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31.
The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students’ Long-Term Development (ssrn.com)
79 points by gandalfgeek on Dec 20, 2020 | 45 comments
32.
On the Graying of Gnome (hpjansson.org)
139 points by yankcrime on Dec 20, 2020 | 262 comments
33.
Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling (speps.fr)
106 points by arunc on Dec 20, 2020 | 60 comments
34.
Show HN: Mantel-top computerized musical chimes with MicroPython on an ESP-32 (github.com/keredson)
44 points by keredson on Dec 20, 2020 | 17 comments
35.
Decaying Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil as the Exxon Valdez (scitechdaily.com)
188 points by samizdis on Dec 20, 2020 | 72 comments
36.
How and why I stopped buying new laptops (lowtechmagazine.com)
291 points by pencil_ on Dec 20, 2020 | 279 comments
37.
Security expert warned SolarWinds in 2019 that anyone could access server (businessinsider.com.au)
205 points by 1cvmask on Dec 20, 2020 | 52 comments
38.
Arrays of Arrays (2009) (ericlippert.com)
39 points by theawesomekhan on Dec 20, 2020 | 27 comments
39.
Geometrize: Turn Images into Geometric Primitives (geometrize.co.uk)
157 points by adrian_mrd on Dec 20, 2020 | 43 comments
40.
John Le Carré Missed Nothing (newyorker.com)
72 points by benbreen on Dec 19, 2020 | 45 comments
41.
My Ken Williams Story (blitter.net)
48 points by EvanAnderson on Dec 18, 2020 | 1 comment
42.
The Internet Is for Porn (themargins.substack.com)
266 points by tosh on Dec 20, 2020 | 427 comments
43.
Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating (theguardian.com)
160 points by ystad on Dec 20, 2020 | 122 comments
44.
My Comments on “Hitting the High Notes” (2005) (ericsink.com)
30 points by luu on Dec 19, 2020 | 7 comments
45.
How we made the PJON network protocol from scratch (pjon.org)
125 points by gioscarab on Dec 20, 2020 | 33 comments
46.
Knotwork Designer (birrell.org)
47 points by blewboarwastake on Dec 20, 2020 | 11 comments
47.
Iconic Print, “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa,” Recreated with 50k Lego Bricks (openculture.com)
66 points by elorant on Dec 20, 2020 | 12 comments
48.
Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? (lesswrong.com)
52 points by never-the-bride on Dec 18, 2020 | 76 comments
49.
Posenet Fruit Ninja in the Browser (Tensorflow.js and Posenet) (huhai463127310.github.io)
45 points by liuxiaopai on Dec 20, 2020 | 16 comments
50.
The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) (ribbonfarm.com)
122 points by etherio on Dec 20, 2020 | 60 comments
51.
Hackers last year conducted a 'dry run' of SolarWinds breach (yahoo.com)
91 points by elorant on Dec 20, 2020 | 23 comments
52.
Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware (theguardian.com)
111 points by aleksei on Dec 20, 2020 | 22 comments
53.
Ask HN: Where does one search development advice these days?
89 points by fortnum on Dec 20, 2020 | 107 comments
54.
Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck (cell.com)
27 points by Hooke on Dec 20, 2020 | 6 comments
55.
Of 18,000 backdoored servers, hackers followed up on only a few dozen (arstechnica.com)
67 points by rckoepke on Dec 20, 2020 | 14 comments
56.
Microsoft may be developing its own, in-house ARM CPU designs (arstechnica.com)
82 points by elsewhen on Dec 20, 2020 | 44 comments
57.
 [flagged] Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail (mattstoller.substack.com)
107 points by pseudolus on Dec 20, 2020 | 32 comments
58.
Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from nearby star (theguardian.com)
39 points by zw123456 on Dec 20, 2020 | 24 comments
59.
Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco (sfgate.com)
88 points by mrfusion on Dec 20, 2020 | 49 comments
60.
The U.S. Army Is Creating Robots with Synthetically Grown Muscle (smosa.com)
47 points by bookofjoe on Dec 20, 2020 | 13 comments

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