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1981.

Warren Buffett calls insurance Berkshire Hathaway's most important sector (fool.com)

43 points by shubhamjain on Oct 22, 2017 | 30 comments

1982.

History of Vending and Coffee Service (2016) (namanow.org)

43 points by wallflower on Oct 5, 2017 | 25 comments

1983.

Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital on the Paradox of Ego and Humility (nytimes.com)

43 points by astdb on Oct 21, 2017 | 24 comments

1984.

Married to someone with anxiety (2016) (psiloveyou.xyz)

43 points by whyleyc on Oct 10, 2017 | 19 comments

1985.

Making the Case for Feature-Rich Memory Systems (2016) [pdf] (cs.utah.edu)

43 points by ingve on Oct 15, 2017 | 15 comments

1986.

Archaeologists are mystified by ancient “gates” in Saudi lava fields (arstechnica.com)

43 points by tambourine_man on Oct 22, 2017 | 14 comments

1987.

Untangling Spider Biology (sciencemag.org)

43 points by sergeant3 on Oct 22, 2017 | 14 comments

1988.

Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids? (nautil.us)

43 points by dnetesn on Oct 23, 2017 | 14 comments

1989.

The 238 Attempted Bribes of Amazon Should Be Illegal (newrepublic.com)

43 points by hodgesmr on Oct 24, 2017 | 12 comments

1990.

Henry Feinberg Demonstrates Using Light to Transmit Sound Waves (1978) [video] (youtube.com)

43 points by CaliforniaKarl on Oct 19, 2017 | 11 comments

1991.

The cost of traveling the world for a year = super detailed cost by city (neverendingfootsteps.com)

43 points by gamechangr on Oct 5, 2017 | 7 comments

1992.

A Software-based Approach to Identify Heavy Hitters in DNS Traffic (labs.ripe.net)

43 points by fanf2 on Oct 27, 2017 | 7 comments

1993.

Neural Color Transfer Between Images (arxiv.org)

43 points by mayava on Oct 6, 2017 | 6 comments

1994.

Out of the Syrian crisis, a data revolution takes shape (nature.com)

43 points by sohkamyung on Oct 25, 2017 | 2 comments

1995.

Post-Scarcity Economics (2013) (lareviewofbooks.org)

42 points by hocaoglv on Oct 20, 2017 | 94 comments

1996.

Ask HN: YC W2018 invites/rejections?

42 points by martinushk on Oct 24, 2017 | 80 comments

1997.

Replacing Social Security Numbers Is Harder Than You Think (motherboard.vice.com)

42 points by sohkamyung on Oct 6, 2017 | 50 comments

1998.

Half of UK adults are financially vulnerable, City watchdog finds (theguardian.com)

42 points by rocking_duck on Oct 18, 2017 | 49 comments

1999.

Recruiting for privilege (medium.com)

42 points by ingve on Oct 15, 2017 | 46 comments

2000.

Amazon Cloud Cam Indoor Security Camera (amazon.com)

42 points by prostoalex on Oct 25, 2017 | 27 comments

2001.

Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head (pensieve.ai)

42 points by renuka on Oct 5, 2017 | 17 comments

2002.

MySql fixes autoincrement bug after 14 years of users complaining about dataloss (bugs.mysql.com)

42 points by TekMol on Oct 7, 2017 | 17 comments

2003.

I have to move back to PR, what should I bring? (reddit.com)

42 points by curtis on Oct 24, 2017 | 14 comments

2004.

Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode Braille characters (github.com)

42 points by pixypy on Oct 25, 2017 | 14 comments

2005.

Designing the Wayback Machine Loading Animation (intoli.com)

42 points by foob on Oct 11, 2017 | 13 comments

2006.

LineageOS beats Google to the punch, fixes 'KRACK' WPA2 vulnerability in Android (androidpolice.com)

42 points by blablablaat on Oct 17, 2017 | 8 comments

2007.

Understanding SOLID Principles: Dependency Inversion (dev.to)

42 points by rbanffy on Oct 4, 2017 | 7 comments

2008.

Dementia through the lens of epidemiology (nautil.us)

42 points by dnetesn on Oct 18, 2017 | 7 comments

2009.

Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data (quantamagazine.org)

42 points by signa11 on Oct 30, 2017 | 7 comments

2010.

Wake-up call: How a lack of sleep can cause Alzheimer’s (newscientist.com)

42 points by bcaulfield on Oct 15, 2017 | 6 comments