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1. Being kind to others is good for your health (bbc.com)
690 points by diminish on Dec 19, 2020 | 254 comments
2. The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil (bloomberg.com)
228 points by RyanShook on Dec 17, 2020 | 105 comments
3. Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles (theguardian.com)
320 points by helsinkiandrew on Dec 19, 2020 | 438 comments
4. Great American Rail Trail (bbc.com)
315 points by pseudolus on Dec 19, 2020 | 128 comments
5. Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square (justice.gov)
685 points by imraj96 on Dec 19, 2020 | 228 comments
6. How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss (tedium.co)
349 points by chris_f on Dec 19, 2020 | 228 comments
7. No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings (capellaspace.com)
192 points by Shelnutt2 on Dec 19, 2020 | 107 comments
8. Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack (microsoft.com)
253 points by thejj100100 on Dec 18, 2020 | 143 comments
9. How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser (shopify.engineering)
243 points by oedmarap on Dec 19, 2020 | 130 comments
10. The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1 (masswerk.at)
110 points by CharlesW on Dec 19, 2020 | 23 comments
11. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) (algorithmicbotany.org)
206 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2020 | 22 comments
12. TerraPi modular case system for Raspberry Pi supports multiple SSD's, DIN rail (cnx-software.com)
93 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 19, 2020 | 36 comments
13. Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern (qr.new)
126 points by koch on Dec 19, 2020 | 32 comments
14. 'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (2018) (macleans.ca)
154 points by well_i_never on Dec 18, 2020 | 95 comments
15. The Notation: Ken Iverson Centenary (kx.com)
84 points by 5jt on Dec 18, 2020 | 31 comments
16. Super Wood (2018) (scientificamerican.com)
78 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 18, 2020 | 46 comments
17. Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019) (bannedit.github.io)
164 points by blindm on Dec 19, 2020 | 94 comments
18. AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly (assemblyscript.org)
174 points by washclothjr on Dec 18, 2020 | 54 comments
19. 9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan (archaeology-world.com)
252 points by djsumdog on Dec 19, 2020 | 77 comments
20. Commoditize your complement (2019) (gwern.net)
128 points by harperlee on Dec 19, 2020 | 80 comments
21. Causality Is Graphically Simple (arxiv.org)
90 points by archagon on Dec 18, 2020 | 7 comments
22. Peter Saville and New Order’s Colour Code (2011) (wharferj.wordpress.com)
62 points by elvis70 on Dec 19, 2020 | 16 comments
23. FDA grants authorization to Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine (statnews.com)
176 points by wh-uws on Dec 19, 2020 | 190 comments
24. Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf] (microsoft.com)
153 points by Bootvis on Dec 18, 2020 | 44 comments
25. Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents (npr.org)
270 points by potench on Dec 19, 2020 | 235 comments
26. Facebook: Free as in Bullshit (daringfireball.net)
555 points by throw0101a on Dec 19, 2020 | 249 comments
27. That Dothraki Horde, Part III: Horse Fiddles (acoup.blog)
83 points by picture on Dec 18, 2020 | 74 comments
28. New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’ (npr.org)
313 points by RickJWagner on Dec 19, 2020 | 353 comments
29. Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online (flurly.com)
89 points by flurly on Dec 19, 2020 | 85 comments
30. Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today (hacks.mozilla.org)
69 points by feross on Dec 17, 2020 | 9 comments

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