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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Apple Pulls App That Promoted Secret Parties During Ongoing Pandemic

    4 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  2. LED lights found to kill coronavirus: Global first in fight against Covid-19

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  3. Facebook, Messenger and Instagram All Crash

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  4. Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  5. The rich got richer during Covid-19

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  6. Federal prosecutors say Zoom worked with Chinese government to surveil users

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  7. Affidavit of Melissa Carone, Dominion Voting Systems Contractor

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  8. No One Knows How Deep Russia's Hacking Rampage Goes

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  9. Airbnb Denies Refunds for Cancellations Based on Pandemic Stay at Home Orders

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  10. U.S. prosecutors investigating potential scheme to pay bribe for Trump pardon

    4 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  11. Fined: Umeå University Failed to Sufficiently Protect Sensitive Personal Data

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  12. Employers consider vaccine requirement for employment

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  13. “We arrange marriages for millennials and zoomers tired of endless dating.”

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  14. New York’s Quontic Becomes First US Bank to Offer a Bitcoin Rewards Debit Card

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  15. Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PS Store after bugs complaints, offers refund

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  16. How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery (2019)

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  17. Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media

    4 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  18. Cloudflare is testing a Netlify competitor to host Jamstack sites

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  19. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT): Most Ingenious Algorithm Ever?

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  20. How Civilization Broke Our Brains

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  21. Show HN: SpaceVim Release v1.6.0

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  22. Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  23. How the pandemic is transforming tech spending

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  24. FTC and several states launch antitrust lawsuits against Facebook

    4 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  25. An open letter to my friends with fuck you money

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  26. 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered hidden in Amazon rainforest

    4 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  27. Frame Canada: How Americans were brainwashed about Canadian healthcare

    4 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  28. California Monolith Is Removed and Replaced with a Cross

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  29. Calling for rapid and sustained reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  30. The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  31. Boston medical conference linked to as many as 300k Covid-19 cases in U.S.

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  32. Apple is forced to include charger for not demonstrating environmental benefits

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  33. Major Reddit Outage

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  34. Deploying a Hugo Static Site to the New AWS Lightsail Containers Service

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  35. 'Our blood is cheaper than water': anger in Iraq over Trump pardons

    4 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  36. We Reduced Our Batch Processing Time by ~58% with a Scale-Out MySQL Alternative

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  37. UK scientists trial drug to prevent infection that leads to Covid

    4 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  38. 3D Interactive Earth Globe

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  39. A Fully Functional Rubik's Cube in a True Type Font

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  40. 30k people a year in SF walk back to their car and see this

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  41. Blobs in Games: What I did in 2020

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  42. Crispr-Based Covid-19 Tests Are Coming

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  43. Toward a better quality metric for the video community

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  44. Mastering Atari, Go, chess and shogi by planning with a learned model

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  45. V language now uses autofree Rust-like memory management

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  46. In India, Facebook Fears Crackdown on Hate Groups Could Backfire on Its Staff

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  47. A fourth monolith has been found on the Isle of Wight

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  48. East Africa’s Electric Motorbikes Are Fueling a Carbon-Free Future

    4 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  49. Science fiction books build mental resilience in young readers

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  50. Show HN: Rove: create backlinks across your SaaS apps

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  51. Say You Want to Build a Monolith

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  52. The ‘rural-urban divide’ furthers myths

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  53. Vitamin D the Clue to More Autism Spectrum Disorder in Boys

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  54. Microsoft has a fake extensions problem in its Microsoft Edge Store

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  55. Facebook accuses French military of running troll accounts

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  56. Pfizer’s Vaccine Offers Strong Protection After First Dose

    4 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  57. Privacy versus Convenience

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  58. Denmark becomes first oil-producing nation to set deadline to end extraction

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  59. Playing with Gravity to Learn CUDA: A Fundamental Force

    4 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  60. Show HN: A souece analyser help you to understand code efficiently

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  61. A State Scientist Questioned Florida’s Virus Data. Now Her Home’s Been Raided

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  62. The coolest ancient weapons discovered in 2020

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  63. China used stolen data to expose CIA operatives in Africa and Europe

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  64. This Car Is Powered by Salt Water: 760HP, Top Speed 186 MPH, 621 Miles/Tank

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  65. Ripple CEO Warns SEC May Sue Company over XRP Sales

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  66. BPF for Observability: Getting Started Quickly

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  67. Show HN: Bootstrap 5 Generator Online

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  68. Advent of Code 2020 has begun

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  69. Investors in SolarWinds sold millions in stock before Russia breach revealed

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  70. A full blood count of Covid-19 patients could predict disease severity

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  71. The Practice of Change – How I survived being interested in everything

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  72. Supabase the Open Source Firebase Alternative

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  73. We cannot make it without science: Greta says climate experts are being ignored

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  74. Evictions Have Led to 10k Additional Covid Deaths

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  75. Every Programming Tutorial [video]

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  76. Ask HN: Do You Believe Dominions Servers Were Secure and Incapable of Mass Fraud

    4 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  77. China to overtake US as world's biggest economy by 2028, report predicts

    4 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  78. Making Bare Metal Fly with Tinkerbell Provisioning and Management

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  79. Ask HN: What’s the gender distribution of HN?

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  80. RustCrypto: cryptographic algorithms written in pure Rust

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  81. Ruined over Ripple/Xrp Losses

    4 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  82. Earthlings and astronauts chat over ham radio

    4 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  83. Which Covid policies are most effective? A Bayesian analysis

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  84. The universe is not as black as astronomers once thought

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  85. Someone Attacked Our Company

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  86. EFF Fingerprinting Simulator

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  87. A Century After Phony Flu Ads, Companies Hype Quack Covid Cures

    4 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  88. Researchers Find Widespread SS7 Cellphone Location Surveillance

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  89. The Correspondent will stop publishing on 1 January 2021

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  90. Negative Capability

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  91. Alaska Health Worker Had a Serious Allergic Reaction After Pfizer’s Vaccine

    4 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  92. Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  93. Is Silicon Valley Over? Not So Fast

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  94. Leverage web scraping to protect your brand during the golden quarter

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  95. Two Minute Papers: Can an AI Design Our Tax Policy? [video]

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  96. Thread decoding Simpsons jokes is blowing even the writers’ minds

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  97. Wrapped and Sold [Spotify's use of influencers]

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  98. Vaccination passport app by world economic forum and major airlines

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  99. Pa postal Driver shipped estimated 144k-228k ballots across state lines in Oct

    4 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  100. Mathews: Thank you, Texas, for taking Elon Musk off our hands

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2020