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1. TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem (omar.website)
1400 points by thesephist on Jan 1, 2021 | 235 comments
2. California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement (ca.gov)
1317 points by supernova87a on Jan 1, 2021 | 620 comments
3. EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology (eetimes.eu)
752 points by simonpd on Jan 1, 2021 | 478 comments
4. My Experience at Apple (ex-apple-engineer.medium.com)
1602 points by limono on Jan 1, 2021 | 778 comments
5. School or Prison (schoolprison.com)
708 points by nickburlett on Jan 1, 2021 | 475 comments
6. Happy New Year HN
986 points by thunderbong on Dec 31, 2020 | 236 comments
7. Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring (lemire.me)
364 points by ingve on Jan 1, 2021 | 204 comments
8. Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store (github.com/x74353)
946 points by giuliomagnifico on Jan 1, 2021 | 648 comments
9. Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly (github.com/artichoke)
327 points by ibraheemdev on Jan 1, 2021 | 49 comments
10. Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018) (reddit.com)
539 points by zuhayeer on Jan 1, 2021 | 328 comments
11. Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration (utexas.edu)
259 points by based2 on Jan 1, 2021 | 101 comments
12. State machines are wonderful tools (nullprogram.com)
338 points by chmaynard on Jan 1, 2021 | 101 comments
13. Why do we dream? A new theory on how it protects our brains (time.com)
251 points by jdnier on Dec 31, 2020 | 129 comments
14. The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling (eleuther.ai)
223 points by leogao on Jan 1, 2021 | 60 comments
15. Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple (reason.com)
265 points by ksec on Jan 1, 2021 | 206 comments
16. Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC (jmdawson.co.uk)
192 points by jamesmd on Jan 1, 2021 | 108 comments
17. Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world (newyorker.com)
221 points by polm23 on Dec 31, 2020 | 153 comments
18. You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner (wsj.com)
227 points by wallflower on Jan 1, 2021 | 94 comments
19. The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution (twitter.com/davidfickling)
160 points by mstats on Jan 1, 2021 | 67 comments
20. Things I Didn't Learn in 2020 (damnoptimist.substack.com)
150 points by obesacantavit on Jan 1, 2021 | 76 comments
21. The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators (thea.codes)
241 points by cushychicken on Dec 31, 2020 | 81 comments
22. Google pilots a feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok, Instagram (techcrunch.com)
105 points by elsewhen on Dec 30, 2020 | 75 comments
23. Best of HN 2020 (hn.algolia.com)
191 points by richardboegli on Jan 1, 2021 | 21 comments
24. Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years (twitter.com/markpinc)
237 points by azhenley on Jan 1, 2021 | 177 comments
25. Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2 (berthub.eu)
212 points by soheilpro on Dec 31, 2020 | 32 comments
26. Eagle Cash (wikipedia.org)
137 points by enjoyyourlife on Jan 1, 2021 | 103 comments
27. How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding (andymatuschak.org)
130 points by bingden on Jan 1, 2021 | 43 comments
28. Beowulf: A New Translation (macmillan.com)
69 points by flannery on Dec 31, 2020 | 68 comments
29. MF DOOM Has Died (consequenceofsound.net)
466 points by laurex on Dec 31, 2020 | 99 comments
30. Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
262 points by rvz on Dec 31, 2020 | 430 comments

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