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16981.

The engineering of birds’ nests (nytimes.com)

91 points by sohkamyung on Mar 17, 2020 | 11 comments

16982.

Dissecting the Windows Defender Driver (n4r1b.netlify.com)

91 points by el_duderino on Feb 11, 2020 | 10 comments

16983.

Web Application Exploits and Defenses (google-gruyere.appspot.com)

91 points by boredgamer2 on May 17, 2020 | 9 comments

16984.

Bean Machine – A Declarative Probabilistic Programming Language (ericlippert.com)

91 points by flipchart on Sep 24, 2020 | 9 comments

16985.

Meaningful Availability (blog.acolyer.org)

91 points by zdw on Feb 26, 2020 | 8 comments

16986.

Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: Apple and Google draft specification (apple.com)

91 points by davidbarker on Apr 10, 2020 | 7 comments

16987.

Old-School Disk Partitions (bsdimp.blogspot.com)

91 points by zdw on Jul 21, 2020 | 7 comments

16988.

Account Takeover via IDOR in Starbucks Singapore (kamilonurozkaleli.com)

91 points by eshanaswar on Nov 5, 2020 | 7 comments

16989.

Stanford MLSys Seminar Series (mlsys.stanford.edu)

91 points by wavelander on Dec 9, 2020 | 5 comments

16990.

Telescope captures most detailed pictures yet of the sun (theguardian.com)

91 points by lalabert on Jan 29, 2020 | 4 comments

16991.

Reddit Posters Pick the Stocks Now (bloomberg.com)

91 points by xrd on Feb 26, 2020 | 4 comments

16992.

Stuck at home, scientists discover new insect species (wired.com)

91 points by exanimo_sai on Jun 22, 2020 | 4 comments

16993.

Freeman Dyson Has Died (en.wikipedia.org)

91 points by coloneltcb on Feb 28, 2020 | 2 comments

16994.

Apache Spark Release 3.0.0 (spark.apache.org)

91 points by babak_ap on Jun 18, 2020 | 1 comments

16995.

What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? (perell.com)

90 points by ojarow on Feb 2, 2020 | 228 comments

16996.

I love ARM (20i.com)

90 points by 20i on Jul 29, 2020 | 187 comments

16997.

To software engineers criticizing Neil Ferguson’s epidemics simulation code (blog.khinsen.net)

90 points by todsacerdoti on May 18, 2020 | 186 comments

16998.

How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks (nytimes.com)

90 points by ardy42 on Mar 25, 2020 | 174 comments

16999.

The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only with Harsh Steps, Experts Say (nytimes.com)

90 points by sciurus on Mar 23, 2020 | 171 comments

17000.

Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict (soranews24.com)

90 points by bemmu on Jun 8, 2020 | 165 comments

17001.

iOS First Impressions (2018) (basicbitch.software)

90 points by luu on Jan 26, 2020 | 150 comments

17002.

Why Americans Have Been Deceived About Canada's Health Care System (npr.org)

90 points by Tomte on Nov 20, 2020 | 142 comments

17003.

What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? (marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)

90 points by djsumdog on Jan 10, 2020 | 141 comments

17004.

Investors double down on stocks, pushing margin debt to record (wsj.com)

90 points by prostoalex on Dec 27, 2020 | 129 comments

17005.

There's Still No Viable Open Source Business Model [video] (gestaltit.com)

90 points by alexellisuk on Nov 20, 2020 | 119 comments

17006.

A safer and more private browsing experience with Secure DNS (blog.chromium.org)

90 points by caution on May 19, 2020 | 108 comments

17007.

Announcing Bluetooth LE Audio (bluetooth.com)

90 points by dsalzman on Jan 7, 2020 | 104 comments

17008.

Study: Cheap gas, not renewables, caused nuclear woes (2018) (utilitydive.com)

90 points by throw0101a on Aug 15, 2020 | 104 comments

17009.

Rolls-Royce concludes testing of plane technology to break electric speed record (techxplore.com)

90 points by lelf on Sep 29, 2020 | 103 comments

17010.

To manage wildfire, California looks to what tribes have known all along (npr.org)

90 points by jweir on Sep 11, 2020 | 102 comments