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531
901
The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
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366
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361
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Oracle Moving HQ to Austin
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340
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328
688
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316
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295
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The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)
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Google Alternatives
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285
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Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
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We can have democracy or we can have Facebook
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EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade
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258
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How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years
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248
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Why does Linux have so much trouble sleeping and waking?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25385860
239
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Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours
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234
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1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88k [video]
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215
Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
https://brave.com/announcing-brave-today/
201
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I've designed UI Flow Cards because I couldn't find one like it
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Vftool runs Linux virtual machines in macOS Big Sur
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194
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Museum of Bad Album Covers
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192
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Monads and GATs in Nightly Rust
https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/monads-gats-nightly-rust/
177
66
Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms
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174
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Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
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74
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https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/how-and-why-to-use-lynx-the-faster-web-browser/
173
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GnuCOBOL 3.1.1
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169
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Coca-Cola named world’s worst plastic polluter for third straight year
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61
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145
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Emacs Survey 2020 Results
https://emacssurvey.org/2020/
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141
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Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700
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137
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98
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https://opensource.googleblog.com/
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Show HN: Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites
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49
Show HN: LaunchAfrica – Find startup and tech jobs in Africa
https://launchafrica.io/
126
Scientists Identified a Poisonous Gas Used by Fed Agents on Portland Protesters
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123
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The Piet-GPU Vision
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121
Implementing Rust's dbg! in Python
https://rtpg.co/2020/12/11/dbg-in-python.html
120
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Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC director says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/11/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
117
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Preact: Fast 3kb React Alternative with the Same API, Components and Virtual DOM
https://preactjs.com/
Toyota plans to be the first company to sell an EV with a solid-state battery
https://asia.nikkei.com/content/4c8b11d1c65d83d23ba9aeb11030a947
127
Almost one in five Americans may have been infected with Covid-19
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/12/10/almost-one-in-five-americans-may-have-been-infected-with-covid-19
92
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104
Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?
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101
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Experts: Evidence to support search warrant on Rebekah Jones' home flimsy
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94
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Is deep learning a new kind of programming?
http://tomasp.net/blog/2020/learning-and-programming/
90
30
Rudy Giuliani got monoclonal antibodies. You probably can’t
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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-adds-min-instances-feature-for-latency-sensitive-apps
85
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The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved