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1.Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert (bbc.co.uk)
906 points by m1 on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 493 comments [ext]
2.Email a Dumpster Fire (hey.science)
1049 points by bschne on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 326 comments [ext]
3.What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? (quora.com)
419 points by Austin_Conlon on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 220 comments [ext]
4. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
4.Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition) (kaggle.com)
357 points by tosh on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 208 comments [ext]
5.Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in (twitter.com/wolfiechristl)
981 points by ColinWright on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 436 comments [ext]
6.Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices (cybernews.com)
352 points by bmcn2020 on Nov 23, 2020 [ext] | 232 comments [ext]
7. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.You might not need machine learning (nullprogram.com)
437 points by chmaynard on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
8.US internet speeds 91% faster in 2020 according to user speed tests (fairinternetreport.com)
208 points by mootothemax on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 261 comments [ext]
9.Tips for Performant TypeScript (github.com/microsoft)
281 points by nkjoep on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
10. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
10.On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics (wondermark.com)
329 points by zdw on Nov 23, 2020 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
11.Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014) (betterexplained.com)
270 points by adamzerner on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
12.How Rainbow Tables Work (kuliukas.com)
124 points by susam on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
13. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
13.P² quantile estimator – estimating the median without storing values (aakinshin.net)
136 points by ciprian_craciun on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
14.MyNOR: Single board computer that uses a single NOR gate as its ALU (mynor.org)
232 points by sohkamyung on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
15.The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare (twitter.com/anderssandberg)
168 points by rendall on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
16. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.Progress bars still lie (utk.edu)
201 points by pavehawk2007 on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 227 comments [ext]
17.FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet (github.com/sbz)
190 points by vermaden on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
18.The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
209 points by meifun on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
19. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 601 days ago | hide | 25 comments
19.Scaleway Stardust Instances (scaleway.com)
124 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
20.Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop (expanscape.com)
193 points by 882542F3884314B on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 185 comments [ext]
21.AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (amazon.com)
118 points by soamv on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
22. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.No surprises here – On the absence of information in today’s media (turningchaos.com)
128 points by s3v on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
23.Raspberry Pi Webcam (github.com/geerlingguy)
172 points by geerlingguy on Nov 23, 2020 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
24.IHP – A Haskell web framework (github.com/digitallyinduced)
148 points by laobiz on Nov 23, 2020 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
25. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 14 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
25.Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached (ethereum.org)
271 points by leesalminen on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
26.TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005) (stuartcheshire.org)
133 points by lladnar on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
27.Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer (github.com/itsfrank)
174 points by parkertomatoes on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
28. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
28.Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (1987) (stanford.edu)
76 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
29.How to use Reddit to get your first users (spreadtheworld.net)
205 points by xavier_ on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
30.Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help (amazon.com)
492 points by carllerche on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 325 comments [ext]
31. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments

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