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1951.

Galactic Beacons Get Snuffed Out in a Cosmic Eyeblink (quantamagazine.org)

45 points by digital55 on Nov 21, 2018 | 29 comments

1952.

Facebook is the new cigarettes (medium.com)

45 points by MichaelKSpencer on Nov 14, 2018 | 19 comments

1953.

The Most Important Non-Programming Skills for Programmers (dev.to)

45 points by fagnerbrack on Nov 24, 2018 | 19 comments

1954.

How to Use Facebook Ads in the Search for a Missing Person (hackernoon.com)

45 points by trahn on Nov 9, 2018 | 15 comments

1955.

Edward Snowden: Saudis Used Israeli Spyware to Target Khashoggi (middleeastmonitor.com)

45 points by CPAhem on Nov 9, 2018 | 13 comments

1956.

Math and Music: The Deeper Links (1982) (nytimes.com)

45 points by nek28 on Nov 18, 2018 | 11 comments

1957.

Sears Bankruptcy Engineered to Benefit Executives and Stiff Workers (nakedcapitalism.com)

45 points by howard941 on Nov 23, 2018 | 9 comments

1958.

Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies (technologyreview.com)

45 points by alexanderlopez on Nov 26, 2018 | 9 comments

1959.

Montezuma’s Revenge Solved by Go-Explore (eng.uber.com)

45 points by henning on Nov 26, 2018 | 8 comments

1960.

Spectre Mitigations Part 1 (wasmjit.org)

45 points by cejetvole on Nov 21, 2018 | 6 comments

1961.

The three princes of Serendip: Notes on a mysterious phenomenon (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

45 points by imartin2k on Nov 2, 2018 | 4 comments

1962.

Things Rust doesn't let you do (medium.com)

45 points by GolDDranks on Nov 12, 2018 | 4 comments

1963.

Network Analysis of Wes Anderson’s Stable of Actors (dhintro18.commons.gc.cuny.edu)

45 points by tarboreus on Nov 6, 2018 | 2 comments

1964.

The impossibility of intelligence explosion (medium.com)

44 points by yters on Nov 8, 2018 | 66 comments

1965.

Ask HN: Is Google failing at UI/UX/design simplicity in its products?

44 points by palashkulsh on Nov 22, 2018 | 49 comments

1966.

Jack Ma Confirmed as Chinese Communist Party Member (bloomberg.com)

44 points by doener on Nov 27, 2018 | 46 comments

1967.

Researchers study the genetics and behavior of elephants born without tusks (nationalgeographic.com)

44 points by new_guy on Nov 11, 2018 | 32 comments

1968.

The OCB2 authenticated encryption scheme (ISO standard) has been broken (eprint.iacr.org)

44 points by erwan on Nov 1, 2018 | 29 comments

1969.

Fake Physics (2017) (math.columbia.edu)

44 points by dschuetz on Nov 24, 2018 | 27 comments

1970.

Bfloat16 – Hardware Numerics Definition [pdf] (software.intel.com)

44 points by anonymfus on Nov 17, 2018 | 24 comments

1971.

Who Will Fix Facebook? (rollingstone.com)

44 points by howard941 on Nov 27, 2018 | 23 comments

1972.

How Elon Musk might make $920M in Tesla debt go away (latimes.com)

44 points by chollida1 on Nov 19, 2018 | 22 comments

1973.

Under a Spell – The Armistice at 100 (unintendedconsequenc.es)

44 points by paulorlando on Nov 7, 2018 | 20 comments

1974.

A Week in Xinjiang’s Absolute Surveillance State (palladiummag.com)

44 points by crunchiebones on Nov 30, 2018 | 20 comments

1975.

ISS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space (cnet.com)

44 points by e1ven on Nov 22, 2018 | 18 comments

1976.

New AWS C5n Instances with 100 Gbps Networking (aws.amazon.com)

44 points by mcrute on Nov 27, 2018 | 17 comments

1977.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server (aws.amazon.com)

44 points by mcrute on Nov 28, 2018 | 14 comments

1978.

Can Hong Kong Sell Its Residents on Watery Graves? (atlasobscura.com)

44 points by Thevet on Nov 5, 2018 | 13 comments

1979.

Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30M people within 6 months (uk.businessinsider.com)

44 points by heldrida on Nov 26, 2018 | 13 comments

1980.

Germany’s plan for AI might divide Europe (ethicsofalgorithms.org)

44 points by imartin2k on Nov 16, 2018 | 12 comments