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After Apple, Samsung is reportedly working on an AirTag rival to help find your stuff

Micro Magic RISC-V Core Claims to Beat Apple M1 and Arm Cortex-A9

DevRelOMeter

QEMU Advent Calendar 2020

AWS Announces macOS on EC2

ARM and Lock-Free Programming

I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog

Csidh Reference Implementation

Write your own arbitrary-precision JavaScript math library

The Covid Science Wars

Pixar's Universal Scene Description Now on Pypi

Purpose-First Programming

Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory

Why do I care the open web is dying?

Vitamin D Insufficiency May Account for Almost 90% of Covid-19 Deaths

LuckysheetServer – Google Sheets-like realtime collaborative spreadsheet

Dijkstra Was Wrong About 'Radical Novelty'

South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at 100M degrees Celsius

Why Concatenative Programming Matters (2012)

[ASAP] Modulation of Amyloidogenic Protein Self-Assembly Using Tethered Small Molecules

[ASAP] DNA G-Quadruplex and i-Motif Structure Formation Is Interdependent in Human Cells

Raytracing in One Weekend (2016)

Rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest

The Truth About Starting a Startup

The futuristic cargo ship made of wood

“You have to watch this interview where Mike Tyson talks about medieval history”

The long-term impacts COVID-19 will have on startups seeking capital

Show HN: Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design

Spotify’s Stories should feature music suggestions, not artists’ video messages

Add variables to Python traceback

Why I’m Losing Hope in India

Keep Data Consistency During Database Migration

Interpretability in Machine Learning: An Overview

“Accentism” is real, but impossible to end

Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring many roles to make medicine more affordable

Show HN: Dicom Medical Image Library in Go (v1.0.0)

A System to Transparently Compress Hundreds of Petabytes of Image

Recruiters and Human Traffickers

Console Living Room

Notation as a Tool of Thought

Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

Show HN: Luciex – A small simplistic state management library

William S Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll by Casey Rae Review

It’s time to remove news from Facebook and Google

Why I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator

Advent of Code 2020

Roblox pays 26% of its revenue to Apple/Google for payment processing

Dave Prowse: Darth Vader actor dies aged 85

Dave Prowse: Darth Vader actor dies aged 85

Flexport is hiring 50 engineers in Amsterdam in 2021

Raspberry Pi Used to Hack Tesla Model X

Paving the Way for Electronic Organs-on-a-Chip

Undeleting a file overwritten with mv

Made my personal site into a desktop environment

Moths draped in stealth acoustic cloak evade bat sonar

Metal Monolith in Utah Gone

Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

Lysol Is Making More Sanitizer Than Ever. In Pandemic America, It’s Not Enough

Darkest Days for Indian Democracy

McKinsey: Friendly Neighborhood Spreadsheet Sociopaths Are Back in Town

The Donut King who went full circle – from rags to riches, twice

Melting ice patch in Norway reveals large collection of ancient arrows

Scion EPIC: a path-aware clean-slate internet architecture

Video game lets you do nothing in particular in a suburban Russian tower block

The NoJS Club

Isetta: Writing a Game Engine from Scratch

Fingerprinting

How to Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding

Openstreetmap Foundation board election: manifestos, official questions answers

AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock

Nipkow Disk

DeepSource (YC W20) Is Looking for a Director of Marketing

Show HN: NFreezer – Encrypted-at-rest remote backup tool

The Unix Command Language (First ever paper published on the Unix shell) (1976)

Overview of Serialization Technologies (2018) [pdf]

RipTable – multi-threaded Python data analytics tools for numpy arrays/datasets

Life on the inside as a ‘locked-in’ patient

Tony Hsieh Has Died

K6 is “like unit testing, for performance”

Deciphering Chopin’s shorthand in the posthumous Mazurka in F minor (2018)

How to Protect Your DNA Data Before and After Taking an At-Home Test

Just Solve the File Format Problem

Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity

The case of the missing dark matter: new suspect found in galactic mystery

[ASAP] Boron Carbon Nitride Thin Films: From Disordered to Ordered Conjugated Ternary Materials

