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1. A half-hour to learn Rust (fasterthanli.me)
1444 points by selvan on Jan 2, 2021 | 330 comments
2. Open Source Smartwatch (pine64.org)
701 points by sytelus on Jan 2, 2021 | 246 comments
3. Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera (petapixel.com)
753 points by dheera on Jan 2, 2021 | 95 comments
4. WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history (github.com/microsoft)
614 points by delduca on Jan 2, 2021 | 408 comments
5. How to overcome Phone Addiction (cognitiontoday.com)
742 points by Shred77 on Jan 2, 2021 | 297 comments
6. US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies (independent.co.uk)
554 points by gscott on Jan 2, 2021 | 305 comments
7. Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company (reuters.com)
369 points by elsewhen on Jan 2, 2021 | 229 comments
8. Horrifying PDF Experiments (github.com/osnr)
493 points by thesephist on Jan 2, 2021 | 180 comments
9. Pixar's Render Farm (twitter.com/pixprin)
382 points by brundolf on Jan 2, 2021 | 310 comments
10. The Yale Manual for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy of Depression (psyarxiv.com)
335 points by say_it_as_it_is on Jan 2, 2021 | 62 comments
11. Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps (bedogged.substack.com)
260 points by liotier on Jan 2, 2021 | 227 comments
12. Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why (medium.com/lukehollomon)
287 points by riffraff on Dec 31, 2020 | 61 comments
13. Getting Started in Robotics (allshire.org)
280 points by networdtwo on Jan 2, 2021 | 61 comments
14. Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements) (raymii.org)
241 points by jandeboevrie on Jan 2, 2021 | 120 comments
15. CVE Stuffing (jerrygamblin.com)
290 points by CapacitorSet on Jan 2, 2021 | 102 comments
16. Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth (thedrive.com)
247 points by NaOH on Jan 1, 2021 | 96 comments
17. 50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon (if50.substack.com)
152 points by homarp on Jan 2, 2021 | 51 comments
18. F# for fun and profit: Terms and Conditions (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
209 points by cratermoon on Jan 2, 2021 | 52 comments
19. How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out (plover.com)
234 points by signa11 on Jan 2, 2021 | 80 comments
20. What’s Entering Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby, Music by Duke Ellington (openculture.com)
219 points by danso on Jan 1, 2021 | 71 comments
21. Peter M. Neumann has died (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
141 points by furcyd on Jan 2, 2021 | 18 comments
22. Setting up personal OKR (objectives and key-results) (hackpravj.com)
161 points by pravj on Jan 2, 2021 | 92 comments
23. Best Paper Awards in Computer Science in the Past 25 Years (1996-2020) (jeffhuang.com)
142 points by lazyjeff on Jan 2, 2021 | 11 comments
24. Some of my favorite systems research reads from 2020 (twitter.com/marcjbrooker)
100 points by luu on Dec 31, 2020 | 2 comments
25. The Great Software Stagnation (alarmingdevelopment.org)
276 points by azhenley on Jan 1, 2021 | 299 comments
26. Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues (atlassian.com)
419 points by dmitriid on Jan 2, 2021 | 293 comments
27. Koan: A word2vec negative sampling implementation with correct CBOW update (github.com/bloomberg)
88 points by polm23 on Jan 2, 2021 | 20 comments
28. One Year of Excalidraw (excalidraw.com)
154 points by 0xedb on Jan 1, 2021 | 19 comments
29. When Birds Migrated to the Moon (mitpress.mit.edu)
64 points by pshaw on Jan 2, 2021 | 15 comments
30. A Simple and Dynamic Method for Consistent Productivity (matthewsaltz.wordpress.com)
122 points by msaltz on Jan 2, 2021 | 30 comments

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