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8131.
Apple's AirPods and Live Listen are a revolution for the hearing impaired (qz.com)
161 points by okket on Jul 7, 2018 | 89 comments
8132.
WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web (github.com)
161 points by lorenzleutgeb on Sep 15, 2018 | 87 comments
8133.
Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faster web (cnet.com)
161 points by shdon on Oct 5, 2018 | 84 comments
8134.
WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe (00f.net)
161 points by paraboul on Nov 25, 2018 | 83 comments
8135.
Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010) (conal.net)
161 points by stevekrouse on Dec 16, 2018 | 82 comments
8136.
Tesla issues its largest recall ever over faulty Model S steering (theverge.com)
161 points by fmihaila on Mar 29, 2018 | 80 comments
8137.
Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms (racked.com)
161 points by raleighm on Apr 17, 2018 | 80 comments
8138.
Smartphone Security: You'll Never Guess Who Just Messaged You (jordansmith.io)
161 points by jordansmithnz on Apr 8, 2018 | 79 comments
8139.
Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited types in Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
161 points by fanf2 on Aug 18, 2018 | 76 comments
8140.
Ivy – A static website generator built in Python (mulholland.xyz)
161 points by dm40597 on Jan 27, 2018 | 75 comments
8141.
Fortnite was 2018’s most important social network (theverge.com)
161 points by Tomte on Dec 25, 2018 | 75 comments
8142.
Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields (arxiv.org)
161 points by air7 on Feb 9, 2018 | 72 comments
8143.
Intel's New Low: Commissioning Misleading Core I9-9900K Benchmarks [video] (youtube.com)
161 points by esistgut on Oct 9, 2018 | 72 comments
8144.
Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge (auntymuriel.com)
161 points by DanBC on Oct 19, 2018 | 70 comments
8145.
Open-Sourcing our GDPR Compliance Preparation For Articles 30, 32, and 35 (blog.everlaw.com)
161 points by homarp on May 19, 2018 | 69 comments
8146.
Show HN: Jumprock.co – HTML Forms for Static Sites (jumprock.co)
161 points by therov on Feb 26, 2018 | 68 comments
8147.
Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London (independent.co.uk)
161 points by pmoriarty on Jul 28, 2018 | 68 comments
8148.
Three facts from “Our World in Data” that everyone should know (gatesnotes.com)
161 points by muramira on Jun 27, 2018 | 67 comments
8149.
Measuring the memory usage of popular web apps (github.com)
161 points by dsr12 on Sep 5, 2018 | 67 comments
8150.
An update on GNU performance (community.arm.com)
161 points by ingve on Oct 21, 2018 | 64 comments
8151.
vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance (technologyreview.com)
161 points by mkm416 on Aug 21, 2018 | 61 comments
8152.
Parallel Supercomputing for Astronomy with Julia (juliacomputing.com)
161 points by SiempreViernes on Oct 11, 2018 | 61 comments
8153.
The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art (atlasobscura.com)
161 points by ctrlp on Jan 24, 2018 | 52 comments
8154.
When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017) (mfbt.ca)
161 points by mooreds on Feb 25, 2018 | 52 comments
8155.
Nintendo's secretive creative process (amp.theguardian.com)
161 points by gyre007 on Apr 28, 2018 | 51 comments
8156.
How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google (nytimes.com)
161 points by domevent on Mar 24, 2018 | 48 comments
8157.
Comparing City Street Orientations (geoffboeing.com)
161 points by jsm386 on Jul 11, 2018 | 48 comments
8158.
Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibiotics (nytimes.com)
161 points by montrose on Apr 26, 2018 | 46 comments
8159.
Flying a Cessna 172 for 65 days nonstop (aopa.org)
161 points by johncole on Oct 6, 2018 | 46 comments
8160.
Consumer startups that said no to investor money (recode.net)
161 points by gavman on Aug 30, 2018 | 44 comments