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1681.

Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)

64 points by ptio on Mar 1, 2018 | 14 comments

1682.

Satan Comes to Dinner (1997) (erights.org)

64 points by EtDybNuvCu on Mar 4, 2018 | 14 comments

1683.

How organised crime took over Russia (theguardian.com)

64 points by charlysl on Mar 24, 2018 | 7 comments

1684.

Drupal Core – Highly Critical – Remote Code Execution (drupal.org)

64 points by ascorbic on Mar 28, 2018 | 7 comments

1685.

How PCI express devices talk (xillybus.com)

64 points by sacheendra on Mar 16, 2018 | 3 comments

1686.

Is Ada a failed language? (medium.com)

63 points by todd8 on Mar 24, 2018 | 138 comments

1687.

Ask HN: Why nobody competes with Adobe?

63 points by pacavaca on Mar 28, 2018 | 87 comments

1688.

Prove the badness of coworkers at your own risk (2012) (rachelbythebay.com)

63 points by signa11 on Mar 9, 2018 | 69 comments

1689.

Facebook critic: Company ‘will not survive long term’ (politico.com)

63 points by DyslexicAtheist on Mar 28, 2018 | 57 comments

1690.

Some people repeatedly win the Wisconsin Lottery. Do they play fair? (wisconsinwatch.org)

63 points by jrs235 on Mar 19, 2018 | 51 comments

1691.

MIT Study:Median Uber and Lyft Profits Less Than Half Minimum Wage; 30% Lose Money (nakedcapitalism.com)

63 points by Cbasedlifeform on Mar 2, 2018 | 31 comments

1692.

Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers (dvt.name)

63 points by dvt on Mar 12, 2018 | 24 comments

1693.

A US university is tracking students’ locations to predict future dropouts (qz.com)

63 points by kushti on Mar 17, 2018 | 23 comments

1694.

Cobalt Robotics Raises $13M from Sequoia for Indoor Security Robots (cnbc.com)

63 points by beambot on Mar 30, 2018 | 18 comments

1695.

Satellites see big fishing’s footprint on the high seas (digitaledition.baltimoresun.com)

63 points by hispanic on Mar 3, 2018 | 11 comments

1696.

Redemption of a Lost Prodigy (nytimes.com)

63 points by aarghh on Mar 31, 2018 | 10 comments

1697.

Segmenting Jazz Tracks into Beats (edwardshu.com)

63 points by edhu2017 on Mar 11, 2018 | 9 comments

1698.

Salesforce in advanced talks to buy MuleSoft (reuters.com)

63 points by coloneltcb on Mar 20, 2018 | 7 comments

1699.

Emails link Palantir and Eric Schmidt's daughter to Cambridge Analytica (businessinsider.com)

63 points by SirLJ on Mar 28, 2018 | 5 comments

1700.

The mystery of the three hares (2009) (news.bbc.co.uk)

63 points by zeristor on Mar 29, 2018 | 5 comments

1701.

Blazor 0.1.0 released: web apps in the browser with .NET and WebAssembly (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

63 points by stevensanderson on Mar 22, 2018 | 3 comments

1702.

The correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (laphamsquarterly.org)

63 points by pshaw on Mar 30, 2018 | 3 comments

1703.

The Brown One, the Honey Eater, the Shaggy Coat, the Destroyer (1998) (charlierussellbears.com)

63 points by benbreen on Mar 20, 2018 | 1 comments

1704.

Facebook board member Peter Thiel helped fund Cambridge Analytica's work (mashable.com)

63 points by bad_ramen_soup on Mar 27, 2018 | 1 comments

1705.

I know how hard it would have been to escape the helicopter crash in NYC (thedrive.com)

62 points by Erlangolem on Mar 18, 2018 | 47 comments

1706.

Shkreli Got Prison Time, Holmes Didn’t. Is That Fair? (nytimes.com)

62 points by zonotope on Mar 23, 2018 | 31 comments

1707.

Abadoned Kola Superdeep Borehole (rusue.com)

62 points by ramgorur on Mar 11, 2018 | 27 comments

1708.

Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Power Chips (spectrum.ieee.org)

62 points by rbanffy on Mar 16, 2018 | 25 comments

1709.

Gallup Study Shows Well-Being in Decline Across America (citylab.com)

62 points by chmaynard on Mar 24, 2018 | 24 comments

1710.

At the Mars conference, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts and more (nytimes.com)

62 points by gumby on Mar 22, 2018 | 22 comments