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16981.

The Accidental Book Review That Made Jack Kerouac Famous (washingtonpost.com)

86 points by lermontov on Dec 16, 2019 | 62 comments

16982.

Wild monkeys with killer herpes are breeding like crazy in Florida (arstechnica.com)

86 points by LinuxBender on Jan 3, 2019 | 61 comments

16983.

Statistical mechanics of money (2000) (arxiv.org)

86 points by hairytrog on Apr 2, 2019 | 60 comments

16984.

A Trump-era purge of military scientists at a legendary think tank (reuters.com)

86 points by SolaceQuantum on Jul 30, 2019 | 60 comments

16985.

A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Power of the Atomic Bomb (smithsonianmag.com)

86 points by pseudolus on Aug 22, 2019 | 60 comments

16986.

Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy (nytimes.com)

86 points by pseudolus on Apr 13, 2019 | 58 comments

16987.

NASA and ESA are going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect it (technologyreview.com)

86 points by carlsborg on Sep 26, 2019 | 58 comments

16988.

Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013) (chrisdone.com)

86 points by signa11 on Jul 29, 2019 | 57 comments

16989.

Show HN: KickStarter for open source projects and LinkedIn for OSS contributors (openteams.com)

86 points by hbadgery on Nov 26, 2019 | 57 comments

16990.

A telescope fan sabotaged an astronomy forum. He ended up in prison (2018) (theverge.com)

86 points by Tomte on Apr 22, 2019 | 56 comments

16991.

Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit

86 points by Hydrick3232 on Aug 13, 2019 | 56 comments

16992.

REST and GraphQL really aren't that different (github.com)

86 points by tylerbuchea on Jan 28, 2019 | 55 comments

16993.

The Growth of Hypercasual Games (venturebeat.com)

86 points by ohjeez on Apr 1, 2019 | 54 comments

16994.

Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator (habr.com)

86 points by julienevermind on Mar 12, 2019 | 53 comments

16995.

Hacking Voi Scooters: How I Created $100k Worth of Free Rides (fant.io)

86 points by JensRantil on Sep 28, 2019 | 52 comments

16996.

Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist (quantamagazine.org)

86 points by yarapavan on Dec 7, 2019 | 52 comments

16997.

Creating LFortran, an interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM (lfortran.org)

86 points by bauta-steen on May 1, 2019 | 51 comments

16998.

Google Launches ‘Live View’ AR Walking Directions for Google Maps (techcrunch.com)

86 points by jbredeche on Aug 9, 2019 | 50 comments

16999.

Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video] (youtube.com)

86 points by howrude on Nov 24, 2019 | 49 comments

17000.

Lockdown Mode on the Librem 5: Beyond Hardware Kill Switches (puri.sm)

86 points by NotYourAvgJoe on Mar 11, 2019 | 48 comments

17001.

The Fifth Generation Computing Project (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

86 points by o_nate on Jul 30, 2019 | 48 comments

17002.

Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything (opentheory.net)

86 points by dangirsh on Nov 29, 2019 | 48 comments

17003.

Healthy fat hidden in dirt may fend off anxiety disorders (neurosciencenews.com)

86 points by whack on May 30, 2019 | 47 comments

17004.

Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo is moving toward a major city (vox.com)

86 points by pseudolus on Jan 20, 2019 | 41 comments

17005.

Gccemacs: Experiment with native compiled Emacs Lisp (akrl.sdf.org)

86 points by pjmlp on Nov 29, 2019 | 41 comments

17006.

Intel Takes Lidar Indoors (zdnet.com)

86 points by stambros on Dec 12, 2019 | 41 comments

17007.

JavaScript Coercions Grid (getify.github.io)

86 points by bfoks on Mar 30, 2019 | 40 comments

17008.

Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories? (nytimes.com)