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18871.

Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea (forgac.me)

77 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 27, 2020 | 169 comments

18872.

PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers (theverge.com)

77 points by aspenmayer on May 9, 2020 | 157 comments

18873.

Riot Games newest title “Valorant” installs kernel driver to run anti-cheat (old.reddit.com)

77 points by kawsper on Apr 13, 2020 | 129 comments

18874.

'Guaranteed hit' tech could be added to army’s next-gen squad weapon (military.com)

77 points by sakopov on Feb 1, 2020 | 128 comments

18875.

Using floating-point numbers for money (evanjones.ca)

77 points by ingve on Jan 25, 2020 | 119 comments

18876.

The Trolley Problem Problem (aeon.co)

77 points by Hooke on May 31, 2020 | 115 comments

18877.

Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outside Barstow (latimes.com)

77 points by jonas21 on Feb 23, 2020 | 114 comments

18878.

Europe Is Ready for Its Own Army (2019) (foreignpolicy.com)

77 points by kenneth on Jan 19, 2020 | 112 comments

18879.

I lost all my savings in a mistaken Ethereum transaction (github.com)

77 points by mudge on Dec 16, 2020 | 109 comments

18880.

Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Covid Future (oreilly.com)

77 points by gHeadphone on Jun 9, 2020 | 106 comments

18881.

Officials: Dozens at WA nursing facility show possible coronavirus symptoms (kiro7.com)

77 points by anigbrowl on Feb 29, 2020 | 104 comments

18882.

Policymakers must consider the harms of pandemic policies, not just benefits (bostonreview.net)

77 points by lilrhody on May 26, 2020 | 103 comments

18883.

PHP 8.0.0 beta 2 (php.net)

77 points by julien_c on Aug 21, 2020 | 99 comments

18884.

Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation (opb.org)

77 points by growlix on Jul 17, 2020 | 97 comments

18885.

Horcrux Encrypted Messaging (notion.so)

77 points by ljlolel on Aug 30, 2020 | 93 comments

18886.

‘Time to come home’ – acting Pentagon chief wants to end wars in Middle East (cnbc.com)

77 points by sahin-boydas on Nov 15, 2020 | 92 comments

18887.

Battle of Alesia (en.wikipedia.org)

77 points by JoelMcCracken on Jan 8, 2020 | 91 comments

18888.

We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on Record (bloomberg.com)

77 points by JumpCrisscross on Feb 27, 2020 | 91 comments

18889.

How fast can you allocate a large block of memory in C++? (lemire.me)

77 points by ibobev on Jan 14, 2020 | 89 comments

18890.

Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?

77 points by ryanSrich on Jan 27, 2020 | 88 comments

18891.

Jobless claims, total unemployment level worse than expected (cnbc.com)

77 points by Reedx on Jun 4, 2020 | 86 comments

18892.

Why I Wrote “The Crucible” (1996) (newyorker.com)

77 points by thazework on Dec 12, 2020 | 86 comments

18893.

The Third Age of JavaScript (swyx.io)

77 points by swyx on May 20, 2020 | 85 comments

18894.

The coronavirus pandemic in five powerful charts (nature.com)

77 points by abbracadabbra on Mar 25, 2020 | 80 comments

18895.

Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses illegally (wsj.com)

77 points by ammaristotle on Feb 18, 2020 | 78 comments

18896.

KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer (gamesradar.com)

77 points by jacksonpollock on Dec 23, 2020 | 78 comments

18897.

Australia's Wildfires Spark Disinformation Battle as They Take a Tragic Toll (npr.org)

77 points by frereubu on Jan 10, 2020 | 77 comments

18898.

Sweden’s central bank says it has begun testing an e-krona (reuters.com)

77 points by pseudolus on Feb 20, 2020 | 76 comments

18899.

Chronologic Versioning: No more arbitrary version updates and regressions (chronver.org)

77 points by goranmoomin on Jan 1, 2020 | 74 comments

18900.

Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy (bnnbloomberg.ca)

77 points by gbourne on Aug 2, 2020 | 74 comments