- John Pollock on X "AEW Dynamite draws a big audience in Canada, largest number in nearly a year" https://twitter.com/iamjohnpollock/status/1756081411352662157 20 comments squaredcircle
- 'Over the Last Eight Years, India has Seen the Largest Increase in its Number of Poor': Study https://thewire.in/economy/watch-over-last-eight-years-india-has-seen-the-largest-increase-in-its-number-of-poor-study 22 comments india
- Bristol riot: Police could release largest number of images for wanted suspects in force’s https://www.thenations.co.uk/news/bristol-riot-police-release-images-for-wanted-suspects/ 9 comments worldnews
- Reddit, YouTube, and Twitch are taking major steps to crack down on hate speech from pro-Trump and far-right groups — Reddit banned r/The_Donald, the largest pro-Trump subreddit, Twitch suspended Trump's official account, and YouTube banned a number of prominent white supremacists' channels. https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-youtube-twitch-crack-down-on-trump-hate-speech-groups-2020-6 52 comments politics
- Tencent, 2nd largest company in China, reports current death toll at 80 times the official number of 304. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7971401/have-real-coronavirus-death-figures-leaked-chinese-conglomerate-lists-death-toll-24-589.html 78 comments worldnews
- Canada resettled most refugees worldwide in 2018. Canada resettled the largest number of refugees out of 25 countries in 2018, according to the UN's refugee agency. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48696974 8 comments worldnews
- Gantz beats Netanyahu with largest number of seats, coalition unclear - Israel Elections https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/gantz-beats-netanyahu-with-largest-number-of-seats-coalition-unclear-586288 33 comments worldnews
- Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits https://www.newscientist.com/article/2157773-largest-prime-number-ever-found-has-over-23-million-digits/ 4 comments science
- Largest prime number discovered – with more than 23m digits https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/04/largest-prime-number-discovered-with-more-than-23m-digits 16 comments math
- UN: India has the largest number of persons born in the country who are now living outside its borders https://blog.garamchai.com/2017/12/20/un-india-largest-living-outside-its-borders/ 11 comments worldnews
- ‘India Has World’s Best Anti-Slavery Laws’ (And Largest Number of Slaves) http://www.indiaspend.com/special-reports/india-has-worlds-best-anti-slavery-laws-and-largest-number-of-slaves-20436 23 comments india
- Largest known prime number discovered in Missouri http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35361090 19 comments nottheonion
- "Evil" Koch Bros are only the 59th largest political donors - can you guess who number one is? http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/it-turns-out-the-evil-koch-bros-are-only-the-59th-biggest-donors-in-american-politics.-can-you-guess-who-is-number-one/article/2544025 53 comments politics
- Largest number of rejected asylum requests in EU comes from Serbia http://inserbia.info/news/2013/08/largest-number-of-rejected-asylum-requests-in-eu-comes-from-serbia/ 3 comments europe
- Why you should be excited about the new record for the largest prime number http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/05/curtis_cooper_has_found_the_new_largest_prime_number.html 56 comments math
- "Dinosaurs were not only the largest animals to roam the Earth - they also had a greater number of larger species compared to all other back-boned animals - scientists suggest in a new paper published in the journal PLOS ONE today (Thursday 20 December [2012])." http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/88467.html 12 comments science
- The largest known prime number. Scroll on, friends... http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/largeprime.html 91 comments math
- TIL that after United States, India has the largest number of English speakers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_countries_by_english-speaking_population#list_in_order_of_total_speakers 9 comments india
- Flash Memory Game Calculates Brain's Age (Click Numbers in Order From Smallest To Largest) http://flashfabrica.com/f_learning/brain/brain.html 366 comments science
- Hillary Clinton receives the largest number of military donations…from the Defense Contractors. http://politicalinquirer.com/2007/10/19/hillary-clinton-receives-the-largest-number-of-military-donationsfrom-the-defense-industry/ 91 comments politics
- [OC] The Knicks have been by far the largest beneficiaries of shooting variance in the NBA, and their defense isn't nearly as good as the numbers show. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/lmy4x1/oc_the_knicks_have_been_by_far_the_largest/ 66 comments nba
- An examination of racial differences in the disciplining of police officers in three of the largest U.S. cities consistently found that Black officers were more frequently disciplined for misconduct than White officers, despite an essentially equal number of allegations being leveled. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/iu-bpo100920.php 143 comments science
- India is no longer home to the largest number of poor people in the world. Nigeria is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/10/india-is-no-longer-home-to-the-largest-number-of-poor-people-in-the-world-nigeria-is/?noredirect=on&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.cfdeb0aba904 67 comments india
