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1.		No Cookie for You (github.blog)
		2941 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 17, 2020 \| 609 comments
2.		Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews (kevmod.com)
		1086 points by kmod on Dec 17, 2020 \| 479 comments
3.		Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware (github.com/fulldecent)
		476 points by known on Dec 17, 2020 \| 92 comments
4.		Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
		545 points by advaitruia on Dec 17, 2020 \| 339 comments
5.		Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077 (c0de517e.blogspot.com)
		333 points by brundolf on Dec 17, 2020 \| 204 comments
6.		Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates (eclecticlight.co)
		289 points by mrzool on Dec 17, 2020 \| 141 comments
7.		Blob Opera (artsandculture.google.com)
		456 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 16, 2020 \| 59 comments
8.		Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years (stripe.com)
		309 points by dguo on Dec 17, 2020 \| 71 comments
9.		Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles (newatlas.com)
		270 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 17, 2020 \| 171 comments
10.		SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources (sec.gov)
		457 points by ericliuche on Dec 17, 2020 \| 299 comments
11.		LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract (newatlas.com)
		278 points by dgudkov on Dec 16, 2020 \| 130 comments
12.		Show HN: Make comic book layouts in the browser (andrewfulrich.gitlab.io)
		192 points by TiredGuy on Dec 17, 2020 \| 34 comments
13.		Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them (bbc.com)
		213 points by ta988 on Dec 15, 2020 \| 193 comments
14.		GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL (github.com/opticos)
		223 points by magnio on Dec 17, 2020 \| 129 comments
15.		FreeBSD src repository is transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend (freebsd.org)
		212 points by cnst on Dec 17, 2020 \| 74 comments
16.		A case study on strict null checks (figma.com)
		166 points by rudi-c on Dec 17, 2020 \| 112 comments
17.		The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook (slate.com)
		104 points by laurex on Dec 17, 2020 \| 28 comments
18.		Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement (coinbase.com)
		182 points by sinak on Dec 17, 2020 \| 135 comments
19.		51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities (thechief.io)
		333 points by AnnieNma on Dec 17, 2020 \| 170 comments
20.		Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers (newatlas.com)
		134 points by olvy0 on Dec 17, 2020 \| 53 comments
21.		A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp (airplanes3d.wordpress.com)
		126 points by app4soft on Dec 17, 2020 \| 35 comments
22.		How I Met My Wife (1994) (newyorker.com)
		217 points by Lammy on Dec 17, 2020 \| 125 comments
23.		Flanderization (tvtropes.org)
		159 points by doener on Dec 17, 2020 \| 234 comments
24.		Launch HN: ShareWith (YC W21) – Easily share internal websites securely
		112 points by jakemoshenko on Dec 17, 2020 \| 22 comments
25.		Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble (dyno-might.github.io)
		292 points by dyno-might on Dec 16, 2020 \| 144 comments
26.		You have the right to record police in public, federal court rules (universalhub.com)
		333 points by ilamont on Dec 17, 2020 \| 137 comments
27.		State of Rust Survey 2020 results (rust-lang.org)
		191 points by steveklabnik on Dec 16, 2020 \| 43 comments
28.		Getting started with C (not.cafe)
		175 points by hdante on Dec 16, 2020 \| 103 comments
29.		On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf] (gla.ac.uk)
		89 points by teawhoyou on Dec 16, 2020 \| 120 comments
30.		Creative Code-Generated Art (editorx.com)
		134 points by dzink on Dec 17, 2020 \| 38 comments
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