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1. Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store (twitter.com/element_hq)
2009 points by redsolver on Jan 29, 2021 | 940 comments
2. Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic (arxiv.org)
338 points by pueblito on Jan 30, 2021 | 123 comments
3. Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts (pnas.org)
388 points by lobbly on Jan 29, 2021 | 164 comments
4. Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function (sciencefocus.com)
434 points by lxm on Jan 30, 2021 | 151 comments
5. Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019) (princeton.edu)
389 points by pseudolus on Jan 30, 2021 | 118 comments
6. The Great Unbundling (ben-evans.com)
246 points by notoriousarun on Jan 30, 2021 | 131 comments
7. Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design (uxdesign.cc)
371 points by fanf2 on Jan 29, 2021 | 71 comments
8. Electric cars are coming fast – is the nation’s grid up to it? (nytimes.com)
216 points by CapitalistCartr on Jan 30, 2021 | 438 comments
9. Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading (acm.org)
349 points by hypomnemata on Jan 30, 2021 | 100 comments
10. Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps (siliconpr0n.org)
290 points by lelf on Jan 30, 2021 | 78 comments
11. Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output (singhkays.com)
241 points by singhkays on Jan 29, 2021 | 200 comments
12. Show HN: Collection of deep learning implementations with side-by-side notes (labml.ai)
251 points by vpj on Jan 30, 2021 | 17 comments
13. New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support (mail-archive.com)
229 points by ismiseted on Jan 30, 2021 | 41 comments
14. Cory Doctorow: IP (2020) (locusmag.com)
227 points by akkartik on Jan 30, 2021 | 122 comments
15. Why it’s usually crazier than you expect (collaborativefund.com)
166 points by antdke on Jan 30, 2021 | 154 comments
16. What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? (theconvivialsociety.substack.com)
198 points by cetera on Jan 30, 2021 | 106 comments
17. YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries (hyperallergic.com)
89 points by ardy42 on Jan 29, 2021 | 41 comments
18. A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow (arxiv.org)
123 points by jsnell on Jan 30, 2021 | 145 comments
19. An overview of the decentralized social ecosystem [pdf] (matrix.org)
116 points by khartig on Jan 29, 2021 | 21 comments
20. Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal (github.com/microsoft)
141 points by Impossible on Jan 29, 2021 | 54 comments
21. A Corner in Piggly Wiggly (1959) (newyorker.com)
107 points by tosh on Jan 28, 2021 | 62 comments
22. 1938 vs. 1940 (2018) (pecaquet.com)
143 points by diodorus on Jan 29, 2021 | 73 comments
23. Cyclic dependencies are evil (2013) (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
129 points by nojito on Jan 30, 2021 | 121 comments
24. Adam Curtis Explains It All (newyorker.com)
132 points by clydethefrog on Jan 28, 2021 | 77 comments
25. A few HiDPI tricks for Linux (yossarian.net)
139 points by woodruffw on Jan 30, 2021 | 189 comments
26. How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it's a bad idea (maxwellgale.com)
127 points by dimes on Jan 30, 2021 | 39 comments
27. Philosophical Landmines (2013) (lesswrong.com)
83 points by TeMPOraL on Jan 30, 2021 | 40 comments
28. Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013) (techtinkering.com)
150 points by elvis70 on Jan 29, 2021 | 115 comments
29. IBM paperweight teardown: Reverse-engineering 1970s memory chips (righto.com)
104 points by picture on Jan 30, 2021 | 36 comments
30. A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI (theregister.com)
103 points by icot on Jan 29, 2021 | 21 comments

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