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1981.

Dominant languages can spread even without coercion (economist.com)

68 points by brimnes on Jan 20, 2022 | 69 comments

1982.

Get to Know the New Topics API for Privacy Sandbox (blog.google)

68 points by abraham on Jan 25, 2022 | 66 comments

1983.

AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular (twitter.com)

68 points by tosh on Jan 13, 2022 | 52 comments

1984.

Mid air collision of two aircrafts taking off simultaneously averted in India (thehindu.com)

68 points by reacharavindh on Jan 19, 2022 | 45 comments

1985.

The Ecology of Freedom (1982) (theanarchistlibrary.org)

68 points by greenie_beans on Jan 20, 2022 | 42 comments

1986.

The sun was dimmer when earth formed – how did life emerge? (quantamagazine.org)

68 points by sdht0 on Jan 28, 2022 | 39 comments

1987.

Walking America: Washington, DC (Anacostia and Alexandria) (intellectualinting.substack.com)

68 points by blegh on Jan 27, 2022 | 38 comments

1988.

Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc on Brazil's 'New Egypt' (apnews.com)

68 points by belltaco on Jan 22, 2022 | 35 comments

1989.

Ice Golf (kevincox.ca)

68 points by cjlm on Jan 21, 2022 | 27 comments

1990.

Alcohol should have cancer warnings, say researchers pushing to raise awareness (cbc.ca)

68 points by brimnes on Jan 9, 2022 | 24 comments

1991.

The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant (spectrum.ieee.org)

68 points by sohkamyung on Jan 28, 2022 | 22 comments

1992.

Apple removes Grindr from the Chinese app store (applecensorship.com)

68 points by cryoz on Jan 30, 2022 | 20 comments

1993.

Firehose of Falsehood (en.wikipedia.org)

68 points by gkop on Jan 2, 2022 | 18 comments

1994.

Introduction to Model Predictive Control (arnavdhamija.com)

68 points by shorts_theory on Jan 11, 2022 | 13 comments

1995.

KiCad 6 (revk.uk)

68 points by ducktective on Jan 6, 2022 | 12 comments

1996.

Emulating the Sega Genesis – Part I (jabberwocky.ca)

68 points by lukastyrychtr on Jan 14, 2022 | 6 comments

1997.

Making the Web Better. With Blocks (joelonsoftware.com)

68 points by jakevoytko on Jan 27, 2022 | 3 comments

1998.

Airbnb's experiment in combatting rental bias means swapping names for initials (npr.org)

67 points by pseudolus on Jan 5, 2022 | 157 comments

1999.

The Tipping Point: The Economics of Taxi Fares (gsb.stanford.edu)

67 points by gotmedium on Jan 11, 2022 | 131 comments

2000.

Tepco slow to respond to growing crisis at Fukushima plant (asahi.com)

67 points by dane-pgp on Jan 2, 2022 | 103 comments

2001.

Evaluating front end frameworks and not choosing any (michelenasti.com)

67 points by musikele on Jan 3, 2022 | 103 comments

2002.

Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech bills (blog.google)

67 points by KoftaBob on Jan 18, 2022 | 94 comments

2003.

In Japan, digicams are the new film (casualphotophile.com)

67 points by ingve on Jan 16, 2022 | 82 comments

2004.

The Incredible Fig (nautil.us)

67 points by arkj on Jan 3, 2022 | 43 comments

2005.

Libertarianism for Me, Authoritarianism for Thee (americancompass.org)

67 points by Outofthebot on Jan 29, 2022 | 40 comments

2006.

Nasm – A cross-platform x86 assembler with an Intel-like syntax (github.com)

67 points by maydemir on Jan 26, 2022 | 39 comments

2007.

Redis scripts do not expire keys atomically (ably.com)

67 points by stichers on Jan 27, 2022 | 36 comments

2008.

Worst practices should be hard (2016) (haskellforall.com)

67 points by tempodox on Jan 7, 2022 | 31 comments

2009.

Seattle police faked radio chatter about Proud Boys during 2020 protests (seattletimes.com)

67 points by anigbrowl on Jan 6, 2022 | 28 comments

2010.

The Importance Trap (brianlui.dog)

67 points by ZephyrBlu on Jan 8, 2022 | 26 comments