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1. No Cookie for You (github.blog)
2941 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 17, 2020 | 609 comments
2. Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews (kevmod.com)
1086 points by kmod on Dec 17, 2020 | 479 comments
3. Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware (github.com/fulldecent)
476 points by known on Dec 17, 2020 | 92 comments
4. Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
545 points by advaitruia on Dec 17, 2020 | 339 comments
5. Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077 (c0de517e.blogspot.com)
333 points by brundolf on Dec 17, 2020 | 204 comments
6. Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates (eclecticlight.co)
289 points by mrzool on Dec 17, 2020 | 141 comments
7. Blob Opera (artsandculture.google.com)
456 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 16, 2020 | 59 comments
8. Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years (stripe.com)
309 points by dguo on Dec 17, 2020 | 71 comments
9. Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles (newatlas.com)
270 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 17, 2020 | 171 comments
10. SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources (sec.gov)
457 points by ericliuche on Dec 17, 2020 | 299 comments
11. LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract (newatlas.com)
278 points by dgudkov on Dec 16, 2020 | 130 comments
12. Show HN: Make comic book layouts in the browser (andrewfulrich.gitlab.io)
192 points by TiredGuy on Dec 17, 2020 | 34 comments
13. Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them (bbc.com)
213 points by ta988 on Dec 15, 2020 | 193 comments
14. GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL (github.com/opticos)
223 points by magnio on Dec 17, 2020 | 129 comments
15. FreeBSD src repository is transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend (freebsd.org)
212 points by cnst on Dec 17, 2020 | 74 comments
16. A case study on strict null checks (figma.com)
166 points by rudi-c on Dec 17, 2020 | 112 comments
17. The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook (slate.com)
104 points by laurex on Dec 17, 2020 | 28 comments
18. Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement (coinbase.com)
182 points by sinak on Dec 17, 2020 | 135 comments
19. 51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities (thechief.io)
333 points by AnnieNma on Dec 17, 2020 | 170 comments
20. Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers (newatlas.com)
134 points by olvy0 on Dec 17, 2020 | 53 comments
21. A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp (airplanes3d.wordpress.com)
126 points by app4soft on Dec 17, 2020 | 35 comments
22. How I Met My Wife (1994) (newyorker.com)
217 points by Lammy on Dec 17, 2020 | 125 comments
23. Flanderization (tvtropes.org)
159 points by doener on Dec 17, 2020 | 234 comments
24. Launch HN: ShareWith (YC W21) – Easily share internal websites securely
112 points by jakemoshenko on Dec 17, 2020 | 22 comments
25. Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble (dyno-might.github.io)
292 points by dyno-might on Dec 16, 2020 | 144 comments
26. You have the right to record police in public, federal court rules (universalhub.com)
333 points by ilamont on Dec 17, 2020 | 137 comments
27. State of Rust Survey 2020 results (rust-lang.org)
191 points by steveklabnik on Dec 16, 2020 | 43 comments
28. Getting started with C (not.cafe)
175 points by hdante on Dec 16, 2020 | 103 comments
29. On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf] (gla.ac.uk)
89 points by teawhoyou on Dec 16, 2020 | 120 comments
30. Creative Code-Generated Art (editorx.com)
134 points by dzink on Dec 17, 2020 | 38 comments

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