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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 370 posts.
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Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier (2017)
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. What factors may explain this?
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What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95?
It acted as the 16-bit legacy device driver layer.
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Urbanization
Around 80% of the world’s population lives in cities, towns, and suburbs rather than rural settlements. How has this changed, and what does urbanization look like across the world today?
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The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most European Nations
The US is so economically exceptional that the poorest 20 percent of Americans are richer than many of the world’s most affluent nations.
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BSI-001: The Perfect Wall
The perfect wall is an environmental separator—it has to keep the outside out and the inside in. In order to do this the wall assembly has to control rain, air, vapor and heat. In the old days we had one material to do this: rocks. We would pile a bunch or rocks up and have the rocks do it all. But over time rocks…
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A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-ion Battery Prices
Automakers and policy makers are increasingly voicing their belief that the passenger vehicle of the future will be powered (partially or fully) by electricity. There remains, however, a lack of consensus on the timing and speed of the transition, in large part due to differing opinions on current and future…
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Get started with Web Bundles | Web Platform
Web Bundles enable you to share websites as a single file over Bluetooth and run them offline in your origin's context.
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How much do incarcerated people earn in each state?
Prison wages come up again and again in the context of prison conditions and policies. So, we found the most up-to-date information for each state.
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Non-Glamorous Gains: The Pennsylvania Land Tax Experiment
Since 1913, Pennsylvania has allowed cities to tax land at a higher rate than buildings. This decision has led to some unique success stories: cities that have weathered post-industrial decline and revitalized their urban cores.
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Party Affiliation
In politics, as of today, do you consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent? (Asked of independents: As of today, do you lean more to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party?)
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Tracking Prevention Policy
This document describes the web tracking practices that WebKit believes, as a matter of policy, should be prevented by default by web browsers.
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Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling every single web request made for loading a website.
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Sqlite 3.30.0
This page provides a high-level summary of changes to SQLite. For more detail, see the Fossil checkin logs at https://sqlite.org/src/timeline and https://sqlite.org/src/timeline?t=release . See the chronology a succinct listing of releases.
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Announcing AMP Real URL
The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly.
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WireGuard for Windows Pre-Alpha Is Available
Users of kernels < 5.6 may also choose wireguard-lts or wireguard-dkms + linux-headers , depending on which kernel is used.
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The world’s most-surveilled cities
We've gathered data on CCTV cameras in use in 120 major cities across the globe to determine which cities have the most surveillance cameras per person.
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Pulitzer Finalist: Staff of BuzzFeed News
For a stunning probe across two continents that proved that operatives with apparent ties to Vladimir Putin have engaged in a targeted killing campaign against his perceived enemies on British and American soil.
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Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
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SSL added and removed here ;-)
This post is part of our ongoing series about networks, privacy, governments and (of course) online security tools like Cloak. Last week, the Washington Post unleashed yet another bombshell revelation from the Snowden documents.
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Impact Speed and a Pedestrian's Risk of Severe Injury or Death
This study examines how vehicle speed influences the probability that a pedestrian struck by a vehicle will sustain severe injuries or die.
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Producing an Ebook, Step by Step
A detailed step-by-step description of the complete process of producing an ebook for Standard Ebooks, start to finish.
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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF).
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Wildlife Garden Activities
Make your garden a haven for wildlife with our garden activities. From building a bird box to attracting beneficial insects, there's something for everyone
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Police Have No Duty to Protect You, Federal Court Affirms Yet Again
The “social contract” is a one-way street. You pay your taxes or go to jail. In return, the government may or may not provide some of those services you
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Congress and the Public
Do you approve or disapprove of the way [ROTATED -- The Republicans in Congress. The Democrats in Congress.] are handling their job? Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?
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Internet
More than half of the world is online, but the Internet is still young.