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1. WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app (arstechnica.com)
2254 points by erwinmatijsen on Jan 6, 2021 | 1148 comments
2. No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees (sahillavingia.com)
1329 points by sahillavingia on Jan 7, 2021 | 517 comments
3. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I (rosenzweig.io)
552 points by caution on Jan 7, 2021 | 142 comments
4. Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
1004 points by ColinWright on Jan 7, 2021 | 945 comments
5. Simple Bank Is Closing (oregonlive.com)
512 points by roberto8647 on Jan 7, 2021 | 599 comments
6. Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump (facebook.com)
953 points by jaredwiener on Jan 7, 2021 | 1293 comments
7. Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video] (bbc.com)
478 points by etimberg on Jan 7, 2021 | 251 comments
8. The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours (twitter.com/twittersafety)
678 points by edward on Jan 7, 2021 | 1144 comments
9. A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown (phoronix.com)
285 points by zdw on Jan 6, 2021 | 121 comments
10. A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for Capitol IT (twitter.com/jacobian)
316 points by rmason on Jan 7, 2021 | 167 comments
11. DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy (cnbc.com)
305 points by Lapz on Jan 7, 2021 | 120 comments
12. Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE (thonny.org)
313 points by nine_k on Jan 7, 2021 | 102 comments
13. Epic acquires RAD Game Tools (epicgames.com)
262 points by jsheard on Jan 7, 2021 | 186 comments
14. Traffic Simulator (traffic-simulation.de)
542 points by eecc on Jan 7, 2021 | 140 comments
15. CVE-2021-3011: Key recovery on Google Titan Key (ninjalab.io)
237 points by hexa- on Jan 7, 2021 | 80 comments
16. Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach (twitter.com/neurovagrant)
378 points by ytpete on Jan 7, 2021 | 505 comments
17. Show HN: v8-riscv — Port of JavaScript V8 engine to RISC-V (github.com/v8-riscv)
123 points by partingshots on Jan 6, 2021 | 54 comments
18. Shooting photos with an IMAX projector lens (theslantedlens.com)
173 points by dmitrygr on Jan 7, 2021 | 63 comments
19. Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011) (damninteresting.com)
185 points by vinnyglennon on Jan 6, 2021 | 110 comments
20. Show HN: I built an intercom for my 6 yo to keep us connected during quarantine (chordata.cc)
181 points by daylankifky on Jan 7, 2021 | 123 comments
21. Show HN: Leet Resumes – a free technical resume-writing service (leetresumes.com)
147 points by mcenedella on Jan 7, 2021 | 109 comments
22. OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy (github.com/dslul)
192 points by mikepechadotcom on Jan 7, 2021 | 151 comments
23. Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research (datacolada.org)
161 points by snakeboy on Jan 5, 2021 | 120 comments
24. I Replaced Baremetrics and ChartMogul with Rake (keygen.sh)
99 points by ezekg on Jan 5, 2021 | 38 comments
25. Donate to Signal (signal.org)
458 points by nanna on Jan 7, 2021 | 145 comments
26. New hard disk write head analytical technology can increase hard disk capacities (tohoku.ac.jp)
94 points by XzetaU8 on Jan 7, 2021 | 51 comments
27. M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports (caldigit.com)
219 points by juliangamble on Jan 7, 2021 | 260 comments
28. Exotic List Monads (haskell.org)
88 points by curryhoward on Jan 6, 2021 | 25 comments
29. Codebreaking: A Practical Guide (codebreaking-guide.com)
104 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Jan 6, 2021 | 4 comments
30. Decoding the Peloton (ihaque.org)
162 points by _ihaque on Jan 6, 2021 | 115 comments

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