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7981.

A Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter (nautil.us)

162 points by elorant on May 20, 2017 | 171 comments

7982.

Thursday night Mountain View power outage the result of a drone crash (mountainview.gov)

162 points by stevewilhelm on Jun 9, 2017 | 171 comments

7983.

Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth (bbc.com)

162 points by _of on Mar 20, 2017 | 158 comments

7984.

Older Americans who live in RVs and drive from one low-wage job to another (marketwatch.com)

162 points by joeyespo on Nov 11, 2017 | 150 comments

7985.

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Aren't Fully Disabled When Off in iOS 11 Control Center (support.apple.com)

162 points by tambourine_man on Sep 20, 2017 | 143 comments

7986.

Budweiser's ex-marketing chief: Weed is the new craft beer (syracuse.com)

162 points by fishcolorbrick on Nov 13, 2017 | 133 comments

7987.

The Arrival of AI (stratechery.com)

162 points by misiti3780 on Mar 29, 2017 | 127 comments

7988.

VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case (reuters.com)

162 points by doener on Nov 25, 2017 | 126 comments

7989.

You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works (theverge.com)

162 points by gojomo on Mar 30, 2017 | 119 comments

7990.

DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discriminate Against US Workers (justice.gov)

162 points by protomyth on Apr 3, 2017 | 114 comments

7991.

Ask HN: What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup?

162 points by mattbgates on Jun 21, 2017 | 112 comments

7992.

Most Waymo Patent Claims Dropped in Autonomous Car Fight with Uber (bloomberg.com)

162 points by pfarnsworth on Jul 7, 2017 | 107 comments

7993.

Amazon delivery drivers complain about bad work conditions (dailymail.co.uk)

162 points by nreece on Dec 10, 2017 | 101 comments

7994.

Console Security – Nintendo Switch [video] (media.ccc.de)

162 points by moepstar on Dec 29, 2017 | 98 comments

7995.

UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks harm mental health (qz.com)

162 points by pmcpinto on May 23, 2017 | 93 comments

7996.

Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms (zerg.erlangonxen.org)

162 points by tylerhou on Dec 27, 2017 | 91 comments

7997.

Baltimore State Attorney Drops Dozens of Cases: Body Cam Shows Drug-Planting (baltimore.cbslocal.com)

162 points by jseliger on Jul 29, 2017 | 85 comments

7998.

Why we used Pony to write Wallaroo (blog.wallaroolabs.com)

162 points by spooneybarger on Oct 26, 2017 | 84 comments

7999.

iOS 11 has a feature to temporarily disable Touch ID (theverge.com)

162 points by Shank on Aug 17, 2017 | 83 comments

8000.

Harland Clarke Acquires RetailMeNot for $630M (siliconhillsnews.com)

162 points by polysaturate on Apr 10, 2017 | 78 comments

8001.

Final Removal of Trust in WoSign and StartCom Certificates (groups.google.com)

162 points by selectnull on Jul 7, 2017 | 76 comments

8002.

Flush times for hackers in booming cyber security job market (reuters.com)

162 points by mancerayder on Jul 28, 2017 | 71 comments

8003.

PyPy v5.8 released (morepypy.blogspot.com)

162 points by pettou on Jun 9, 2017 | 70 comments

8004.

RAM Is the New Disk (medium.com)

162 points by nikhilgarg28 on Jul 30, 2017 | 70 comments

8005.

What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face? (tratt.net)

162 points by mpweiher on Jun 22, 2017 | 68 comments

8006.

Facebook and Google were conned out of $100M in phishing scheme (theguardian.com)

162 points by mattmanser on Apr 28, 2017 | 64 comments

8007.

Show HN: MStream – A personal music streaming server (github.com)

162 points by mStreamTeam on May 2, 2017 | 64 comments

8008.

Countdown to timestamp 1,500M (timestamp.online)

162 points by nitramm on Jul 13, 2017 | 60 comments

8009.

Securing Microservices (medium.facilelogin.com)

162 points by prabaths on Oct 12, 2017 | 56 comments

8010.

Show HN: Store.js v2.0 – Cross-browser storage for all use cases (github.com)

162 points by marcuswestin on Feb 28, 2017 | 54 comments