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11221.

Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams (quantamagazine.org)

150 points by theafh on May 20, 2021 | 124 comments

11222.

Font licensing is ill, please help heal it (fontsarena.com)

150 points by dna_polymerase on Sep 3, 2021 | 123 comments

11223.

Delphi 11 Alexandria (blog.marcocantu.com)

150 points by mariuz on Sep 23, 2021 | 121 comments

11224.

The code that controls our money (wealthsimple.com)

150 points by DamnInteresting on Sep 8, 2021 | 120 comments

11225.

The joys of creating Xcode project files (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

150 points by ingve on Apr 25, 2021 | 119 comments

11226.

Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013) (techtinkering.com)

150 points by elvis70 on Jan 29, 2021 | 115 comments

11227.

Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’ (theverge.com)

150 points by sidcool on Jun 4, 2021 | 111 comments

11228.

Downgrade User Agent Client Hints to 'harmful' (github.com)

150 points by ronancremin on Jul 13, 2021 | 111 comments

11229.

Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (1996) [pdf] (users.monash.edu)

150 points by breck on Oct 14, 2021 | 110 comments

11230.

Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000) (norvig.com)

150 points by susam on Aug 2, 2021 | 108 comments

11231.

Dealing with the Evasive Witness (lawyerminds.com)

150 points by wholeness on Nov 5, 2021 | 99 comments

11232.

A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note (twitter.com)

150 points by 1cvmask on Apr 15, 2021 | 92 comments

11233.

Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++ (ai.facebook.com)

150 points by andyxor on Apr 16, 2021 | 91 comments

11234.

Ever Given: Egypt agrees deal to release ship that blocked Suez Canal (bbc.com)

150 points by Aissen on Jul 5, 2021 | 89 comments

11235.

Idiomatic Clojure without sacrificing performance (bsless.github.io)

150 points by ceronman on Oct 22, 2021 | 79 comments

11236.

Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects (aws.amazon.com)

150 points by yarapavan on Mar 15, 2021 | 77 comments

11237.

NASA's helicopter survives first freezing night on Mars (edition.cnn.com)

150 points by imagine99 on Apr 5, 2021 | 77 comments

11238.

Things I Didn't Learn in 2020 (damnoptimist.substack.com)

150 points by obesacantavit on Jan 1, 2021 | 76 comments

11239.

Arm Introduces Its Confidential Compute Architecture (fuse.wikichip.org)

150 points by Symmetry on Jun 23, 2021 | 67 comments

11240.

Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent (quantamagazine.org)

150 points by programd on Aug 17, 2021 | 67 comments

11241.

The Problems with Deliberate Practice (2020) (commoncog.com)

150 points by ZephyrBlu on Sep 8, 2021 | 67 comments

11242.

Old video game advertisements (retrocgads.tumblr.com)

150 points by rayrag on Sep 29, 2021 | 67 comments

11243.

Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record (washingtonpost.com)

150 points by yboris on Aug 20, 2021 | 65 comments

11244.

Version control without Git (itoshkov.github.io)

150 points by quickthrower2 on Sep 16, 2021 | 65 comments

11245.

Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic (cinia.fi)

150 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Dec 24, 2021 | 64 comments

11246.

Scientists say they may have detected dark energy (phys.org)

150 points by Osiris30 on Sep 16, 2021 | 62 comments

11247.

Some thoughts on writing (danluu.com)

150 points by janvdberg on Dec 13, 2021 | 62 comments

11248.

RISC-V Int. Ratifies 15 New Specs, Opening Up New RISC-V Design Possibilities (riscv.org)

150 points by snvzz on Dec 2, 2021 | 60 comments

11249.

Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf] (cs.utah.edu)

150 points by todsacerdoti on Jul 2, 2021 | 57 comments

11250.

UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders (berkeleyside.com)

150 points by xenocyon on Feb 11, 2021 | 56 comments