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5251.

Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia (kirkcenter.org)

236 points by unquote on Feb 20, 2019 | 212 comments

5252.

Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre (bloomberg.com)

236 points by hourislate on Aug 2, 2019 | 185 comments

5253.

Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell (bloomberg.com)

236 points by benryon on Aug 7, 2019 | 167 comments

5254.

American Phrase Book (alumni.media.mit.edu)

236 points by troydavis on Sep 10, 2019 | 167 comments

5255.

Support for U2F security keys (blog.1password.com)

236 points by willcosgrove on Jun 11, 2019 | 161 comments

5256.

Who Was the Buddha? (aeon.co)

236 points by furtively on Dec 18, 2019 | 161 comments

5257.

How to make your C codebase Rusty: rewriting keyboard firmware keymap (about.houqp.me)

236 points by houqp on Nov 21, 2019 | 160 comments

5258.

Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year (techcrunch.com)

236 points by jmsflknr on Oct 25, 2019 | 156 comments

5259.

Telling users why their content was removed reduces future issues [pdf] (shagunjhaver.com)

236 points by EndXA on Nov 12, 2019 | 150 comments

5260.

Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations (opendemocracy.net)

236 points by okket on May 21, 2019 | 144 comments

5261.

Outrage culture is out of control (latimes.com)

236 points by ilamont on Feb 22, 2019 | 143 comments

5262.

Transputer (en.wikipedia.org)

236 points by simonpure on Dec 9, 2019 | 140 comments

5263.

GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances (cloud.google.com)

236 points by sainyam on Aug 20, 2019 | 134 comments

5264.

A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks (qz.com)

236 points by wei_jok on Oct 4, 2019 | 134 comments

5265.

Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma (sciencedaily.com)

236 points by prostoalex on Feb 17, 2019 | 125 comments

5266.

Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind (scientificamerican.com)

236 points by pseudolus on Apr 16, 2019 | 118 comments

5267.

YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims (techcrunch.com)

236 points by lladnar on Aug 16, 2019 | 104 comments

5268.

Lack of cdnjs activity (github.com)

236 points by spirit23 on Nov 1, 2019 | 100 comments

5269.

Defence Against the Docker Arts (blog.heroku.com)

236 points by codefinger on Apr 3, 2019 | 97 comments

5270.

Chinese farmer 'studies law for 16 years' to defeat dumping of hazardous waste (independent.co.uk)

236 points by EndXA on Oct 6, 2019 | 96 comments

5271.

Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting (hledger.org)

236 points by lwhsiao on May 26, 2019 | 94 comments

5272.

So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebrite Touch” (twitter.com)

236 points by pentestercrab on Jun 3, 2019 | 83 comments

5273.

Poetry: Dependency Management for Python (poetry.eustace.io)

236 points by jtanderson on Aug 12, 2019 | 75 comments

5274.

Gryphon: An open-source framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency (gryphonframework.org)

236 points by reso on Jun 20, 2019 | 56 comments

5275.

ProseMirror – A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web (prosemirror.net)

236 points by octosphere on Jan 25, 2019 | 51 comments

5276.

Google PDF Search: “not for public release” (google.com)

236 points by casefields on Jul 12, 2019 | 51 comments

5277.

Color Spaces (ciechanow.ski)

236 points by tylerchr on Feb 16, 2019 | 50 comments

5278.

No Maintenance Intended (unmaintained.tech)

236 points by lifthrasiir on Oct 22, 2019 | 49 comments

5279.

Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative (github.com)

236 points by yuegui on Jul 23, 2019 | 46 comments

5280.

Things everyone in ML should know about belief formation in humans [video] (slideslive.com)

236 points by scribu on Dec 22, 2019 | 42 comments