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12781.

Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back the Pace? (npr.org)

107 points by AceyMan on Feb 6, 2018 | 111 comments

12782.

Optical fibre made in orbit should be better than the terrestrial sort (economist.com)

107 points by godelmachine on Sep 10, 2018 | 111 comments

12783.

Tesla CEO Musk Says Company Is Flattening Management Structure in Reorganization (wsj.com)

107 points by Jerry2 on May 14, 2018 | 109 comments

12784.

Toshiba to Close the Book on Its Laptop Unit (wsj.com)

107 points by jseliger on Jun 5, 2018 | 108 comments

12785.

Clothing Manufacturing May Be Moving Back to West from Asia (bloomberg.com)

107 points by jseliger on Nov 23, 2018 | 92 comments

12786.

Make your own build system (jstimpfle.de)

107 points by jstimpfle on Mar 7, 2018 | 90 comments

12787.

Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015) (eff.org)

107 points by cpeterso on Jan 9, 2018 | 89 comments

12788.

Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) (improvingsoftware.com)

107 points by dsiegel2275 on Apr 26, 2018 | 89 comments

12789.

Ask HN: How do you manage your mental health?

107 points by gmemstr on Jun 12, 2018 | 89 comments

12790.

The impact of gratitude on adolescent materialism and generosity (tandfonline.com)

107 points by joeyespo on Oct 20, 2018 | 88 comments

12791.

Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construction workers (alphr.com)

107 points by edward on May 27, 2018 | 87 comments

12792.

The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive reality (archive.is)

107 points by yazr on Sep 7, 2018 | 87 comments

12793.

Pebble is dead and hardware buttons are going with it (theverge.com)

107 points by allenleein on Jan 28, 2018 | 86 comments

12794.

Facebook management moves around but people don’t leave (recode.net)

107 points by SREinSF on May 22, 2018 | 86 comments

12795.

Welcome to the New Space Age (bloomberg.com)

107 points by uptown on Jul 26, 2018 | 86 comments

12796.

Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned (sanderknape.com)

107 points by kiyanwang on Aug 12, 2018 | 85 comments

12797.

How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (vulture.com)

107 points by pcestrada on Dec 1, 2018 | 85 comments

12798.

Asking the Right Questions About AI (medium.com)

107 points by tim_sw on Feb 1, 2018 | 83 comments

12799.

How law enforcement is trying to avoid disabling Face ID (9to5mac.com)

107 points by okket on Oct 13, 2018 | 82 comments

12800.

MX-80 – Ahead of its time: A small, lightweight computer printer (global.epson.com)

107 points by NuSkooler on Dec 9, 2018 | 78 comments

12801.

Alphabet's Median Pay Nears $200k (wsj.com)

107 points by rbanffy on Apr 30, 2018 | 77 comments

12802.

Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game” (nuggetsofthought.com)

107 points by eric_cartman on Mar 2, 2018 | 74 comments

12803.

Startup Had ‘Masturbation’ Zone, Exec Who Took Off Pants in Meeting: Lawsuit (mercurynews.com)

107 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Aug 11, 2018 | 74 comments

12804.

DuckDuckGo's bang (duckduckgo.com)

107 points by tmlee on Aug 31, 2018 | 74 comments

12805.

New variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel (2017) (economist.com)

107 points by tosh on May 20, 2018 | 73 comments

12806.

Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.' (tools.ietf.org)

107 points by okket on May 17, 2018 | 72 comments

12807.

Ask HN: How can we improve the world via creative, compassionate new ventures?

107 points by fogzen on Jan 2, 2018 | 70 comments

12808.

911 calls from chronically ill drop after Milwaukee community initiative (jsonline.com)