Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them? — Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

Issue #1153 — June 05, 2023

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Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them? alpharail.co.nz \| points: 575 \| comments: 231

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Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS ipfs.io \| points: 474 \| comments: 87

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GPS (2022) ciechanow.ski \| points: 386 \| comments: 34

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Don’t let Reddit kill 3rd party apps old.reddit.com \| points: 346 \| comments: 242

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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough xeiaso.net \| points: 334 \| comments: 146

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High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students torrentfreak.com \| points: 318 \| comments: 234

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Still Love Telnet bash-prompt.net \| points: 317 \| comments: 172

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DreamBerd is a perfect programming language github.com \| points: 315 \| comments: 109

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Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices old.reddit.com \| points: 304 \| comments: 130

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WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022) privacyinternational.org \| points: 292 \| comments: 217

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Apple Virtualization Framework developer.apple.com \| points: 269 \| comments: 110

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Meta Is Trying, and Failing, to Crush Unions in Kenya jacobin.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 27

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Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half theguardian.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 96

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The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated understandingai.org \| points: 193 \| comments: 546

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Sick Workers Connected to 41 Percent of Food Poisoning Outbreaks, CDC Reports smithsonianmag.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 156

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Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts climatejustice.rocks \| points: 187 \| comments: 110

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World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days climatereanalyzer.org \| points: 172 \| comments: 105

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A new line drawing method for the cycle savvy quiss.org \| points: 165 \| comments: 55

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A push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease theguardian.com \| points: 156 \| comments: 27

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Over 70% of US household Covid spread started with a child cidrap.umn.edu \| points: 153 \| comments: 135

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