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1. Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) (archive.org)
755 points by brandrick on Dec 4, 2020 | 455 comments
2. Self-host your fonts for better performance (wicki.io)
610 points by zwacky on Dec 4, 2020 | 403 comments
3. Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock (nature.com)
310 points by evo_9 on Dec 4, 2020 | 114 comments
4. Billionaires Build (paulgraham.com)
520 points by okgabr on Dec 4, 2020 | 916 comments
5. No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding (occamstypewriter.org)
369 points by jocker12 on Dec 4, 2020 | 154 comments
6. System76 – Pangolin (system76.com)
371 points by digdigdag on Dec 4, 2020 | 381 comments
7. Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy (themarkup.org)
426 points by atg_abhishek on Dec 4, 2020 | 121 comments
8. A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) (dadgum.com)
363 points by jakelazaroff on Dec 3, 2020 | 143 comments
9. Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler (fable.io)
243 points by adamnemecek on Dec 4, 2020 | 127 comments
10. Porting a 100% local app to the web (actualbudget.com)
162 points by jlongster on Dec 4, 2020 | 79 comments
11. Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid (justice.gov)
286 points by nobody9999 on Dec 3, 2020 | 117 comments
12. Stimulus.js 2.0 (stimulusjs.org)
254 points by ssaunier_ on Dec 4, 2020 | 133 comments
13. All Mersenne prime exponents below 100m tested at least once (mersenne.org)
101 points by l- on Dec 4, 2020 | 28 comments
14. EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home (dw.com)
553 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 4, 2020 | 524 comments
15. “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews” (efinancialcareers.com)
523 points by mooreds on Dec 4, 2020 | 709 comments
16. A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming (jacobzelko.com)
281 points by jerodsanto on Dec 4, 2020 | 122 comments
17. PixelNeRF Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images (alexyu.net)
212 points by choppaface on Dec 4, 2020 | 55 comments
18. About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean (docs.google.com)
526 points by yigitdemirag on Dec 4, 2020 | 573 comments
19. No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) (bloomberg.com)
147 points by singhkays on Dec 4, 2020 | 279 comments
20. Guide to Effective Reading (maartenvandoorn.nl)
201 points by accountLost on Dec 4, 2020 | 21 comments
21. How I read books: a guide on how to learn (denzhadanov.com)
238 points by ingve on Dec 3, 2020 | 141 comments
22. Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript (hierogly.ph)
127 points by herbertl on Dec 4, 2020 | 59 comments
23. Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms (wsj.com)
203 points by lxm on Dec 4, 2020 | 464 comments
24. How I Manage My Random Daily Notes (hachibu.net)
217 points by hachibu on Dec 4, 2020 | 188 comments
25. Mannequin.js: An Articulated Mannequin Figure Library (boytchev.github.io)
149 points by petercooper on Dec 4, 2020 | 16 comments
26. I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for commercial and personal use (pixeltrue.com)
325 points by andyydao on Dec 4, 2020 | 124 comments
27. Why are great athletes more likely to be younger siblings? (fivethirtyeight.com)
90 points by pajtai on Dec 3, 2020 | 68 comments
28. Peer rejection in science (nintil.com)
58 points by artir on Dec 3, 2020 | 15 comments
29. Controversial Programming Opinions (2012) (blogoverflow.com)
145 points by wagslane on Dec 4, 2020 | 328 comments
30. Project Loom and Structured Concurrency (javaadvent.com)
171 points by ingve on Dec 4, 2020 | 108 comments

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