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1.		Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store (twitter.com/element_hq)
		2009 points by redsolver on Jan 29, 2021 \| 940 comments
2.		Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic (arxiv.org)
		338 points by pueblito on Jan 30, 2021 \| 123 comments
3.		Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts (pnas.org)
		388 points by lobbly on Jan 29, 2021 \| 164 comments
4.		Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function (sciencefocus.com)
		434 points by lxm on Jan 30, 2021 \| 151 comments
5.		Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019) (princeton.edu)
		389 points by pseudolus on Jan 30, 2021 \| 118 comments
6.		The Great Unbundling (ben-evans.com)
		246 points by notoriousarun on Jan 30, 2021 \| 131 comments
7.		Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design (uxdesign.cc)
		371 points by fanf2 on Jan 29, 2021 \| 71 comments
8.		Electric cars are coming fast – is the nation’s grid up to it? (nytimes.com)
		216 points by CapitalistCartr on Jan 30, 2021 \| 438 comments
9.		Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading (acm.org)
		349 points by hypomnemata on Jan 30, 2021 \| 100 comments
10.		Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps (siliconpr0n.org)
		290 points by lelf on Jan 30, 2021 \| 78 comments
11.		Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output (singhkays.com)
		241 points by singhkays on Jan 29, 2021 \| 200 comments
12.		Show HN: Collection of deep learning implementations with side-by-side notes (labml.ai)
		251 points by vpj on Jan 30, 2021 \| 17 comments
13.		New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support (mail-archive.com)
		229 points by ismiseted on Jan 30, 2021 \| 41 comments
14.		Cory Doctorow: IP (2020) (locusmag.com)
		227 points by akkartik on Jan 30, 2021 \| 122 comments
15.		Why it’s usually crazier than you expect (collaborativefund.com)
		166 points by antdke on Jan 30, 2021 \| 154 comments
16.		What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? (theconvivialsociety.substack.com)
		198 points by cetera on Jan 30, 2021 \| 106 comments
17.		YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries (hyperallergic.com)
		89 points by ardy42 on Jan 29, 2021 \| 41 comments
18.		A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow (arxiv.org)
		123 points by jsnell on Jan 30, 2021 \| 145 comments
19.		An overview of the decentralized social ecosystem [pdf] (matrix.org)
		116 points by khartig on Jan 29, 2021 \| 21 comments
20.		Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal (github.com/microsoft)
		141 points by Impossible on Jan 29, 2021 \| 54 comments
21.		A Corner in Piggly Wiggly (1959) (newyorker.com)
		107 points by tosh on Jan 28, 2021 \| 62 comments
22.		1938 vs. 1940 (2018) (pecaquet.com)
		143 points by diodorus on Jan 29, 2021 \| 73 comments
23.		Cyclic dependencies are evil (2013) (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
		129 points by nojito on Jan 30, 2021 \| 121 comments
24.		Adam Curtis Explains It All (newyorker.com)
		132 points by clydethefrog on Jan 28, 2021 \| 77 comments
25.		A few HiDPI tricks for Linux (yossarian.net)
		139 points by woodruffw on Jan 30, 2021 \| 189 comments
26.		How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it's a bad idea (maxwellgale.com)
		127 points by dimes on Jan 30, 2021 \| 39 comments
27.		Philosophical Landmines (2013) (lesswrong.com)
		83 points by TeMPOraL on Jan 30, 2021 \| 40 comments
28.		Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013) (techtinkering.com)
		150 points by elvis70 on Jan 29, 2021 \| 115 comments
29.		IBM paperweight teardown: Reverse-engineering 1970s memory chips (righto.com)
		104 points by picture on Jan 30, 2021 \| 36 comments
30.		A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI (theregister.com)
		103 points by icot on Jan 29, 2021 \| 21 comments
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