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Questions for TSA after reports of laptop and phone searches on domestic flights (theguardian.com)

207 points by pmoriarty on Mar 12, 2018 | 203 comments

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Portland Anarchist Road Care Fixes Potholes Anonymously (2017) (citylab.com)

207 points by doener on Apr 5, 2018 | 203 comments

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China Cracks Down on Churches (nytimes.com)

207 points by traderjane on Dec 25, 2018 | 199 comments

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Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations? (marginalrevolution.com)

207 points by mpweiher on Jan 15, 2018 | 175 comments

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Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads (nullprogram.com)

207 points by ingve on Jun 1, 2018 | 167 comments

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Exit scammers run off with $660M in ICO earnings (techcrunch.com)

207 points by dbasedweeb on Apr 13, 2018 | 161 comments

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Why are bones not made of steel? (2010) (materialstoday.com)

207 points by diziet on Jan 3, 2018 | 159 comments

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'Mindful people' feel less pain (medicalxpress.com)

207 points by dnetesn on Sep 7, 2018 | 149 comments

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What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote? (quora.com)

207 points by tambourine_man on Apr 14, 2018 | 133 comments

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Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy (papers.ssrn.com)

207 points by yungchin on Nov 27, 2018 | 133 comments

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China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight (foreignpolicy.com)

207 points by gok on Aug 22, 2018 | 127 comments

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All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election (documentingreality.com)

207 points by JeremyMorgan on May 11, 2018 | 122 comments

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Convergence to Kubernetes (medium.com)

207 points by kiyanwang on Jun 24, 2018 | 122 comments

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Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub (gitea.io)

207 points by philonoist on Jun 6, 2018 | 121 comments

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A Cornell professor’s trick for getting 1700 peer reviewed publications (andrewgelman.com)

207 points by luu on Dec 4, 2018 | 120 comments

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Introducing the new SourceForge (sourceforge.net)

207 points by animeseinfeld on Jan 9, 2018 | 119 comments

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AT&T blacks out HBO, Cinemax for Dish, Sling TV users over carriage dispute (telecompaper.com)

207 points by CrankyBear on Nov 1, 2018 | 119 comments

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Ask HN: Elizabeth Holmes has 200 patents – if tech didn't work, why not noticed?

207 points by anonymousmoose on Jun 16, 2018 | 118 comments

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How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013) (embeddedrelated.com)

207 points by snaky on Sep 24, 2018 | 118 comments

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Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train (theguardian.com)

207 points by ksourav on Sep 18, 2018 | 115 comments

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Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market (washingtonexaminer.com)

207 points by rmason on Aug 25, 2018 | 114 comments

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What Can I Do About Bufferbloat? (bufferbloat.net)

207 points by velmu on Jul 3, 2018 | 109 comments

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Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video? (niemanlab.org)

207 points by laurex on Oct 19, 2018 | 106 comments

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U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger (reuters.com)

207 points by tareqak on Aug 17, 2018 | 105 comments

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Ask HN: Turning 40 soon – seeking personal and professional life advice

207 points by quietthrow on Apr 29, 2018 | 102 comments

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Rents dropping significantly across the Seattle area after new construction (seattletimes.com)

207 points by jseliger on Jan 15, 2018 | 99 comments

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The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers (npr.org)

207 points by evo_9 on Oct 2, 2018 | 96 comments

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Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video] (figure-eight.com)

207 points by fmihaila on Jun 10, 2018 | 94 comments

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Methane leaks from US gas fields dwarf government estimates (nature.com)

207 points by digital55 on Jun 22, 2018 | 94 comments

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Blizzard games were vulnerable to DNS rebinding attack (bugs.chromium.org)

207 points by csmajorfive on Jan 22, 2018 | 89 comments