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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs

    556 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  2. Firefox 84.0

    550 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  3. Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'

    543 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  4. Distributed Systems Reading List

    543 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  5. CSS in GitHub Readmes

    541 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  6. Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online

    538 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  7. Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH

    538 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  8. iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers

    538 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  9. YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices

    536 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  10. 72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

    534 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  11. Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK

    533 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  12. Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

    532 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  13. Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

    532 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  14. EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home

    529 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  15. Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry

    524 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  16. Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds

    522 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  17. Johnny.Decimal

    521 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  18. Facebook: Free as in Bullshit

    521 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  19. New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

    519 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  20. Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill

    517 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  21. SEC Approves NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative

    516 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  22. Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

    515 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  23. CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

    514 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  24. About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean

    514 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  25. Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

    514 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  26. Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources

    514 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  27. Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu

    510 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  28. Become Shell Literate

    505 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  29. Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects

    505 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  30. Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

    505 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  31. Billionaires Build

    505 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  32. Back to the '70s with Serverless

    503 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  33. Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform

    499 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  34. Fun with IP address parsing

    496 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  35. “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”

    492 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  36. The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire

    492 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  37. Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews

    492 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  38. Print this file, your printer will jam (2008)

    491 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  39. Elon Musk moves to Texas

    490 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  40. South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at 100M degrees Celsius

    489 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  41. 1937 film explains how a car differential works

    488 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  42. Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year

    487 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  43. M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness

    484 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  44. Things You're Allowed to Do

    482 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  45. Minimal safe Bash script template

    482 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  46. Chrome Is Bad

    480 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  47. Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?

    478 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  48. InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place

    475 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  49. Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware

    472 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  50. How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant

    467 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  51. My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants

    463 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  52. I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

    460 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  53. The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal

    455 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  54. Pointer Pointer (2012)

    452 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  55. AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google

    452 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  56. Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017)

    452 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  57. How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

    452 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  58. Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills

    451 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  59. SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources

    451 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  60. Blob Opera

    450 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  61. Kubernetes is deprecating Docker runtime support

    446 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  62. Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

    445 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  63. iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages

    445 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  64. Qt 6.0

    442 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  65. Fantasy UI

    440 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  66. A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

    440 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  67. S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021

    439 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  68. Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”

    439 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  69. AWS CloudShell

    438 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  70. FFmpeg is 20 years old today

    438 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  71. How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

    438 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  72. MF DOOM Has Died

    436 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  73. Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after legal threats

    436 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  74. Linux Hardening Guide

    435 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  75. Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz

    434 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  76. Gitter now speaks Matrix

    434 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  77. SaaS We Happily Pay For

    432 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  78. What If You Could Do It All Over?

    432 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  79. Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)

    431 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  80. Earnestness

    430 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  81. Sony publishes an official Linux driver for Playstation 5 DualSense controllers

    425 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  82. Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer

    423 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  83. Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed

    422 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  84. Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

    421 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  85. Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

    420 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  86. SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights

    420 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  87. Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary

    417 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  88. 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm

    416 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  89. Ignore AMP

    416 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  90. Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

    415 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  91. ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

    413 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  92. Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking

    412 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  93. Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes

    411 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  94. Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy

    410 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  95. I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014)

    408 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  96. An update to storage policies across your Google Account

    405 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  97. I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months

    405 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  98. If-then-else had to be invented

    404 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  99. 20 Years Later

    404 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  100. Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed

    404 points • comment • dec 23, 2020