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23101.

New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End (digest.bps.org.uk)

53 points by DanBC on May 30, 2019 | 63 comments

23102.

An Asteroid Could Destroy the World Before Impact (lithub.com)

53 points by longdefeat on Jun 21, 2019 | 63 comments

23103.

Java's Original Sin (2009) (gbracha.blogspot.com)

53 points by tosh on Jul 14, 2019 | 63 comments

23104.

2019: The year revolt went global (thefifthwave.wordpress.com)

53 points by zby on Dec 12, 2019 | 63 comments

23105.

States are looking to jam T-Mobile and Sprint’s proposed $26.5B merger (techcrunch.com)

53 points by srnvs on Jun 12, 2019 | 62 comments

23106.

Retirees Might Run Out of Money 10 Years Before They Die (bloomberg.com)

53 points by whack on Jun 16, 2019 | 62 comments

23107.

Pwn the LIFX Mini white (limitedresults.com)

53 points by pbowyer on Jan 30, 2019 | 61 comments

23108.

Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap (ubuntubuzz.com)

53 points by app4soft on Jun 14, 2019 | 61 comments

23109.

Businesses are scrambling for workers in Hungary (nytimes.com)

53 points by onetimemanytime on May 4, 2019 | 60 comments

23110.

Ask HN: Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean?

53 points by SkyLinx on May 14, 2019 | 60 comments

23111.

Russian Hack of Elections System Was Far-Reaching, Report Finds (nytimes.com)

53 points by kediz on Jul 25, 2019 | 60 comments

23112.

Researchers discuss the challenges posed by science’s embrace of English (nature.com)

53 points by salutonmundo on Jun 16, 2019 | 59 comments

23113.

Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces (wws.princeton.edu)

53 points by DemiGuru on Dec 10, 2019 | 59 comments

23114.

Ask HN: Remote companies prefer not to hire remote developers from India?

53 points by mightymosquito on May 10, 2019 | 57 comments

23115.

Los Angeles – scenes from the collapse of a city that’s lost control (latimes.com)

53 points by malingo on Jun 1, 2019 | 57 comments

23116.

Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Characteristics in Music (aes.org)

53 points by pbowyer on Jan 20, 2019 | 56 comments

23117.

Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can record them without consent (theappeal.org)

53 points by 0xmohit on Apr 8, 2019 | 56 comments

23118.

LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] (youtube.com)

53 points by solarized on Jul 25, 2019 | 56 comments

23119.

Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95 (nytimes.com)

53 points by ishikawa on Sep 6, 2019 | 56 comments

23120.

Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

53 points by apollinaire on Oct 21, 2019 | 56 comments

23121.

Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K?

53 points by p_o_t_a_t_o on Nov 5, 2019 | 56 comments

23122.

A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits (twitter.com)

53 points by allthebest on Aug 10, 2019 | 54 comments

23123.

Kong Raises $43M in Series C Funding (konghq.com)

53 points by merqurio on Mar 28, 2019 | 53 comments

23124.

RFC: linear history vs merge commits (lists.llvm.org)

53 points by jupp0r on Feb 4, 2019 | 52 comments

23125.

Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts (bbc.co.uk)

53 points by Kaibeezy on Sep 21, 2019 | 49 comments

23126.

A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges [pdf] (1gyhoq479ufd3yna29x7ubjn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com)

53 points by SQL2219 on Dec 14, 2019 | 49 comments

23127.

The Biggest Economic Divides Aren’t Regional, They’re Local (nytimes.com)

53 points by pitzahoy on Feb 14, 2019 | 48 comments

23128.

Show HN: Leave Me Alone – A privacy focused email unsubscription service (leavemealone.xyz)