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1.		TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem (omar.website)
		1400 points by thesephist on Jan 1, 2021 \| 235 comments
2.		California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement (ca.gov)
		1317 points by supernova87a on Jan 1, 2021 \| 620 comments
3.		EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology (eetimes.eu)
		752 points by simonpd on Jan 1, 2021 \| 478 comments
4.		My Experience at Apple (ex-apple-engineer.medium.com)
		1602 points by limono on Jan 1, 2021 \| 778 comments
5.		School or Prison (schoolprison.com)
		708 points by nikkaelle on Jan 1, 2021 \| 475 comments
6.		Happy New Year HN
		986 points by thunderbong on Dec 31, 2020 \| 236 comments
7.		Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring (lemire.me)
		364 points by ingve on Jan 1, 2021 \| 204 comments
8.		Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store (github.com/x74353)
		946 points by giuliomagnifico on Jan 1, 2021 \| 648 comments
9.		Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly (github.com/artichoke)
		327 points by ibraheemdev on Jan 1, 2021 \| 49 comments
10.		Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018) (reddit.com)
		539 points by zuhayeer on Jan 1, 2021 \| 328 comments
11.		Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration (utexas.edu)
		259 points by based2 on Jan 1, 2021 \| 101 comments
12.		State machines are wonderful tools (nullprogram.com)
		338 points by chmaynard on Jan 1, 2021 \| 101 comments
13.		Why do we dream? A new theory on how it protects our brains (time.com)
		251 points by jdnier on Dec 31, 2020 \| 129 comments
14.		The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling (eleuther.ai)
		223 points by leogao on Jan 1, 2021 \| 60 comments
15.		Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple (reason.com)
		265 points by ksec on Jan 1, 2021 \| 206 comments
16.		Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC (jmdawson.co.uk)
		192 points by jamesmd on Jan 1, 2021 \| 108 comments
17.		Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world (newyorker.com)
		221 points by polm23 on Dec 31, 2020 \| 153 comments
18.		You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner (wsj.com)
		227 points by wallflower on Jan 1, 2021 \| 94 comments
19.		The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution (twitter.com/davidfickling)
		160 points by mstats on Jan 1, 2021 \| 67 comments
20.		Things I Didn't Learn in 2020 (damnoptimist.substack.com)
		150 points by obesacantavit on Jan 1, 2021 \| 76 comments
21.		The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators (thea.codes)
		241 points by cushychicken on Dec 31, 2020 \| 81 comments
22.		Google pilots a feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok, Instagram (techcrunch.com)
		105 points by elsewhen on Dec 30, 2020 \| 75 comments
23.		Best of HN 2020 (hn.algolia.com)
		191 points by richardboegli on Jan 1, 2021 \| 21 comments
24.		Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years (twitter.com/markpinc)
		237 points by azhenley on Jan 1, 2021 \| 177 comments
25.		Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2 (berthub.eu)
		212 points by soheilpro on Dec 31, 2020 \| 32 comments
26.		Eagle Cash (wikipedia.org)
		137 points by enjoyyourlife on Jan 1, 2021 \| 103 comments
27.		How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding (andymatuschak.org)
		130 points by bingden on Jan 1, 2021 \| 43 comments
28.		Beowulf: A New Translation (macmillan.com)
		69 points by flannery on Dec 31, 2020 \| 68 comments
29.		MF DOOM Has Died (consequenceofsound.net)
		466 points by laurex on Dec 31, 2020 \| 99 comments
30.		Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
		262 points by rvz on Dec 31, 2020 \| 430 comments
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