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1. This website has 81% battery power remaining (lowtechmagazine.com)
1225 points by behnamoh on Dec 12, 2021 | 351 comments
2. The Matrix Is Unreal (fxguide.com)
492 points by vblanco on Dec 12, 2021 | 226 comments
3. Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source (andrewducker.dreamwidth.org)
534 points by AndrewDucker on Dec 12, 2021 | 135 comments
4. Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice (commoncog.com)
414 points by rbanffy on Dec 12, 2021 | 126 comments
5. Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging (japantimes.co.jp)
484 points by olalonde on Dec 12, 2021 | 357 comments
6. Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive (science.org)
281 points by chriskanan on Dec 12, 2021 | 129 comments
7. The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem (audubon.org)
336 points by axiomdata316 on Dec 12, 2021 | 206 comments
8. Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS (hammerspoon.org)
272 points by gurjeet on Dec 12, 2021 | 80 comments
9. Old CSS, New CSS (2020) (eev.ee)
284 points by pferde on Dec 12, 2021 | 97 comments
10. Fredrik Lundh has died (lwn.net)
364 points by fghorow on Dec 12, 2021 | 48 comments
11. Predict civilization collapse with Python and World3 model (github.com/cvanwynsberghe)
159 points by maremmano on Dec 12, 2021 | 133 comments
12. Apple’s Newest OLED Supplier (asianometry.substack.com)
183 points by type0 on Dec 12, 2021 | 148 comments
13. Arkham Quixote (2020) (sherief.fyi)
183 points by G4E on Dec 12, 2021 | 18 comments
14. Sending SMS Messages Through the ISS (2020) (kj7nzl.net)
169 points by squidhunter on Dec 12, 2021 | 18 comments
15. Win-Vind: Become an instant ninja in operating Windows at the speed of thought (github.com/pit-ray)
163 points by philonoist on Dec 12, 2021 | 35 comments
16. Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer (gpsoft.com.au)
126 points by doener on Dec 12, 2021 | 78 comments
17. Right-to-Left Styling 101 (rtlstyling.com)
155 points by john-doe on Dec 10, 2021 | 27 comments
18. Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?
445 points by LightG on Dec 12, 2021 | 338 comments
19. We check our node_modules folder into source control (jackfranklin.co.uk)
147 points by davidbarker on Dec 11, 2021 | 235 comments
20. Drop-In Replacement for Memcached (memc.rs)
143 points by mfrw on Dec 12, 2021 | 87 comments
21. Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues (science.org)
108 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Dec 11, 2021 | 98 comments
22. The HoTT Game (homotopytypetheory.org)
96 points by VitalyAnkh on Dec 9, 2021 | 12 comments
23. Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling programming courses (alterclass.io)
117 points by gdangelo on Dec 12, 2021 | 69 comments
24. Signal Identification Guide (sigidwiki.com)
103 points by fortran77 on Dec 12, 2021 | 6 comments
25. Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
382 points by vixalien on Dec 12, 2021 | 489 comments
26. CP/M Source Code (z80.de)
106 points by kristopolous on Dec 12, 2021 | 32 comments
27. Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis (reuters.com)
288 points by 1cvmask on Dec 11, 2021 | 336 comments
28. Pooping hippos create ‘community guts’ in African ponds (science.org)
94 points by rbanffy on Dec 10, 2021 | 36 comments
29. CISA Director on Log4j Vulnerability (cisa.gov)
119 points by panarky on Dec 12, 2021 | 81 comments
30. Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic (itu.int)
113 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 12, 2021 | 90 comments

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