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20581.

Show HN: Whack – A simply-designed compiled programming language (github.com)

57 points by wycliffb on Oct 28, 2018 | 45 comments

20582.

A Closer Inspection of Tesla’s Autopilot Safety Statistics (medium.com)

57 points by stardust83 on May 17, 2018 | 44 comments

20583.

Ultrasound can cause anomalies in the Xiaomi MI5S Plus gyroscope (medium.com)

57 points by rbanffy on Jul 17, 2018 | 44 comments

20584.

Why most female newscasters have the same hair (instyle.com)

57 points by rustcharm on Sep 15, 2018 | 44 comments

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Niantic, Maker of Hit ‘Pokémon Go’ App, Refuels with $3.9B Valuation (wsj.com)

57 points by mpoon on Dec 14, 2018 | 44 comments

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Botrnot: an R package for detecting Twitter bots (mikewk.shinyapps.io)

57 points by tysonzni on Mar 15, 2018 | 43 comments

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Nissan's Path to Self-Driving Cars? Humans in Call Centers (wired.com)

57 points by hliyan on Apr 22, 2018 | 42 comments

20588.

The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer (bbc.com)

57 points by happy-go-lucky on Jun 22, 2018 | 42 comments

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Buffett recommends investing in index funds – but many of his employees can’t (cnbc.com)

57 points by SirLJ on Mar 23, 2018 | 40 comments

20590.

WhatsApp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850M when I quit FB (boingboing.net)

57 points by startupflix on Oct 12, 2018 | 40 comments

20591.

50th Anniversary of May 1968, Paris: Memories of an Illusory Revolution (consortiumnews.com)

57 points by behoove on Jun 3, 2018 | 39 comments

20592.

Why do I do this to myself? Bob's first predictions for 2018 – I, Cringely (cringely.com)

57 points by rbanffy on Jan 16, 2018 | 38 comments

20593.

The Popularity of Near-Death Experience (lareviewofbooks.org)

57 points by breitling on Feb 2, 2018 | 38 comments

20594.

When a text can trigger a lynching: WhatsApp and incendiary messages in India (reuters.com)

57 points by DoreenMichele on Jun 25, 2018 | 38 comments

20595.

Combating blog article theft by delaying RSS feeds (ctrl.blog)

57 points by d2wa on Sep 17, 2018 | 38 comments

20596.

Show HN: An “automatic” way to learn Chinese (play.google.com)

57 points by wilonth on Nov 15, 2018 | 38 comments

20597.

The Bugs in Our Mindware (2016) (nautil.us)

57 points by dnetesn on Jul 18, 2018 | 37 comments

20598.

On the Nature of Wine (thebreakthrough.org)

57 points by Turukawa on Feb 27, 2018 | 36 comments

20599.

Errol Morris Refutes It Thus (slate.com)

57 points by tptacek on Jun 5, 2018 | 35 comments

20600.

Free, Open Spaces: Brian Eno’s Favourite Records (2016) (thequietus.com)

57 points by crunchiebones on Oct 24, 2018 | 35 comments

20601.

A Millennial’s Tiny Satellites Are Helping China Advance in the Space Race (bloomberg.com)

57 points by Leary on Dec 16, 2018 | 35 comments

20602.

Spruce beer continues to have a following (bbc.com)

57 points by MiriamWeiner on Dec 21, 2018 | 35 comments

20603.

China's Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor (nytimes.com)

57 points by scruple on Dec 17, 2018 | 34 comments

20604.

A peek into China’s top ‘bodyguard factories’ (scmp.com)

57 points by wallflower on Jul 17, 2018 | 33 comments

20605.

The Last Scan: Keeping old TVs alive (theverge.com)

57 points by Hooke on Feb 6, 2018 | 32 comments

20606.

SEC settles with EtherDelta founder for running an unlicensed exchange [pdf] (sec.gov)

57 points by miohtama on Nov 8, 2018 | 32 comments

20607.

Price's Law: Why Only a Few People Generate Half of the Results (dariusforoux.com)

57 points by jxub on Jun 3, 2018 | 31 comments

20608.

Microsoft: Haswell and older CPUs are slowed down significantly by Spectre fixes (hothardware.com)

57 points by bhouston on Jan 10, 2018 | 30 comments

20609.

“I guess you can’t use NYU Libraries if you don’t have Twitter or Facebook?” (twitter.com)

57 points by troydavis on Jan 27, 2018 | 30 comments

20610.

Buy Now, Pay Later Helps JAB Billionaires Build Beverage Empire (bloomberg.com)

57 points by mr_golyadkin on Feb 20, 2018 | 30 comments