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12871.

Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio] (bbc.co.uk)

126 points by respinal on Dec 31, 2020 | 231 comments

12872.

Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change (nytimes.com)

126 points by gok on Feb 17, 2020 | 227 comments

12873.

Coronavirus: Some scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives' (bbc.com)

126 points by doppp on Mar 15, 2020 | 211 comments

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Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft (laptopmag.com)

126 points by benryon on Feb 25, 2020 | 184 comments

12875.

You don’t need reproducible builds (blog.cmpxchg8b.com)

126 points by ingve on Aug 5, 2020 | 172 comments

12876.

My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence (nationalgeographic.com)

126 points by 8bitsrule on Jun 22, 2020 | 170 comments

12877.

Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspend annexation (jpost.com)

126 points by omarhaneef on Aug 13, 2020 | 161 comments

12878.

Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies (npr.org)

126 points by erentz on Feb 29, 2020 | 153 comments

12879.

The history that James Baldwin wanted America to see (newyorker.com)

126 points by samclemens on Jun 20, 2020 | 147 comments

12880.

Scientists have lost their jobs after NIH probe into foreign ties (sciencemag.org)

126 points by elsewhen on Jun 14, 2020 | 142 comments

12881.

What’s New in Swift 5.2 (hackingwithswift.com)

126 points by ingve on Feb 6, 2020 | 135 comments

12882.

Don’t stage off Starship (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

126 points by davedx on Feb 15, 2020 | 132 comments

12883.

Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency (tvnz.co.nz)

126 points by timack on Oct 20, 2020 | 129 comments

12884.

Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab (bloomberg.com)

126 points by miked85 on May 4, 2020 | 126 comments

12885.

Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database (tarynpivots.com)

126 points by ksec on Jul 30, 2020 | 120 comments

12886.

Warren Buffett throws in the towel on newspaper empire (bloomberg.com)

126 points by doctoroctogon on Jan 29, 2020 | 118 comments

12887.

Boeing finds debris left in new 737 MAXes, now in storage (leehamnews.com)

126 points by robin_reala on Feb 19, 2020 | 117 comments

12888.

Why nullable types? (medium.com)

126 points by ceronman on Dec 8, 2020 | 115 comments

12889.

“LibreOffice is at serious risk” (lwn.net)

126 points by rsecora on Jul 10, 2020 | 108 comments

12890.

Google drops charges on shopping service to counter Amazon's surging ad sales (reuters.com)

126 points by theBashShell on Apr 21, 2020 | 105 comments

12891.

Boeing 777X: World’s largest twin-engine jet completes first flight (bbc.co.uk)

126 points by DemiGuru on Jan 26, 2020 | 104 comments

12892.

An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Overflow [pdf] (arxiv.org)

126 points by fogus on Jun 11, 2020 | 103 comments

12893.

Transmeta Crusoe (en.wikipedia.org)

126 points by 6177c40f on Jun 13, 2020 | 100 comments

12894.

Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage (nippon.com)

126 points by wslh on May 3, 2020 | 98 comments

12895.

I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai (a8b.io)

126 points by ameerkat on Nov 3, 2020 | 98 comments

12896.

Teaching the Unfortunate Parts (executeprogram.com)

126 points by gary_bernhardt on Dec 28, 2020 | 95 comments

12897.

WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run from any terminal (wolfram.com)