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1981.

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail (newyorker.com)

57 points by hhs on Oct 9, 2019 | 22 comments

1982.

IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor (propublica.org)

57 points by SQL2219 on Oct 7, 2019 | 18 comments

1983.

Rockefellers hired militias to shoot at strikers in Ludlow massacre (timeline.com)

57 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 13, 2019 | 18 comments

1984.

GitHub’s latest security features (github.com)

57 points by Callicles on Oct 14, 2019 | 16 comments

1985.

Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing (nytimes.com)

57 points by mitchbob on Oct 23, 2019 | 14 comments

1986.

A Visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum (righto.com)

57 points by fortran77 on Oct 23, 2019 | 14 comments

1987.

“Run from Adobe Creative Cloud” (reddit.com)

57 points by martinml on Oct 17, 2019 | 11 comments

1988.

Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning (eos.org)

57 points by vinayan3 on Oct 19, 2019 | 11 comments

1989.

“C is not how the computer works” can lead to inefficient code (words.steveklabnik.com)

57 points by steveklabnik on Oct 25, 2019 | 11 comments

1990.

China introduces facial-recognition step to get new mobile number (qz.com)

57 points by adg29 on Oct 3, 2019 | 9 comments

1991.

Southeastern Anatolia, minute by minute (riowang.blogspot.com)

57 points by acsillag on Oct 1, 2019 | 6 comments

1992.

Clustering in R (blog.dominodatalab.com)

57 points by gk1 on Oct 10, 2019 | 6 comments

1993.

Secret Air Force Space Plane Lands After More Than 2 Years in Orbit (npr.org)

57 points by jaytaylor on Oct 28, 2019 | 2 comments

1994.

What costs are exponentially dropping?

56 points by antb123 on Oct 29, 2019 | 64 comments

1995.

A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England (legalhistorymiscellany.com)

56 points by diodorus on Oct 1, 2019 | 54 comments

1996.

Recommendations from the first meeting of China’s urban policy unit in 38 years (citymetric.com)

56 points by okfine on Oct 25, 2019 | 41 comments

1997.

Books to read before I die (cooksillustrated.com)

56 points by bookofjoe on Oct 14, 2019 | 36 comments

1998.

Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? (nytimes.com)

56 points by ajay-d on Oct 17, 2019 | 32 comments

1999.

Ask HN: People are looking for a meetup.com replacement – what are the options?

56 points by andrewstuart on Oct 14, 2019 | 22 comments

2000.

Zuckerberg threatens “major lawsuit” if Warren tries to break up Facebook (vox.com)

56 points by koops on Oct 1, 2019 | 20 comments

2001.

An Interview with Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer and Former Purism CTO (phoronix.com)

56 points by l1k on Oct 20, 2019 | 19 comments

2002.

Scala: A software tool for microtonic, macrotonic and other alternative tunings (huygens-fokker.org)

56 points by thanatropism on Oct 17, 2019 | 16 comments

2003.

The History of Medicinal Lithium (literaryreview.co.uk)

56 points by secondary on Oct 3, 2019 | 13 comments

2004.

Resilience is not a DIY endeavour (theglobeandmail.com)

56 points by kevintb on Oct 26, 2019 | 13 comments

2005.

Frank Lloyd Wright Loved to Hate New York (theamericanconservative.com)

56 points by overwhelm on Oct 18, 2019 | 12 comments

2006.

Wazo Platform: build carrier-grade programmable IP communication infrastructures (wazo-platform.org)

56 points by FredL on Oct 6, 2019 | 9 comments

2007.

Ransomware Gang's Victim Cracks Their Server, Releases All Their Decryption Keys (zdnet.com)