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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)

166 points by whoishiring on Dec 1, 2020 | 273 comments

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A case study on strict null checks (figma.com)

166 points by rudi-c on Dec 17, 2020 | 112 comments

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Learnable Programming (2012) (worrydream.com)

166 points by noyesno on Dec 7, 2020 | 48 comments

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Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads (2012) (jflevesque.com)

166 points by fctorial on Dec 16, 2020 | 28 comments

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A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition (wrongbaud.github.io)

166 points by mr_golyadkin on Dec 27, 2020 | 14 comments

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The Life in the Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable (theatlantic.com)

165 points by MrJagil on Dec 29, 2020 | 195 comments

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New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake (wsj.com)

165 points by tempsy on Dec 29, 2020 | 185 comments

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CentOS Linux is dead–and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement” (arstechnica.com)

165 points by buran77 on Dec 10, 2020 | 137 comments

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Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity Plea (theintercept.com)

165 points by ilamont on Dec 21, 2020 | 46 comments

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80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming (nme.com)

164 points by elorant on Dec 8, 2020 | 242 comments

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Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019) (bannedit.github.io)

164 points by blindm on Dec 19, 2020 | 94 comments

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US ends era of emotional support animals on planes (bbc.com)

163 points by longdefeat on Dec 3, 2020 | 245 comments

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Functional programming in C++ (2012) (gamasutra.com)

163 points by tosh on Dec 28, 2020 | 100 comments

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The Smalltalk Zoo (computerhistory.org)

163 points by fniephaus on Dec 17, 2020 | 61 comments

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Figma: The product design team’s process (figma.com)

163 points by skilled on Dec 25, 2020 | 39 comments

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$100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2 (blog.hadabot.com)

163 points by jackp510 on Dec 11, 2020 | 28 comments

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How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time (wsj.com)

162 points by wallflower on Dec 12, 2020 | 218 comments

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Pg-shortkey: YouTube-Like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys (github.com)

162 points by tosh on Dec 3, 2020 | 135 comments

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Binary Decision Diagrams (2010) (crypto.stanford.edu)

162 points by bra-ket on Dec 8, 2020 | 89 comments

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Book publishers call on Apple to match 15% commission granted to developers (ibpa-online.org)

162 points by ilamont on Dec 5, 2020 | 85 comments

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Olbers' Paradox (en.wikipedia.org)

162 points by bookofjoe on Dec 12, 2020 | 81 comments

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Porting a 100% local app to the web (actualbudget.com)

162 points by jlongster on Dec 4, 2020 | 79 comments

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Why FSF Endorsing PureOS Matters (puri.sm)

161 points by fsflover on Dec 22, 2020 | 129 comments

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Apple iCloud account and sign in outage affecting some users for over 24 hours (apple.com)

161 points by reimertz on Dec 26, 2020 | 113 comments

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UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category (abcnews.go.com)

161 points by brudgers on Dec 2, 2020 | 95 comments

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New Sauerbraten 2020 Edition Released (sauerworld.org)

161 points by silentmars on Dec 6, 2020 | 45 comments

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Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard (raymii.org)

161 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 27, 2020 | 26 comments

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The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand (onezero.medium.com)