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31.
Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading (sentiatechblog.com)
78 points by kiyanwang on Dec 12, 2020 | 21 comments
32.
How we built scalable spatial indexing in CockroachDB (cockroachlabs.com)
153 points by orangechairs on Dec 14, 2020 | 29 comments
33.
Feedback: Errors, filesystems, magic numbers, and more (rachelbythebay.com)
48 points by zdw on Dec 12, 2020 | 2 comments
34.
The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN (programaudioseries.com)
87 points by I-M-S on Dec 14, 2020 | 21 comments
35.
Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011) (lowtechmagazine.com)
261 points by oftenwrong on Dec 14, 2020 | 305 comments
36.
We need legal controls on web advertising (theregister.com)
181 points by samizdis on Dec 14, 2020 | 167 comments
37.
Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out (nytimes.com)
185 points by jimmy2020 on Dec 13, 2020 | 243 comments
38.
HermiTux – A Linux binary-compatible unikernel (ssrg-vt.github.io)
125 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 13, 2020 | 18 comments
39.
Blabrecs (mkremins.github.io)
66 points by xingyzt on Dec 14, 2020 | 17 comments
40.
Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (2017) (quantcast.com)
185 points by whereistimbo on Dec 14, 2020 | 209 comments
41.
Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform (vice.com)
364 points by chromosome on Dec 14, 2020 | 523 comments
42.
Show HN: Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust (github.com/mattsse)
127 points by matsche on Dec 14, 2020 | 19 comments
43.
For Apollo 11 he wasn’t on the moon, but his coffee was warm (2019) (nytimes.com)
87 points by areoform on Dec 14, 2020 | 11 comments
44.
Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development (ssut.me)
367 points by ssut on Dec 14, 2020 | 457 comments
45.
ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing (sandsoftwaresound.net)
73 points by zdw on Dec 13, 2020 | 50 comments
46.
EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B (bbc.com)
150 points by pseudolus on Dec 14, 2020 | 147 comments
47.
 [dupe] John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89 (theguardian.com)
112 points by edward on Dec 13, 2020 | 1 comment
48.
Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash (cnn.com)
175 points by pseudolus on Dec 14, 2020 | 145 comments
49.
My Life in Cars (newyorker.com)
45 points by aarghh on Dec 12, 2020 | 57 comments
50.
Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market (datamentary.net)
153 points by jonathanleane on Dec 14, 2020 | 267 comments
51.
How to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI (nber.org)
77 points by doener on Dec 14, 2020 | 23 comments
52.
The World’s First Medical Records (lithub.com)
27 points by sillybilly on Dec 14, 2020
53.
A leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members (skynews.com.au)
269 points by draugadrotten on Dec 13, 2020 | 91 comments
54.
Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization (bostonreview.net)
85 points by pepys on Dec 14, 2020 | 32 comments
55.
Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing (quixoticnomad.blog)
107 points by ongwu on Dec 14, 2020 | 57 comments
56.
 [dupe] Hundreds riot at iPhone factory in India over exploitation claims (scmp.com)
125 points by mnouquet on Dec 13, 2020 | 11 comments
57.
Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android? (spreadprivacy.com)
146 points by alexrustic on Dec 14, 2020 | 42 comments
58.
“This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life” (github.com/amzn)
307 points by paradisevoicez on Dec 14, 2020 | 105 comments
59.
Fractal Architectures: A Software Craftsman's take to Infrastructure as Code (yanchware.com)
70 points by tinodelletna on Dec 14, 2020 | 48 comments
60.
The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
87 points by __henil on Dec 14, 2020 | 8 comments

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