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16891.

U.S. Government Now Spends More on Debt Interest than National Defense (crfb.org)

81 points by webninja on May 14, 2024 | 105 comments

16892.

Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem? (arxiv.org)

81 points by vitplister on Jul 2, 2024 | 105 comments

16893.

Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban (washingtonpost.com)

81 points by rntn on May 20, 2024 | 103 comments

16894.

Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition) (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

81 points by weinzierl on Jul 13, 2024 | 101 comments

16895.

Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms (theguardian.com)

81 points by n1b0m on Sep 30, 2024 | 101 comments

16896.

Why does the `reset` command include a delay? (2017) (unix.stackexchange.com)

81 points by eklitzke on Mar 8, 2024 | 99 comments

16897.

Sabotage Confirmed at Norwegian Air Base (twz.com)

81 points by philip1209 on Aug 24, 2024 | 99 comments

16898.

HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription." (arstechnica.com)

81 points by CharlesW on Jan 24, 2024 | 97 comments

16899.

In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline (bostonglobe.com)

81 points by dvektor on Dec 24, 2024 | 97 comments

16900.

Study shows banning false info traffickers online can improve public discourse (phys.org)

81 points by jdmark on Jun 5, 2024 | 92 comments

16901.

Build System Schism: The Curse of Meta Build Systems (yzena.com)

81 points by gavinhoward on Mar 19, 2024 | 91 comments

16902.

Linux Asceticism (rugu.dev)

81 points by kugurerdem on Nov 10, 2024 | 91 comments

16903.

An artist's perplexing tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem (2009) (mathtourist.blogspot.com)

81 points by nyc111 on Apr 12, 2024 | 90 comments

16904.

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] (simson.net)

81 points by udev4096 on Apr 22, 2024 | 87 comments

16905.

Bluesky gains 1.2M in 2 days, 12M total after X disables blocking (entrepreneur.com)

81 points by ck2 on Oct 19, 2024 | 86 comments

16906.

We do not prefer chords to be perfectly in mathematical ratios: study (cam.ac.uk)

81 points by glitcher on Mar 27, 2024 | 84 comments

16907.

He Lost $36B in a Week. Now Bill Hwang Is Fighting to Avoid Prison (bloomberg.com)

81 points by haltingproblem on May 4, 2024 | 82 comments

16908.

Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours (theverge.com)

81 points by saikatsg on Jan 27, 2024 | 81 comments

16909.

Solving the Maker-Taker Problem (dri.es)

81 points by geerlingguy on Oct 3, 2024 | 81 comments

16910.

The True Weight of Medieval Weapons – Fact and Fiction (warfantasy.wordpress.com)

81 points by BerislavLopac on Sep 30, 2024 | 80 comments

16911.

Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video] (youtube.com)

81 points by titusblair on Apr 25, 2024 | 79 comments

16912.

Leave car keys 'at front door' to avoid violent confrontations: Toronto Police (toronto.citynews.ca)

81 points by bookofjoe on Mar 15, 2024 | 78 comments

16913.

First satellite imagery of the Feb-13, 2024 landslide at Çöpler Mine in Turkey (eos.org)

81 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 19, 2024 | 77 comments

16914.

We can and should domesticate raccoons (oliviali.me)

81 points by mu-on on Aug 27, 2024 | 77 comments

16915.

London Drugs closes stores until further notice due to cyberattack (cbc.ca)

81 points by nvy on Apr 29, 2024 | 76 comments

16916.

Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian (kaeruct.github.io)

81 points by kaeruct on Aug 19, 2024 | 76 comments

16917.

Sam Altman Wants $7T (astralcodexten.com)

81 points by runamuck on Feb 14, 2024 | 74 comments

16918.

What I gave up to become an engineering manager (emdiary.substack.com)

81 points by kiyanwang on Sep 9, 2024 | 74 comments

16919.

Tractor cab looks like a space ship (2021) [video] (youtube.com)

81 points by mmh0000 on Jan 30, 2024 | 73 comments

16920.

Ode to a world-saving idea: attribution error and cognitive empathy (2021) (nonzero.substack.com)

81 points by fanf2 on Jul 8, 2024 | 73 comments