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Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor (chronicle.com)

178 points by rjf72 on Jan 13, 2019 | 295 comments

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The ups and downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go (2015) (togototo.wordpress.com)

178 points by aparashk on Mar 14, 2019 | 268 comments

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Employee activism in tech stops short of organizing unions (nytimes.com)

178 points by pecanpie on Jul 8, 2019 | 248 comments

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Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometimes Even Tinder (wsj.com)

178 points by DanBC on Aug 18, 2019 | 242 comments

7985.

Meet Q, a Genderless Voice (genderlessvoice.com)

178 points by deleted_account on Mar 27, 2019 | 235 comments

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USB Type-C to Become More Secure with Authentication Standard (eweek.com)

178 points by CrankyBear on Jan 2, 2019 | 228 comments

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I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself (thecut.com)

178 points by mooreds on Jun 8, 2019 | 219 comments

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A Landlord Wants Facial Recognition in Its Rent-Stabilized Buildings (nytimes.com)

178 points by pseudolus on Mar 31, 2019 | 217 comments

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F-35's Towed Decoys (thedrive.com)

178 points by adolph on Mar 29, 2019 | 206 comments

7990.

Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless technology (nytimes.com)

178 points by bookofjoe on Jul 16, 2019 | 206 comments

7991.

The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) (behavioralscientist.org)

178 points by wallflower on Mar 7, 2019 | 180 comments

7992.

We All Work for Facebook (longreads.com)

178 points by axiomdata316 on Apr 28, 2019 | 173 comments

7993.

The crisis in physics is not only about physics (backreaction.blogspot.com)

178 points by Santosh83 on Oct 30, 2019 | 172 comments

7994.

Why Operators Are Useful (neopythonic.blogspot.com)

178 points by s16h on Mar 16, 2019 | 167 comments

7995.

How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models (economist.com)

178 points by pseudolus on Aug 9, 2019 | 162 comments

7996.

China lets yuan break 7-per-dollar level for first time in over a decade (reuters.com)

178 points by situational87 on Aug 5, 2019 | 149 comments

7997.

Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea (davidgerard.co.uk)

178 points by mmcclure on Apr 24, 2019 | 148 comments

7998.

Anonymous Google Employees Voted Arms Control Persons of the Year (armscontrol.org)

178 points by Nemant on Jan 10, 2019 | 143 comments

7999.

Github became the web's largest font piracy site (2017) (pixelambacht.nl)

178 points by plibither8 on Jul 17, 2019 | 138 comments

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Schools are using unproven surveillance technology to monitor students (features.propublica.org)

178 points by howard941 on Jun 29, 2019 | 131 comments

8001.

DoNotPay's new service auto-cancels free trials (wired.com)

178 points by undefined1 on Jul 17, 2019 | 121 comments

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Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean (birdguides.com)

178 points by Breadmaker on May 18, 2019 | 119 comments

8003.

Gamers propose punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests (reddit.com)

178 points by rahuldottech on Oct 9, 2019 | 107 comments

8004.

Apple’s Low Latency HLS differs from the community-developed solution (mux.com)

178 points by UkiahSmith on Jul 7, 2019 | 106 comments

8005.

Vim 101: How to Start Using the Text Editor for Developers (datastuff.tech)

178 points by strikingloo on Oct 24, 2019 | 99 comments

8006.

German Regulators Tell Tesla to Stop Advertising Cars with Gas Savings in Price (thedrive.com)

178 points by Pharmakon on Mar 9, 2019 | 98 comments

8007.

Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker (2017) (watchesbysjx.com)

178 points by recurser on Jan 27, 2019 | 97 comments

8008.

Big O Notation – Using not-boring math to measure code’s efficiency (interviewcake.com)