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1.		I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel (alaa.blog)
		669 points by hackerpain on Dec 12, 2020 \| 290 comments
2.		Become Shell Literate (drewdevault.com)
		512 points by als0 on Dec 12, 2020 \| 330 comments
3.		Earnestness (paulgraham.com)
		438 points by jger15 on Dec 12, 2020 \| 439 comments
4.		Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can (herts.ac.uk)
		610 points by lnguyen on Dec 12, 2020 \| 107 comments
5.		The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996) (nngroup.com)
		295 points by goranmoomin on Dec 11, 2020 \| 149 comments
6.		Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (datasette.io)
		285 points by robin_reala on Dec 11, 2020 \| 22 comments
7.		Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses (dangoldin.com)
		347 points by dangoldin on Dec 12, 2020 \| 357 comments
8.		I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years (framelabs.eu)
		175 points by clash on Dec 12, 2020 \| 82 comments
9.		Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system (vectorized.io)
		118 points by arjunnarayan on Dec 12, 2020 \| 36 comments
10.		I've designed UI Flow Cards because I couldn't find one like it (flowcards.io)
		201 points by fatihguner on Dec 11, 2020 \| 54 comments
11.		The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved (sfgate.com)
		340 points by testfoobar on Dec 11, 2020 \| 161 comments
12.		Olbers' Paradox (wikipedia.org)
		162 points by bookofjoe on Dec 12, 2020 \| 81 comments
13.		Periodic table of the web's APIs (wwwperiodictable.surge.sh)
		127 points by crazypython on Dec 12, 2020 \| 44 comments
14.		SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights (ij.org)
		434 points by apsec112 on Dec 12, 2020 \| 167 comments
15.		Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable (theregister.com)
		226 points by sohkamyung on Dec 10, 2020 \| 111 comments
16.		How the novel coronavirus has evolved (reuters.com)
		206 points by jonbaer on Dec 12, 2020 \| 122 comments
17.		Encryption Lava Lamps (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
		107 points by 1cvmask on Dec 11, 2020 \| 92 comments
18.		Buy Don't Build (jrott.com)
		232 points by jrott on Dec 12, 2020 \| 218 comments
19.		How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser (shkspr.mobi)
		174 points by edent on Dec 11, 2020 \| 74 comments
20.		Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants (fastcompany.com)
		270 points by curiousigor on Dec 11, 2020 \| 255 comments
21.		Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (arstechnica.com)
		141 points by Tomte on Dec 11, 2020 \| 125 comments
22.		Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers (usedevbook.com)
		168 points by mlejva on Dec 12, 2020 \| 52 comments
23.		Automate any tasks that require multiple entries of data in a browser (cognifirm.com)
		65 points by perdamgaard on Dec 12, 2020 \| 41 comments
24.		[flagged] Chrome Is Bad (chromeisbad.com)
		651 points by basisword on Dec 12, 2020 \| 290 comments
25.		AlphaFold2 at CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.” (moalquraishi.wordpress.com)
		138 points by _Microft on Dec 12, 2020 \| 37 comments
26.		FDA Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First Covid-19 Vaccine (fda.gov)
		207 points by simonpure on Dec 12, 2020 \| 228 comments
27.		Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music (happymag.tv)
		299 points by blindm on Dec 12, 2020 \| 125 comments
28.		Nietzsche on Truth and Lie (1991) (rickroderick.org)
		61 points by chordalkeyboard on Dec 11, 2020 \| 25 comments
29.		Molly (thevolta.org)
		84 points by secondary on Dec 12, 2020 \| 16 comments
30.		GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark (karenying.com)
		380 points by karenying7 on Dec 12, 2020 \| 194 comments
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