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1981.

Shared e-scooters aren’t always as green as other transport options (news.ncsu.edu)

53 points by EndXA on Aug 4, 2019 | 65 comments

1982.

Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat (nuscimag.com)

53 points by jtdev on Aug 7, 2019 | 65 comments

1983.

A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits (twitter.com)

53 points by allthebest on Aug 10, 2019 | 54 comments

1984.

Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music From Low Quality Streaming (nytimes.com)

53 points by pseudolus on Aug 20, 2019 | 42 comments

1985.

Ask HN: What are your favorite educational non-tech podcasts?

53 points by Quanttek on Aug 26, 2019 | 39 comments

1986.

VDSO, 32-bit time, and seccomp (lwn.net)

53 points by Tomte on Aug 3, 2019 | 34 comments

1987.

Fire One, Fire Ten: Implications of the Torpedo Scandal of World War II (2018) (thestrategybridge.org)

53 points by smacktoward on Aug 11, 2019 | 31 comments

1988.

Device vanishes on command after military missions (phys.org)

53 points by rbanffy on Aug 26, 2019 | 31 comments

1989.

Babies display “Werewolf syndrome” after getting anti-baldness drug by mistake (nytimes.com)

53 points by bookofjoe on Aug 30, 2019 | 31 comments

1990.

Climate Winners and Losers (medium.com)

53 points by zorked on Aug 4, 2019 | 27 comments

1991.

You’re Not Lazy, Bored, or Unmotivated (forge.medium.com)

53 points by tkt on Aug 29, 2019 | 27 comments

1992.

Denmark Offers to Buy U.S. (newyorker.com)

53 points by Ice_cream_suit on Aug 25, 2019 | 25 comments

1993.

Unhappy customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write a bad review (cbc.ca)

53 points by pseudolus on Aug 12, 2019 | 23 comments

1994.

Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic (k8up.io)

53 points by tobru on Aug 22, 2019 | 18 comments

1995.

Apple terminated my developer account for no reason (github.com)

53 points by YingZhong on Aug 24, 2019 | 17 comments

1996.

How Hot Was July? Hotter Than Ever, Global Data Shows (nytimes.com)

53 points by pseudolus on Aug 5, 2019 | 8 comments

1997.

When light and light collide (particlebites.com)

53 points by sohkamyung on Aug 28, 2019 | 8 comments

1998.

I'm Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here Is Why [pdf] (documentcloud.org)

53 points by elliekelly on Aug 5, 2019 | 7 comments

1999.

Why Is Lyme Disease So Hard to Understand? (theatlantic.com)

53 points by wglb on Aug 20, 2019 | 6 comments

2000.

Stock trading strategies using machine learning (github.com)

53 points by firedup on Aug 17, 2019 | 5 comments

2001.

How to smear your enemies and silence critics, Chinese Communist Party style (qz.com)

53 points by hardmaru on Aug 22, 2019 | 5 comments

2002.

Good sleep, good learning, good life (super-memory.com)

53 points by Foe on Aug 9, 2019 | 4 comments

2003.

Medium suspends account that investigates Chinese concentration camps (twitter.com)

53 points by 07d046 on Aug 15, 2019 | 4 comments

2004.

Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago (scientificamerican.com)

53 points by headalgorithm on Aug 15, 2019 | 3 comments

2005.

China Acknowledges Holding an Employee of U.K.’s Hong Kong Consulate (nytimes.com)

53 points by kerng on Aug 21, 2019 | 2 comments

2006.

Sushi Roll: A CPU kernel for cycle-by-cycle micro-architectural introspection (gamozolabs.github.io)

53 points by ot on Aug 20, 2019 | 1 comments

2007.

Coursera acquires Rhyme Softworks, an online platform for hands-on projects (blog.coursera.org)

53 points by sinatra on Aug 28, 2019 | 0 comments

2008.

Loot boxes a matter of “life or death,” says researcher (gamesindustry.biz)

52 points by EndXA on Aug 12, 2019 | 95 comments

2009.

Major Technological Changes Are Coming More Slowly Than They Once Did (scientificamerican.com)

52 points by pseudolus on Aug 13, 2019 | 89 comments

2010.

Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator (bloomberg.com)

52 points by RickJWagner on Aug 23, 2019 | 79 comments