[ASAP] Multifunctional Integrated Compartment Systems for Incompatible Cascade Reactions Based on Onion-Like Photonic Spheres

McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses

How to Live to the Full While Dying: The Diary of Alice James (2017)

R number for UK below 1 for first time since August

Htmx 1.0.0 Release

Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting

Continuous Bernoulli distribution of Variational autoencoders

I built the Long Leaf Pine Slate, and you can too

Acoustic Survey of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame Before and After the Fire of 2019

YouTuber gets cease and desist notice for video showing how to make cheese

What the hell is the Pomodoro Technique and why is it good for productivity?

DIY Smart Doorbell with a Raspberry Pi

What I Learned About UX Writing from a British Prog Drummer and David Lynch

Thank You Dang

What would happen if computers never got any faster?

Hacker News over Gemini

Turning the Body into a Wire

Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

Filesystem and Database are not cutting the problem space right

Five Second Feedback

66 Winning Lottery Tickets. $6.3M. What’s Up with Group’s Winning Streak?

Psiloscoby: Psilocybin Brewed by Kombucha

Dear Mozilla: Why Thunderbird 78.x is both great and awful (PGP)

Show HN: Modernizing Legacy Computer Systems

A look at Chang’e 5 telemetry

Pandoc for TeXnicians [pdf]

How to Load Fonts in a Way That Fights FOUT and Makes Lighthouse Happy

People Can't Vacuum or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon's Servers Are Down

Reasoning about Colors

Metal for IntelliJ Platform

GiftGenius – An Artificial Intelligence Gift Concierge Built on GPT-3

Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong

The Yup’ik art of sewing feather-lined parkas for babies

NYT planning to publish a negative story about Coinbase

Two Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Were Most Likely Stolen

I Spent 11 Years Working on This Line Rider Track

Conway's Life and generative music (1997)

The Origin of the Shell

How the Once Elusive Dream of Laser Weapons Suddenly Became a Reality

Covid pushes Asia to embrace big government

[ASAP] Phenylalanine Mutation to Cyclohexylalanine Facilitates Triangular Trimer Formation by β-Hairpins Derived from Aβ

[ASAP] Copper-Catalyzed Formal Dehydrogenative Coupling of Carbonyls with Polyfluoroarenes Leading to β-C–H Arylation

[ASAP] Catalytic Oxidative Deamination by Water with H2 Liberation

[ASAP] An Integrated Electrochemistry Approach to the Design and Synthesis of Polyhedral Noble Metal Nanoparticles

[ASAP] Reciprocal Coupling in Chemically Fueled Assembly: A Reaction Cycle Regulates Self-Assembly and Vice Versa

[ASAP] Oxidative Damage of Tryptophan Hydroxylase-2 Mediated by Peroxisomal Superoxide Anion Radical in Brains of Mouse with Depression

[ASAP] Solvent Choice in Metal–Organic Framework Linker Exchange Permits Microstructural Control

[ASAP] Rationally Designed Redox-Active Au(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene: An Immunogenic Cell Death Inducer

[ASAP] Insertion of Alkylidene Carbenes into B–H Bonds

Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management

Technology as It Should Be – Purism

A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’

How fast does interpolation search converge?

When Einstein Tilted at Windmills

Show HN: I made a simple tool to sell your services on a subscription basis

Android might separate emoji from OS updates so you can get new ones faster

We need the wolf

An API is a user interface

How the U.S. Used Disinformation and the 'Jakarta Method' to Change the World

AMD laptops have a hidden 10-second performance delay

How Copart Is Making a Billion Dollars from a Junkyard

Watch how a dangerous air pollutant dropped during Covid-19 in NASA video

How to Run a Database on AWS with Better Performance and Lower Cost

Preserving endangered languages with Noto fonts

Remember when you could reboot your computer without rebooting your phone first?

Using Emojis in Mathematical Notation

Snapchat is ripping off TikTok — the cycle is now complete