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1.
Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course (cornell.edu)
827 points by matt_d on Dec 11, 2020 | 232 comments
2.
Who Americans spend their time with, by age (ourworldindata.org)
642 points by eoo_owid on Dec 11, 2020 | 419 comments
3.
The Airbnbs (blog.ycombinator.com)
623 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 10, 2020 | 494 comments
4.
How the Python object system works (tenthousandmeters.com)
336 points by r4victor on Dec 11, 2020 | 78 comments
5.
Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds (washingtonpost.com)
535 points by saurik on Dec 10, 2020 | 443 comments
6.
A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM (windows.com)
366 points by Tepix on Dec 11, 2020 | 396 comments
7.
Oracle Moving HQ to Austin (sec.gov)
361 points by whatok on Dec 11, 2020 | 437 comments
8.
The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire (taibbi.substack.com)
531 points by garraeth on Dec 11, 2020 | 901 comments
9.
Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser (cypress.io)
316 points by OJFord on Dec 11, 2020 | 178 comments
10.
Pointer Pointer (2012) (pointerpointer.com)
455 points by heinrich5991 on Dec 10, 2020 | 64 comments
11.
Google Alternatives (justprivacy.org)
287 points by yepgwer on Dec 11, 2020 | 233 comments
12.
Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours (thedrive.com)
239 points by dakna on Dec 11, 2020 | 155 comments
13.
Mojeek: Independent search engine with its own spider (mojeek.com)
264 points by jhoechtl on Dec 10, 2020 | 139 comments
14.
Common Expression Language (github.com/google)
208 points by siliconmountain on Dec 10, 2020 | 106 comments
15.
A 73-year-old Japanese artist took YouTube by storm (cnn.com)
258 points by williamsharris on Dec 10, 2020 | 52 comments
16.
Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max (daringfireball.net)
328 points by ch_sm on Dec 11, 2020 | 688 comments
17.
Vftool runs Linux virtual machines in macOS Big Sur (github.com/evansm7)
195 points by syrusakbary on Dec 11, 2020 | 86 comments
18.
Museum of Bad Album Covers (zonicweb.net)
194 points by gscott on Dec 11, 2020 | 109 comments
19.
1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88k [video] (youtube.com)
234 points by jbverschoor on Dec 11, 2020 | 198 comments
20.
GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 (sourceforge.net)
173 points by rhabarba on Dec 11, 2020 | 225 comments
21.
$100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2 (hadabot.com)
163 points by jackp510 on Dec 11, 2020 | 28 comments
22.
Monads and GATs in Nightly Rust (fpcomplete.com)
192 points by asimpletune on Dec 11, 2020 | 171 comments
23.
Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader (brave.com)
215 points by nsnante on Dec 11, 2020 | 155 comments
24.
Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms (cbc.ca)
177 points by billyharris on Dec 11, 2020 | 66 comments
25.
Am I Disabled? (aeon.co)
211 points by magnifique on Dec 10, 2020 | 233 comments
26.
How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits (quantamagazine.org)
154 points by pontus on Dec 11, 2020 | 61 comments
27.
The Rise and Fall of Ambrosia Software (2019) (lifeandtimes.games)
144 points by kaptain on Dec 11, 2020 | 138 comments
28.
Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks (nationalgeographic.com)
126 points by backing on Dec 10, 2020 | 33 comments
29.
The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (1971) (thestacksreader.com)
94 points by dadt on Dec 10, 2020 | 6 comments
30.
Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax (dyno-might.github.io)
174 points by dyno-might on Dec 11, 2020 | 154 comments

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