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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]

    331 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)

    330 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  3. The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd

    330 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  4. Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays

    329 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  5. A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old

    328 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  6. Death of an open-source business model

    328 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  7. Double Blind Passwords a.k.a. Horcruxing

    326 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  8. Xfce 4.16

    326 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  9. 51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities

    325 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  10. Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077

    324 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  11. How the Python object system works

    324 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  12. Starship / Super Heavy

    324 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  13. Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max

    323 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  14. Centering in CSS

    322 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  15. Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

    322 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  16. The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved

    321 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  17. Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy

    321 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  18. Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail

    320 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  19. Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one

    319 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  20. Clams filter the water and check whether the water is polluted or clean

    319 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  21. Google Play rejected Tor Browser update with security fixes

    318 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  22. The Fight for WorldBox

    318 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  23. Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles

    318 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  24. Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal

    318 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  25. Free to download public domain art, posters and illustrations

    317 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  26. Systems design explains the world: volume 1

    316 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  27. The universe is expanding faster than expected

    315 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  28. Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?

    314 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  29. San Mateo County Health Officer Statement on Bay Area Stay-at-Home Orders

    314 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  30. Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship

    314 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  31. Great American Rail Trail

    313 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  32. Yet another macOS privacy protections bypass

    313 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  33. Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes

    313 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  34. Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET

    312 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  35. Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices

    311 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  36. Sponsoring Open Source Developers

    310 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  37. Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser

    310 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  38. Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs

    310 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  39. You have the right to record police in public, federal court rules

    310 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  40. We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google

    309 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  41. Ruby 3.0.0 RC1

    309 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  42. I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for commercial and personal use

    309 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  43. Kafka Is Not a Database

    309 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  44. Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years

    307 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  45. These are called opportunities

    306 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  46. Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone

    306 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  47. ImHex – A Hex Editor

    304 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  48. What is protein folding? A brief explanation

    304 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  49. Why are video games graphics challenging? Productionizing rendering algorithms

    303 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  50. Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry

    303 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  51. Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent

    303 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  52. WiFi 6 gets 1.34 Gbps on the Raspberry Pi CM4

    302 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  53. New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’

    302 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  54. Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

    301 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  55. After centuries, a seemingly simple math problem gets an exact solution

    301 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  56. A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)

    299 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  57. Ask HN: What are the best advanced computer science courses online?

    299 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  58. GHC 9.0, supporting linear types

    299 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  59. Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock

    298 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  60. AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples

    298 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  61. Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers

    297 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  62. CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

    297 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  63. Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research

    297 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  64. Former Tesla engineer sues for defamation

    296 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  65. Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers [pdf]

    296 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  66. Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

    296 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  67. Docker's Second Death

    295 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  68. Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music

    295 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  69. Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road

    295 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  70. TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream

    294 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  71. Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

    294 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  72. What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries

    294 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  73. Mile-Long Wooden Xylophone Plays Bach in Japanese Forest

    294 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  74. The Guy I Almost Was (1998)

    294 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  75. Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction

    293 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  76. “This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life”

    292 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  77. How to Escape a Sinking Ship

    292 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  78. PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

    292 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  79. Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon

    292 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  80. QBE vs. LLVM

    291 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  81. Elon Musk Decries ‘M.B.A.-ization’ of America

    290 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  82. Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants

    290 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  83. Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)

    290 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  84. Mutated Covid-19 strain confirmed in Japan as case tally hits record high

    289 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  85. Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more

    289 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  86. The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior

    289 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  87. Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you own

    289 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  88. The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

    289 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  89. Working at Apple (2011)

    288 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  90. Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)

    288 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  91. The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon

    287 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  92. Robinhood was indeed too good to be true

    287 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  93. Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

    286 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  94. Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates

    285 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  95. Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why

    284 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  96. Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

    284 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  97. Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers

    284 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  98. Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble

    284 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  99. The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)

    283 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  100. macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS

    282 points • comment • dec 01, 2020