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1. The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year (bloomberg.com)
264 points by helsinkiandrew 10 months ago | 360 comments
2. UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content (reuters.com)
291 points by isaacfrond on Nov 29, 2022 | 438 comments
3. Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy (mitpress.mit.edu)
235 points by anarbadalov on Sept 29, 2021 | 258 comments
4. Where is the scrutiny over FDA’s role in the overdose epidemic? (inquirer.com)
147 points by colinprince on Sept 16, 2021 | 113 comments
5. Encountering Thomas Sowell (lawliberty.org)
222 points by RickJWagner on March 16, 2021 | 257 comments
6. Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014) (slatestarcodexabridged.com)
263 points by skinkestek on Jan 22, 2021 | 168 comments
7. How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017) (thecut.com)
259 points by riyadparvez on Nov 28, 2020 | 229 comments
8. 1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wages, new study finds (cbsnews.com)
144 points by AndrewBissell on Nov 21, 2020 | 168 comments
9. NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft: Report (thedrive.com)
253 points by clouddrover on Nov 18, 2020 | 311 comments
10. Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech (medium.com/sarahadowney)
376 points by 737min on July 3, 2020 | 294 comments
11. Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance (eff.org)
120 points by matthberg on Dec 27, 2019 | 24 comments
12. New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality (scientificamerican.com)
262 points by oli5679 on Dec 14, 2019 | 328 comments
13. The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018) (popsci.com)
239 points by paulpauper on Oct 24, 2019 | 335 comments
14. U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)
280 points by EL_Loco on July 3, 2019 | 399 comments
15. Show HN: Z shell configuration, zsh startup files, when they load, what they do (github.com/sixarm)
85 points by jph on Oct 17, 2019 | 22 comments
16. The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup (npr.org)
74 points by NaOH on Sept 2, 2019 | 64 comments
17. Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS (pelotonmagazine.com)
242 points by Alex3917 on Aug 29, 2019 | 213 comments
18. Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless technology (nytimes.com)
178 points by bookofjoe on July 16, 2019 | 206 comments
19. Suggested Topics on Data Structures (2016) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
216 points by yangshun on Oct 16, 2017 | 12 comments
20. My Dinners with Harold (californiasunday.com)
40 points by hbosch on Oct 16, 2017 | 2 comments
21. What happens when you swipe a credit card (affirm.com)
470 points by trishakothari on March 4, 2017 | 171 comments
22. The American Press Is Destroying Itself (taibbi.substack.com)
489 points by cjbest on June 13, 2020 | 566 comments
23. Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows (reuters.com)
289 points by pseudolus on June 12, 2020 | 691 comments
24. Back pain is a problem which is badly treated (economist.com)
467 points by pseudolus on Jan 16, 2020 | 280 comments
25. The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) (theatlantic.com)
330 points by oftenwrong on Dec 12, 2019 | 602 comments
26. How to assess the quality of garments (2014) (anuschkarees.com)
991 points by bookofjoe on July 22, 2019 | 287 comments
27. Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL (paweldu.dev)
190 points by pawelduda on July 17, 2019 | 27 comments
28. Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take (waituntil8th.org)
194 points by esaym on March 1, 2019 | 146 comments

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