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13921.

Hotels of Pyongyang (hotelsofnorthkorea.com)

116 points by gscott on Sep 25, 2020 | 116 comments

13922.

The few remaining uses of the name “Macintosh” (tidbits.com)

116 points by fanf2 on Jan 14, 2020 | 113 comments

13923.

New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces (nih.gov)

116 points by vo2maxer on Mar 17, 2020 | 105 comments

13924.

Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004) (ericsink.com)

116 points by luu on Dec 21, 2020 | 104 comments

13925.

Central Banking for All: A Public Option for Bank Accounts (2018) [pdf] (greatdemocracyinitiative.org)

116 points by toomuchtodo on Sep 25, 2020 | 103 comments

13926.

The Fall of Silicon Valley (robrhinehart.com)

116 points by aquajet on Oct 28, 2020 | 103 comments

13927.

Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research (theconversation.com)

116 points by diodorus on Feb 14, 2020 | 102 comments

13928.

76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space (fortune.com)

116 points by apress on Oct 22, 2020 | 102 comments

13929.

SpaceX says Starlink internet has ‘extraordinary demand,’ (cnbc.com)

116 points by Element_ on Aug 1, 2020 | 99 comments

13930.

The accusations were lies, but could we prove it? (nytimes.com)

116 points by laurex on Mar 21, 2020 | 92 comments

13931.

The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019) (culturacolectiva.com)

116 points by respinal on Oct 26, 2020 | 91 comments

13932.

Trump says he fired top cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs (axios.com)

116 points by lightlyused on Nov 18, 2020 | 91 comments

13933.

Ambitions for a Unix Shell (oilshell.org)

116 points by luu on Jan 26, 2020 | 86 comments

13934.

Mochizuki's proof of the ABC conjecture accepted for publication (nature.com)

116 points by fovc on Apr 4, 2020 | 86 comments

13935.

Xilinx-Samsung SmartSSD Computational Storage Drive Launched (servethehome.com)

116 points by blopeur on Nov 11, 2020 | 84 comments

13936.

How to get your money back on a non-refundable hotel (philip.greenspun.com)

116 points by notlukesky on Mar 17, 2020 | 82 comments

13937.

'Street Fighter II' Wasn’t Just a Game, It Was a Portal (frieze.com)

116 points by lermontov on Jul 10, 2020 | 82 comments

13938.

Animation shows the temperature change by country from year 1880 to 2019 (twitter.com)

116 points by Anchor on Jan 17, 2020 | 79 comments

13939.

Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots (venturebeat.com)

116 points by sandwall on Sep 15, 2020 | 79 comments

13940.

What if the Trinity test had failed? (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)

116 points by CapitalistCartr on Jul 16, 2020 | 73 comments

13941.

Most frequently checked-out books in the history of the New York Public Library (wsj.com)

116 points by bookofjoe on Jan 13, 2020 | 72 comments

13942.

A Year with the Surface Go (andregarzia.com)

116 points by soapdog on Jan 24, 2020 | 71 comments

13943.

Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans (kuon.ch)

116 points by kuon on Feb 27, 2020 | 68 comments

13944.

Firefox 80 and my confusion over its hardware accelerated video on Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)

116 points by eitau_1 on Aug 28, 2020 | 68 comments

13945.

Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws (fastcompany.com)

116 points by kerng on Apr 4, 2020 | 65 comments

13946.

Repairability (psankar.blogspot.com)

116 points by psankar on Dec 28, 2020 | 65 comments

13947.

Covid and Cascading Collapses (ben-evans.com)

116 points by duck on May 18, 2020 | 63 comments

13948.

H. G. Wells reviews "Metropolis" (1927) (erkelzaar.tsudao.com)

116 points by pmoriarty on Nov 30, 2020 | 63 comments

13949.

Modern Data Lakes Overview (developer.sh)

116 points by developersh on Feb 23, 2020 | 62 comments

13950.

Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport (smithsonianmag.com)

116 points by commons-tragedy on Dec 17, 2020 | 59 comments