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1.		Being kind to others is good for your health (bbc.com)
		690 points by diminish on Dec 19, 2020 \| 254 comments
2.		The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil (bloomberg.com)
		228 points by RyanShook on Dec 17, 2020 \| 105 comments
3.		Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles (theguardian.com)
		320 points by helsinkiandrew on Dec 19, 2020 \| 438 comments
4.		Great American Rail Trail (bbc.com)
		315 points by pseudolus on Dec 19, 2020 \| 128 comments
5.		Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square (justice.gov)
		685 points by imraj96 on Dec 19, 2020 \| 228 comments
6.		How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss (tedium.co)
		349 points by chris_f on Dec 19, 2020 \| 228 comments
7.		No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings (capellaspace.com)
		192 points by Shelnutt2 on Dec 19, 2020 \| 107 comments
8.		Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack (microsoft.com)
		253 points by thejj100100 on Dec 18, 2020 \| 143 comments
9.		How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser (shopify.engineering)
		243 points by oedmarap on Dec 19, 2020 \| 130 comments
10.		The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1 (masswerk.at)
		110 points by CharlesW on Dec 19, 2020 \| 23 comments
11.		The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) (algorithmicbotany.org)
		206 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2020 \| 22 comments
12.		TerraPi modular case system for Raspberry Pi supports multiple SSD's, DIN rail (cnx-software.com)
		93 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 19, 2020 \| 36 comments
13.		Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern (qr.new)
		126 points by koch on Dec 19, 2020 \| 32 comments
14.		'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (2018) (macleans.ca)
		154 points by well_i_never on Dec 18, 2020 \| 95 comments
15.		The Notation: Ken Iverson Centenary (kx.com)
		84 points by 5jt on Dec 18, 2020 \| 31 comments
16.		Super Wood (2018) (scientificamerican.com)
		78 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 18, 2020 \| 46 comments
17.		Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019) (bannedit.github.io)
		164 points by blindm on Dec 19, 2020 \| 94 comments
18.		AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly (assemblyscript.org)
		174 points by washclothjr on Dec 18, 2020 \| 54 comments
19.		9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan (archaeology-world.com)
		252 points by djsumdog on Dec 19, 2020 \| 77 comments
20.		Commoditize your complement (2019) (gwern.net)
		128 points by harperlee on Dec 19, 2020 \| 80 comments
21.		Causality Is Graphically Simple (arxiv.org)
		90 points by archagon on Dec 18, 2020 \| 7 comments
22.		Peter Saville and New Order’s Colour Code (2011) (wharferj.wordpress.com)
		62 points by elvis70 on Dec 19, 2020 \| 16 comments
23.		FDA grants authorization to Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine (statnews.com)
		176 points by wh-uws on Dec 19, 2020 \| 190 comments
24.		Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf] (microsoft.com)
		153 points by Bootvis on Dec 18, 2020 \| 44 comments
25.		Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents (npr.org)
		270 points by potench on Dec 19, 2020 \| 235 comments
26.		Facebook: Free as in Bullshit (daringfireball.net)
		555 points by throw0101a on Dec 19, 2020 \| 249 comments
27.		That Dothraki Horde, Part III: Horse Fiddles (acoup.blog)
		83 points by picture on Dec 18, 2020 \| 74 comments
28.		New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’ (npr.org)
		313 points by RickJWagner on Dec 19, 2020 \| 353 comments
29.		Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online (flurly.com)
		89 points by flurly on Dec 19, 2020 \| 85 comments
30.		Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today (hacks.mozilla.org)
		69 points by feross on Dec 17, 2020 \| 9 comments
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