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1261.

What would have happened if the Normans had lost the Battle of Hastings? (newstatesman.com)

82 points by benbreen on Oct 20, 2016 | 64 comments

1262.

2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi [pdf] (nobelprize.org)

82 points by sounddetective on Oct 3, 2016 | 30 comments

1263.

Privacy Policy on DigitalOcean (digitalocean.com)

82 points by hetfeld on Oct 18, 2016 | 22 comments

1264.

Cape Adare (idlewords.com)

82 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 7, 2016 | 5 comments

1265.

Why Do These Straight Men Want Nothing to Do with Women? (narrative.ly)

81 points by ca98am79 on Oct 19, 2016 | 156 comments

1266.

From Mac to Linux: Web Development with Linux (medium.com)

81 points by nitai on Oct 17, 2016 | 104 comments

1267.

Show HN: SummitDB – In-Memory NoSQL DB (github.com)

81 points by tidwall on Oct 11, 2016 | 70 comments

1268.

Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs (theguardian.com)

81 points by danielmorozoff on Oct 8, 2016 | 54 comments

1269.

Remediation Plan for WoSign and StartCom (groups.google.com)

81 points by asayler on Oct 13, 2016 | 51 comments

1270.

PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects (webagility.com)

81 points by thousande on Oct 20, 2016 | 49 comments

1271.

Transistor Production Has Reached Astronomical Scales (2015) (spectrum.ieee.org)

81 points by mtrn on Oct 26, 2016 | 40 comments

1272.

Vigorous Public Debates in Academic Computer Science (blog.regehr.org)

81 points by mad on Oct 2, 2016 | 35 comments

1273.

The Prostate Cancer Test That Saved My Life (medium.com)

81 points by _l4jh on Oct 4, 2016 | 34 comments

1274.

Show HN: A chat client built on git (github.com)

81 points by jonstaab on Oct 21, 2016 | 33 comments

1275.

The Red Cross Blood Service: Australia's largest ever leak of personal data (troyhunt.com)

81 points by bootload on Oct 28, 2016 | 31 comments

1276.

Show HN: Insight AI – 7 week fellowship for scientists and engineers (insightdata.ai)

81 points by jakek on Oct 7, 2016 | 28 comments

1277.

Machine Learning Is the New Statistics (danielmiessler.com)

81 points by danielrm26 on Oct 16, 2016 | 28 comments

1278.

New paper: “Why most of psychology is statistically unfalsifiable” (medium.com)

81 points by yk on Oct 17, 2016 | 18 comments

1279.

Was Joomla Sabotaged? (fionacoulter.com)

81 points by markdown on Oct 29, 2016 | 17 comments

1280.

Project Blue aims to snap the first picture of an exoplanet in Alpha Centauri (techcrunch.com)

81 points by CapitalistCartr on Oct 11, 2016 | 16 comments

1281.

How to learn programming without getting stuck (plumshell.com)

81 points by NonUmemoto on Oct 1, 2016 | 14 comments

1282.

The Sketchy Database: Learning to Retrieve Badly Drawn Bunnies (sketchy.eye.gatech.edu)

81 points by mihau on Oct 1, 2016 | 12 comments

1283.

Milagro: Distributed Cryptosystem for Cloud Computing (milagro.apache.org)

81 points by blopeur on Oct 17, 2016 | 10 comments

1284.

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language (2015) (nautil.us)

80 points by dnetesn on Oct 16, 2016 | 80 comments

1285.

On the wikileak-ed emails from Tanden on Lessig (lessig.tumblr.com)

80 points by dankohn1 on Oct 18, 2016 | 70 comments

1286.

Eagle: Tcl interpreter implemented in CLR (eagle.to)

80 points by blacksqr on Oct 8, 2016 | 33 comments

1287.

The Important Habit of Just Starting (lifehacker.com)

80 points by walterbell on Oct 8, 2016 | 30 comments

1288.

Tile Studio: development utility for graphics of tile-based games (tilestudio.sourceforge.net)

80 points by cheiVia0 on Oct 18, 2016 | 30 comments

1289.

How HotelTonight Scaled Their Stack [audio] (stackshare.io)

80 points by relivo on Oct 24, 2016 | 24 comments

1290.

Show HN: Advenjure – Interactive fiction on the terminal and in the browser (facundoolano.github.io)

80 points by facundo_olano on Oct 9, 2016 | 23 comments