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25141.

VLC media player has been downloaded 3 billion times (venturebeat.com)

45 points by jmsflknr on Jan 11, 2019 | 7 comments

25142.

Decentralized Clearing Network: A Protocol for Hybrid Decentralized Exchanges (merklex.io)

45 points by patricklorio on Feb 21, 2019 | 7 comments

25143.

Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence (techcrunch.com)

45 points by campuscodi on Mar 8, 2019 | 7 comments

25144.

Elizabeth Warren: Corporate executives must face jail time for overseeing scams (washingtonpost.com)

45 points by J253 on Apr 3, 2019 | 7 comments

25145.

PX9 Data Compression (lexaloffle.com)

45 points by polm23 on May 7, 2019 | 7 comments

25146.

A Most Important Discovery (1953) (lettersofnote.com)

45 points by herendin2 on May 31, 2019 | 7 comments

25147.

CERN opts for open-source software in light of Microsoft price hikes (eandt.theiet.org)

45 points by OJFord on Jun 13, 2019 | 7 comments

25148.

The Unum Pattern (habitatchronicles.com)

45 points by andyjpb on Aug 29, 2019 | 7 comments

25149.

Inko 0.5.0 released, featuring the first steps towards a self-hosting compiler (inko-lang.org)

45 points by YorickPeterse on Sep 16, 2019 | 7 comments

25150.

Sheryl Sandberg went from feminist hero to total sellout (nypost.com)

45 points by harambae on Nov 3, 2019 | 7 comments

25151.

FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense (2010) (mcsweeneys.net)

45 points by jbredeche on Nov 25, 2019 | 7 comments

25152.

Sears sues former CEO Eddie Lampert for theft of billions from bankrupt retailer (cnbc.com)

45 points by sakopov on Apr 18, 2019 | 6 comments

25153.

Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens (ben-evans.com)

45 points by spatten on Feb 6, 2019 | 6 comments

25154.

Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers (pnas.org)

45 points by lainon on Feb 23, 2019 | 6 comments

25155.

Conficker: The worm that nearly ate the internet (nytimes.com)

45 points by my_first_acct on Jun 29, 2019 | 6 comments

25156.

Froebel’s Gifts (99percentinvisible.org)

45 points by golanggeek on Apr 16, 2019 | 5 comments

25157.

Rats 'wrongly blamed' for 1900 Glasgow plague outbreak (bbc.com)

45 points by sohkamyung on Jan 4, 2019 | 5 comments

25158.

MegaProcessor (2017) [video] (youtube.com)

45 points by pseudolus on Jan 7, 2019 | 5 comments

25159.

SAT Solvers as Smart Search Engines (msoos.org)

45 points by another on Feb 14, 2019 | 5 comments

25160.

How Canary Deployments Work in Kubernetes, Istio and Linkerd (glasnostic.com)

45 points by sickeythecat on Jun 5, 2019 | 5 comments

25161.

Doctors say schools should not allow in children who are not vaccinated (theguardian.com)

45 points by EndXA on Sep 9, 2019 | 5 comments

25162.

Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD (2010) (blog.wfmu.org)

45 points by samclemens on Sep 26, 2019 | 5 comments

25163.

A Hole in the Head (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

45 points by commons-tragedy on Sep 30, 2019 | 5 comments

25164.

Whois++ (en.wikipedia.org)

45 points by mindcrime on Oct 6, 2019 | 5 comments

25165.

Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM) (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)

45 points by gabrtv on Oct 16, 2019 | 5 comments

25166.

Fourteen years after launching, 1Password raises a $200M Series A (techcrunch.com)

45 points by nate on Nov 14, 2019 | 5 comments

25167.

China due to introduce face scans for mobile users (bbc.com)

45 points by keiferski on Dec 1, 2019 | 5 comments

25168.

Game in which you build your own CPU (store.steampowered.com)

45 points by huntermeyer on Jan 6, 2019 | 4 comments

25169.

“Takedown notice” sent to Defense Distributed was fraudulent, from Slovakia (arstechnica.com)

45 points by zymhan on Feb 15, 2019 | 4 comments

25170.

Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes (rollingstone.com)

45 points by kpeel on May 31, 2019 | 4 comments