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December 2020 Archive
1711.
Kit-Kat Xclock (github.com)
70 points by 29athrowaway on Dec 24, 2020 | 16 comments
1712.
Essentials of Compilation (github.com)
70 points by swatson741 on Dec 21, 2020 | 6 comments
1713.
Sin and Siege: The End of the Crusades (historytoday.com)
70 points by gofiggy on Dec 3, 2020 | 3 comments
1714.
Facebook to police anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White (washingtonpost.com)
69 points by burnthrow on Dec 3, 2020 | 81 comments
1715.
Talk about “AI” in the press these days tends to conflate two things (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)
69 points by luu on Dec 12, 2020 | 77 comments
1716.
Beowulf: A New Translation (us.macmillan.com)
69 points by flannery on Dec 31, 2020 | 68 comments
1717.
Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2 (nature.com)
69 points by divbzero on Dec 10, 2020 | 58 comments
1718.
John Urschel tackles his lifelong balance of math and football in new memoir (news.mit.edu)
69 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 19, 2020 | 48 comments
1719.
Binary Search Reconsidered (2018) (solipsys.co.uk)
69 points by tomcam on Dec 25, 2020 | 48 comments
1720.
What Happened In 2020 (avc.com)
69 points by pixelmonkey on Dec 31, 2020 | 47 comments
1721.
Snebu – Simple Network Encrypting Backup Utility (snebu.com)
69 points by derekp7 on Dec 27, 2020 | 40 comments
1722.
SEC filed an emergency action against Silicon Sage Builders for securities fraud (sec.gov)
69 points by chmaynard on Dec 21, 2020 | 17 comments
1723.
Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today (hacks.mozilla.org)
69 points by feross on Dec 17, 2020 | 9 comments
1724.
Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for you in 2020 (blog.mozilla.org)
68 points by joeyespo on Dec 30, 2020 | 104 comments
1725.
Ask HN: How did Apple manage to create such a better chip than Intel?
68 points by aarkay on Dec 11, 2020 | 81 comments
1726.
High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python WebSockets (mortoray.com)
68 points by ingve on Dec 5, 2020 | 56 comments
1727.
Are you a “harbinger of failure”? (2015) (news.mit.edu)
68 points by traumivator on Dec 31, 2020 | 51 comments
1728.
Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies (twitter.com)
68 points by jdkee on Dec 15, 2020 | 35 comments
1729.
64-bit RISC-V core claims 10x better CoreMarks/Watt compared to other 3-5GHz CPU (linuxgizmos.com)
68 points by vanburen on Dec 3, 2020 | 34 comments
1730.
Chemicals in Plastic Waste Are Killing Us (smosa.com)
68 points by buddhacobbler on Dec 19, 2020 | 18 comments
1731.
An Update on PromQL Compatibility Across Vendors (promlabs.com)
68 points by jrv on Dec 1, 2020 | 12 comments
1732.
PicoLisp Chess (software-lab.de)
68 points by simonpure on Dec 21, 2020 | 12 comments
1733.
‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states (princeton.edu)
68 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 20, 2020 | 10 comments
1734.
Original CentOS founder intends to create new fork of RHEL (rockylinux.org)
68 points by bluedays on Dec 9, 2020 | 8 comments
1735.
Turning vaguely reassuring finite-state machines into regular expressions (qntm.org)
68 points by Ivoah on Dec 21, 2020 | 6 comments
1736.
Andrew Yang Leads in NYC Mayoral Race (youtube.com)
68 points by Circumnavigate on Dec 9, 2020 | 3 comments
1737.
Peertube 3.0-rc1 released, with P2P livestreaming (joinpeertube.org)
68 points by MayeulC on Dec 17, 2020 | 3 comments
1738.
A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ (thephd.github.io)
67 points by ingve on Dec 5, 2020 | 110 comments
1739.
Big Tech is getting cozy with computer science departments (the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com)
67 points by tchalla on Dec 3, 2020 | 98 comments
1740.
Havana syndrome: 'directed' radio frequency likely cause of illness (theguardian.com)
67 points by tomduncalf on Dec 6, 2020 | 76 comments