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17671.

Refactoring Large Functions (robert.muth.org)

72 points by muth02446 on Dec 16, 2018 | 38 comments

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Blockchain Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% (wolfstreet.com)

72 points by SQL2219 on Jan 25, 2018 | 37 comments

17673.

How a Medieval Society Withstood Nearly 60 Years of Drought (theatlantic.com)

72 points by mcone on May 4, 2018 | 37 comments

17674.

Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad (vitalik.ca)

72 points by mooreds on Sep 16, 2018 | 37 comments

17675.

Can We Really Inherit Trauma? (nytimes.com)

72 points by DoreenMichele on Dec 23, 2018 | 36 comments

17676.

Styled Components v3.0.0 (github.com)

72 points by stablemap on Jan 23, 2018 | 35 comments

17677.

What Is Your Bank’s Security Banking On? (krebsonsecurity.com)

72 points by andimm on Mar 7, 2018 | 35 comments

17678.

Starsky Robotics (YC S16) Drove a Fully Driverless Truck and Raised $16.5M (hackernoon.com)

72 points by jayzalowitz on Mar 8, 2018 | 35 comments

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Skyscrapers, trains and roads: How Addis Ababa came to look like a Chinese city (cnn.com)

72 points by tintinnabula on Sep 4, 2018 | 35 comments

17680.

On Intelligence in Cells: The Case for Whole Cell Biology (2009) [pdf] (brianjford.com)

72 points by resource0x on Jun 15, 2018 | 34 comments

17681.

Locking in WebKit (2016) (webkit.org)

72 points by mpweiher on Dec 17, 2018 | 34 comments

17682.

Tech Industry Really Needs Professors and Teaching Talent (insights.dice.com)

72 points by dpflan on May 10, 2018 | 33 comments

17683.

Show HN: Weltschmerz by age (p.migdal.pl)

72 points by stared on Aug 23, 2018 | 33 comments

17684.

Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China (twitter.com)

72 points by Schiphol on Oct 17, 2018 | 33 comments

17685.

Kenyans will soon need a license to post videos online (thenextweb.com)

72 points by shortformblog on May 28, 2018 | 31 comments

17686.

Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now (utcc.utoronto.ca)

72 points by g0xA52A2A on Nov 13, 2018 | 31 comments

17687.

Humans May Have Reached North America by More Than One Route (gizmodo.com)

72 points by curtis on Aug 8, 2018 | 30 comments

17688.

Announcing Fuse Open (blog.fusetools.com)

72 points by somebee on May 15, 2018 | 28 comments

17689.

The Left Hand of Equals (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

72 points by Ice_cream_suit on Jun 10, 2018 | 27 comments

17690.

EUV Lithography Finally Ready for Chip Manufacturing (spectrum.ieee.org)

72 points by moreati on Jan 7, 2018 | 26 comments

17691.

Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar Microlensing (arxiv.org)

72 points by IntronExon on Feb 7, 2018 | 26 comments

17692.

Millenials aren't entitled; Boomers were just lucky (theoutline.com)

72 points by forrestbrazeal on Mar 23, 2018 | 24 comments

17693.

Understanding OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (blog.runscope.com)

72 points by abd12 on Apr 30, 2018 | 24 comments

17694.

Researchers have seen colistin-heteroresistant germs in the US (arstechnica.com)

72 points by rbanffy on Mar 9, 2018 | 23 comments

17695.

F*EX – Frams' Fast File EXchange (fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de)

72 points by Tomte on Jun 1, 2018 | 23 comments

17696.

The Case for Lowering Your Expectations (outsideonline.com)

72 points by hprotagonist on Feb 13, 2018 | 22 comments

17697.

Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports (news.mongabay.com)

72 points by pvaldes on Apr 8, 2018 | 22 comments

17698.

Microsoft Convinces Judges to Jail Man for Copying Software It Gives Out Free (techdirt.com)