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1. AirPods Max (apple.com)
996 points by css on Dec 8, 2020 | 1831 comments
2. Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017) (theguardian.com)
259 points by tintinnabula on Dec 7, 2020 | 178 comments
3. Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH (cloudflare.com)
541 points by websirnik on Dec 8, 2020 | 349 comments
4. CSS in GitHub Readmes (github.com/sindresorhus)
544 points by MH15 on Dec 8, 2020 | 193 comments
5. GitHub Releases Dark Mode (github.com/settings)
700 points by m1 on Dec 8, 2020 | 251 comments
6. Chuck Yeager has died (twitter.com/genchuckyeager)
636 points by awnird on Dec 8, 2020 | 168 comments
7. AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits (twitter.com/catfish_man)
647 points by km3r on Dec 7, 2020 | 361 comments
8. CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream (centos.org)
521 points by rwky on Dec 8, 2020 | 628 comments
9. Expanding Fuchsia's open source model (googleblog.com)
387 points by tbodt on Dec 8, 2020 | 323 comments
10. The complexity of building a lie-down workstation (altwork.com)
189 points by AltworkStation on Dec 8, 2020 | 140 comments
11. Qt 6.0 (qt.io)
447 points by milliams on Dec 8, 2020 | 360 comments
12. Etsy was a twee culture punchline, now it’s a Wall Street darling (nytimes.com)
123 points by tempsy on Dec 8, 2020 | 163 comments
13. Distributed Systems Reading List (dancres.github.io)
554 points by dedalus on Dec 6, 2020 | 76 comments
14. Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard (tallahassee.com)
969 points by 8ig8 on Dec 7, 2020 | 635 comments
15. Hexagonal Grids (2013) (redblobgames.com)
368 points by siliconmountain on Dec 8, 2020 | 74 comments
16. Kafka Is Not a Database (materialize.com)
313 points by andrioni on Dec 8, 2020 | 165 comments
17. How to Escape a Sinking Ship (wired.com)
303 points by portobello on Dec 7, 2020 | 183 comments
18. FedEx and UPS hit companies with unexpected holiday shipping limits (modernretail.co)
209 points by mooreds on Dec 8, 2020 | 201 comments
19. Little Tasks, Little Trust (adamard.com)
235 points by aard on Dec 8, 2020 | 86 comments
20. ORC – Nim's new memory managment (nim-lang.org)
240 points by mratsim on Dec 8, 2020 | 34 comments
21. Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed? (psyche.co)
222 points by known on Dec 8, 2020 | 219 comments
22. We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 (terminusdb.com)
159 points by vivek9209 on Dec 8, 2020 | 246 comments
23. FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack (fireeye.com)
238 points by anigbrowl on Dec 8, 2020 | 241 comments
24. A Logarithm Too Clever by Half (2004) (eecs.berkeley.edu)
74 points by dahart on Dec 8, 2020 | 2 comments
25. The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure (outsideonline.com)
135 points by esalazar on Dec 8, 2020 | 56 comments
26. School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads (github.com/linkedin)
253 points by DarkContinent on Dec 8, 2020 | 70 comments
27. If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail (pathelland.substack.com)
178 points by kiyanwang on Dec 7, 2020 | 154 comments
28. Why nullable types? (medium.com/dartlang)
126 points by ceronman on Dec 8, 2020 | 115 comments
29. Software Design for Flexibility (mitpress.mit.edu)
109 points by jgrodziski on Dec 6, 2020 | 39 comments
30. SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf] (spacex.com)
253 points by mhb on Dec 8, 2020 | 233 comments

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