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26941.

Life expectancy and cause of death in popular musicians (2016) [pdf] (researchgate.net)

38 points by optimalsolver on Aug 24, 2019 | 17 comments

26942.

The Dawn of a New Command Line Interface (2017) (arcan-fe.com)

38 points by commons-tragedy on Nov 27, 2019 | 17 comments

26943.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the musician's uncertainty principle (newt.phys.unsw.edu.au)

38 points by montalbano on Nov 30, 2019 | 17 comments

26944.

Benchmarking AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Packet, and Vultr (goldfirestudios.com)

38 points by raiyu on Feb 15, 2019 | 16 comments

26945.

Linus Torvalds think the Linux desktop is in trouble (zdnet.com)

38 points by CrankyBear on Apr 8, 2019 | 16 comments

26946.

8chan: The far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes (theguardian.com)

38 points by hhs on Aug 4, 2019 | 16 comments

26947.

How to host a full mirror of Wikipedia.org (github.com)

38 points by nikisweeting on Oct 1, 2019 | 16 comments

26948.

Capital One refused my fraud claim because a chip was used (old.reddit.com)

38 points by fortran77 on Nov 30, 2019 | 16 comments

26949.

Ask HN: What have been the biggest technical achievements of the 2010s?

38 points by alltakendamned on Dec 16, 2019 | 16 comments

26950.

Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018) (ciphermysteries.com)

38 points by Petiver on Jan 22, 2019 | 15 comments

26951.

Risk of Discovery (2017) (paulgraham.com)

38 points by mgdo on Jan 22, 2019 | 15 comments

26952.

Deep brain stimulation of the internal capsule enhances human cognitive control (nature.com)

38 points by headalgorithm on Apr 8, 2019 | 15 comments

26953.

Most Teachers Don't Teach Climate Change; 4 in 5 Parents Wish They Did (npr.org)

38 points by derchu on Apr 22, 2019 | 15 comments

26954.

Namecheap launches free public DNS (namecheap.com)

38 points by soheilpro on May 23, 2019 | 15 comments

26955.

Baffled student tells Twitter: 'I'm not a Chinese agent' (bbc.com)

38 points by rakkhi on Aug 22, 2019 | 15 comments

26956.

SUVs second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal (theguardian.com)

38 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Oct 25, 2019 | 15 comments

26957.

The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway (atlasobscura.com)

38 points by ductionist on Nov 20, 2019 | 15 comments

26958.

Zen project forks Zig, relicenses, and “moves” original license to separate file (twitter.com)

38 points by stock_toaster on Dec 4, 2019 | 15 comments

26959.

Oumuamua continues to perplex astronomers a year after it vanished (businessinsider.com)

38 points by glassworm on Feb 2, 2019 | 14 comments

26960.

Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) (fastcompany.com)

38 points by dmitriid on Feb 4, 2019 | 14 comments

26961.

Ask HN: What do you use as your personal CRM?

38 points by strimp099 on Apr 13, 2019 | 14 comments

26962.

More Americans have died in car crashes since 2000 than in both World Wars (washingtonpost.com)

38 points by jseliger on Jul 23, 2019 | 14 comments

26963.

London Underground to retire ageing 92-year-old signal box (itv.com)

38 points by twic on Sep 15, 2019 | 14 comments

26964.

Formal Abstracts – express mathematical publications in a computer-readable form (formalabstracts.github.io)

38 points by dgellow on Oct 9, 2019 | 14 comments

26965.

It took 10 minutes to convict a 14-year-old and 70 years to exonerate him (2014) (washingtonpost.com)

38 points by EndXA on Oct 18, 2019 | 14 comments

26966.

Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and a lucrative ‘hot list’ (nytimes.com)

38 points by buildbuildbuild on Dec 1, 2019 | 14 comments

26967.

Surveillance firm asks Mozilla to be included in Firefox's certificate whitelist (zdnet.com)

38 points by jakobdabo on Feb 26, 2019 | 13 comments

26968.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company lands $48.7M contract for underground “people mover” (techcrunch.com)

38 points by prostoalex on May 23, 2019 | 13 comments

26969.

Unprotected database exposes sensitive data of over 20M Ecuadoreans (cyware.com)

38 points by mojoraja on Sep 16, 2019 | 13 comments

26970.

Indonesia to Fault 737 MAX Design, U.S. Oversight in Lion Air Crash Report (wsj.com)

38 points by cmurf on Sep 23, 2019 | 13 comments