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| The best articles from bbc.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2013 | | Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (bbc.com) |
| 676 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2018 | | Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (bbc.com) |
| 549 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2013 | | Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (bbc.com) |
| 384 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2019 | | Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (bbc.com) |
| 278 points | 2 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 2017 | | Desolate English path has killed more than 100 people (bbc.com) |
| 264 points | 3 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2017 | | Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (bbc.com) |
| 252 points | 4 years ago with 358 comments |
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| 2015 | | Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (bbc.com) |
| 252 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2014 | | Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us (bbc.com) |
| 249 points | 4 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 2018 | | Cement is the source of 8% of the world's CO2 emissions (bbc.com) |
| 236 points | 3 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2016 | | Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber (bbc.com) |
| 236 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2016 | | 400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (bbc.com) |
| 227 points | 3 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2017 | | Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water (bbc.com) |
| 219 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Norwegian town built a giant mirror to deflect the sun (bbc.com) |
| 199 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2019 | | Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (bbc.com) |
| 181 points | 8 months ago with 119 comments |
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| 2016 | | Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath the waves (bbc.com) |
| 175 points | 4 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2019 | | How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? (bbc.com) |
| 172 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | The mystery of the lost Roman herb (bbc.com) |
| 169 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2018 | | Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (bbc.com) |
| 166 points | 4 years ago with 332 comments |
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| 2019 | | Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (bbc.com) |
| 166 points | 2 years ago with 241 comments |
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| 2016 | | Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (bbc.com) |
| 162 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2014 | | The largest living thing on Earth is a fungus (bbc.com) |
| 160 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2011 | | Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (bbc.com) |
| 153 points | 3 years ago with 220 comments |
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| 2015 | | A man who posted himself to Australia (bbc.com) |
| 145 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why houses in Bermuda have white stepped roofs (bbc.com) |
| 143 points | 1 year ago with 22 comments |
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| 2016 | | Jennicam: The first woman to stream her life on the internet (bbc.com) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2011 | | Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (bbc.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2014 | | US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (bbc.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2012 | | How jeans conquered the world (bbc.com) |
| 126 points | 6 years ago with 147 comments |
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| 2011 | | How 'OK' took over the world (bbc.com) |
| 125 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2015 | | A man who grows fields full of tables and chairs (bbc.com) |
| 121 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why you should re-read Paradise Lost (bbc.com) |
| 119 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2019 | | The ‘flow state’: Where creative work thrives (bbc.com) |
| 117 points | 2 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Persian Art of Etiquette (bbc.com) |
| 112 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2010 | | Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (bbc.com) |
| 112 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2014 | | The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives (bbc.com) |
| 103 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary (bbc.com) |
| 100 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2015 | | A man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb (bbc.com) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2014 | | Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (bbc.com) |
| 99 points | 7 years ago with 250 comments |
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| 2016 | | A woman who is allergic to water (bbc.com) |
| 94 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2012 | | Trade secrets of the oldest family firm in the US (bbc.com) |
| 94 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2016 | | Peruvian puquios were a “hydraulic system constructed to retrieve water” (bbc.com) |
| 93 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2015 | | What did Jesus really look like? (bbc.com) |
| 93 points | 5 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2012 | | Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (bbc.com) |
| 90 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (bbc.com) |
| 87 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2017 | | A radio station that no one claims to run (bbc.com) |
| 86 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2016 | | It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (bbc.com) |
| 86 points | 3 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2017 | | Signs that can reveal a fake photo (bbc.com) |
| 83 points | 2 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2014 | | Does wearing glasses weaken your eyesight? (bbc.com) |
| 80 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2011 | | Dictionary of dead language complete after 90 years (bbc.com) |
| 71 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2014 | | UK 'a tax haven for multinationals' (bbc.com) |
| 70 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments |
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