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Ask HN: Are Glaciers Suitable for Power Generation?

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4 years ago

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Ask HN: Favourite Long Form Blogs

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7 years ago

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Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things (atlasobscura.com)

959 points

9 years ago

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Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound (atlasobscura.com)

571 points

8 years ago

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A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

550 points

2 years ago

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A street snack that has baffled botanists (atlasobscura.com)

484 points

5 years ago

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Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night (atlasobscura.com)

472 points

10 years ago

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From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit (atlasobscura.com)

393 points

6 years ago

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Maps reveal the structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books (atlasobscura.com)

379 points

9 years ago

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An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense (atlasobscura.com)

373 points

8 years ago

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One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla (atlasobscura.com)

367 points

8 years ago

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A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax (atlasobscura.com)

362 points

6 years ago

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A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet (atlasobscura.com)

356 points

8 years ago

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The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

353 points

5 years ago

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Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers (atlasobscura.com)

329 points

7 years ago

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Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree (atlasobscura.com)

327 points

9 years ago

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How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style (atlasobscura.com)

323 points

9 years ago

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People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017) (atlasobscura.com)

321 points

3 years ago

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The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City (atlasobscura.com)

312 points

6 years ago

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Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft (atlasobscura.com)

307 points

11 years ago

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The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain (atlasobscura.com)

303 points

8 years ago

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Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life (atlasobscura.com)

301 points

6 years ago

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An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan's grapes fresh all winter (atlasobscura.com)

295 points

CapitalistCartr

5 years ago

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A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

295 points

7 years ago

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The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) (atlasobscura.com)

294 points

5 years ago

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Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com)

294 points

8 years ago

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14,400-year-old flatbread remains that predate known agriculture (atlasobscura.com)

291 points

8 years ago

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A Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries (atlasobscura.com)

286 points

8 years ago

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The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples (atlasobscura.com)

284 points

11 years ago

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Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come from All Around to Watch (atlasobscura.com)

281 points

6 years ago