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Hacker News (Dec 2020)
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No Cookie for You
2926 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Google outage – resolved
2293 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Cameras and Lenses
2106 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
1742 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
1295 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Tips for a Better Life
1242 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Just Wanted to Say Thanks
1238 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
1206 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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How We Saved Dot Org
1182 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
1178 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Do You Love Me? [video]
1177 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
1085 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
1068 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
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Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
1058 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
1004 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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AirPods Max
994 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Firefox Was Always Enough
976 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Happy New Year HN
966 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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How bad is your Spotify?
963 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
930 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Stripe Treasury
914 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
894 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard
893 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
888 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
882 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
862 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
852 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
850 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
849 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
830 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
830 points • comment • dec 16, 2020
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Bitcoin is a disaster
822 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
815 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
813 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.
798 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
797 points • comment • dec 03, 2020
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Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
781 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
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Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
772 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust
766 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
754 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
754 points • comment • dec 13, 2020
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The web is 30 years old today
751 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Ruby 3.0
751 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
735 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
727 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
727 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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More challenging projects every programmer should try
724 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
721 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
710 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor
708 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
700 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
696 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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S3 Strong Consistency
692 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
692 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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GitHub Releases Dark Mode
684 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Being kind to others is good for your health
683 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
676 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
668 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
666 points • comment • dec 31, 2020
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A former Uber engineer's disaster story
664 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
662 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
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I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
661 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?
660 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
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Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
658 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
657 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
654 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
642 points • comment • dec 07, 2020
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An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
640 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
637 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
636 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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Gmail having issues
636 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Who Americans spend their time with, by age
635 points • comment • dec 11, 2020
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Comic Mono
634 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
634 points • comment • dec 19, 2020
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EU countries team up for semiconductor push
630 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
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Chuck Yeager has died
630 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”
628 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
627 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
625 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
623 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Ethereum 2.0 launches
619 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
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The Airbnbs
618 points • comment • dec 10, 2020
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NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch
618 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
618 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
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Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
613 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
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Interview advice that got me offers
608 points • comment • dec 23, 2020
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The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design
603 points • comment • dec 05, 2020
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Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
602 points • comment • dec 21, 2020
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Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
598 points • comment • dec 12, 2020
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LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
598 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
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Show HN: This website is valid JSON
597 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
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Self-host your fonts for better performance
596 points • comment • dec 04, 2020
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Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library
589 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
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California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M
589 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
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The Case of the Extra 40ms
588 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide
584 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
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Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone
578 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
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Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
567 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
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Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
562 points • comment • dec 02, 2020
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Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%
560 points • comment • dec 26, 2020