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841.

Worst Puzzle Ever (2009) (blog.rongarret.info)

127 points by lisper on Sep 21, 2018 | 44 comments

842.

Isaac Asimov on The David Letterman Show (1980) [video] (youtube.com)

127 points by ehudla on Sep 9, 2018 | 36 comments

843.

Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality (arstechnica.com)

126 points by petters on Sep 19, 2018 | 154 comments

844.

Telltale Autopsy (shamusyoung.com)

126 points by smacktoward on Sep 25, 2018 | 86 comments

845.

How communist Bulgaria became a leader in tech and sci-fi (aeon.co)

126 points by sagamore on Sep 21, 2018 | 53 comments

846.

A map showing the steepness of streets (2013) (tobyeglesfield.com)

126 points by Tomte on Sep 9, 2018 | 21 comments

847.

Preserving Outputs Precisely while Adaptively Rescaling Targets (deepmind.com)

126 points by DanielleMolloy on Sep 13, 2018 | 15 comments

848.

Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first time (esa.int)

126 points by WalterSobchak on Sep 25, 2018 | 10 comments

849.

Dmesg under the hood (ops.tips)

126 points by signa11 on Sep 24, 2018 | 8 comments

850.

Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel [pdf] (openbsd.org)

126 points by tosh on Sep 6, 2018 | 4 comments

851.

A new study says services like Uber and Lyft are causing urban traffic woes (axios.com)

125 points by aaronbrethorst on Sep 10, 2018 | 245 comments

852.

The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth (theconversation.com)

125 points by prostoalex on Sep 26, 2018 | 144 comments

853.

The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California Has Quietly Plummeted (voiceofsandiego.org)

125 points by gscott on Sep 17, 2018 | 140 comments

854.

The Most Notorious Towing Company in Chicago Gets the Boot (wsj.com)

125 points by petethomas on Sep 13, 2018 | 116 comments

855.

About 40% of economics experiments fail replication survey (2016) (sciencemag.org)

125 points by nabla9 on Sep 17, 2018 | 51 comments

856.

Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors (phys.org)

125 points by dnetesn on Sep 20, 2018 | 38 comments

857.

Exploiting URL Parser in Programming Languages (2017) [pdf] (blackhat.com)

125 points by tosh on Sep 10, 2018 | 30 comments

858.

Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two (blog.stoplight.io)

125 points by pytlesk4 on Sep 21, 2018 | 19 comments

859.

Making Bellwoods, a Generative Art Game in 13 Kb (mattdesl.svbtle.com)

125 points by mattdesl on Sep 17, 2018 | 13 comments

860.

Berlin Google Campus occupied (besetzen.noblogs.org)

124 points by mschuster91 on Sep 7, 2018 | 177 comments

861.

Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf] (ntsb.gov)

124 points by CaliforniaKarl on Sep 26, 2018 | 127 comments

862.

Bullshit Job Notes (acesounderglass.com)

124 points by luu on Sep 13, 2018 | 109 comments

863.

When optimising code, never guess, always measure (solipsys.co.uk)

124 points by ColinWright on Sep 5, 2018 | 103 comments

864.

China’s all-seeing surveillance network (mobile.abc.net.au)

124 points by playpause on Sep 20, 2018 | 81 comments

865.

Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra dimensions (phys.org)

124 points by dnetesn on Sep 15, 2018 | 75 comments

866.

The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime with the FBI (wired.com)

124 points by kposehn on Sep 18, 2018 | 70 comments

867.

The aesthetics of science fiction spaceship design (uwspace.uwaterloo.ca)

124 points by grzm on Sep 3, 2018 | 61 comments

868.

Coding Error Forces 2019 Subaru Ascents to be Scrapped (spectrum.ieee.org)

124 points by georgecmu on Sep 23, 2018 | 43 comments

869.

Notes on “A Philosophy of Software Design” (lethain.com)

124 points by r4um on Sep 4, 2018 | 32 comments

870.

Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history (9to5mac.com)

124 points by tareqak on Sep 9, 2018 | 29 comments