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5791.

Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016) (reason.com)

204 points by Tomte on Jul 23, 2018 | 220 comments

5792.

A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' (rollingstone.com)

204 points by matt4077 on Jul 19, 2018 | 183 comments

5793.

Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry (oceana.org)

204 points by okket on Jan 14, 2018 | 181 comments

5794.

Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality (venturebeat.com)

204 points by z0a on Dec 18, 2018 | 175 comments

5795.

Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once (theguardian.com)

204 points by troydavis on Jun 29, 2018 | 165 comments

5796.

Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water (bbc.com)

204 points by tonteldoos on Jan 18, 2018 | 138 comments

5797.

Airware is shutting down after raising $118M (techcrunch.com)

204 points by coloneltcb on Sep 14, 2018 | 137 comments

5798.

Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com)

204 points by prostoalex on Oct 28, 2018 | 132 comments

5799.

Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers? (dev.to)

204 points by axiomdata316 on May 5, 2018 | 127 comments

5800.

The End of Video Coding? (medium.com)

204 points by mfrw on Jun 13, 2018 | 127 comments

5801.

Fake Net Neutrality Comments Draw A Federal Probe (buzzfeednews.com)

204 points by cronix on Dec 13, 2018 | 127 comments

5802.

Why Not to Build a Time-Series Database (outlyer.com)

204 points by dgildeh on Nov 7, 2018 | 126 comments

5803.

Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware startups (neutis.io)

204 points by willey on Feb 22, 2018 | 119 comments

5804.

The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (2013) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

204 points by qrian on Apr 29, 2018 | 117 comments

5805.

FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew (gizmodo.com)

204 points by dsl on Mar 7, 2018 | 111 comments

5806.

How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross (nytimes.com)

204 points by initself on Nov 24, 2018 | 108 comments

5807.

My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery (theatlantic.com)

204 points by gone35 on Nov 1, 2018 | 106 comments

5808.

Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena (aws.amazon.com)

204 points by mooreds on Jul 30, 2018 | 104 comments

5809.

The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow (drewdevault.com)

204 points by Cmerlyn on Jul 2, 2018 | 101 comments

5810.

SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System (symbos.de)

204 points by Paul_S on Jan 5, 2018 | 98 comments

5811.

Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell (xon.sh)

204 points by ahmedfromtunis on Sep 14, 2018 | 93 comments

5812.

Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past (sciencemag.org)

204 points by ccwilson10 on Nov 16, 2018 | 93 comments

5813.

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition (blog.mozilla.org)

204 points by markdog12 on Nov 6, 2018 | 86 comments

5814.

Sketches of Elixir (blog.zdsmith.com)

204 points by signa11 on Dec 27, 2018 | 78 comments

5815.

Hawaii moves to ban sale of sunscreens with coral-harming chemicals (cbsnews.com)

204 points by DoreenMichele on Jul 4, 2018 | 77 comments

5816.

On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort (drops.dagstuhl.de)

204 points by pelario on Aug 31, 2018 | 74 comments

5817.

Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper on parallel universes (sciencealert.com)

204 points by aaronbrethorst on Mar 19, 2018 | 71 comments

5818.

Redis is not “open core” (antirez.com)

204 points by stock_toaster on Aug 24, 2018 | 68 comments

5819.

LibreSprite – fork of last open-source release of Aseprite pixel art editor (github.com)

204 points by app4soft on Jun 19, 2018 | 67 comments

5820.

Lessons from “The Profit” (marginalrevolution.com)

204 points by jseliger on Apr 4, 2018 | 62 comments