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19051.

Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal (apnews.com)

76 points by jonbaer on Aug 21, 2020 | 93 comments

19052.

Excess All-Cause Mortality in the US and 18 Comparison Countries (jamanetwork.com)

76 points by luu on Oct 13, 2020 | 93 comments

19053.

San Francisco Troubles – 19,000 Highly Paid City Employees Earned $150k (forbes.com)

76 points by RestlessMind on Sep 2, 2020 | 92 comments

19054.

Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry? (bmj.com)

76 points by DanBC on Mar 5, 2020 | 91 comments

19055.

Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage (2018) (lowtechmagazine.com)

76 points by vogtb on Oct 15, 2020 | 90 comments

19056.

Amazon has 150M Prime members (engadget.com)

76 points by elorant on Feb 1, 2020 | 89 comments

19057.

New FreeBSD Code of Conduct (mail-archive.com)

76 points by dijit on Jun 9, 2020 | 89 comments

19058.

Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management (arstechnica.com)

76 points by mariuz on Aug 31, 2020 | 89 comments

19059.

Every possible pun of the form ‘You put the X in Y’ (locserendipity.com)

76 points by westcort on Nov 6, 2020 | 89 comments

19060.

Tesco removes 20M items of plastic from Christmas range (theguardian.com)

76 points by williamsharris on Dec 16, 2020 | 88 comments

19061.

Three years of Metal (blog.roblox.com)

76 points by LaSombra on Oct 8, 2020 | 85 comments

19062.

The futility of “I told you so” in software engineering teams (humza.sh)

76 points by shs7777 on Jul 24, 2020 | 83 comments

19063.

Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime (sites.google.com)

76 points by 0xedb on Mar 27, 2020 | 81 comments

19064.

Genetically engineered moth is released into an open field (technologynetworks.com)

76 points by sigmaprimus on Jan 29, 2020 | 80 comments

19065.

Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace (nybooks.com)

76 points by samclemens on Feb 24, 2020 | 78 comments

19066.

UberEats lost $3.36 per order and would continue do so for next5 years (themarkup.org)

76 points by zoolander2 on Jun 1, 2020 | 77 comments

19067.

The Economics of Skyscraper Height (buildingtheskyline.org)

76 points by keiferski on Sep 2, 2020 | 77 comments

19068.

Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator (sw.kovidgoyal.net)

76 points by selrond on Mar 24, 2020 | 73 comments

19069.

Tiny mites spark big battle over imports of French cheese (2013) (npr.org)

76 points by Vlad81b on Jun 7, 2020 | 73 comments

19070.

I changed my LinkedIn avatar to include my toddler (twitter.com)

76 points by luu on Jul 15, 2020 | 73 comments

19071.

In 2020, Words Are 'Violence,' Arson Is Not (reason.com)

76 points by fortran77 on Jul 6, 2020 | 72 comments

19072.

Tgppl, a new type of open-source license (electriccoin.co)

76 points by erwan on Sep 6, 2020 | 71 comments

19073.

Death of the Office (1843magazine.com)

76 points by eplanit on May 1, 2020 | 68 comments

19074.

America’s Havana: Thousands Say “Ciao” to San Francisco (city-journal.org)

76 points by jseliger on May 12, 2020 | 67 comments

19075.

Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey (bbc.co.uk)

76 points by aries1980 on Oct 3, 2020 | 67 comments

19076.

Junk-Bond Sellers Desperate for Funding Swallow Yields over 10% (bloomberg.com)

76 points by SREinSF on May 6, 2020 | 65 comments

19077.

Proving that C++'s grammar is undecidable (medium.com)

76 points by vitaut on Apr 28, 2020 | 64 comments

19078.

Caltrain Vibration and Volatility Analysis (nathanblack.me)

76 points by mmcclure on Jan 17, 2020 | 63 comments

19079.

Long Term Support (exple.tive.org)

76 points by luu on Feb 10, 2020 | 62 comments

19080.

Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart (sciencemag.org)

76 points by jelliclesfarm on Sep 26, 2020 | 62 comments