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1. U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise (krebsonsecurity.com)
632 points by picture on Dec 14, 2020 | 329 comments
2. Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died (venturebeat.com)
630 points by WalterBright on Dec 14, 2020 | 338 comments
3. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain (fireeye.com)
669 points by anigbrowl on Dec 14, 2020 | 224 comments
4. Johnny.Decimal (johnnydecimal.com)
531 points by Tomte on Dec 12, 2020 | 187 comments
5. John le Carré has died (bbc.com)
344 points by 1cvmask on Dec 13, 2020 | 136 comments
6. Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence (cnn.com)
390 points by Tomte on Dec 14, 2020 | 349 comments
7. FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services (ftc.gov)
373 points by g0xA52A2A on Dec 14, 2020 | 276 comments
8. Google outage – resolved
2316 points by abluecloud on Dec 14, 2020 | 827 comments
9. Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary (typesense.org)
424 points by jabo on Dec 14, 2020 | 80 comments
10. Linux 5.10 (kernel.org)
354 points by jrepinc on Dec 14, 2020 | 143 comments
11. The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
339 points by scarybeast on Dec 14, 2020 | 130 comments
12. Coordinated disclosure of XML roundtrip vulnerabilities in Go’s standard library (mattermost.com)
223 points by jupenur on Dec 14, 2020 | 114 comments
13. Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one (nytimes.com)
330 points by IfOnlyYouKnew on Dec 13, 2020 | 215 comments
14. A Defer Mechanism for C (gustedt.wordpress.com)
187 points by panic on Dec 14, 2020 | 244 comments
15. U-2: The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace (bbc.com)
192 points by pseudolus on Dec 13, 2020 | 95 comments
16. Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (ralfj.de)
262 points by ChrisSD on Dec 14, 2020 | 133 comments
17. Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide” (privacytools.io)
456 points by freddyym on Dec 14, 2020 | 145 comments
18. Human Clock (humanclock.com)
214 points by cookingoils on Dec 14, 2020 | 55 comments
19. In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating? (aljazeera.com)
217 points by lelf on Dec 14, 2020 | 159 comments
20. Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform (capiche.fm)
122 points by awwstn on Dec 14, 2020 | 56 comments
21. Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (2015) (archive.org)
201 points by tslocum on Dec 14, 2020 | 93 comments
22. Show HN: I built a comprehensive Ark ETF tracker (cathiesark.com)
140 points by isthispermanent on Dec 14, 2020 | 86 comments
23. Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots (singularityhub.com)
278 points by Osiris30 on Dec 14, 2020 | 221 comments
24. New version of Apple-1 DIY kits start shipping (mailchi.mp)
131 points by sergpanarin on Dec 14, 2020 | 39 comments
25. How Video Works (howvideo.works)
241 points by circuit_ on Dec 14, 2020 | 25 comments
26. WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore (projectwaves.net)
179 points by ignoramous on Dec 14, 2020 | 44 comments
27. Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System (sciencealert.com)
134 points by bookofjoe on Dec 13, 2020 | 51 comments
28. Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year (reddit.com)
602 points by barry-cotter on Dec 14, 2020 | 431 comments
29. The science of addiction: Do you always like the things you want? (bbc.com)
200 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 14, 2020 | 144 comments
30. What Did the Past Smell Like? (nautil.us)
127 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2020 | 134 comments

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