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1. Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia (nikkei.com)
541 points by isof4ult on Jan 25, 2021 | 319 comments
2. PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space (unipi.it)
583 points by hbrundage on Jan 25, 2021 | 123 comments
3. Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians (somagnews.com)
382 points by JeanMarcS on Jan 25, 2021 | 130 comments
4. WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update (theguardian.com)
733 points by pseudolus on Jan 25, 2021 | 401 comments
5. Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states (uspirg.org)
313 points by CharlesW on Jan 25, 2021 | 98 comments
6. Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 (theguardian.com)
407 points by apsec112 on Jan 25, 2021 | 507 comments
7. The high price of mistrust (fs.blog)
351 points by galfarragem on Jan 25, 2021 | 269 comments
8. Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani (cbc.ca)
517 points by cf100clunk on Jan 25, 2021 | 765 comments
9. Otokichi (wikipedia.org)
262 points by Thevet on Jan 25, 2021 | 71 comments
10. Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992) (mit.edu)
307 points by dhotson on Jan 25, 2021 | 97 comments
11. Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes (openai.com)
240 points by sillysaurusx on Jan 25, 2021 | 53 comments
12. SpaceX sends laser-linked Starlinks to the polar orbit (teslaoracle.com)
242 points by CarCooler on Jan 25, 2021 | 214 comments
13. Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats (github.com/moneytoo)
618 points by moneytoo on Jan 25, 2021 | 333 comments
14. Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing
184 points by FullNameAndy on Jan 25, 2021 | 263 comments
15. Europe’s telcos want ‘open’ 5G networks (politico.eu)
265 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 25, 2021 | 77 comments
16. First atomic clock wristwatch (2003) (leapsecond.com)
201 points by dddddaviddddd on Jan 25, 2021 | 91 comments
17. Papercraft Models of Computers (rockybergen.com)
240 points by laurex on Jan 25, 2021 | 36 comments
18. Improving how we deploy GitHub (github.blog)
175 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 25, 2021 | 97 comments
19. Vancouver seaplane company to resume test flights with electric plane (cbc.ca)
195 points by seryoiupfurds on Jan 25, 2021 | 175 comments
20. Command Path Security in Go (golang.org)
136 points by pjmlp on Jan 23, 2021 | 13 comments
21. Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing (economist.com)
294 points by ashergill on Jan 25, 2021 | 352 comments
22. 5nm in the USA: TSMC's Board Approves $3.5B Fab in Arizona (tomshardware.com)
288 points by mardiyah on Jan 25, 2021 | 105 comments
23. The RustyHermit Unikernel (rust-osdev.com)
125 points by adamnemecek on Jan 24, 2021 | 28 comments
24. Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies (axios.com)
232 points by Geeek on Jan 25, 2021 | 292 comments
25. Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina (nationalgeographic.com)
116 points by longdefeat on Jan 25, 2021 | 110 comments
26. Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works” (arstechnica.com)
260 points by sytelus on Jan 24, 2021 | 564 comments
27. On the complexity of JSON serialization (2020) (einarwh.wordpress.com)
92 points by fanf2 on Jan 22, 2021 | 103 comments
28. Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf] (arxiv.org)
157 points by tanelpoder on Jan 25, 2021 | 45 comments
29. Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996) (phrack.org)
181 points by keskadale on Jan 24, 2021 | 62 comments
30. A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident (stackoverflow.blog)
226 points by alex-warren on Jan 25, 2021 | 58 comments

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