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1.		Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump (blog.twitter.com)
		1961 points by minimaxir on Jan 8, 2021 \| 1950 comments
2.		Signal WhatsApp Chats Import (github.com/signalapp)
		796 points by janisz on Jan 8, 2021 \| 271 comments
3.		Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data (techradar.com)
		489 points by ColinWright on Jan 8, 2021 \| 243 comments
4.		Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’ (privacyinternational.org)
		298 points by mpweiher on Jan 8, 2021 \| 106 comments
5.		Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content (torrentfreak.com)
		615 points by prvc on Jan 8, 2021 \| 269 comments
6.		Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite (smithsonianmag.com)
		244 points by gmays on Jan 8, 2021 \| 49 comments
7.		Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide (reuters.com)
		561 points by spzb on Jan 8, 2021 \| 696 comments
8.		Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
		389 points by picture on Jan 7, 2021 \| 151 comments
9.		Show HN: I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs. (synergyjs.org)
		343 points by defx on Jan 7, 2021 \| 162 comments
10.		How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance (ieee.org)
		368 points by samizdis on Jan 7, 2021 \| 200 comments
11.		Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage (ft.com)
		168 points by kjhughes on Jan 8, 2021 \| 118 comments
12.		Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020 (github.com/norvig)
		306 points by ff7f00 on Jan 6, 2021 \| 89 comments
13.		College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too (strongtowns.org)
		274 points by jseliger on Jan 8, 2021 \| 145 comments
14.		Scipy Lecture Notes (scipy-lectures.org)
		320 points by vyuh on Jan 8, 2021 \| 45 comments
15.		Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (2012) (0fps.net)
		145 points by fanf2 on Jan 8, 2021 \| 19 comments
16.		WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys (twitter.com/shiftreduce)
		491 points by Aissen on Jan 8, 2021 \| 105 comments
17.		2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition (ams.org)
		157 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 8, 2021 \| 31 comments
18.		How Tail Call Optimization Works (eklitzke.org)
		220 points by g42gregory on Jan 8, 2021 \| 208 comments
19.		Show HN: Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking” (eccox.io)
		185 points by jalammar on Jan 8, 2021 \| 34 comments
20.		Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets (twitter.com/marcan42)
		354 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 8, 2021 \| 121 comments
21.		WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update (forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman)
		353 points by Tomte on Jan 8, 2021 \| 191 comments
22.		USV Climate Fund (usv.com)
		132 points by tosh on Jan 8, 2021 \| 37 comments
23.		Session Protocol: Technical implementation details (getsession.org)
		76 points by johnchristopher on Jan 8, 2021 \| 24 comments
24.		Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store (buzzfeednews.com)
		484 points by coloneltcb on Jan 8, 2021 \| 1095 comments
25.		CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate targets, study finds (cbc.ca)
		342 points by colinprince on Jan 8, 2021 \| 250 comments
26.		Avoiding instruction cache misses (2019) (paweldziepak.dev)
		69 points by nkurz on Jan 8, 2021 \| 18 comments
27.		Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation (psyche.co)
		91 points by diodorus on Jan 7, 2021 \| 19 comments
28.		Apache Beam for Search: Getting Started by Hacking Time (shopify.engineering)
		87 points by clandry94 on Jan 8, 2021 \| 8 comments
29.		Metaballs and Marching Squares (jamie-wong.com)
		124 points by bobbiechen on Jan 7, 2021 \| 27 comments
30.		Is my vintage equipment trying to send me a message? [video] (youtube.com)
		106 points by CaliforniaKarl on Jan 8, 2021 \| 12 comments
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