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1471.

Make a healthy climate a legal right that extends to future generations (economist.com)

79 points by sohkamyung on Sep 18, 2019 | 21 comments

1472.

Create FreeBSD Current OpenStack Image on OVH Public Cloud (fralix.fr)

79 points by fredericalix on Sep 2, 2019 | 13 comments

1473.

What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves (newyorker.com)

79 points by haltingproblem on Sep 15, 2019 | 13 comments

1474.

Radio Tecnico: How the Zetas Cartel Took over Mexico with Walkie-Talkies (2014) (popsci.com)

79 points by prostoalex on Sep 29, 2019 | 10 comments

1475.

Strike with the Band: The meritocratic failures of classical music (thebaffler.com)

78 points by tintinnabula on Sep 7, 2019 | 104 comments

1476.

Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes (bbc.co.uk)

78 points by lifeisstillgood on Sep 14, 2019 | 94 comments

1477.

Ask HN: Best ways to spend money towards climate efforts

78 points by esotericn on Sep 20, 2019 | 79 comments

1478.

Safari 13 Is Out (developer.apple.com)

78 points by freediver on Sep 19, 2019 | 73 comments

1479.

Leadership Transition Announced for MIT Media Lab (news.mit.edu)

78 points by infodocket on Sep 10, 2019 | 66 comments

1480.

Mark Twain’s Quest to Bring Affordable Watches to the Masses (smithsonianmag.com)

78 points by bryanrasmussen on Sep 2, 2019 | 57 comments

1481.

APL Demonstration (1975) [video] (youtube.com)

78 points by emersonrsantos on Sep 29, 2019 | 51 comments

1482.

Lee Bollinger: No, I won’t start spying on my foreign-born students (washingtonpost.com)

78 points by Anon84 on Sep 1, 2019 | 41 comments

1483.

Snowden: Why I Decided Not To Delete My Old Internet Posts (theintercept.com)

78 points by LVB on Sep 21, 2019 | 41 comments

1484.

Lambdas for C – sort of (hackaday.com)

78 points by fogus on Sep 11, 2019 | 35 comments

1485.

Super Wood (2018) (scientificamerican.com)

78 points by bingden on Sep 13, 2019 | 23 comments

1486.

Small but significant improvements in Swift 5.1 (swiftbysundell.com)

78 points by ingve on Sep 22, 2019 | 22 comments

1487.

Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird (techcrunch.com)

78 points by bgrynol on Sep 18, 2019 | 18 comments

1488.

Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims (2018) (liebertpub.com)

78 points by laurex on Sep 5, 2019 | 16 comments

1489.

Buster Keaton and the Art of the Gag (2015) [video] (youtube.com)

78 points by smacktoward on Sep 11, 2019 | 13 comments

1490.

Transceivers: The Device Between the NIC and the Network (dtrace.org)

78 points by lelf on Sep 12, 2019 | 9 comments

1491.

Show HN: Geodata API for country and city select drop-downs (github.com)

78 points by marlynm on Sep 29, 2019 | 1 comments

1492.

Fires Globally Have Declined 25% Since 2003 (forbes.com)

77 points by mpweiher on Sep 1, 2019 | 53 comments

1493.

Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard [pdf] (public.econ.duke.edu)

77 points by ibobev on Sep 21, 2019 | 50 comments

1494.

Psychiatric Diagnosis Found to Be “Scientifically Meaningless” (technologynetworks.com)

77 points by ada1981 on Sep 1, 2019 | 48 comments

1495.

Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layer (techcrunch.com)

77 points by pauloteixeira on Sep 25, 2019 | 36 comments

1496.

The Price of Self-Delusion (the-american-interest.com)

77 points by samclemens on Sep 2, 2019 | 33 comments

1497.

A browser extension that replaces occurrences of 'serverless' with 'CGI-bin' (github.com)

77 points by ghuntley on Sep 4, 2019 | 32 comments

1498.

Team closes in on “holy grail” of room temperature quantum computing chips (osapublishing.org)