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1. I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel (alaa.blog)
669 points by hackerpain on Dec 12, 2020 | 290 comments
2. Become Shell Literate (drewdevault.com)
512 points by als0 on Dec 12, 2020 | 330 comments
3. Earnestness (paulgraham.com)
438 points by jger15 on Dec 12, 2020 | 439 comments
4. Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can (herts.ac.uk)
610 points by lnguyen on Dec 12, 2020 | 107 comments
5. The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996) (nngroup.com)
295 points by goranmoomin on Dec 11, 2020 | 149 comments
6. Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (datasette.io)
285 points by robin_reala on Dec 11, 2020 | 22 comments
7. Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses (dangoldin.com)
347 points by dangoldin on Dec 12, 2020 | 357 comments
8. I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years (framelabs.eu)
175 points by clash on Dec 12, 2020 | 82 comments
9. Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system (vectorized.io)
118 points by arjunnarayan on Dec 12, 2020 | 36 comments
10. I've designed UI Flow Cards because I couldn't find one like it (flowcards.io)
201 points by fatihguner on Dec 11, 2020 | 54 comments
11. The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved (sfgate.com)
340 points by testfoobar on Dec 11, 2020 | 161 comments
12. Olbers' Paradox (wikipedia.org)
162 points by bookofjoe on Dec 12, 2020 | 81 comments
13. Periodic table of the web's APIs (surge.sh)
127 points by crazypython on Dec 12, 2020 | 44 comments
14. SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights (ij.org)
434 points by apsec112 on Dec 12, 2020 | 167 comments
15. Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable (theregister.com)
226 points by sohkamyung on Dec 10, 2020 | 111 comments
16. How the novel coronavirus has evolved (reuters.com)
206 points by jonbaer on Dec 12, 2020 | 122 comments
17. Encryption Lava Lamps (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
107 points by 1cvmask on Dec 11, 2020 | 92 comments
18. Buy Don't Build (jrott.com)
232 points by jrott on Dec 12, 2020 | 218 comments
19. How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser (shkspr.mobi)
174 points by edent on Dec 11, 2020 | 74 comments
20. Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants (fastcompany.com)
270 points by curiousigor on Dec 11, 2020 | 255 comments
21. Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (arstechnica.com)
141 points by Tomte on Dec 11, 2020 | 125 comments
22. Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers (usedevbook.com)
168 points by mlejva on Dec 12, 2020 | 52 comments
23. Automate any tasks that require multiple entries of data in a browser (cognifirm.com)
65 points by perdamgaard on Dec 12, 2020 | 41 comments
24. [flagged] Chrome Is Bad (chromeisbad.com)
651 points by basisword on Dec 12, 2020 | 290 comments
25. AlphaFold2 at CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.” (moalquraishi.wordpress.com)
138 points by _Microft on Dec 12, 2020 | 37 comments
26. FDA Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First Covid-19 Vaccine (fda.gov)
207 points by simonpure on Dec 12, 2020 | 228 comments
27. Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music (happymag.tv)
299 points by blindm on Dec 12, 2020 | 125 comments
28. Nietzsche on Truth and Lie (1991) (rickroderick.org)
61 points by chordalkeyboard on Dec 11, 2020 | 25 comments
29. Molly (thevolta.org)
84 points by secondary on Dec 12, 2020 | 16 comments
30. GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark (karenying.com)
380 points by karenying7 on Dec 12, 2020 | 194 comments

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