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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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