- The largest prime number to date has been discovered, and it's 22 million digits long http://www.sciencealert.com/the-largest-prime-number-to-date-has-been-discovered-and-it-s-22-million-digits-long 7 comments science
- Physicists have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using only a single photon. The results represent the largest number of particles that have ever been mutually entangled experimentally. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150325151903.htm 32 comments science
- TIL that Graham's number, held to be the largest number appearing in a serious proof, was not used in Graham's original paper; Graham found a much better (still unimaginably large) bound but gave Martin Gardner Graham's number over the phone because it was easier to explain and still an upper bound http://mathoverflow.net/questions/117006/reconstructing-the-argument-that-yields-grahams-number 8 comments math
- Massacre Site to be Investigated—In 1863, US attacked a Shoshone village on Bear River in Idaho. Few survived. “In terms of number of people it’s the largest in the western Indian wars. I want to find the footprint of the 68 Shoshone winter lodges where most of the fighting & killing occurred.” http://www.ktvb.com/news/idaho-gets-grant-to-study-bear-river-massacre-site-218406801.html 38 comments history
- JP Morgan Making a Fortune Off of American Poverty: JPMorgan Chase is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the US. They are paid per customer; when the number of food stamp recipients goes up, so do JPMC profits http://www.alternet.org/economy/149827/jp_morgan_making_a_fortune_off_of_american_poverty 31 comments politics
- Some are troubled that the serial-numbered Friday physical bar listings from GLD (the largest U.S. gold-backed ETF) shrank from over a thousand pages to around 200 for a couple of weeks this month, before jumping back to 855 pages after growing online chatter. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/10/27/79826/glds-mysterious-disappearing-gold-bar-list/ 4 comments economy
- Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022. The world's largest tropical rainforest lost 3,750 square kilometers (1,450 square miles) of jungle since the beginning of the year, the worst numbers for that period since record-keeping began in 2016 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220701-brazil-sets-new-six-month-amazon-deforestation-record 35 comments worldnews
- German economy accelerates against all odds - Unfazed by a mounting number of uncertainties, Europe's largest economy has logged better-than-expected growth in the second quarter. Experts said the expansion was mainly driven by domestic consumption. https://www.dw.com/en/german-economy-accelerates-against-all-odds/a-45071705 63 comments europe
- The Obama administration said on Monday that 16.4 million uninsured people had gained health coverage since major provisions of the Affordable Care Act began to take effect in 2010, driving the largest reduction in the number of uninsured in about 40 years. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/us/data-on-health-law-shows-largest-drop-in-uninsured-in-4-decades-the-us-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=2 4 comments politics
- Good News For Animal Lovers: Factory Farming's Days May Be Numbered: In a stunning victory for humane farming, Australia's largest supermarket chain, Coles, will as of January 1 stop selling company branded pork and eggs from animals kept in factory farms http://www.alternet.org/food/good-news-animal-lovers-factory-farmings-days-may-be-numbered 139 comments worldnews
- nginx will soon overtake Microsoft to have the second largest number of active sites ( netcraft Web Server Survey) http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/10/06/october-2011-web-server-survey.html 28 comments linux
- One of the Largest Subspecies of Giraffes Is Declared Endangered - Once the largest of nine subspecies, Masai giraffe numbers have dropped by an estimated 50% in the last 30 yrs https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-largest-subspecies-giraffes-declared-endangered-180972647/ 6 comments worldnews
- The largest known prime number is 22,337,618 digits long and the reward for finding a prime greater than 100 million digits is $150,000. How long till the next will be found? https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=m74207281 178 comments math
- EU produced 13.5 million bicycles in 2021: the largest number of bicycles produced was reported in Portugal (2.9 million), Romania (2.5 million), Italy (1.9 million), Germany (1.4 million) and Poland (1.2 million) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20220912-2 16 comments europe
- Sundar Pichai expresses unequivocal support for net neutrality. Google lays groundwork for India to be home to the largest number of Android users next year http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/17/10378162/sundar-pichai-google-net-neutrality-india 9 comments india
- The largest ever prime number, which is a whopping 23249425 digits long, has just been discovered. Called the M77232917. The new prime number belongs to the special group, the Mersenne prime numbers, and is the 50th Mersenne prime to have been discovered https://www.mersenne.org/primes/press/m77232917.html 23 comments science
- The volunteer computing project PrimeGrid has discovered a 6.25 million digit prime number, largest Generalized Fermat prime, second largest non-Mersenne prime, and second largest prime found by the project. http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=7597 101 comments math