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1. Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu (hayabusa2.jaxa.jp)
515 points by naetius on Dec 28, 2020 | 129 comments
2. 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm (intelligentliving.co)
418 points by wrycoder on Dec 27, 2020 | 389 comments
3. Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes (petapixel.com)
425 points by elorant on Dec 28, 2020 | 326 comments
4. Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library (justine.lol)
599 points by pantalaimon on Dec 28, 2020 | 166 comments
5. Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs (savebreach.com)
319 points by hackerpain on Dec 28, 2020 | 138 comments
6. FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night (reuters.com)
243 points by skanga on Dec 28, 2020 | 271 comments
7. Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone (nonpolynomial.com)
319 points by qdot76367 on Dec 28, 2020 | 128 comments
8. Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtually every person (theguardian.com)
404 points by NoRagrets on Dec 28, 2020 | 226 comments
9. Wisp: A light Lisp written in C++ (github.com/adam-mcdaniel)
140 points by azhenley on Dec 28, 2020 | 77 comments
10. The Guy I Almost Was (1998) (electricsheepcomix.com)
305 points by wallflower on Dec 27, 2020 | 203 comments
11. Noise-canceling headphones without the headphone (ieee.org)
203 points by ystad on Dec 26, 2020 | 117 comments
12. Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012) (invergo.net)
203 points by matthberg on Dec 27, 2020 | 113 comments
13. Functional programming in C++ (2012) (gamasutra.com)
163 points by tosh on Dec 28, 2020 | 100 comments
14. Show HN: Recurring reviews to track the whole lifecycle of a product (buyforlife.com)
178 points by hubraumhugo on Dec 28, 2020 | 61 comments
15. Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year (socketsite.com)
380 points by elsewhen on Dec 28, 2020 | 537 comments
16. Listen to Wikipedia (hatnote.com)
134 points by keskadale on Dec 28, 2020 | 34 comments
17. Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web (stork-search.net)
137 points by jil on Dec 27, 2020 | 33 comments
18. Show HN: Cygnus-X1 – A Thrust Vectoring Model Rocket Flight Computer (github.com/polishdude20)
124 points by polishdude20 on Dec 28, 2020 | 54 comments
19. Undocumented arm64 ISA extension present on the Apple M1 (gist.github.com)
260 points by ytch on Dec 28, 2020 | 198 comments
20. Zoomquilt 2 (2007) (zoomquilt2.com)
231 points by shlomir on Dec 28, 2020 | 63 comments
21. Implementing join planning in our open source Golang SQL query engine (dolthub.com)
105 points by zachmu on Dec 28, 2020 | 15 comments
22. Raspberry Pi PCIe Devices (jeffgeerling.com)
190 points by geerlingguy on Dec 28, 2020 | 58 comments
23. The Fight for WorldBox (reddit.com)
326 points by doppp on Dec 28, 2020 | 40 comments
24. BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima (psu.edu)
92 points by weare138 on Dec 28, 2020 | 76 comments
25. Show HN: Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust (github.com/flouthoc)
110 points by flhoc on Dec 27, 2020 | 25 comments
26. Tribes of Programming (2017) (josephg.com)
134 points by myth_drannon on Dec 28, 2020 | 57 comments
27. We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India (adinocap.com)
99 points by aramachandran7 on Dec 27, 2020 | 35 comments
28. Show HN: Tuchu – Automatically highlight the important parts of a document (tuchu.app)
90 points by heresjohnny on Dec 28, 2020 | 37 comments
29. The Hyperbezier Pen Tool (cmyr.net)
120 points by raphlinus on Dec 27, 2020 | 22 comments
30. Repairability (psankar.blogspot.com)
116 points by psankar on Dec 28, 2020 | 65 comments

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