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1.
How We Saved Dot Org (eff.org)
1187 points by thomasahle on Dec 23, 2020 | 151 comments
2.
Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC (snapdrop.net)
527 points by gjsman-1000 on Dec 24, 2020 | 144 comments
3.
Tips for a Better Life (ideopunk.com)
1271 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 23, 2020 | 463 comments
4.
Craft – A fresh take on documents (craft.do)
262 points by blindm on Dec 24, 2020 | 122 comments
5.
Fantasy UI (pushing-pixels.org)
461 points by ujeezy on Dec 24, 2020 | 147 comments
6.
Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018) (medium.com/mijordan3)
278 points by seagullz on Dec 24, 2020 | 120 comments
7.
How to Start a Startup (2014) (samaltman.com)
182 points by gmays on Dec 24, 2020 | 67 comments
8.
The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free (freepianomethod.com)
413 points by jacquesm on Dec 24, 2020 | 264 comments
9.
Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
424 points by karamazov on Dec 24, 2020 | 1091 comments
10.
Show HN: TreeOS – A 16-bit bootsector Christmas tree demo (github.com/cfallin)
141 points by cfallin on Dec 24, 2020 | 31 comments
11.
Fictional Videogame Stills (suzannetreister.net)
157 points by doener on Dec 24, 2020 | 38 comments
12.
The First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me (wired.com)
127 points by DamnInteresting on Dec 23, 2020 | 54 comments
13.
Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping (2004) (stanford.edu)
240 points by keithwhor on Dec 24, 2020 | 120 comments
14.
Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015) (github.com/fish-shell)
226 points by harporoeder on Dec 24, 2020 | 113 comments
15.
In CPython, types implemented in C are part of the type tree (utcc.utoronto.ca)
108 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 24, 2020 | 99 comments
16.
Datasette.io, an official project website for Datasette (simonwillison.net)
208 points by tosh on Dec 24, 2020 | 29 comments
17.
Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing (bottosson.github.io)
236 points by ingve on Dec 24, 2020 | 89 comments
18.
Octopuses Like to Punch Fish (gizmodo.com)
160 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 23, 2020 | 100 comments
19.
PureOS: Freedom, Privacy, and Security (lwn.net)
131 points by leephillips on Dec 23, 2020 | 48 comments
20.
Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures (bbc.co.uk)
173 points by g_p on Dec 24, 2020 | 151 comments
21.
Building My Own Chess Engine (healeycodes.com)
189 points by rbanffy on Dec 23, 2020 | 64 comments
22.
Facebook managers trash their own ad targeting in unsealed remarks (theintercept.com)
217 points by jbegley on Dec 24, 2020 | 128 comments
23.
Raster CRT Typography (According to Dec) (masswerk.at)
93 points by dcminter on Dec 23, 2020 | 18 comments
24.
University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI (mooc.fi)
144 points by ignoramous on Dec 24, 2020 | 60 comments
25.
BlocklySQL: A new block-based editor for SQL (uni-wuerzburg.de)
128 points by leeuw01 on Dec 23, 2020 | 38 comments
26.
Show HN: Disassembling a C64 Game from Scratch: Jeff Minter's Gridrunner (github.com/mwenge)
66 points by mwenge on Dec 22, 2020 | 8 comments
27.
Israeli Cyber Experts Uncover Attack on 85,000 MySQL Servers (srnnews.com)
91 points by nobody9999 on Dec 23, 2020 | 32 comments
28.
About those vector icons (2011) (pushing-pixels.org)
64 points by gitgud on Dec 23, 2020 | 26 comments
29.
The NeurIPS 2020 broader impacts experiment (columbia.edu)
58 points by luu on Dec 22, 2020 | 52 comments
30.
James Gunn (1923-2020) (locusmag.com)
59 points by sohkamyung on Dec 24, 2020 | 25 comments

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