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1. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC (kosmi.io)
676 points by hauxir on Dec 30, 2020 | 171 comments
2. Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores' (bbc.co.uk)
571 points by edward on Dec 30, 2020 | 329 comments
3. Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews (arstechnica.com)
506 points by Carducci on Dec 30, 2020 | 425 comments
4. Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out (visa.com)
513 points by enjoyyourlife on Dec 29, 2020 | 245 comments
5. Clams filter the water and check whether the water is polluted or clean (polishnews.co.uk)
321 points by ta988 on Dec 30, 2020 | 76 comments
6. How We Built the GitHub Globe (github.blog)
376 points by scalableUnicon on Dec 30, 2020 | 101 comments
7. GHC 9.0, supporting linear types (haskell.org)
301 points by cosmic_quanta on Dec 30, 2020 | 130 comments
8. Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology (nature.com)
288 points by respinal on Dec 30, 2020 | 246 comments
9. Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
446 points by notoriousarun on Dec 30, 2020 | 582 comments
10. Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK (bbc.co.uk)
376 points by agd on Dec 30, 2020 | 417 comments
11. Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 (windowslatest.com)
212 points by muhahue on Dec 30, 2020 | 297 comments
12. ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets (t8012.dev)
277 points by aunali1 on Dec 30, 2020 | 125 comments
13. Learn Quantum Computation (qiskit.org)
177 points by headalgorithm on Dec 30, 2020 | 61 comments
14. A singular mind: Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize (spectator.co.uk)
216 points by miobrien on Dec 28, 2020 | 141 comments
15. Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry (richardstartin.github.io)
223 points by simonpure on Dec 30, 2020 | 187 comments
16. “Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved (findsatoshi.com)
248 points by teamonkey on Dec 30, 2020 | 69 comments
17. C Template Library (github.com/glouw)
266 points by glouwbug on Dec 29, 2020 | 128 comments
18. An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project (gamesradar.com)
211 points by cardimart on Dec 30, 2020 | 237 comments
19. Spirals, Snowflakes and Trees: Recursion in Pictures (hfm.io)
106 points by nbaksalyar on Dec 30, 2020 | 12 comments
20. SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0 (sbcl.org)
174 points by susam on Dec 30, 2020 | 74 comments
21. Show HN: The Agora – an experimental social network (anagora.org)
157 points by flancian on Dec 29, 2020 | 91 comments
22. The Cruise Ship Suicides (bloomberg.com)
181 points by danso on Dec 30, 2020 | 286 comments
23. How Python attributes work (tenthousandmeters.com)
103 points by r4victor on Dec 30, 2020 | 12 comments
24. Cave Paintings and Sculptures (donsmaps.com)
49 points by itronitron on Dec 27, 2020 | 3 comments
25. [dupe] Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators to target modders (twitter.com/eclipse_tt)
264 points by areoform on Dec 30, 2020 | 108 comments
26. Defold engine code overview (defold.com)
78 points by ingve on Dec 29, 2020 | 45 comments
27. Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough (nih.gov)
147 points by Bologo on Dec 30, 2020 | 448 comments
28. Contributing Without Code (popey.com)
115 points by pabs3 on Dec 30, 2020 | 26 comments
29. Show HN: Voyager – write a web crawler/scraper as a state machine in Rust (github.com/mattsse)
110 points by matsche on Dec 30, 2020 | 11 comments
30. A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (1984) (sci-hub.tf)
100 points by wcerfgba on Dec 29, 2020 | 35 comments

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