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December 2020 Archive
241.
Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
378 points by jelliclesfarm on Dec 11, 2020 | 840 comments
242.
Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity (e360.yale.edu)
378 points by thread_id on Dec 10, 2020 | 479 comments
243.
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (ourworldindata.org)
376 points by yurisagalov on Dec 1, 2020 | 624 comments
244.
Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK (bbc.co.uk)
376 points by agd on Dec 30, 2020 | 417 comments
245.
I assume I’m below average (2010) (sive.rs)
376 points by enigmatic02 on Dec 15, 2020 | 224 comments
246.
How We Built the GitHub Globe (github.blog)
376 points by scalableUnicon on Dec 30, 2020 | 101 comments
247.
HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash (twitter.com)
375 points by tosh on Dec 30, 2020 | 364 comments
248.
Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old (hystoria.100millionbooks.org)
375 points by moksha256 on Dec 9, 2020 | 97 comments
249.
A computer science study plan to become a software engineer (github.com)
374 points by sturza on Dec 16, 2020 | 216 comments
250.
FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services (ftc.gov)
373 points by g0xA52A2A on Dec 14, 2020 | 276 comments
251.
System76 – Pangolin (system76.com)
371 points by digdigdag on Dec 4, 2020 | 381 comments
252.
Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday (psychnewsdaily.com)
371 points by whx23 on Dec 16, 2020 | 208 comments
253.
No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding (occamstypewriter.org)
369 points by jocker12 on Dec 4, 2020 | 154 comments
254.
Hexagonal Grids (2013) (redblobgames.com)
368 points by siliconmountain on Dec 8, 2020 | 74 comments
255.
Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development (tech.ssut.me)
367 points by ssut on Dec 14, 2020 | 457 comments
256.
Lode Runner (filfre.net)
367 points by doppp on Dec 20, 2020 | 104 comments
257.
A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM (blogs.windows.com)
366 points by Tepix on Dec 11, 2020 | 396 comments
258.
How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (how.complexsystems.fail)
366 points by mxschumacher on Dec 27, 2020 | 83 comments
259.
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (news.mit.edu)
365 points by chmaynard on Dec 15, 2020 | 229 comments
260.
Analog TV Station on ESP8266 (github.com)
365 points by dvfjsdhgfv on Dec 7, 2020 | 73 comments
261.
Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform (vice.com)
364 points by chromosome on Dec 14, 2020 | 523 comments
262.
Voat Is Shutting Down (voat.co)
363 points by xyzzy667 on Dec 22, 2020 | 619 comments
263.
A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) (prog21.dadgum.com)
363 points by jakelazaroff on Dec 3, 2020 | 143 comments
264.
Oracle Moving HQ to Austin (sec.gov)
361 points by whatok on Dec 11, 2020 | 437 comments
265.
Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019) (steveblank.com)
361 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 21, 2020 | 360 comments
266.
Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry (vgdensetsu.tumblr.com)
361 points by tosh on Dec 8, 2020 | 71 comments
267.
It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine (theness.com)
360 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 18, 2020 | 323 comments
268.
Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs (annoying.technology)
359 points by matrixagent on Dec 16, 2020 | 317 comments
269.
The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’ (bbc.com)
359 points by sebwi on Dec 1, 2020 | 267 comments
270.
Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display (github.com)
357 points by sgroppino on Dec 29, 2020 | 129 comments