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12721.

Did Qatar pay a billion dollar ransom? (bbc.co.uk)

108 points by rhu86 on Jul 17, 2018 | 52 comments

12722.

Doubling Mono’s Float Speed (tirania.org)

108 points by ot on Apr 11, 2018 | 51 comments

12723.

Companies from the YC Winter 2018 Batch (blog.ycombinator.com)

108 points by dsr12 on Feb 8, 2018 | 50 comments

12724.

XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress (apenwarr.ca)

108 points by zdw on Sep 15, 2018 | 49 comments

12725.

Show HN: Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage (pushdata.io)

108 points by rlonn on Nov 8, 2018 | 49 comments

12726.

Reading disks from 1988 in 2018 (sixcolors.com)

108 points by Doubleguitars on Jan 13, 2018 | 48 comments

12727.

Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Facial Recognition App (thevintagenews.com)

108 points by arto on Dec 3, 2018 | 47 comments

12728.

About rel=noopener (2016) (mathiasbynens.github.io)

108 points by edance on Jan 24, 2018 | 46 comments

12729.

Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent (togelius.blogspot.com)

108 points by togelius on May 27, 2018 | 44 comments

12730.

Scheduling in Go: Part II (ardanlabs.com)

108 points by ingve on Sep 28, 2018 | 44 comments

12731.

Calendar Versioning (calver.org)

108 points by dmoreno on Jun 10, 2018 | 43 comments

12732.

Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before White House tariff talks (latimes.com)

108 points by blondie9x on Mar 3, 2018 | 42 comments

12733.

A 1950s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail (villagevoice.com)

108 points by bra-ket on May 7, 2018 | 42 comments

12734.

Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin (theguardian.com)

108 points by Hooke on Jan 22, 2018 | 41 comments

12735.

Clojure Don’ts: Lazy Effects (2015) (stuartsierra.com)

108 points by lsh on Mar 3, 2018 | 41 comments

12736.

Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your Thinking (nytimes.com)

108 points by nreece on Mar 21, 2018 | 41 comments

12737.

Police Use Fitbit Data to Charge 90-Year-Old Man in Stepdaughter’s Killing (nytimes.com)

108 points by danso on Oct 4, 2018 | 40 comments

12738.

A man who was raised by wolves (theguardian.com)

108 points by johnny313 on Sep 2, 2018 | 36 comments

12739.

Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth (quantamagazine.org)

108 points by Erlangolem on Mar 15, 2018 | 35 comments

12740.

Show HN: KubeDB – Kubernetes-ready production-grade databases (kubedb.com)

108 points by tamalsaha001 on Dec 17, 2018 | 35 comments

12741.

Introduction to Clojure (2013) (creativeapplications.net)

108 points by mariuz on Nov 11, 2018 | 34 comments

12742.

C++ Annotations (icce.rug.nl)

108 points by kbumsik on Nov 23, 2018 | 34 comments

12743.

Visualising Electromagnetic Fields (lukesturgeon.co.uk)

108 points by lelf on Feb 7, 2018 | 33 comments

12744.

Japanese scientists invent floating 'firefly' light (reuters.com)

108 points by interconnector on Feb 23, 2018 | 33 comments

12745.

Design and Implementation of a 256-Core BrainFuck Computer [pdf] (sigtbd.csail.mit.edu)

108 points by bryanrasmussen on Apr 18, 2018 | 33 comments

12746.

GCP opening a third zone in Singapore (cloudplatform.googleblog.com)

108 points by nealmueller on May 15, 2018 | 33 comments

12747.

A list of over 4000 fintech startups and companies (drive.google.com)

108 points by pankmahar on Feb 22, 2018 | 32 comments

12748.

Notes on Shutting Down an S-Corp (petekeen.net)

108 points by zrail on Jun 4, 2018 | 32 comments

12749.

We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data (extrahop.com)

108 points by cws on Dec 7, 2018 | 32 comments

12750.

Rejoiner: Unified GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices (github.com)

108 points by patrickaljord on Jan 20, 2018 | 31 comments