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6751.

Uncertain Propulsion Breakthroughs? (centauri-dreams.org)

162 points by blater on Dec 30, 2016 | 94 comments

6752.

Software has diseconomies of scale, not economies of scale (allankelly.blogspot.com)

162 points by henrik_w on Jul 4, 2016 | 92 comments

6753.

Telegram to award grants to bot developers (telegram.org)

162 points by amima on Apr 18, 2016 | 87 comments

6754.

Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'ransomware' malvertising (theguardian.com)

162 points by oneeyedpigeon on Mar 16, 2016 | 83 comments

6755.

Apple loses patent retrial to the litigious VirnetX, ordered to pay $300M (techcrunch.com)

162 points by dustinmoris on Oct 1, 2016 | 77 comments

6756.

Govtech: The $400B Market Hiding in Plain Sight (govtechfund.com)

162 points by RonnieB on Jan 3, 2016 | 73 comments

6757.

Show HN: Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively (github.com)

162 points by skewedlines on Jan 19, 2016 | 70 comments

6758.

SF YIMBY Platform (sfyimby.org)

162 points by jseliger on Aug 18, 2016 | 69 comments

6759.

The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It (nytimes.com)

162 points by elie_CH on Jun 8, 2016 | 65 comments

6760.

No U.S. tech company went public in Q1 2016 (qz.com)

162 points by elorant on Apr 4, 2016 | 62 comments

6761.

DNS: Basic Concepts (2013) (petekeen.net)

162 points by rhubarbcustard on Jun 8, 2016 | 62 comments

6762.

GCC 6 Will Warn You About Misleading Code Indentations (phoronix.com)

162 points by frostmatthew on Jan 10, 2016 | 60 comments

6763.

WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People (wired.com)

162 points by uptown on Apr 5, 2016 | 59 comments

6764.

My next chapter (chrishateswriting.com)

162 points by dorianm on Mar 7, 2016 | 58 comments

6765.

Rails 5.0.1 has been released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

162 points by CoachRufus87 on Dec 21, 2016 | 55 comments

6766.

Beautiful JavaScript – Functional JavaScript (feederio.com)

162 points by Chesco_ on Dec 25, 2016 | 55 comments

6767.

Shebang Quine (github.com)

162 points by geon on May 20, 2016 | 54 comments

6768.

Google Genomics: store, process, explore and share genomic data (cloud.google.com)

162 points by fitzwatermellow on Jan 9, 2016 | 53 comments

6769.

Katana – Modern Swift framework for creating iOS apps, inspired by React/Redux (github.com)

162 points by Feanim on Nov 22, 2016 | 52 comments

6770.

Gnuplotting – Create scientific plots using gnuplot (gnuplotting.org)

162 points by type0 on Sep 22, 2016 | 50 comments

6771.

Multiple Black Vehicles with MD License Plates at Apple Executive Briefing Center

162 points by berkeleynerd on Feb 17, 2016 | 49 comments

6772.

You are being followed: The business of social media surveillance (littlesis.org)

162 points by danso on May 20, 2016 | 47 comments

6773.

A Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design and more (github.com)

162 points by gnocchi on Mar 20, 2016 | 40 comments

6774.

Fighting Corruption in Brazil with Machine Learning (github.com)

162 points by irio on Sep 12, 2016 | 38 comments

6775.

Don’t prematurely obsess on a single “big problem” or “big theory” (terrytao.wordpress.com)

162 points by aburan28 on Dec 3, 2016 | 37 comments

6776.

Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing (cacm.acm.org)

162 points by akashtndn on Nov 7, 2016 | 34 comments

6777.

Ancient Roman coins found buried under ruins of Japanese castle (independent.co.uk)