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Stories from January 3, 2021

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1.		Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend (twitter.com/nandoodles)
		1793 points by rbanffy on Jan 3, 2021 \| 891 comments
2.		ECC matters (realworldtech.com)
		1053 points by rajesh-s on Jan 3, 2021 \| 550 comments
3.		Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks (debian.net)
		696 points by wiineeth on Jan 3, 2021 \| 428 comments
4.		On Repl-Driven Programming (mikelevins.github.io)
		394 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 3, 2021 \| 206 comments
5.		I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year (samplesize.one)
		690 points by HuangYuSan on Jan 3, 2021 \| 308 comments
6.		URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies (ylukem.com)
		497 points by firloop on Jan 3, 2021 \| 202 comments
7.		AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech (hothardware.com)
		278 points by craigjb on Jan 3, 2021 \| 155 comments
8.		Reviving Old X Code (keithp.com)
		247 points by fcambus on Jan 3, 2021 \| 55 comments
9.		The Toyota Production System (2013) (toyota.co.uk)
		224 points by louis-paul on Jan 3, 2021 \| 114 comments
10.		Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App (engadget.com)
		287 points by camhart on Jan 3, 2021 \| 201 comments
11.		How to Stop Endless Discussions (candost.blog)
		344 points by candost on Jan 3, 2021 \| 88 comments
12.		How to open a file in Emacs: a story about Lisp, technology, and human progress (murilopereira.com)
		262 points by mpereira on Jan 3, 2021 \| 95 comments
13.		Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app (apps.apple.com)
		158 points by lupinglade on Jan 3, 2021 \| 101 comments
14.		The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall (hodinkee.com)
		238 points by janniks on Jan 2, 2021 \| 79 comments
15.		What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs (brandur.org)
		100 points by clra on Jan 3, 2021 \| 51 comments
16.		Show HN: OpenScan – open-source document scanner app (github.com/ethereal-developers-inc)
		200 points by mighty3xodus on Jan 3, 2021 \| 39 comments
17.		Mealworms can compost styrofoam (livingearthsystems.com)
		157 points by rrauenza on Jan 2, 2021 \| 127 comments
18.		Zig in 30 Minutes (gist.github.com)
		279 points by dnautics on Jan 3, 2021 \| 158 comments
19.		Encrypted Backup Shootout (acha.ninja)
		208 points by andrewchambers on Jan 3, 2021 \| 107 comments
20.		Python – Create large ZIP archives without memory inflation (github.com/buzonio)
		103 points by pythonscripts2 on Jan 2, 2021 \| 27 comments
21.		Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor (smithsonianmag.com)
		164 points by pseudolus on Jan 3, 2021 \| 176 comments
22.		Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (2008) (sourceforge.net)
		105 points by based2 on Jan 2, 2021 \| 62 comments
23.		Why Clojure? (2018) (briansunter.com)
		185 points by bribri on Jan 3, 2021 \| 216 comments
24.		How a startup can survive technical debt (andreschweighofer.com)
		136 points by fidrelity on Jan 2, 2021 \| 116 comments
25.		2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices (dcrainmaker.com)
		227 points by dll on Jan 3, 2021 \| 68 comments
26.		Live Cells seen with 7x Greater Sensitivity using new Microscopy Technique (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
		84 points by oedmarap on Jan 3, 2021 \| 7 comments
27.		A new release for GNU Octave (lwn.net)
		198 points by signa11 on Jan 3, 2021 \| 97 comments
28.		Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal (macrumors.com)
		236 points by jordigg on Jan 2, 2021 \| 128 comments
29.		Handtrack.js: A library for prototyping realtime hand detection in the browser (github.com/victordibia)
		115 points by lazyjeff on Jan 3, 2021 \| 30 comments
30.		France Hits Record 19.2% EV Share in December – Up Almost 6× Year on Year (cleantechnica.com)
		165 points by finphil on Jan 2, 2021 \| 132 comments
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