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1.		WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app (arstechnica.com)
		2254 points by erwinmatijsen on Jan 6, 2021 \| 1148 comments
2.		No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees (sahillavingia.com)
		1329 points by sahillavingia on Jan 7, 2021 \| 517 comments
3.		Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I (rosenzweig.io)
		552 points by caution on Jan 7, 2021 \| 142 comments
4.		Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
		1004 points by ColinWright on Jan 7, 2021 \| 945 comments
5.		Simple Bank Is Closing (oregonlive.com)
		512 points by roberto8647 on Jan 7, 2021 \| 599 comments
6.		Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump (facebook.com)
		953 points by jaredwiener on Jan 7, 2021 \| 1293 comments
7.		Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video] (bbc.com)
		478 points by etimberg on Jan 7, 2021 \| 251 comments
8.		The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours (twitter.com/twittersafety)
		678 points by edward on Jan 7, 2021 \| 1144 comments
9.		A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown (phoronix.com)
		285 points by zdw on Jan 6, 2021 \| 121 comments
10.		A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for Capitol IT (twitter.com/jacobian)
		316 points by rmason on Jan 7, 2021 \| 167 comments
11.		DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy (cnbc.com)
		305 points by Lapz on Jan 7, 2021 \| 120 comments
12.		Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE (thonny.org)
		313 points by nine_k on Jan 7, 2021 \| 102 comments
13.		Epic acquires RAD Game Tools (epicgames.com)
		262 points by jsheard on Jan 7, 2021 \| 186 comments
14.		Traffic Simulator (traffic-simulation.de)
		542 points by eecc on Jan 7, 2021 \| 140 comments
15.		CVE-2021-3011: Key recovery on Google Titan Key (ninjalab.io)
		237 points by hexa- on Jan 7, 2021 \| 80 comments
16.		Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach (twitter.com/neurovagrant)
		378 points by ytpete on Jan 7, 2021 \| 505 comments
17.		Show HN: v8-riscv — Port of JavaScript V8 engine to RISC-V (github.com/v8-riscv)
		123 points by partingshots on Jan 6, 2021 \| 54 comments
18.		Shooting photos with an IMAX projector lens (theslantedlens.com)
		173 points by dmitrygr on Jan 7, 2021 \| 63 comments
19.		Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011) (damninteresting.com)
		185 points by vinnyglennon on Jan 6, 2021 \| 110 comments
20.		Show HN: I built an intercom for my 6 yo to keep us connected during quarantine (chordata.cc)
		181 points by daylankifky on Jan 7, 2021 \| 123 comments
21.		Show HN: Leet Resumes – a free technical resume-writing service (leetresumes.com)
		147 points by mcenedella on Jan 7, 2021 \| 109 comments
22.		OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy (github.com/dslul)
		192 points by mikepechadotcom on Jan 7, 2021 \| 151 comments
23.		Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research (datacolada.org)
		161 points by snakeboy on Jan 5, 2021 \| 120 comments
24.		I Replaced Baremetrics and ChartMogul with Rake (keygen.sh)
		99 points by ezekg on Jan 5, 2021 \| 38 comments
25.		Donate to Signal (signal.org)
		458 points by nanna on Jan 7, 2021 \| 145 comments
26.		New hard disk write head analytical technology can increase hard disk capacities (tohoku.ac.jp)
		94 points by XzetaU8 on Jan 7, 2021 \| 51 comments
27.		M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports (caldigit.com)
		219 points by juliangamble on Jan 7, 2021 \| 260 comments
28.		Exotic List Monads (haskell.org)
		88 points by curryhoward on Jan 6, 2021 \| 25 comments
29.		Codebreaking: A Practical Guide (codebreaking-guide.com)
		104 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Jan 6, 2021 \| 4 comments
30.		Decoding the Peloton (ihaque.org)
		162 points by _ihaque on Jan 6, 2021 \| 115 comments
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