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1.
The web is 30 years old today (home.cern)
754 points by Anon84 on Dec 20, 2020 | 163 comments
2.
All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) (theguardian.com)
826 points by chesterfield on Dec 20, 2020 | 446 comments
3.
Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit (citizenlab.ca)
622 points by arkadiyt on Dec 20, 2020 | 289 comments
4.
More challenging projects every programmer should try (utk.edu)
757 points by pavehawk2007 on Dec 20, 2020 | 223 comments
5.
Back to the '70s with Serverless (evrl.com)
518 points by pjmlp on Dec 19, 2020 | 298 comments
6.
Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed (borncity.com)
426 points by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Dec 20, 2020 | 294 comments
7.
Lode Runner (filfre.net)
367 points by doppp on Dec 20, 2020 | 104 comments
8.
Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V (erik-engheim.medium.com)
401 points by socialdemocrat on Dec 20, 2020 | 305 comments
9.
FFmpeg is 20 years old today (twitter.com/ffmpeg)
462 points by Daemon404 on Dec 20, 2020 | 93 comments
10.
Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google (kiramclean.com)
283 points by kmclean on Dec 19, 2020 | 172 comments
11.
Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks (github.com/tuhdo)
338 points by tuhdo on Dec 19, 2020 | 301 comments
12.
Raspberry Pi Server Mark III (uplab.pro)
322 points by homarp on Dec 20, 2020 | 166 comments
13.
Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation (venturebeat.com)
239 points by webmaven on Dec 20, 2020 | 103 comments
14.
Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you own (theverge.com)
295 points by pseudolus on Dec 20, 2020 | 178 comments
15.
Nature invented play long before it invented us (nautil.us)
171 points by dnetesn on Dec 19, 2020 | 69 comments
16.
Show HN: I wrote a book on implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing (leanpub.com)
169 points by alex-lawrence on Dec 19, 2020 | 56 comments
17.
The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019) (colgate.edu)
290 points by laplacesdemon48 on Dec 20, 2020 | 344 comments
18.
The Abolition of Work (2002) (theanarchistlibrary.org)
157 points by lordwarnut on Dec 19, 2020 | 221 comments
19.
The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor (arstechnica.com)
174 points by furcyd on Dec 20, 2020 | 145 comments
20.
How to cook a medieval feast: recipes from the Middle Ages (britishmuseum.org)
147 points by pepys on Dec 20, 2020 | 52 comments
21.
Building a simple neural net in Java (smalldata.tech)
137 points by wheresvic4 on Dec 20, 2020 | 55 comments
22.
Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy (li.substack.com)
168 points by elsewhen on Dec 20, 2020 | 148 comments
23.
Set up a Raspberry Pi meteor detector (skyatnightmagazine.com)
138 points by jstanley on Dec 20, 2020 | 39 comments
24.
Autism and Invention Are Connected (wsj.com)
183 points by jkuria on Dec 20, 2020 | 168 comments
25.
IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager (ice-wm.org)
123 points by conductor on Dec 19, 2020 | 69 comments
26.
Show HN: Owncast – An open-source, self-hosted live streaming server
241 points by gabekangas on Dec 20, 2020 | 59 comments
27.
Kivy: Cross-Platform Python Framework for UI Development (kivy.org)
177 points by ve55 on Dec 20, 2020 | 55 comments
28.
VisUAL – A highly visual ARM emulator (salmanarif.bitbucket.io)
89 points by pjmlp on Dec 19, 2020 | 8 comments
29.
Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017) (medium.com/harrikiljander)
129 points by partingshots on Dec 20, 2020 | 158 comments
30.
An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (2013) (alexmaccaw.com)
249 points by lemonspat on Dec 20, 2020 | 99 comments

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