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1.		U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise (krebsonsecurity.com)
		632 points by picture on Dec 14, 2020 \| 329 comments
2.		Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died (venturebeat.com)
		630 points by WalterBright on Dec 14, 2020 \| 338 comments
3.		Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain (fireeye.com)
		669 points by anigbrowl on Dec 14, 2020 \| 224 comments
4.		Johnny.Decimal (johnnydecimal.com)
		531 points by Tomte on Dec 12, 2020 \| 187 comments
5.		John le Carré has died (bbc.com)
		344 points by 1cvmask on Dec 13, 2020 \| 136 comments
6.		Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence (cnn.com)
		390 points by Tomte on Dec 14, 2020 \| 349 comments
7.		FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services (ftc.gov)
		373 points by g0xA52A2A on Dec 14, 2020 \| 276 comments
8.		Google outage – resolved
		2316 points by abluecloud on Dec 14, 2020 \| 827 comments
9.		Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary (typesense.org)
		424 points by jabo on Dec 14, 2020 \| 80 comments
10.		Linux 5.10 (kernel.org)
		354 points by jrepinc on Dec 14, 2020 \| 143 comments
11.		The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
		339 points by scarybeast on Dec 14, 2020 \| 130 comments
12.		Coordinated disclosure of XML roundtrip vulnerabilities in Go’s standard library (mattermost.com)
		223 points by jupenur on Dec 14, 2020 \| 114 comments
13.		Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one (nytimes.com)
		330 points by IfOnlyYouKnew on Dec 13, 2020 \| 215 comments
14.		A Defer Mechanism for C (gustedt.wordpress.com)
		187 points by panic on Dec 14, 2020 \| 244 comments
15.		U-2: The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace (bbc.com)
		192 points by pseudolus on Dec 13, 2020 \| 95 comments
16.		Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (ralfj.de)
		262 points by ChrisSD on Dec 14, 2020 \| 133 comments
17.		Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide” (privacytools.io)
		456 points by freddyym on Dec 14, 2020 \| 145 comments
18.		Human Clock (humanclock.com)
		214 points by cookingoils on Dec 14, 2020 \| 55 comments
19.		In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating? (aljazeera.com)
		217 points by lelf on Dec 14, 2020 \| 159 comments
20.		Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform (capiche.fm)
		122 points by awwstn on Dec 14, 2020 \| 56 comments
21.		Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (2015) (archive.org)
		201 points by tslocum on Dec 14, 2020 \| 93 comments
22.		Show HN: I built a comprehensive Ark ETF tracker (cathiesark.com)
		140 points by isthispermanent on Dec 14, 2020 \| 86 comments
23.		Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots (singularityhub.com)
		278 points by Osiris30 on Dec 14, 2020 \| 221 comments
24.		New version of Apple-1 DIY kits start shipping (mailchi.mp)
		131 points by sergpanarin on Dec 14, 2020 \| 39 comments
25.		How Video Works (howvideo.works)
		241 points by circuit_ on Dec 14, 2020 \| 25 comments
26.		WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore (projectwaves.net)
		179 points by ignoramous on Dec 14, 2020 \| 44 comments
27.		Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System (sciencealert.com)
		134 points by bookofjoe on Dec 13, 2020 \| 51 comments
28.		Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year (reddit.com)
		602 points by barry-cotter on Dec 14, 2020 \| 431 comments
29.		The science of addiction: Do you always like the things you want? (bbc.com)
		200 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 14, 2020 \| 144 comments
30.		What Did the Past Smell Like? (nautil.us)
		127 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2020 \| 134 comments
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