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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. No Cookie for You

    2926 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  2. Google outage – resolved

    2293 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  3. Cameras and Lenses

    2106 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  4. FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

    1742 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  5. Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams

    1295 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  6. Tips for a Better Life

    1242 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  7. Just Wanted to Say Thanks

    1238 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  8. Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

    1206 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  9. How We Saved Dot Org

    1182 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  10. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

    1178 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  11. Do You Love Me? [video]

    1177 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  12. Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

    1085 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  13. Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

    1068 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  14. Hotwire: HTML over the Wire

    1058 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  15. Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

    1004 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  16. AirPods Max

    994 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  17. Firefox Was Always Enough

    976 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  18. Happy New Year HN

    966 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  19. How bad is your Spotify?

    963 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  20. With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

    930 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  21. Stripe Treasury

    914 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  22. Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges

    894 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  23. Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard

    893 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  24. Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

    888 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  25. A Modern JavaScript Tutorial

    882 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  26. Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys

    862 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  27. States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

    852 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  28. Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

    850 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  29. Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

    849 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  30. Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?

    830 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  31. Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder

    830 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  32. Bitcoin is a disaster

    822 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  33. Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course

    815 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  34. All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)

    813 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  35. Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.

    798 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  36. Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions

    797 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  37. Why can’t you buy a good webcam?

    781 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  38. Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

    772 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  39. Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust

    766 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  40. Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

    754 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  41. U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources

    754 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  42. The web is 30 years old today

    751 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  43. Ruby 3.0

    751 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  44. Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics

    735 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  45. Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

    727 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  46. I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee

    727 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  47. More challenging projects every programmer should try

    724 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  48. Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020

    721 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  49. Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained

    710 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  50. Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor

    708 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  51. Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

    700 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  52. Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned

    696 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  53. S3 Strong Consistency

    692 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  54. Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?

    692 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  55. GitHub Releases Dark Mode

    684 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  56. Being kind to others is good for your health

    683 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  57. Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

    676 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  58. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

    668 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  59. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

    666 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  60. A former Uber engineer's disaster story

    664 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  61. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC

    662 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  62. I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel

    661 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

    660 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  64. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain

    658 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  65. Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature

    657 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  66. Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable

    654 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  67. AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

    642 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  68. An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey

    640 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  69. Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

    637 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  70. Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

    636 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  71. Gmail having issues

    636 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  72. Who Americans spend their time with, by age

    635 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  73. Comic Mono

    634 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  74. Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square

    634 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  75. EU countries team up for semiconductor push

    630 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  76. Chuck Yeager has died

    630 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  77. No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”

    628 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  78. U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise

    627 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  79. AWS Lambda pricing now per ms

    625 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  80. Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died

    623 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  81. Ethereum 2.0 launches

    619 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  82. The Airbnbs

    618 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  83. NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch

    618 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  84. Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating

    618 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  85. Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit

    613 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  86. Interview advice that got me offers

    608 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  87. The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design

    603 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  88. Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan

    602 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  89. Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can

    598 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  90. LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

    598 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  91. Show HN: This website is valid JSON

    597 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  92. Self-host your fonts for better performance

    596 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  93. Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library

    589 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  94. California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M

    589 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  95. The Case of the Extra 40ms

    588 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  96. Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide

    584 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  97. Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone

    578 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  98. Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year

    567 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  99. Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

    562 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  100. Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%

    560 points • comment • dec 26, 2020