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31. He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man (nj.com)
259 points by sharkweek on Dec 28, 2020 | 174 comments
32. Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering (c0de517e.blogspot.com)
128 points by Koiwai on Dec 28, 2020 | 185 comments
33. How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 (servethehome.com)
196 points by tambourine_man on Dec 28, 2020 | 211 comments
34. Osmocom icE1usb: Open hardware USB E1/T1 adapter (osmocom.org)
42 points by pabs3 on Dec 28, 2020 | 21 comments
35. Show HN: Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts (github.com/archivy)
144 points by etherio on Dec 27, 2020 | 21 comments
36. ITX Motherboard with an Elbrus CPU (jmdawson.co.uk)
118 points by jamesmd on Dec 28, 2020 | 91 comments
37. Dialup: Serendipitous Voice Chat (dialup.com)
99 points by hliyan on Dec 28, 2020 | 23 comments
38. “It Turns Out” (2010) (jsomers.net)
122 points by thesephist on Dec 28, 2020 | 29 comments
39. HN Alternative UIs (luke.lol)
158 points by lgats on Dec 28, 2020 | 109 comments
40. Britain’s electricity since 2010: fossil fuel use nearly halves (theconversation.com)
104 points by zeristor on Dec 28, 2020 | 92 comments
41. Build your own async primitive (tweedegolf.nl)
51 points by lukastyrychtr on Dec 27, 2020 | 14 comments
42. 10 KB Club: With links to popular HN, Reddit, Lobsters threads for each website (10kbclub.com)
123 points by susam on Dec 28, 2020 | 48 comments
43. New Haskell Foundation to Foster Haskell Adoption, Raises 200k USD (infoq.com)
160 points by antouank on Dec 27, 2020 | 157 comments
44. Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002) (nakamotoinstitute.org)
79 points by noch on Dec 28, 2020 | 28 comments
45. A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover (jiggerwit.wordpress.com)
67 points by oli5679 on Dec 27, 2020 | 11 comments
46. Life After Eroom’s Law (refoundable.com)
55 points by apsec112 on Dec 27, 2020 | 41 comments
47. Wordpress market share keeps growing (w3techs.com)
118 points by mg on Dec 28, 2020 | 122 comments
48. Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by recruiters (ghostreply.com)
225 points by GeeRep on Dec 28, 2020 | 249 comments
49. Convicted Copyright Troll Lawyer Reboots Pirate Honeypot Scheme from Prison (torrentfreak.com)
102 points by cf100clunk on Dec 28, 2020 | 45 comments
50. The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System (lynalden.com)
113 points by graderjs on Dec 28, 2020 | 17 comments
51. PaSh: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing (arxiv.org)
47 points by matt_d on Dec 28, 2020 | 6 comments
52. Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time (lukashermann.dev)
223 points by _antix on Dec 28, 2020 | 74 comments
53. Chinese Demography (noahpinion.substack.com)
80 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 28, 2020 | 169 comments
54. A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to Track User Locations (techdirt.com)
91 points by elorant on Dec 28, 2020 | 14 comments
55. A Comparison of Futhark and Dex (futhark-lang.org)
60 points by Athas on Dec 28, 2020 | 9 comments
56. Orthodox C++ (gist.github.com)
70 points by generichuman on Dec 27, 2020 | 102 comments
57. UK-EU trade deal refers to Netscape Communicator 4 as “modern email software” (twitter.com/paulmaunders)
107 points by samwillis on Dec 28, 2020 | 66 comments
58. Atlantropa (wikipedia.org)
46 points by ishikawa on Dec 28, 2020 | 12 comments
59. Scientists turn CO2 into jet fuel (engadget.com)
61 points by vanburen on Dec 28, 2020 | 35 comments
60. 90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009) (theonion.com)
143 points by apsec112 on Dec 27, 2020 | 60 comments

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