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1.		BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass (secret.club)
		571 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on Jan 17, 2021 \| 124 comments
2.		‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years (singularityhub.com)
		450 points by akamoonknight on Jan 17, 2021 \| 212 comments
3.		Dostoevsky in Love (theguardian.com)
		116 points by lermontov on Jan 17, 2021 \| 26 comments
4.		BladeRF-wiphy: Open-source, software defined radio modem (nuand.com)
		292 points by nuand on Jan 17, 2021 \| 55 comments
5.		The Buy Nothing Project (buynothingproject.org)
		425 points by simonebrunozzi on Jan 17, 2021 \| 259 comments
6.		The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available (artnet.com)
		328 points by uptown on Jan 17, 2021 \| 142 comments
7.		A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2 (alpinist.com)
		304 points by eigenvector on Jan 16, 2021 \| 131 comments
8.		JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad (jingos.com)
		435 points by throwaway888abc on Jan 17, 2021 \| 274 comments
9.		E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper (goodereader.com)
		339 points by miles on Jan 17, 2021 \| 190 comments
10.		German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance (complianceweek.com)
		272 points by giuliomagnifico on Jan 17, 2021 \| 152 comments
11.		That's not how 2FA works (shkspr.mobi)
		320 points by edent on Jan 17, 2021 \| 263 comments
12.		Signal Is Back (twitter.com/signalapp)
		316 points by decrypt on Jan 17, 2021 \| 149 comments
13.		Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features (inputmag.com)
		358 points by metahost on Jan 17, 2021 \| 549 comments
14.		The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla (murilopereira.com)
		429 points by mpereira on Jan 17, 2021 \| 343 comments
15.		The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned (2014) (dwheeler.com)
		102 points by MrXOR on Jan 16, 2021 \| 39 comments
16.		Downpour: DRM Free Audiobooks (downpour.com)
		179 points by cheph on Jan 17, 2021 \| 57 comments
17.		I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors (2011) [video] (youtube.com)
		146 points by whereistimbo on Jan 17, 2021 \| 44 comments
18.		Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools (kettunen.io)
		123 points by kettunen on Jan 17, 2021 \| 30 comments
19.		Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty (opengameart.org)
		110 points by app4soft on Jan 17, 2021 \| 69 comments
20.		Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon (electronupdate.blogspot.com)
		119 points by picture on Jan 17, 2021 \| 57 comments
21.		Fujitsu A64FX Microarchitecture Manual [pdf] (github.com/fujitsu)
		73 points by rrss on Jan 16, 2021 \| 52 comments
22.		Tiny PDP11 on an ESP32 (spritesmods.com)
		127 points by rcarmo on Jan 16, 2021 \| 25 comments
23.		ZFS copies=n is not a substitute for device redundancy (2016) (jrs-s.net)
		77 points by harporoeder on Jan 17, 2021 \| 39 comments
24.		Dave’s Short Course on Complex Numbers (2013) (clarku.edu)
		94 points by blewboarwastake on Jan 16, 2021 \| 11 comments
25.		Human-like neural network chess engine trained on lichess games (maiachess.com)
		158 points by unlog on Jan 17, 2021 \| 68 comments
26.		Einstein and Hume’s philosophy of time (aeon.co)
		100 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2021 \| 38 comments
27.		Par2cmdline is a PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool (github.com/parchive)
		53 points by Tomte on Jan 16, 2021 \| 35 comments
28.		Bonsai in an encapsulated environmental system: Paludarium Yasutoshi (azumamakoto.com)
		110 points by polm23 on Jan 16, 2021 \| 19 comments
29.		Caligula’s Garden of Delights, Unearthed and Restored (nytimes.com)
		60 points by diodorus on Jan 16, 2021 \| 29 comments
30.		The SOC2 Starting Seven (2020) (latacora.micro.blog)
		102 points by Ballu on Jan 16, 2021 \| 61 comments
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