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15391.

The Silence of the Bugs (nytimes.com)

87 points by cardamomo on May 27, 2018 | 29 comments

15392.

How a Brewer and the Government Killed Colombia’s Ancestral Drink (2017) (atlasobscura.com)

87 points by DoreenMichele on Oct 23, 2018 | 28 comments

15393.

Coding for the World's Trickiest Chip – SEGA's Saturn DSP [video] (youtube.com)

87 points by mises on Dec 8, 2018 | 28 comments

15394.

Whiteboard problems in pure Lambda Calculus (2017) (jtolio.com)

87 points by jesperht on Aug 22, 2018 | 26 comments

15395.

The Meaning of “Aquemini” (theundefeated.com)

87 points by animo on Oct 5, 2018 | 26 comments

15396.

Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first four months of 2018 (renewablesnow.com)

87 points by toomuchtodo on Jun 30, 2018 | 23 comments

15397.

Go: building on the shoulders of giants and stepping on a few toes [video] (youtube.com)

87 points by davecheney on Jul 26, 2018 | 23 comments

15398.

A 'Walden' for the YouTube Age (theparisreview.org)

87 points by prostoalex on Feb 11, 2018 | 22 comments

15399.

How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tricked Versailles (vanityfair.com)

87 points by thisisit on Jul 16, 2018 | 22 comments

15400.

Golden Thoughts for a New Nuclear Age – from a new biography of René Girard (churchlife.nd.edu)

87 points by hoffmannesque on Nov 8, 2018 | 22 comments

15401.

IRS: Review of the System Failure That Led to the Tax Day Outage [pdf] (treasury.gov)

87 points by mrpippy on Sep 24, 2018 | 21 comments

15402.

Berkson's Paradox (en.wikipedia.org)

87 points by dedalus on Dec 12, 2018 | 21 comments

15403.

Google fined in India for search bias (telegraphindia.com)

87 points by Santosh83 on Feb 9, 2018 | 20 comments

15404.

Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known impact structure (earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

87 points by zerealshadowban on Sep 1, 2018 | 20 comments

15405.

Quantum Computing and Cryptography (schneier.com)

87 points by stargrave on Sep 15, 2018 | 20 comments

15406.

Building apps on top of Google Sheets (tryretool.com)

87 points by dvdhsu on Sep 28, 2018 | 20 comments

15407.

Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type (tools.ietf.org)

87 points by okket on Oct 3, 2018 | 19 comments

15408.

ResearchCoders: Find ideas from the scientific community for coding projects (researchcoders.com)

87 points by maastaar on Dec 30, 2018 | 19 comments

15409.

Tool 'names and shames' hidden drug trials (bbc.co.uk)

87 points by asplake on Feb 22, 2018 | 18 comments

15410.

GDPR Transparency and Consent Framework (github.com)

87 points by dbielik on May 2, 2018 | 18 comments

15411.

The MRISC32 – A vector first CPU design (bitsnbites.eu)

87 points by mbitsnbites on Aug 24, 2018 | 18 comments

15412.

It Can Be Done (2003) (multicians.org)

87 points by dasmoth on Nov 9, 2018 | 18 comments

15413.

UK Surveillance Regime Violated Human Rights (eff.org)

87 points by octosphere on Sep 25, 2018 | 17 comments

15414.

A Reddit Forum That Guesses Who You Are Based on What's in Your Fridge (newyorker.com)

87 points by moonka on Oct 28, 2018 | 17 comments

15415.

The Awl, 2009-2018 (theawl.com)

87 points by mountainplus on Feb 1, 2018 | 16 comments

15416.

Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requests (arxiv.org)

87 points by razer6 on May 15, 2018 | 16 comments

15417.

CPU cache misconceptions, and the MESI cache coherence protocol (software.rajivprab.com)

87 points by ingve on Aug 2, 2018 | 15 comments

15418.

Inside the Culture of Sexism at Riot Games (kotaku.com)

87 points by minimaxir on Aug 7, 2018 | 15 comments

15419.

Filament and WASM: Physically-based rendering for web (prideout.net)

87 points by prideout on Nov 2, 2018 | 14 comments

15420.

Asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer (lemire.me)

87 points by hardmaru on Dec 12, 2018 | 14 comments