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14011.

Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?

108 points by JadoJodo on Dec 31, 2019 | 60 comments

14012.

The case for working with your hands (2009) (nytimes.com)

108 points by bookofjoe on Dec 17, 2019 | 59 comments

14013.

Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely on central servers (tox.chat)

108 points by swebs on Jan 6, 2019 | 56 comments

14014.

Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS (eetimes.com)

108 points by baybal2 on Oct 22, 2019 | 55 comments

14015.

A New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island (earther.gizmodo.com)

108 points by EndXA on Jun 24, 2019 | 54 comments

14016.

Hackers publish data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents (techcrunch.com)

108 points by lnguyen on Apr 13, 2019 | 53 comments

14017.

Apple censors song about Tiananmen Square protests (theverge.com)

108 points by _bxg1 on Apr 13, 2019 | 53 comments

14018.

Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public (independent.co.uk)

108 points by everbody on Jul 17, 2019 | 52 comments

14019.

“Only five people maintain Python-pip” (twitter.com)

108 points by sandGorgon on Jul 7, 2019 | 50 comments

14020.

My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews (bbc.co.uk)

108 points by bauc on Sep 18, 2019 | 49 comments

14021.

Abandoning the fiduciary rule was a mistake (bloomberg.com)

108 points by petethomas on May 7, 2019 | 48 comments

14022.

Digital pollution (sivers.org)

108 points by galfarragem on Oct 16, 2019 | 48 comments

14023.

A New York railroad uses lasers to stay on schedule (thedrive.com)

108 points by tomohawk on Dec 28, 2019 | 48 comments

14024.

Web Single Sign-On, the SAML 2.0 perspective (blog.theodo.com)

108 points by guillaumeklaus on Jun 18, 2019 | 47 comments

14025.

How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead (spectrum.ieee.org)

108 points by sohkamyung on Aug 30, 2019 | 47 comments

14026.

“100 spies” will monitor all SMS and email that goes in and out of Norway (translate.google.com)

108 points by DyslexicAtheist on Feb 5, 2019 | 46 comments

14027.

We Need to Map the Ocean Floor (nautil.us)

108 points by dnetesn on Nov 8, 2019 | 45 comments

14028.

New CSS Features in Firefox 68 (hacks.mozilla.org)

108 points by bzbarsky on Jul 31, 2019 | 44 comments

14029.

An Attempt to Recreate the Blender 2.8 ToolBox in Qt5 (github.com)

108 points by hellozee on Nov 16, 2019 | 44 comments

14030.

Launch HN: Travelchime (YC W19) – Doc for travel planning with friends

108 points by phsource on Mar 13, 2019 | 42 comments

14031.

Chinese hospitals set to sell experimental cell therapies (nature.com)

108 points by headalgorithm on May 2, 2019 | 42 comments

14032.

Secure ShellFish – SSH and SFTP Storage for iOS (apps.apple.com)

108 points by tambourine_man on Jun 27, 2019 | 40 comments

14033.

Eve Online’s communications blackout explained (polygon.com)

108 points by Tomte on Jul 13, 2019 | 40 comments

14034.

How we found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope (2015) (theconversation.com)

108 points by cyberfart on May 27, 2019 | 39 comments

14035.

How to get consistent results when benchmarking on Linux? (easyperf.net)

108 points by walterbell on Aug 4, 2019 | 38 comments

14036.

How two dead accounts allowed remote crash of any Instagram Android user (medium.com)

108 points by pentestercrab on Sep 15, 2019 | 38 comments

14037.

Deepstream 5.0: Resurrected using MIT license (deepstream.io)

108 points by yasserf on Oct 27, 2019 | 37 comments

14038.

Cold War spy technology we all use (bbc.com)

108 points by clouddrover on Aug 21, 2019 | 36 comments

14039.

AndOTP: Open-source two-factor authentication for Android (github.com)

108 points by xrisk on Sep 15, 2019 | 36 comments

14040.

Wait Wait Tell Me: The Psychology of Loading Screens (99percentinvisible.org)

108 points by jacobedawson on Nov 14, 2019 | 36 comments