There is now a new [hat request system](/hats/build_request) along with a [public index](/hats) of all hats, replacing the old [hat party](https://lobste.rs/s/j6q3to/hat_party) thread. Please use this to request new hats that moderators can sort through and approve or reject.
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There is now a new [hat request system](/hats/build_request) along with a [public index](/hats) of all hats, replacing the old [hat party](https://lobste.rs/s/j6q3to/hat_party) thread. Please use this to request new hats that moderators can sort through and approve or reject.
Ecosystem Under Siege: An Alien Invasion That Could Trigger Catastrophic Changes Is Underway Across North America
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Astrophysicists Discover That Millions of Interstellar Objects Could Be Hiding in Our Solar System
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‘Ammonite’: A Mysterious Deep Space Fossil That Could Rewrite Solar System History
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There's been a lot of noise about systemd recently, and I would like to filter out that. I'm somewhat interested in linux in general, so I don't think filtering on the linux tag would be a suitable work-around.
Doing a "comments and stories" search for "systemd" gives about twice as many hits as ...