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17701.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree (fivethirtyeight.com)

81 points by iron0013 on Jan 18, 2019 | 154 comments

17702.

Did Finland’s basic income experiment work? [video] (bbc.com)

81 points by tagawa on Feb 3, 2019 | 154 comments

17703.

Google is ramping up its efforts to replace SMS with RCS (wired.co.uk)

81 points by elorant on Aug 31, 2019 | 146 comments

17704.

U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills (bloomberg.com)

81 points by hhs on Nov 15, 2019 | 136 comments

17705.

So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket? (hackaday.com)

81 points by kyancey on Dec 16, 2019 | 113 comments

17706.

Escaping San Francisco (techpost.io)

81 points by mysticlabs on Dec 24, 2019 | 106 comments

17707.

Launch HN: Lofty AI (YC S19) – Real estate investment with alternative data

81 points by loftyai on Aug 14, 2019 | 105 comments

17708.

Are Humans Fit for Space? A ‘Herculean’ Study (wired.com)

81 points by dsr12 on Dec 25, 2019 | 102 comments

17709.

A Waymo One Rider’s Experiences Highlight Autonomous Rideshare’s Shortcomings (futurism.com)

81 points by motiw on Jan 27, 2019 | 99 comments

17710.

Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5? (theengineeringmanager.com)

81 points by jstanier on Apr 5, 2019 | 98 comments

17711.

JavaScript Is Bad (ror6ax.wordpress.com)

81 points by randomdudeonhn on Aug 27, 2019 | 98 comments

17712.

Spotify Saved the Music Industry – Now What? (fortune.com)

81 points by prostoalex on Oct 27, 2019 | 94 comments

17713.

Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 50 years?

81 points by hereiskkb on Oct 23, 2019 | 91 comments

17714.

Jeff Bezos sells $1.8bn of Amazon stock (ft.com)

81 points by jmsflknr on Aug 1, 2019 | 85 comments

17715.

A Stanford Professor Says Juul Stole Her Anti-Vaping PowerPoint Slides (buzzfeednews.com)

81 points by hhs on Dec 24, 2019 | 84 comments

17716.

UK government proposes fine or block if website fails to tackle “online harms” (bbc.co.uk)

81 points by pmlnr on Apr 8, 2019 | 82 comments

17717.

3M to cut 2K jobs globally, lowers 2019 profit outlook (reuters.com)

81 points by oldjokes on Apr 25, 2019 | 82 comments

17718.

As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building Material? (e360.yale.edu)

81 points by aaronbrethorst on May 31, 2019 | 81 comments

17719.

Teens are spending nearly half their waking hours on screens (marketwatch.com)

81 points by ga-vu on Oct 29, 2019 | 78 comments

17720.

Shut down social media platforms, ex-Facebook adviser urges (cbc.ca)

81 points by fbelzile on May 28, 2019 | 75 comments

17721.

I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1.7 per hour (scmp.com)

81 points by kasbah on May 18, 2019 | 74 comments

17722.

Launch HN: The Juggernaut (YC W19) – A Publication for the South Asian Diaspora

81 points by snigdha on Mar 6, 2019 | 73 comments

17723.

Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce (cam.ac.uk)

81 points by hhs on Jul 8, 2019 | 71 comments

17724.

CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation (cbor.io)

81 points by tosh on Aug 3, 2019 | 71 comments

17725.

US Ride-Share Drivers Ready for Countrywide Strike Ahead of Uber IPO (thedrive.com)

81 points by clouddrover on May 5, 2019 | 69 comments

17726.

The Mobile-Home Trap (2015) (seattletimes.com)

81 points by simonebrunozzi on May 1, 2019 | 66 comments

17727.

Android 10: Google Confirms 193 Security Vulnerabilities Need Fixing (forbes.com)