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15751.

Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes? (nytimes.com)

106 points by prismatic on Feb 21, 2021 | 166 comments

15752.

Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US (nytimes.com)

106 points by atlasunshrugged on Sep 24, 2021 | 160 comments

15753.

Crises of Elite Competition in the East and West (americanaffairsjournal.org)

106 points by arexxbifs on Nov 29, 2021 | 157 comments

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PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview (evrone.com)

106 points by elizabethdevoir on Dec 8, 2021 | 155 comments

15755.

How do I manage an employee who doesn’t need the job? (askamanager.org)

106 points by mooreds on Aug 17, 2021 | 149 comments

15756.

Why aren't there more programming-language startups? (akitasoftware.com)

106 points by mpweiher on Jul 21, 2021 | 148 comments

15757.

Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase (apple.com)

106 points by whitepoplar on Aug 3, 2021 | 143 comments

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Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts (ottawacitizen.com)

106 points by amichail on Feb 1, 2021 | 142 comments

15759.

Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?

106 points by Victerius on Dec 14, 2021 | 136 comments

15760.

Ask HN: My startup has more annual subscribers than monthly. What to make of it?

106 points by throwaway_23124 on Apr 15, 2021 | 132 comments

15761.

Apple reveals more about AirTag stalking protections (fastcompany.com)

106 points by roguson on Apr 30, 2021 | 131 comments

15762.

FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests (wsj.com)

106 points by wglb on Jan 9, 2021 | 121 comments

15763.

Hex-rays is moving to a subscription model (hex-rays.com)

106 points by qw3rty01 on Dec 14, 2021 | 119 comments

15764.

Laser Bear Honeycomb lidar (waymo.com)

106 points by verdverm on Mar 29, 2021 | 115 comments

15765.

Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm (johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)

106 points by BayAreaEscapee on Mar 8, 2021 | 112 comments

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SBA executives ‘beyond doubt’ that teleworking employees are more productive (federalnewsnetwork.com)

106 points by dtmmax33 on Apr 16, 2021 | 110 comments

15767.

JWT Tokens are NOT safe (redislabs.com)

106 points by node-bayarea on Jun 25, 2021 | 107 comments

15768.

Podcasts are my new Wikipedia (listennotes.com)

106 points by wrycoder on Nov 3, 2021 | 102 comments

15769.

Top German court strikes down Facebook rules on hate speech (euractiv.com)

106 points by giuliomagnifico on Jul 30, 2021 | 100 comments

15770.

You don't need to burn off your fingertips (and other biometric myths) (troyhunt.com)

106 points by Corrado on Sep 16, 2021 | 95 comments

15771.

Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming (oreilly.com)

106 points by worldvoyageur on Nov 16, 2021 | 93 comments

15772.

SpaceX reveals the grand extent of its starport plans in South Texas (arstechnica.com)

106 points by fireball_blaze on Mar 8, 2021 | 86 comments

15773.

Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999) (team.net)

106 points by walterbell on Jul 31, 2021 | 85 comments

15774.

The Syslog Hell (techblog.bozho.net)

106 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on May 10, 2021 | 84 comments

15775.

Latches in C++20 (modernescpp.com)

106 points by ibobev on Jan 25, 2021 | 83 comments

15776.

Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?

106 points by BjornW on Nov 2, 2021 | 82 comments

15777.

Pine64 and Radxa's new Pi CM4-compatible boards (jeffgeerling.com)

106 points by geerlingguy on Dec 15, 2021 | 82 comments

15778.

Lua and Python (2020) (lwn.net)

106 points by huachimingo on Jan 15, 2021 | 80 comments

15779.

Nike Statement on Xinjiang (purpose.nike.com)

106 points by lawrenceyan on Mar 27, 2021 | 79 comments

15780.

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest (scientificamerican.com)

106 points by hheikinh on Apr 2, 2021 | 79 comments