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1.		SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code (msrc-blog.microsoft.com)
		676 points by accountinhn on Dec 31, 2020 \| 384 comments
2.		Bitcoin is a disaster (metzdowd.com)
		881 points by wyldfire on Dec 31, 2020 \| 959 comments
3.		WebAssembly Studio (webassembly.studio)
		394 points by _zhqs on Dec 31, 2020 \| 214 comments
4.		Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (probml.github.io)
		310 points by joaorico on Dec 31, 2020 \| 56 comments
5.		Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry (amypeniston.com)
		313 points by afkmango on Dec 30, 2020 \| 279 comments
6.		Linux Hardening Guide (madaidans-insecurities.github.io)
		460 points by FlyMoreRockets on Dec 31, 2020 \| 295 comments
7.		Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source (hu-berlin.de)
		241 points by rustoo on Dec 30, 2020 \| 84 comments
8.		USDS Digital Services Playbook (cio.gov)
		203 points by tomrod on Dec 31, 2020 \| 98 comments
9.		Things I Learnt in 2020 (drobinin.com)
		221 points by valzevul on Dec 30, 2020 \| 65 comments
10.		Mitsubishi Heavy to build biggest zero-carbon steel plant (nikkei.com)
		210 points by doener on Dec 31, 2020 \| 211 comments
11.		AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples (github.com/nsriram)
		306 points by sriram_iyengar on Dec 31, 2020 \| 80 comments
12.		HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash (twitter.com/larsiusprime)
		375 points by tosh on Dec 30, 2020 \| 364 comments
13.		PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		262 points by fniephaus on Dec 31, 2020 \| 163 comments
14.		“Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited (singularityhub.com)
		188 points by superhumanuser on Dec 31, 2020 \| 105 comments
15.		Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm (blog.twitter.com)
		143 points by 0xedb on Dec 31, 2020 \| 22 comments
16.		The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (sudhir.io)
		295 points by sudhirj on Dec 31, 2020 \| 108 comments
17.		LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative (github.com/librephotos)
		386 points by hanklazard on Dec 31, 2020 \| 136 comments
18.		Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML (quaxio.com)
		145 points by IceWreck on Dec 31, 2020 \| 89 comments
19.		Why Jira Sucks (whyjirasucks.com)
		408 points by svikashk on Dec 31, 2020 \| 506 comments
20.		Well, Actually – Physics Answers (backreaction.blogspot.com)
		142 points by mellosouls on Dec 31, 2020 \| 81 comments
21.		Autofocus for the 16mm Telephoto Lens Mounted on the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera (lemariva.com)
		94 points by lemariva on Dec 31, 2020 \| 47 comments
22.		Ultimate Debian Database (debian.org)
		84 points by susam on Dec 30, 2020 \| 9 comments
23.		Interview Transcript – Donald Knuth [pdf] (philipkiely.com)
		170 points by asicsp on Dec 31, 2020 \| 38 comments
24.		Talk Less, Listen More (thereformedbroker.com)
		132 points by paulpauper on Dec 30, 2020 \| 29 comments
25.		What Is Life? (2019) (berthub.eu)
		127 points by marcobambini on Dec 31, 2020 \| 113 comments
26.		Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019) (nadiaeghbal.com)
		188 points by etherio on Dec 31, 2020 \| 213 comments
27.		The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		282 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 31, 2020 \| 59 comments
28.		Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect (seattletimes.com)
		128 points by donsupreme on Dec 30, 2020 \| 331 comments
29.		Reverse-engineering an early calculator chip with four-phase logic (righto.com)
		81 points by chipsa on Dec 31, 2020 \| 18 comments
30.		Nim in 2020: A Short Recap (nim-lang.org)
		189 points by leandot on Dec 31, 2020 \| 118 comments
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