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1.		Internet addiction and the habit of book reading (benwajdi.com)
		760 points by shankarro on Dec 18, 2021 \| 370 comments
2.		CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University (freeradical.zone)
		485 points by ColinWright on Dec 17, 2021 \| 333 comments
3.		Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published (apache.org)
		432 points by niros_valtos on Dec 18, 2021 \| 312 comments
4.		Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) (cacert.org)
		387 points by bobbiechen on Dec 17, 2021 \| 209 comments
5.		Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM (github.com/haimgel)
		444 points by dattl on Dec 18, 2021 \| 151 comments
6.		Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019) (webapp.io)
		468 points by anonu on Dec 17, 2021 \| 200 comments
7.		Testing the strength of different wood species (woodgears.ca)
		256 points by Ivoah on Dec 17, 2021 \| 77 comments
8.		Omnizart: Library for automatic music transcription (github.com/music-and-culture-technology-...)
		284 points by pizza on Dec 18, 2021 \| 41 comments
9.		A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado (bikeindex.org)
		324 points by epa on Dec 18, 2021 \| 127 comments
10.		My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns (recursive-public-rants.blogspot.com)
		438 points by sgwizdak on Dec 18, 2021 \| 430 comments
11.		An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper (openculture.com)
		264 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 18, 2021 \| 23 comments
12.		“With those changes we're up to a 94% pass rate for dEQP-GLES2” (twitter.com/alyssarzg)
		146 points by mmastrac on Dec 17, 2021 \| 56 comments
13.		Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public (propublica.org)
		280 points by authed on Dec 18, 2021 \| 60 comments
14.		Tell HN: AWS warns us about irregular activity related to Log4shell
		143 points by stunt on Dec 18, 2021 \| 23 comments
15.		Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written 1321 to 2021 (lindylearn.io)
		221 points by phgn on Dec 18, 2021 \| 32 comments
16.		Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) (wolfram.com)
		246 points by AJRF on Dec 18, 2021 \| 292 comments
17.		The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than It Should Be (nationalgeographic.com)
		182 points by samspenc on Dec 18, 2021 \| 229 comments
18.		Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (2017) (slatestarcodex.com)
		114 points by phab on Dec 18, 2021 \| 99 comments
19.		Public Staircases (tinyletter.com)
		138 points by pshaw on Dec 17, 2021 \| 18 comments
20.		Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new salmon habitat (science.org)
		117 points by rbanffy on Dec 17, 2021 \| 64 comments
21.		YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute (latimes.com)
		192 points by axiomdata316 on Dec 18, 2021 \| 221 comments
22.		Newly identified hormone may be a critical driver of type 1 and type 2 diabetes (hsph.harvard.edu)
		180 points by rustoo on Dec 17, 2021 \| 44 comments
23.		The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016) (qualiacomputing.com)
		119 points by StreamBright on Dec 17, 2021 \| 80 comments
24.		To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization (evjang.com)
		91 points by ericjang on Dec 18, 2021 \| 38 comments
25.		I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk (2000) [pdf] (sdsu.edu)
		110 points by tjalfi on Dec 16, 2021 \| 190 comments
26.		Fortification, Part IV: French Guns and Italian Lines (acoup.blog)
		93 points by Tomte on Dec 17, 2021 \| 15 comments
27.		Unbreakable phone screens could be made with a new material (economist.com)
		98 points by lxm on Dec 18, 2021 \| 111 comments
28.		Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer To Mythic Goal (quantamagazine.org)
		119 points by optimalsolver on Dec 18, 2021 \| 48 comments
29.		Tomoya Ikeda – Macintosh Artist (gingerbeardman.com)
		141 points by zdw on Dec 17, 2021 \| 6 comments
30.		A system in which soft robots “evolve” to walk or climb (wired.com)
		70 points by DrNuke on Dec 18, 2021 \| 11 comments
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