690
254
Being kind to others is good for your health
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-to-others-is-good-for-your-health
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685
228
Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/china-based-executive-us-telecommunications-company-charged-disrupting-video-meetings
555
249
Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/facebook_free_as_in_bullshit
518
298
Back to the '70s with Serverless
http://evrl.com/devops/cloud/2020/12/18/serverless.html
349
How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss
https://tedium.co/2020/12/15/altavista-history-digital-dot-com-domain-name
338
301
Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
https://github.com/tuhdo/tuhdo.github.io/blob/master/emacs-tutor/zen3_vs_m1.org
320
438
Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/18/cyberpunk-2077-how-2020s-biggest-video-game-launch-turned-into-a-shambles
315
128
Great American Rail Trail
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20201213-a-new-way-to-travel-across-the-us
313
353
New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retracts-hit-podcast-series-caliphate-on-isis-executioner
283
172
Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google
https://kiramclean.com/blog/how-to-set-up-your-own-nextcloud-server/
270
235
Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/18/948176807/stanford-apologizes-after-vaccine-allocation-leaves-out-nearly-all-medical-resid
252
77
9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan
https://archaeology-world.com/9000-year-old-stonehenge-like-structure-found-under-lake-michigan/
246
691
California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-california-plan-to-chase-away-the-rich-then-keep-stalking-them-11608331448
243
130
How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
https://shopify.engineering/shopify-webassembly
229
106
Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55372499
213
421
London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-19/london-put-in-emergency-lockdown-as-u-k-fights-new-virus-strain
206
22
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990)
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
192
107
No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings
https://www.capellaspace.com/no-sar-cant-see-through-buildings/
176
190
FDA grants authorization to Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine
https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/18/fda-eua-moderna-vaccine-covid19/
171
69
Nature invented play long before it invented us
http://nautil.us/issue/94/evolving/why-it-pays-to-play-around-rp
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