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1. Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course (cornell.edu)
827 points by matt_d on Dec 11, 2020 | 232 comments
2. Who Americans spend their time with, by age (ourworldindata.org)
642 points by eoo_owid on Dec 11, 2020 | 419 comments
3. The Airbnbs (blog.ycombinator.com)
623 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 10, 2020 | 494 comments
4. How the Python object system works (tenthousandmeters.com)
336 points by r4victor on Dec 11, 2020 | 78 comments
5. Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds (washingtonpost.com)
535 points by saurik on Dec 10, 2020 | 443 comments
6. A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM (windows.com)
366 points by Tepix on Dec 11, 2020 | 396 comments
7. Oracle Moving HQ to Austin (sec.gov)
361 points by whatok on Dec 11, 2020 | 437 comments
8. The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire (taibbi.substack.com)
531 points by garraeth on Dec 11, 2020 | 901 comments
9. Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser (cypress.io)
316 points by OJFord on Dec 11, 2020 | 178 comments
10. Pointer Pointer (2012) (pointerpointer.com)
455 points by heinrich5991 on Dec 10, 2020 | 64 comments
11. Google Alternatives (justprivacy.org)
287 points by yepgwer on Dec 11, 2020 | 233 comments
12. Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours (thedrive.com)
239 points by dakna on Dec 11, 2020 | 155 comments
13. Mojeek: Independent search engine with its own spider (mojeek.com)
264 points by jhoechtl on Dec 10, 2020 | 139 comments
14. Common Expression Language (github.com/google)
208 points by siliconmountain on Dec 10, 2020 | 106 comments
15. A 73-year-old Japanese artist took YouTube by storm (cnn.com)
258 points by williamsharris on Dec 10, 2020 | 52 comments
16. Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max (daringfireball.net)
328 points by ch_sm on Dec 11, 2020 | 688 comments
17. Vftool runs Linux virtual machines in macOS Big Sur (github.com/evansm7)
195 points by syrusakbary on Dec 11, 2020 | 86 comments
18. Museum of Bad Album Covers (zonicweb.net)
194 points by gscott on Dec 11, 2020 | 109 comments
19. 1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88k [video] (youtube.com)
234 points by jbverschoor on Dec 11, 2020 | 198 comments
20. GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 (sourceforge.net)
173 points by rhabarba on Dec 11, 2020 | 225 comments
21. $100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2 (hadabot.com)
163 points by jackp510 on Dec 11, 2020 | 28 comments
22. Monads and GATs in Nightly Rust (fpcomplete.com)
192 points by asimpletune on Dec 11, 2020 | 171 comments
23. Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader (brave.com)
215 points by nsnante on Dec 11, 2020 | 155 comments
24. Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms (cbc.ca)
177 points by billyharris on Dec 11, 2020 | 66 comments
25. Am I Disabled? (aeon.co)
211 points by magnifique on Dec 10, 2020 | 233 comments
26. How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits (quantamagazine.org)
154 points by pontus on Dec 11, 2020 | 61 comments
27. The Rise and Fall of Ambrosia Software (2019) (lifeandtimes.games)
144 points by kaptain on Dec 11, 2020 | 138 comments
28. Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks (nationalgeographic.com)
126 points by backing on Dec 10, 2020 | 33 comments
29. The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (1971) (thestacksreader.com)
94 points by dadt on Dec 10, 2020 | 6 comments
30. Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax (dyno-might.github.io)
174 points by dyno-might on Dec 11, 2020 | 154 comments

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