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1. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code (microsoft.com)
676 points by accountinhn on Dec 31, 2020 | 384 comments
2. Bitcoin is a disaster (metzdowd.com)
881 points by wyldfire on Dec 31, 2020 | 959 comments
3. WebAssembly Studio (webassembly.studio)
394 points by _zhqs on Dec 31, 2020 | 214 comments
4. Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (probml.github.io)
310 points by joaorico on Dec 31, 2020 | 56 comments
5. Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry (amypeniston.com)
313 points by afkmango on Dec 30, 2020 | 279 comments
6. Linux Hardening Guide (madaidans-insecurities.github.io)
460 points by FlyMoreRockets on Dec 31, 2020 | 295 comments
7. Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source (hu-berlin.de)
241 points by rustoo on Dec 30, 2020 | 84 comments
8. USDS Digital Services Playbook (cio.gov)
203 points by tomrod on Dec 31, 2020 | 98 comments
9. Things I Learnt in 2020 (drobinin.com)
221 points by valzevul on Dec 30, 2020 | 65 comments
10. Mitsubishi Heavy to build biggest zero-carbon steel plant (nikkei.com)
210 points by doener on Dec 31, 2020 | 211 comments
11. AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples (github.com/nsriram)
306 points by sriram_iyengar on Dec 31, 2020 | 80 comments
12. HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash (twitter.com/larsiusprime)
375 points by tosh on Dec 30, 2020 | 364 comments
13. PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon (morepypy.blogspot.com)
262 points by fniephaus on Dec 31, 2020 | 163 comments
14. “Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited (singularityhub.com)
188 points by superhumanuser on Dec 31, 2020 | 105 comments
15. Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm (blog.twitter.com)
143 points by 0xedb on Dec 31, 2020 | 22 comments
16. The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (sudhir.io)
295 points by sudhirj on Dec 31, 2020 | 108 comments
17. LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative (github.com/librephotos)
386 points by hanklazard on Dec 31, 2020 | 136 comments
18. Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML (quaxio.com)
145 points by IceWreck on Dec 31, 2020 | 89 comments
19. Why Jira Sucks (whyjirasucks.com)
408 points by svikashk on Dec 31, 2020 | 506 comments
20. Well, Actually – Physics Answers (backreaction.blogspot.com)
142 points by mellosouls on Dec 31, 2020 | 81 comments
21. Autofocus for the 16mm Telephoto Lens Mounted on the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera (lemariva.com)
94 points by lemariva on Dec 31, 2020 | 47 comments
22. Ultimate Debian Database (debian.org)
84 points by susam on Dec 30, 2020 | 9 comments
23. Interview Transcript – Donald Knuth [pdf] (philipkiely.com)
170 points by asicsp on Dec 31, 2020 | 38 comments
24. Talk Less, Listen More (thereformedbroker.com)
132 points by paulpauper on Dec 30, 2020 | 29 comments
25. What Is Life? (2019) (berthub.eu)
127 points by marcobambini on Dec 31, 2020 | 113 comments
26. Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019) (nadiaeghbal.com)
188 points by etherio on Dec 31, 2020 | 213 comments
27. The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf] (stanford.edu)
282 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 31, 2020 | 59 comments
28. Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect (seattletimes.com)
128 points by donsupreme on Dec 30, 2020 | 331 comments
29. Reverse-engineering an early calculator chip with four-phase logic (righto.com)
81 points by chipsa on Dec 31, 2020 | 18 comments
30. Nim in 2020: A Short Recap (nim-lang.org)
189 points by leandot on Dec 31, 2020 | 118 comments

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