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		Stories from November 24, 2020 (UTC)
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1.		Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in (twitter.com/wolfiechristl)
		884 points by ColinWright 15 hours ago. \| hide \| 394 comments
2.		Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert (bbc.co.uk)
		755 points by m1 14 hours ago. \| hide \| 433 comments
3.		Email a Dumpster Fire (hey.science)
		839 points by bschne 10 hours ago \| hide \| 228 comments
4.		What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? (quora.com)
		364 points by Austin_Conlon 17 hours ago \| hide \| 177 comments
5.		Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices (cybernews.com)
		344 points by bmcn2020 1 day ago \| hide \| 226 comments
6.		You might not need machine learning (nullprogram.com)
		415 points by chmaynard 21 hours ago. \| hide \| 171 comments
7.		On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics (wondermark.com)
		311 points by zdw 1 day ago \| hide \| 113 comments
8.		Tips for Performant TypeScript (github.com/microsoft)
		243 points by nkjoep 14 hours ago. \| hide \| 96 comments
9.		MyNOR: Single board computer that uses a single NOR gate as its ALU (mynor.org)
		221 points by sohkamyung 23 hours ago \| hide \| 66 comments
10.		FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet (github.com/sbz)
		181 points by vermaden 18 hours ago. \| hide \| 43 comments
11.		The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
		201 points by jason_slack 16 hours ago. \| hide \| 57 comments
12.		Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help (amazon.com)
		449 points by carllerche 12 hours ago. \| hide \| 298 comments
13.		Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition) (kaggle.com)
		267 points by tosh 11 hours ago \| hide \| 155 comments
14.		Raspberry Pi Webcam (github.com/geerlingguy)
		166 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago \| hide \| 62 comments
15.		Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached (ethereum.org)
		260 points by leesalminen 1 day ago \| hide \| 230 comments
16.		Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop (expanscape.com)
		164 points by 882542F3884314B 14 hours ago \| hide \| 160 comments
17.		IHP – A Haskell web framework (github.com/digitallyinduced)
		145 points by laobiz 1 day ago. \| hide \| 39 comments
18.		How to use Reddit to get your first users (spreadtheworld.net)
		193 points by xavier_ 16 hours ago \| hide \| 128 comments
19.		Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer (github.com/itsfrank)
		168 points by parkertomatoes 23 hours ago. \| hide \| 11 comments
20.		TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005) (stuartcheshire.org)
		128 points by lladnar 1 day ago. \| hide \| 31 comments
21.		Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014) (betterexplained.com)
		208 points by adamzerner 11 hours ago. \| hide \| 22 comments
22.		What is the benefit of having FIPS hardware-level encryption on a USB stick? (stackexchange.com)
		258 points by personjerry 20 hours ago \| hide \| 167 comments
23.		Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how (wired.co.uk)
		192 points by ingve 19 hours ago \| hide \| 104 comments
24.		No surprises here – On the absence of information in today’s media (turningchaos.com)
		99 points by s3v 12 hours ago \| hide \| 61 comments
25.		Is carbon capture a viable solution? (thedetechtor.com)
		104 points by scottbucks 20 hours ago \| hide \| 318 comments
26.		How Rainbow Tables Work (kuliukas.com)
		83 points by susam 11 hours ago. \| hide \| 19 comments
27.		Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
		283 points by eznzt 18 hours ago \| hide \| 105 comments
28.		The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare (twitter.com/anderssandberg)
		110 points by rendall 15 hours ago. \| hide \| 78 comments
29.		P² quantile estimator – estimating the median without storing values (aakinshin.net)
		95 points by ciprian_craciun 11 hours ago. \| hide \| 37 comments
30.		The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation (epsilontheory.com)
		245 points by erentz 10 hours ago \| hide \| 88 comments
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