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How The Koenigsegg Regera Hits 248 MPH Without A Gearbox (2015) (jalopnik.com)

72 points by brian-armstrong on Oct 22, 2018 | 63 comments

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The Medieval Mindset (2017) (coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com)

72 points by marchenko on May 13, 2018 | 62 comments

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British Airways: Suspect code that hacked fliers ‘found’ (bbc.co.uk)

72 points by TomAnthony on Sep 11, 2018 | 61 comments

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You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C (2016) (nullprogram.com)

72 points by ScottWRobinson on Sep 19, 2018 | 61 comments

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A Soviet-era airport, once the height of luxury, faces demolition in Armenia (dailymail.co.uk)

72 points by cryogenic_soul on Sep 20, 2018 | 61 comments

17646.

An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck (nautil.us)

72 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2018 | 59 comments

17647.

The problem with Facebook (twitter.com)

72 points by loisaidasam on Mar 22, 2018 | 58 comments

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The “Boring Software” manifesto (tqdev.com)

72 points by amanzi on Jul 2, 2018 | 58 comments

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Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosystem (2017) (techcrunch.com)

72 points by ishikawa on Sep 10, 2018 | 58 comments

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Why US Inequality Is Worse Than Other Developed Nations (scientificamerican.com)

72 points by dempedempe on Oct 18, 2018 | 58 comments

17651.

Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform (internals.rust-lang.org)

72 points by dsr12 on Mar 8, 2018 | 55 comments

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Can I Legally Use the “Fluent UI” or Ribbon Design? (infoq.com)

72 points by luu on Feb 28, 2018 | 54 comments

17653.

Benchmarking OS primitives (bitsnbites.eu)

72 points by mortenlarsen on Mar 21, 2018 | 52 comments

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Swedish startup Rdot is trying to take on E Ink (goodereader.com)

72 points by danielam on Dec 27, 2018 | 52 comments

17655.

China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic doves (scmp.com)

72 points by known on Dec 30, 2018 | 51 comments

17656.

When Shoes Were Fit with X-Rays (daily.jstor.org)

72 points by toufiqbarhamov on Dec 31, 2018 | 49 comments

17657.

Orphaned currency: the odd case of Somali shillings (2013) (jpkoning.blogspot.com)

72 points by rargulati on Dec 27, 2018 | 48 comments

17658.

OPPO Digital will gradually stop manufacturing new products (oppodigital.com)

72 points by smaili on Apr 3, 2018 | 47 comments

17659.

The Economist house-price indices (economist.com)

72 points by IshV on Feb 10, 2018 | 45 comments

17660.

We Dare You to Explain Luke’s Plan to Rescue Han in ‘Return of the Jedi’ (uproxx.com)

72 points by jmadsen on Mar 3, 2018 | 45 comments

17661.

A Long Goodbye To Facebook (om.co)

72 points by balladeer on Sep 2, 2018 | 45 comments

17662.

How I learned to live again, after running a man over (theguardian.com)

72 points by Mimino123 on Apr 5, 2018 | 44 comments

17663.

LA has passed new restrictions on sleeping in cars and RVs (themindunleashed.com)

72 points by Melchizedek on May 1, 2018 | 42 comments

17664.

How much less efficient are north-facing solar modules? (2016) (solarpowerworldonline.com)

72 points by curtis on Dec 31, 2018 | 41 comments

17665.

Show HN: Cointabb (cointabb.com)

72 points by biotin50 on Apr 13, 2018 | 40 comments

17666.

Ötzi’s last supper: mummified hunter's final meal revealed (theguardian.com)

72 points by diodorus on Jul 12, 2018 | 40 comments

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What's Hiding Inside Egypt's Great Pyramid? Tiny Robots May Find Out (livescience.com)

72 points by DrScump on Jan 30, 2018 | 39 comments

17668.

We Are the Threat: Reflections on Near-Term Human Extinction (criticaltheoryresearchnetwork.com)

72 points by Red_Tarsius on Feb 20, 2018 | 39 comments

17669.

Tesla workers speak out: 'Anything pro-union is shut down really fast' (theguardian.com)

72 points by SmkyMt on Sep 10, 2018 | 39 comments

17670.

EXploit X: “Give Me Root” [video] (youtube.com)

72 points by octosphere on Nov 10, 2018 | 38 comments