 8bitsrule on Sep 28, 2019 | 13 comments

1744.

Chinese Pillow History (wellcomecollection.org)

60 points by benbreen on Sep 10, 2019 | 12 comments

1745.

Reconstructing Denisovan Anatomy Using DNA Methylation Maps (cell.com)

60 points by bookofjoe on Sep 20, 2019 | 11 comments

1746.

Varlink – A plain-text, type-safe, discoverable, self-documenting interface (varlink.org)

60 points by 1_player on Sep 12, 2019 | 10 comments

1747.

Trolls Are Swarming Young Climate Activists Online (buzzfeednews.com)

59 points by iron0013 on Sep 26, 2019 | 139 comments

1748.

The Lisp Curse (2011) (winestockwebdesign.com)

59 points by felipelalli on Sep 9, 2019 | 98 comments

1749.

Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of an Effect on Climate Change (reason.com)

59 points by elorant on Sep 11, 2019 | 94 comments

1750.

Oracle’s Larry Ellison Calls Uber and WeWork ‘Almost Worthless’ (barrons.com)

59 points by ycombonator on Sep 20, 2019 | 92 comments

1751.

American Emergency Rooms Confront a Crisis of Violence (city-journal.org)

59 points by jseliger on Sep 22, 2019 | 88 comments

1752.

A Prison Lifer Comes Home (theatlantic.com)

59 points by johnny313 on Sep 28, 2019 | 82 comments

1753.

Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees (futurism.com)

59 points by vinnyglennon on Sep 21, 2019 | 74 comments

1754.

Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? (2018) (papers.ssrn.com)

59 points by ZeljkoS on Sep 21, 2019 | 61 comments

1755.

Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry (nytimes.com)

59 points by howsilly on Sep 23, 2019 | 56 comments

1756.

Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else’s messages (techcrunch.com)

59 points by jbegley on Sep 2, 2019 | 52 comments

1757.

Hundreds of Army PSYOP Specialists to be promoted this month (taskandpurpose.com)

59 points by scottlocklin on Sep 25, 2019 | 38 comments

1758.

Was Ramesses II That Great? (historyextra.com)

59 points by tintinnabula on Sep 20, 2019 | 35 comments

1759.

McCharge: McDonalds Is Now Charging EVs (thenextavenue.com)

59 points by reddotX on Sep 28, 2019 | 34 comments

1760.

London’s Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés (atlasobscura.com)

59 points by pepys on Sep 18, 2019 | 29 comments

1761.

IBM 7030 Stretch (en.wikipedia.org)

59 points by slater on Sep 9, 2019 | 24 comments

1762.

I started a business selling swim trunks made from recycled plastic bottles (starterstory.com)

59 points by patwalls on Sep 21, 2019 | 19 comments

1763.

Boston Dynamics Spot (bostondynamics.com)

59 points by wojciechpolak on Sep 24, 2019 | 8 comments

1764.

Show HN: I Made a Terraform Crash Course

59 points by movedx on Sep 22, 2019 | 7 comments

1765.

Dickmann's Autonomous Cars, 1980s [video] (youtube.com)

59 points by tobijkl on Sep 26, 2019 | 7 comments

1766.

'Everyone Should Have a Moral Code' Says Developer Who Deleted Code Sold to ICE (vice.com)

58 points by heshiebee on Sep 20, 2019 | 113 comments

1767.

How is the internet still obsessed with Myers-Briggs? (wired.co.uk)

58 points by dredmorbius on Sep 5, 2019 | 77 comments

1768.

Chef dependency removed after agreement with ICE (github.com)

58 points by gionn on Sep 20, 2019 | 71 comments

1769.

It’s China’s World (fortune.com)

58 points by known on Sep 16, 2019 | 61 comments

1770.

'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters (eu.usatoday.com)

58 points by tosh on Sep 3, 2019 | 54 comments