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2461.

Ghost Words and Mountweazels: Mistakes in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (laphamsquarterly.org)

19 points by benbreen on Feb 24, 2016 | 5 comments

2462.

A private company is selling 2.2B photos and locations of auto license plates (theatlantic.com)

19 points by uptown on Feb 1, 2016 | 4 comments

2463.

Hundreds of Windows 3.1 Programs Join the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)

19 points by josephscott on Feb 12, 2016 | 4 comments

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Anonymous: Hacker releases 17.8GB of data from a Turkish national police server (ibtimes.co.uk)

19 points by gruez on Feb 16, 2016 | 4 comments

2465.

Umberto Eco: “Macintosh Is Catholic and MS-DOS Is Protestant” (pcuf.fi)

19 points by wyclif on Feb 20, 2016 | 4 comments

2466.

The $16M offer letter Yahoo sent to poach its CRO from Amazon (businessinsider.com)

19 points by coloneltcb on Feb 29, 2016 | 4 comments

2467.

Maryland Attorney General: If You Don't Want to Be Tracked, Turn Off Your Phone (motherboard.vice.com)

19 points by doctorshady on Feb 4, 2016 | 3 comments

2468.

When Addiction Has a White Face (nytimes.com)

19 points by NN88 on Feb 9, 2016 | 3 comments

2469.

Billing for SaaS – first $50k free tier for startups (chargebee.com)

19 points by skrish on Feb 24, 2016 | 3 comments

2470.

What History Gives, the Sea Steals (hakaimagazine.com)

19 points by diodorus on Feb 9, 2016 | 2 comments

2471.

To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind in Life (huffingtonpost.com)

19 points by acidfreaks on Feb 16, 2016 | 2 comments

2472.

Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging (nature.com)

19 points by mxfh on Feb 22, 2016 | 2 comments

2473.

Show HN: Spatial data analysis and visualization in Excel (gisxl.com)

19 points by fasteRstat on Feb 23, 2016 | 2 comments

2474.

GATTACA fears real: You can be denied life insurance based on a genetic test (fastcompany.com)

19 points by acmcc on Feb 17, 2016 | 1 comments

2475.

Bitcoin Mints New Words (spectrum.ieee.org)

19 points by msgrom on Feb 22, 2016 | 1 comments

2476.

OCaml love, by gina (gina.codes)

19 points by e_d_g_a_r on Feb 22, 2016 | 1 comments

2477.

Introducing Vega-Lite 1.0: a high-level visualization language (medium.com)

19 points by domoritz on Feb 23, 2016 | 1 comments

2478.

Journalists as ‘hit squad:’ Connecting the dots on Adelson and Review-Journal (pressthink.org)

19 points by BobbyVsTheDevil on Feb 1, 2016 | 0 comments

2479.

Cross-Cultural Studies of Toddler Awareness (digest.bps.org.uk)

19 points by allthebest on Feb 7, 2016 | 0 comments

2480.

16 Tips to Organize the Best Tech Meetups (tech.stylight.com)

19 points by romefort on Feb 8, 2016 | 0 comments

2481.

Some Good News for Dementia: Rates Might Be Going Down (nbcnews.com)

19 points by tokenadult on Feb 11, 2016 | 0 comments

2482.

The Epic Story of Maximum Likelihood (arxiv.org)

19 points by akkartik on Feb 12, 2016 | 0 comments

2483.

An Open Letter to My CEO: I pay 80% of my income to afford rent in Bay Area (medium.com)

19 points by SonicSoul on Feb 20, 2016 | 0 comments

2484.

Interactive guide to Git branching (pcottle.github.io)

19 points by Mahn on Feb 21, 2016 | 0 comments

2485.

The joy of covering video games for 25 years (venturebeat.com)

19 points by jalea on Feb 21, 2016 | 0 comments

2486.

APL Demonstration – Professor Bob Spence, Imperial College London (1975) [video] (youtube.com)

19 points by agumonkey on Feb 22, 2016 | 0 comments

2487.

Demystifying the Demise of Suite B, but Failing to Explain One Important Detail (pomcor.com)

19 points by aburan28 on Feb 26, 2016 | 0 comments

2488.

Using Scala to Build an AI-Powered Personal Assistant: X.ai Engineers Tell All (x.ai)

19 points by caente on Feb 29, 2016 | 0 comments

2489.

Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes to Fight Disease Is Probably a Bad Idea (motherboard.vice.com)

18 points by digital_ins on Feb 12, 2016 | 39 comments

2490.

Show HN: Herodotus – An IRC bot that logs a channel's activity to JSON (github.com)

18 points by egladman on Feb 20, 2016 | 22 comments