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1. Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend (twitter.com/nandoodles)
1793 points by rbanffy on Jan 3, 2021 | 891 comments
2. ECC matters (realworldtech.com)
1053 points by rajesh-s on Jan 3, 2021 | 550 comments
3. Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks (debian.net)
696 points by wiineeth on Jan 3, 2021 | 428 comments
4. On Repl-Driven Programming (mikelevins.github.io)
394 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 3, 2021 | 206 comments
5. I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year (samplesize.one)
690 points by HuangYuSan on Jan 3, 2021 | 308 comments
6. URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies (ylukem.com)
497 points by firloop on Jan 3, 2021 | 202 comments
7. AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech (hothardware.com)
278 points by craigjb on Jan 3, 2021 | 155 comments
8. Reviving Old X Code (keithp.com)
247 points by fcambus on Jan 3, 2021 | 55 comments
9. The Toyota Production System (2013) (toyota.co.uk)
224 points by louis-paul on Jan 3, 2021 | 114 comments
10. Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App (engadget.com)
287 points by camhart on Jan 3, 2021 | 201 comments
11. How to Stop Endless Discussions (candost.blog)
344 points by candost on Jan 3, 2021 | 88 comments
12. How to open a file in Emacs: a story about Lisp, technology, and human progress (murilopereira.com)
262 points by mpereira on Jan 3, 2021 | 95 comments
13. Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app (apps.apple.com)
158 points by lupinglade on Jan 3, 2021 | 101 comments
14. The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall (hodinkee.com)
238 points by janniks on Jan 2, 2021 | 79 comments
15. What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs (brandur.org)
100 points by clra on Jan 3, 2021 | 51 comments
16. Show HN: OpenScan – open-source document scanner app (github.com/ethereal-developers-inc)
200 points by mighty3xodus on Jan 3, 2021 | 39 comments
17. Mealworms can compost styrofoam (livingearthsystems.com)
157 points by rrauenza on Jan 2, 2021 | 127 comments
18. Zig in 30 Minutes (gist.github.com)
279 points by dnautics on Jan 3, 2021 | 158 comments
19. Encrypted Backup Shootout (acha.ninja)
208 points by andrewchambers on Jan 3, 2021 | 107 comments
20. Python – Create large ZIP archives without memory inflation (github.com/buzonio)
103 points by pythonscripts2 on Jan 2, 2021 | 27 comments
21. Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor (smithsonianmag.com)
164 points by pseudolus on Jan 3, 2021 | 176 comments
22. Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (2008) (sourceforge.net)
105 points by based2 on Jan 2, 2021 | 62 comments
23. Why Clojure? (2018) (briansunter.com)
185 points by bribri on Jan 3, 2021 | 216 comments
24. How a startup can survive technical debt (andreschweighofer.com)
136 points by fidrelity on Jan 2, 2021 | 116 comments
25. 2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices (dcrainmaker.com)
227 points by dll on Jan 3, 2021 | 68 comments
26. Live Cells seen with 7x Greater Sensitivity using new Microscopy Technique (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
84 points by oedmarap on Jan 3, 2021 | 7 comments
27. A new release for GNU Octave (lwn.net)
198 points by signa11 on Jan 3, 2021 | 97 comments
28. Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal (macrumors.com)
236 points by jordigg on Jan 2, 2021 | 128 comments
29. Handtrack.js: A library for prototyping realtime hand detection in the browser (github.com/victordibia)
115 points by lazyjeff on Jan 3, 2021 | 30 comments
30. France Hits Record 19.2% EV Share in December – Up Almost 6× Year on Year (cleantechnica.com)
165 points by finphil on Jan 2, 2021 | 132 comments

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