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Surprise! Beer cans are less polluting than glass bottles

Raycast (YC W20) is hiring to make developers more productive

The Wonderful Uses of Asbestos (1942) [video]

The economics of the human hair trade

Yamaha’s DX7 synthesiser changed modern music

Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution

The largest dam-removal in US history

Beowulf: A New Translation

TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains

Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)

Best of HN 2020

Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World

How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators

Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2

Are you a “harbinger of failure”? (2015)

When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers'

How a tiny mutant worm is helping find a cure for a rare form of cancer

UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

Software Freedom Conservancy: ContractPatch: Everything Is Negotiable

Tesla Short Sellers Lost $38B in 2020 as Stock Surged

Being bilingual makes swearing easier

Woolly Rhino from Ice Age Unearthed in Russian Arctic

Kids who head soccer balls are more likely to develop dementia, neurologists say

Linux Hardening Guide

Firefox not planning on supporting PWA

Tesla Service Centers Are Preventing Delivery Refusals in Weird Ways

LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

Professor Donald Knuth on Writing and More, an Interview [pdf]

Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon, Other Conspiracy Theories

Well, Actually. 10 Physics Answers

How to become a (more) senior developer

Show HN: AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples

Shortformer: Better Language Modeling using Shorter Inputs [pdf]

Distilleries that made hand sanitizer charged $14k surprise fee by FDA

[ASAP] Enantioselective Alkylamination of Unactivated Alkenes under Copper Catalysis

[ASAP] Caught in Action. The Late Rare Earths Thulium and Lutetium Substituting Aluminum Atoms in the Structure of Ca14AlBi11

[ASAP] Crystal Lattice Design of H2O-Tolerant n-Type Semiconducting Dianionic Naphthalenediimide Derivatives

[ASAP] Accelerating Post-SELEX Aptamer Engineering Using Exonuclease Digestion

RIP Arecibo telescope — you’ll be missed

Show HN: Diffgram – Human Supervision of AI Data

HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash

Talk Less, Listen More

Uber will charge 25% starting Jan. 1 in Seattle as per minimum wage law

Contributing Without Code

Show HN: I built a virtual concert venue for artists

Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js

These Tech Companies Aren't Adjusting Pay When Employees Relocate

Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago

An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project

GoDaddy has allegedly been socially engineered, problem still ongiong?

Why Bitcoin Could Be Banned or Criminalized in the Coming Years

In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops

Lying to Bill Gates to get the Xbox project approved

[ASAP] Pd-Modified ZnO–Au Enabling Alkoxy Intermediates Formation and Dehydrogenation for Photocatalytic Conversion of Methane to Ethylene

[ASAP] Ultrafast Synthesis of Silica-Based Molecular Sieve Membranes in Dielectric Barrier Discharge at Low Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure

[ASAP] Bacterial Redox Potential Powers Controlled Radical Polymerization

[ASAP] Asymmetric Markovnikov Hydroaminocarbonylation of Alkenes Enabled by Palladium-Monodentate Phosphoramidite Catalysis

[ASAP] General Light-Mediated, Highly Diastereoselective Piperidine Epimerization: From Most Accessible to Most Stable Stereoisomer

[ASAP] 4CzIPN-Bu-Catalyzed Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer for Photosynthesis of Phosphorylated -Heteroaromatics

[ASAP] Conformational Plasticity in Human Heme-Based Dioxygenases

[ASAP] Isolation of a Ge(I) Diradicaloid and Dihydrogen Splitting

Cities are betting big on smart streetlights — 23% will be connected by 2030

Apple loses copyright claims in lawsuit against U.S. security bug startup

Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology

Learn 3D Computer Graphics Programming from Scratch

Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

Voxon hologram volumetric display (2019)

A Brief Global History of the War on Cannabis

Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?

Elie Metchnikoff, the Man and the Myth (2016)

NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy

Hate Your Job

Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories

DocWriter: Typewriter that sends its keystrokes to a Google Doc (2017)

A Beginner's Guide to Houseplants

[ASAP] Kinetically Controlled Synthesis of Pd–Cu Janus Nanocrystals with Enriched Surface Structures and Enhanced Catalytic Activities toward CO2 Reduction

[ASAP] Dynamic Kinetic Cross-Electrophile Arylation of Benzyl Alcohols by Nickel Catalysis

[ASAP] Chemo-physical Strategies to Advance the Functionality of Targeted Nanomedicine: The Next Generation