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Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
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642
419
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531
901
The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-youtube-ban-is-un-american-wrong
366
396
A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-21277/
361
437
Oracle Moving HQ to Austin
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000156459020056896/orcl-10q_20201130.htm
340
161
The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
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336
78
How the Python object system works
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328
688
Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max
https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/heavy_is_the_head_that_wears_the_airpods_max
316
178
Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser
https://www.cypress.io/
308
241
Elon Musk Decries ‘M.B.A.-ization’ of America
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-decries-m-b-a-ization-of-america-11607548589
295
149
The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/
287
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Google Alternatives
https://justprivacy.org/google-alternatives/
285
22
Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
https://datasette.io/
283
502
We can have democracy or we can have Facebook
https://the.ink/p/we-can-have-democracy-or-we-can-have
270
255
Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants
https://www.fastcompany.com/90584382/slack-salesforce-antitrust
263
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EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/eu-leaders-reach-deal-to-cut-emissions-by-at-least-55-by-end-of-decade
258
107
How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years
https://cloak.ist/blog/how-i-got-to-9-99-mrr-after-7-years/
248
271
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
https://www.thedrive.com/news/38032/the-50k-electric-monarch-tractor-can-plow-a-field-without-you-and-run-for-10-hours
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
54
I've designed UI Flow Cards because I couldn't find one like it
https://flowcards.io/
195
86
Vftool runs Linux virtual machines in macOS Big Sur
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
194
109
Museum of Bad Album Covers
http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/index.htm
192
171
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
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485
174
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Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
https://dyno-might.github.io/2020/12/09/sales-tax-creates-more-unnecessary-pain-than-value-added-tax/
74
How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/how-and-why-to-use-lynx-the-faster-web-browser/
173
225
GnuCOBOL 3.1.1
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/code/HEAD/tree/branches/gnucobol-3.x/NEWS
169
102
Coca-Cola named world’s worst plastic polluter for third straight year
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coca-cola-plastic-pollution-nestle-pepsico-b1767370.html
163
28
$100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2
https://blog.hadabot.com/ros2-nav2-go-to-goal-low-cost-robot-kit.html
61
How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-busy-beaver-game-illuminates-the-fundamental-limits-of-math-20201210/
145
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Emacs Survey 2020 Results
https://emacssurvey.org/2020/
144
138
The Rise and Fall of Ambrosia Software (2019)
https://lifeandtimes.games/episodes/files/pax-aus-19-ambrosia-sw-talk
Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company in departure notes
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving
141
125
Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/it-still-runs-on-your-imagination-passing-2020-time-with-a-macintosh-quadra-700/
137
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Airbnb’s Stunning IPO
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/business/dealbook/airbnb-ipo-chesky.html
98
Finding Critical Open Source Projects
https://opensource.googleblog.com/
133
44
Show HN: Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites
https://github.com/getmeli/meli
129
56
Self-victimhood is a personality type, researchers find
https://reason.com/2020/12/10/tendency-for-interpersonal-victimhood-trauma-research-study-trigger/
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
https://futurehuman.medium.com/scientists-identified-a-green-poisonous-gas-used-by-federal-agents-on-portland-protesters-5b56ac20a624
123
38
The Piet-GPU Vision
https://github.com/linebender/piet-gpu/blob/master/doc/vision.md
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
50
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
Encryption Lava Lamps (2017)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps
104
Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381191
101
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Experts: Evidence to support search warrant on Rebekah Jones' home flimsy
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94
60
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/opinion/coronavirus-giuliani-regeneron.html
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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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Major browsers are getting hit in widespread malware attacks
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/ongoing-malware-attacks-are-hitting-users-of-4-major-browsers/