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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

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

    282 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  2. Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology

    282 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  3. Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer

    279 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  4. The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC

    278 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  5. The Big Little Guide to Message Queues

    278 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  6. Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium

    277 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  7. SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states

    277 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  8. The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]

    276 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  9. Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

    276 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  10. Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

    275 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  11. Show HN: Mountain Peaks in WebGL

    275 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  12. YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

    275 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  13. We can have democracy or we can have Facebook

    274 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  14. Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

    273 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  15. LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract

    273 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  16. Amazon Location Service

    272 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  17. ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets

    272 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  18. MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial

    272 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  19. I've been merging microservices back into the monolith

    271 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  20. How and why I stopped buying new laptops

    271 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  21. Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)

    271 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  22. DoorDash from Application to IPO

    270 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  23. Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

    269 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  24. The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster

    269 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  25. Google Alternatives

    269 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  26. Slower News

    267 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  27. Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots

    267 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  28. Google Stories

    267 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  29. The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death

    267 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  30. A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers

    267 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  31. Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants

    266 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  32. Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1

    266 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  33. I am lonely will anyone speak to me

    265 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  34. Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents

    265 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  35. Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs

    264 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  36. Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving for Texas

    264 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  37. A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming

    264 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  38. BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards

    263 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  39. Leaked documents from Nintendo investigation of hacker in 2013

    262 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  40. iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple

    262 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  41. Mojeek: Independent search engine with its own spider

    261 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  42. C Template Library

    261 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  43. Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

    261 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  44. John Carmack: Career Advice

    261 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  45. Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles

    261 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  46. A leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members

    260 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  47. EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade

    259 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  48. What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014)

    259 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  49. PlotJuggler 3: fast and intuitive time series visualization

    258 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  50. eBPF Is Awesome

    258 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  51. Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform

    257 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  52. Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)

    257 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  53. A 73-year-old Japanese artist took YouTube by storm

    257 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  54. Father Reginald Foster has died

    257 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  55. Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory

    257 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  56. The Internet Is for Porn

    257 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  57. How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years

    256 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  58. Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves

    256 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  59. Architecture of the Game Boy Advance

    256 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  60. Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

    256 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  61. GTK 4.0 Released

    255 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  62. PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon

    255 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  63. Top Python libraries of 2020 you should know about

    255 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  64. German court forces mail provider Tutanota to insert a backdoor

    254 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  65. Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)

    254 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  66. Bitcoin breaks above $20k

    254 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  67. Undocumented arm64 ISA extension present on the Apple M1

    254 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  68. Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs

    254 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  69. Why I Love Tailwind

    253 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  70. Show HN: NoteCalc

    253 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  71. U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources

    253 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  72. Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators to target modders

    253 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  73. Craft – A fresh take on documents

    253 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  74. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

    253 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  75. He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man

    252 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  76. Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveillance tech

    251 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  77. ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark

    251 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  78. Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo

    251 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  79. SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]

    251 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  80. Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines

    250 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  81. Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

    249 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  82. In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)

    249 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  83. Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system

    248 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  84. The Road to the JIT

    248 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  85. Ask HN: Learning about philosophy

    248 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  86. Stimulus.js 2.0

    247 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  87. First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK

    247 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  88. R adds native pipe and lambda syntax

    247 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  89. Sony acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll

    247 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  90. Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX

    246 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  91. Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust

    246 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  92. 9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan

    246 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  93. PINE64 December Update

    245 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  94. Wyze $20 Smart Watch

    245 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  95. “Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved

    245 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  96. School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads

    244 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  97. App privacy labels now live on the App Store

    244 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  98. Being good at coding competitions correlates negatively with job performance

    244 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  99. Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack

    243 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  100. Hackers used SolarWinds' dominance against it in sprawling spy campaign

    243 points • comment • dec 16, 2020