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1.Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules (reuters.com)
657 points by EB-Barrington on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 487 comments [ext]
2.AWS CloudShell (amazon.com)
443 points by jeffbarr on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 230 comments [ext]
3.Gmail having issues (google.com)
644 points by mangoman on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 432 comments [ext]
4. How Rich Barton Turns Gossip Into Billion-Dollar Search Monopolies (kwokchain.com)
234 points by gak1654 431 days ago | hide | 59 comments
4.EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech (bbc.com)
405 points by adrian_mrd on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 319 comments [ext]
5.Firefox 84.0 (mozilla.org)
565 points by easton on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 315 comments [ext]
6.The Case of the Extra 40ms (netflixtechblog.com)
597 points by atg_abhishek on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 197 comments [ext]
7. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
7.Sponsoring Open Source Developers (cognitect.com)
322 points by puredanger on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
8.PINE64 December Update (pine64.org)
248 points by Confiks on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
9.Minimal safe Bash script template (betterdev.blog)
494 points by signa11 on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 276 comments [ext]
10. Your Suppliers Are Your Cheapest Growth Channel β€” Within Limits ()
292 points by atz2712 787 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.Shitlist Driven Development (2016) (sirupsen.com)
404 points by r4um on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
11.What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries (eigenfoo.xyz)
302 points by _eigenfoo on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
12.EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants (dw.com)
381 points by dcgudeman on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 367 comments [ext]
13. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
13.Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone (foundation.mozilla.org)
591 points by nojito on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 386 comments [ext]
14.Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact (psychnewsdaily.com)
407 points by Bologo on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 246 comments [ext]
15.SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES (shironekolabs.com)
340 points by mkeeter on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
16. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
16.I assume I’m below average (2010) (sive.rs)
376 points by enigmatic02 on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 224 comments [ext]
17.Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse (github.com/google)
217 points by MrXOR on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
18.Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform (hacks.mozilla.org)
262 points by Garbage on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
19. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
19.A newly discovered body part changes our understanding of the brain (2016) (hms.harvard.edu)
188 points by berkeleyjunk on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
20.Neverware is now part of Google (neverware.com)
172 points by jccalhoun on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
21.REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better (42papers.com)
184 points by gsvclass on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
22. Actor-critic loops and lean tools: field notes from agent builders (app.build)
357 points by foz4677 265 days ago | hide | 148 comments
22.App privacy labels now live on the App Store (developer.apple.com)
245 points by hboon on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
23.AWS Fault Injection Simulator (amazon.com)
229 points by luhn on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
24.SwiftUI tutorials rewritten completely (developer.apple.com)
243 points by Austin_Conlon on Dec 14, 2020 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
25. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 592 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies? (schneier.com)
239 points by zdw on Dec 14, 2020 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
26.Farewell, Periscope (periscope.medium.com)
147 points by minimaxir on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
27.Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year (freedom.press)
503 points by infodocket on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 493 comments [ext]
28. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 332 days ago | hide | 88 comments
28.Code Points (github.com/codepoints)
141 points by Tomte on Dec 14, 2020 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
29.Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal (signal.org)
329 points by Krasnol on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
30.A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests (bbc.com)
173 points by williamsharris on Dec 15, 2020 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
31. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments

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