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14761.

Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen (thecounter.org)

108 points by acjohnson55 on Dec 2, 2020 | 180 comments

14762.

New Economic Challenges and the Fed's Monetary Policy Review (federalreserve.gov)

108 points by tigerlily on Aug 28, 2020 | 136 comments

14763.

California judge says L.A. officials 'arbitrarily' set outdoor dining ban (politico.com)

108 points by sahin-boydas on Dec 10, 2020 | 134 comments

14764.

A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)

108 points by aww_dang on Aug 17, 2020 | 133 comments

14765.

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005) (charlespetzold.com)

108 points by goranmoomin on Feb 6, 2020 | 118 comments

14766.

Computer science is not software engineering (swizec.com)

108 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 26, 2020 | 114 comments

14767.

Dyson has announced it will develop a new type of medical ventilator for NHS (bbc.com)

108 points by hhs on Mar 24, 2020 | 111 comments

14768.

Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition (wsj.com)

108 points by bigpumpkin on Aug 1, 2020 | 110 comments

14769.

The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (2014) (politico.com)

108 points by yotamoron on Jun 4, 2020 | 109 comments

14770.

Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues (status.slack.com)

108 points by oplav on Oct 16, 2020 | 109 comments

14771.

Android’s IPv6 Is Still Broken (lostintransit.se)

108 points by altmind on May 26, 2020 | 108 comments

14772.

UK Codemasters Sold to Take-Two Games (bbc.co.uk)

108 points by shifty1 on Nov 7, 2020 | 99 comments

14773.

In CPython, types implemented in C are part of the type tree (utcc.utoronto.ca)

108 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 24, 2020 | 99 comments

14774.

Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020?

108 points by asim on Jun 8, 2020 | 90 comments

14775.

Bill Gates made his fortune through sheer robber-baronry (threader.app)

108 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 12, 2020 | 90 comments

14776.

Ask HN: What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?

108 points by vsareto on Feb 9, 2020 | 89 comments

14777.

Patent on displaying SQL data in HTML, granted to IBM in 1998 (patents.google.com)

108 points by peey on Jun 6, 2020 | 89 comments

14778.

Extracting video and audio from used police body cam (twitter.com)

108 points by alexfromapex on Jul 3, 2020 | 87 comments

14779.

Homotopy Type Theory (2012) [pdf] (hottheory.files.wordpress.com)

108 points by luu on Oct 26, 2020 | 87 comments

14780.

Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed (edition.cnn.com)

108 points by vinnyglennon on Nov 7, 2020 | 87 comments

14781.

BlackRock Is Bailing Out Its ETFs with Fed Money and Taxpayers Eating Losses (wallstreetonparade.com)

108 points by jules-jules on Jun 4, 2020 | 85 comments

14782.

PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros (python.org)

108 points by rbanffy on Oct 14, 2020 | 78 comments

14783.

The “Majority Illusion” in Social Networks (2016) (journals.plos.org)

108 points by undefined1 on Jun 8, 2020 | 75 comments

14784.

Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak began in November (utoronto.ca)

108 points by hardmaru on Feb 10, 2020 | 73 comments

14785.

Amazon battles counterfeit masks, $400 hand sanitizer amid virus panic (wsj.com)

108 points by juokaz on Mar 11, 2020 | 73 comments

14786.

Ask HN: I'd appreciate advice on my current work situation

108 points by mb_72 on Jun 9, 2020 | 73 comments

14787.

A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul (butwhatfor.substack.com)