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1771.

The Kessler Syndrome Explained (2014) (spacesafetymagazine.com)

58 points by pmoriarty on Jan 31, 2018 | 51 comments

1772.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his appearance at CES because of death threats (recode.net)

58 points by moonka on Jan 5, 2018 | 48 comments

1773.

Snowflake Computing raises $263M for its data warehouse (venturebeat.com)

58 points by jonbaer on Jan 29, 2018 | 32 comments

1774.

This Conversation Is Going Nowhere (blog.digit.co)

58 points by jkestelyn on Jan 31, 2018 | 27 comments

1775.

Snap lays off two dozen employees (cheddar.com)

58 points by minimaxir on Jan 18, 2018 | 25 comments

1776.

Olivetti – Programma 101 (1967) [video] (youtube.com)

58 points by turrini on Jan 10, 2018 | 24 comments

1777.

Founder of GenodeLabs OS framework discusses impact of Meltdown/Spectre attacks (sourceforge.net)

58 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 6, 2018 | 12 comments

1778.

Joe Frank, Spinner of Strange Radio Tales, Has Died (nytimes.com)

58 points by klenwell on Jan 20, 2018 | 7 comments

1779.

Trump team considers nationalizing 5G network (axios.com)

58 points by Maxious on Jan 28, 2018 | 5 comments

1780.

Kernel Feature Selection via Conditional Covariance Minimization (bair.berkeley.edu)

58 points by jonbaer on Jan 24, 2018 | 0 comments

1781.

How Duolingo achieved a 50:50 gender ratio for new software engineer hires (making.duolingo.com)

57 points by doppp on Jan 21, 2018 | 107 comments

1782.

Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet? (nautil.us)

57 points by dnetesn on Jan 15, 2018 | 86 comments

1783.

Ask HN: Modern Linux laptop with great battery life?

57 points by _ix on Jan 3, 2018 | 85 comments

1784.

Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem for a web backend?

57 points by xstartup on Jan 17, 2018 | 78 comments

1785.

How Bitcoin Compares to History's Big Bubbles (bloomberg.com)

57 points by akrymski on Jan 17, 2018 | 64 comments

1786.

Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive (washingtonpost.com)

57 points by mhb on Jan 21, 2018 | 62 comments

1787.

CSS Paint API: New possibilities in Chrome 65 (developers.google.com)

57 points by syrusakbary on Jan 19, 2018 | 57 comments

1788.

Why do I do this to myself? Bob's first predictions for 2018 – I, Cringely (cringely.com)

57 points by rbanffy on Jan 16, 2018 | 38 comments

1789.

Microsoft: Haswell and older CPUs are slowed down significantly by Spectre fixes (hothardware.com)

57 points by bhouston on Jan 10, 2018 | 30 comments

1790.

“I guess you can’t use NYU Libraries if you don’t have Twitter or Facebook?” (twitter.com)

57 points by troydavis on Jan 27, 2018 | 30 comments

1791.

Database of Lost Crypto Assets (ohmycoins.xyz)

57 points by grumlerg on Jan 4, 2018 | 25 comments

1792.

Corporate B.S. Generator (atrixnet.com)

57 points by srathi on Jan 5, 2018 | 22 comments

1793.

Show HN: Making a bike route of every road in Atlanta (highcube.org)

57 points by durkie on Jan 11, 2018 | 20 comments

1794.

The Rise of the State Machines (smashingmagazine.com)

57 points by mpweiher on Jan 7, 2018 | 15 comments

1795.

V7/x86 – x86 port of Unix V7 (nordier.com)

57 points by beefhash on Jan 6, 2018 | 12 comments

1796.

Cisco Security Advisory Cisco ASA RCE and DoS Vulnerability (tools.cisco.com)

57 points by jgrahamc on Jan 29, 2018 | 11 comments

1797.

Intel CEO sold all the stock he could after Intel learned of security bug (arstechnica.com)