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691.

Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises (backreaction.blogspot.com)

188 points by chmaynard on Oct 23, 2020 | 199 comments

692.

Wim Hof’s teachings about breath work and the health benefits of cold plunges (outsideonline.com)

188 points by mathieutd on Oct 14, 2020 | 193 comments

693.

Prologue: A web framework written in Nim (github.com)

188 points by flywind on Oct 21, 2020 | 71 comments

694.

Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator (veryseriousblog.com)

188 points by fanf2 on Oct 4, 2020 | 65 comments

695.

BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP (fly.io)

188 points by dochtman on Oct 21, 2020 | 50 comments

696.

Simple Opt Out – Links to opt out of data sharing by companies (simpleoptout.com)

188 points by xanthine on Oct 3, 2020 | 26 comments

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In Finland the average amount of data transferred per SIM card is 17.3GB/month (twitter.com)

187 points by caiobegotti on Oct 11, 2020 | 184 comments

698.

New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light (bbc.com)

186 points by Reedx on Oct 30, 2020 | 278 comments

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The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher (twitter.com)

186 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 15, 2020 | 48 comments

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Andy Kelley (of Zig) intimidated into vacating apartment for Hulu filming (twitter.com)

186 points by Jayschwa on Oct 23, 2020 | 27 comments

701.

Reverse-engineering the problematic tail behavior of Fivethirtyeight forecast (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

185 points by buddhiajuke on Oct 25, 2020 | 234 comments

702.

AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology (wired.com)

185 points by Geekette on Oct 12, 2020 | 180 comments

703.

Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support (aws.amazon.com)

185 points by weitzj on Oct 30, 2020 | 152 comments

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Media buyer: Facebook updates have ‘wrecked the ad platform on the backend’ (digiday.com)

185 points by instagraham on Oct 15, 2020 | 140 comments

705.

Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails (ottawacitizen.com)

185 points by pizza on Oct 28, 2020 | 123 comments

706.

The No-Code Generation is arriving (techcrunch.com)

184 points by prostoalex on Oct 27, 2020 | 273 comments

707.

The Abundance of Silicon Valley (moultano.wordpress.com)

184 points by cyb_ on Oct 16, 2020 | 238 comments

708.

Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness (daringfireball.net)

184 points by goranmoomin on Oct 13, 2020 | 125 comments

709.

Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect (twitter.com)

184 points by sneak on Oct 18, 2020 | 85 comments

710.

3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic (github.com)

184 points by lelf on Oct 1, 2020 | 82 comments

711.

Section 230 Explained (arstechnica.com)

183 points by gok on Oct 16, 2020 | 264 comments

712.

Timekeeping in Financial Exchanges (lucaspauker.ml)

183 points by lucaspauker on Oct 11, 2020 | 184 comments

713.

GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago (eenews.net)

183 points by evo_9 on Oct 27, 2020 | 146 comments

714.

'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains (npr.org)

183 points by respinal on Oct 30, 2020 | 128 comments

715.

United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden (justice.gov)

183 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 1, 2020 | 125 comments

716.

Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP (vapor.network)

183 points by vapormache on Oct 7, 2020 | 108 comments

717.

Dutch flying car gets permission to drive on European roads (psychnewsdaily.com)

183 points by Bologo on Oct 28, 2020 | 106 comments

718.

$30 DIY Kilowatt Wind Turbine (2017) (opensourcelowtech.org)

183 points by simonpure on Oct 23, 2020 | 91 comments

719.

Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread (princeton.edu)

183 points by azalemeth on Oct 5, 2020 | 48 comments

720.

The FBI Team Sent to ‘Exploit’ Protesters’ Phones in Portland (nybooks.com)

182 points by panic on Oct 9, 2020 | 140 comments