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1.
Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 (cloud.google.com)
729 points by saifulwebid on Dec 18, 2020 | 198 comments
2.
Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help (bloomberg.com)
1245 points by OJFord on Dec 18, 2020 | 514 comments
3.
I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee (shkspr.mobi)
745 points by edent on Dec 18, 2020 | 314 comments
4.
Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature (thebigtech.substack.com)
671 points by anupamchugh on Dec 18, 2020 | 420 comments
5.
Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix (matrix.org)
206 points by ignoramous on Dec 18, 2020 | 55 comments
6.
DRY Is a Trade-Off (orbifold.xyz)
216 points by soopurman on Dec 17, 2020 | 233 comments
7.
Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter (sqwok.im)
185 points by holler on Dec 18, 2020 | 104 comments
8.
The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space (cpushack.com)
179 points by muunbo on Dec 18, 2020 | 82 comments
9.
Ganja.js: Geometric Algebra Generator for JavaScript, C++, C#, Rust, Python (github.com/enkimute)
212 points by pizza on Dec 18, 2020 | 83 comments
10.
mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug? (science.sciencemag.org)
201 points by mudil on Dec 18, 2020 | 206 comments
11.
Centering in CSS (web.dev)
335 points by feross on Dec 16, 2020 | 160 comments
12.
It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine (theness.com)
360 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 18, 2020 | 323 comments
13.
Possible Radio Emission from Exoplanet Detected (cornell.edu)
199 points by izhak on Dec 18, 2020 | 84 comments
14.
Do It Yourself Bookbinding (diybookbinding.com)
177 points by brudgers on Dec 17, 2020 | 47 comments
15.
Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport (smithsonianmag.com)
116 points by commons-tragedy on Dec 17, 2020 | 59 comments
16.
Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration (aeon.co)
229 points by agronaut on Dec 17, 2020 | 124 comments
17.
Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide (reason.com)
615 points by boogies on Dec 18, 2020 | 171 comments
18.
Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation (fnal.gov)
198 points by spurgu on Dec 18, 2020 | 157 comments
19.
A happy ending for King Lear? Trauma of plague caused Shakespeare to change it (theguardian.com)
79 points by ignored on Dec 17, 2020 | 75 comments
20.
The Smalltalk Zoo (computerhistory.org)
163 points by fniephaus on Dec 17, 2020 | 61 comments
21.
Python at Scale: Strict Modules (instagram-engineering.com)
225 points by rbanffy on Dec 18, 2020 | 102 comments
22.
How to Find Focus (thesephist.com)
212 points by mdeira on Dec 18, 2020 | 37 comments
23.
Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories (bigthink.com)
213 points by samclemens on Dec 17, 2020 | 46 comments
24.
Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)
142 points by Cieplak on Dec 17, 2020 | 64 comments
25.
What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014) (sqlite.org)
269 points by timeoperator on Dec 18, 2020 | 194 comments
26.
Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds (playstation.com)
379 points by Kapura on Dec 18, 2020 | 618 comments
27.
The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster (anandtech.com)
274 points by sien on Dec 18, 2020 | 261 comments
28.
Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET (twitter.com/zarfeblong)
326 points by LyalinDotCom on Dec 18, 2020 | 187 comments
29.
Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems (reuters.com)
219 points by 0xedb on Dec 17, 2020 | 183 comments
30.
Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo (skepdoc.info)
261 points by cpncrunch on Dec 18, 2020 | 198 comments

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