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Home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut (abcnews.go.com)

49 points by geox on Sep 18, 2024 | 86 comments

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Sam Altman tells staff there’s no plan for him to receive ‘giant equity stake’ (cnbc.com)

49 points by donsupreme on Sep 27, 2024 | 86 comments

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Why it takes NYC nearly 10 years to install 500 feet of pipes (gothamist.com)

49 points by raybb on Jun 27, 2024 | 84 comments

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Our Generation Ships Will Sink (2015) (boingboing.net)

49 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 10, 2024 | 84 comments

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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (wired.com)

49 points by ra7 on Feb 23, 2024 | 84 comments

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Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad event was shot on iPhone with Panavision lenses (prolost.com)

49 points by robenkleene on May 10, 2024 | 83 comments

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Etsy: Company escaping 'race to the bottom', getting back to its artisan roots (cnbc.com)

49 points by pseudolus on Jul 9, 2024 | 83 comments

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AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT (theregister.com)

49 points by laktak on Sep 23, 2024 | 83 comments

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Would Luddites find the gig economy familiar? (arstechnica.com)

49 points by pseudolus on Jan 13, 2024 | 82 comments

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Spain's plan to ban domestic flights where you can take a train in under 2.5 hrs (euronews.com)

49 points by raybb on Feb 26, 2024 | 82 comments

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Microsoft Says Apple's 30% Fee Makes Xbox Cloud Gaming iOS App 'Impossible' (macrumors.com)

49 points by mfiguiere on Sep 3, 2024 | 82 comments

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PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed (chriswarrick.com)

49 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 29, 2024 | 80 comments

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What the data says about crime in the U.S. (pewresearch.org)

49 points by gmays on May 1, 2024 | 80 comments

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Alternative iOS App Stores Only Work for 'Grace Period' When Outside of EU (macrumors.com)

49 points by tcfhgj on Mar 6, 2024 | 80 comments

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There aren't that many uses for blockchains (2022) (calpaterson.com)

49 points by karagenit on Aug 21, 2024 | 80 comments

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Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes (theregister.com)

49 points by gulced on May 3, 2024 | 79 comments

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Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse (euronews.com)

49 points by toomuchtodo on Sep 13, 2024 | 78 comments

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Messenger Implosion Shows Journalism Lead by Visionless, Fail-Upward Brunchlords (techdirt.com)

49 points by rntn on Feb 2, 2024 | 77 comments

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The internet isn't dying, it's changing (coryd.dev)

49 points by cdme on Mar 12, 2024 | 77 comments

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Anthropic Chief of Staff: These next 3 years might be the last few that I work (palladiummag.com)

49 points by Dowwie on Jun 2, 2024 | 76 comments

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What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

49 points by azeemba on Jun 28, 2024 | 75 comments

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Psychology, a Failed Discipline: Flawed Paradigms, Methodology, and Epistemology (unfashionable.blog)

49 points by zzxxzz on Feb 4, 2024 | 74 comments

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Nancy Pelosi Made $500k from Her Nvidia Bet, Doubling Her Annual Salary (finance.yahoo.com)

49 points by belter on Jan 26, 2024 | 73 comments

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It's the End of the Web as We Know It (theatlantic.com)

49 points by CaptainZapp on Apr 23, 2024 | 71 comments

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Slack updates retention policy for free workspaces (slack.com)

49 points by f055 on Jun 25, 2024 | 71 comments

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OpenAI won't watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught (theverge.com)

49 points by LaSombra on Aug 5, 2024 | 71 comments

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Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before (theregister.com)

49 points by defrost on Sep 20, 2024 | 71 comments

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How Group Chats Rule the World (nytimes.com)

49 points by pseudolus on Jan 16, 2024 | 70 comments

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Almost half of Dell's full-time US workforce has rejected the company's RTO push (businessinsider.com)

49 points by ortusdux on Jun 19, 2024 | 70 comments

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Ask HN: Getting old and boring – What can I do about it?

49 points by hn_burner_2038 on Jan 16, 2024 | 69 comments