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December 2020 discussion archive

Browse 160 retained Hacker News discussion records from December 2020, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. Bitcoin is a disaster31 Dec 2020 · 881 points · 959 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Happy New Year HN31 Dec 2020 · 986 points · 236 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code31 Dec 2020 · 676 points · 384 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]31 Dec 2020 · 282 points · 59 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why31 Dec 2020 · 287 points · 61 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'30 Dec 2020 · 571 points · 329 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC30 Dec 2020 · 676 points · 171 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets30 Dec 2020 · 277 points · 125 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology30 Dec 2020 · 288 points · 246 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. Top Python libraries of 2020 you should know about29 Dec 2020 · 278 points · 50 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Do You Love Me? [video]29 Dec 2020 · 1,218 points · 452 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium29 Dec 2020 · 288 points · 58 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online29 Dec 2020 · 574 points · 53 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason29 Dec 2020 · 284 points · 160 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers29 Dec 2020 · 575 points · 1 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior29 Dec 2020 · 1,024 points · 566 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating29 Dec 2020 · 628 points · 427 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?29 Dec 2020 · 844 points · 323 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library28 Dec 2020 · 599 points · 166 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. Just Wanted to Say Thanks27 Dec 2020 · 1,244 points · 241 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M27 Dec 2020 · 609 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%26 Dec 2020 · 570 points · 284 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Mutated Covid-19 strain confirmed in Japan as case tally hits record high25 Dec 2020 · 292 points · 277 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?25 Dec 2020 · 689 points · 312 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor25 Dec 2020 · 725 points · 382 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. Show HN: Mountain Peaks in WebGL25 Dec 2020 · 281 points · 39 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?25 Dec 2020 · 729 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Slower News25 Dec 2020 · 270 points · 86 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Ruby 3.025 Dec 2020 · 779 points · 281 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. I am lonely will anyone speak to me24 Dec 2020 · 284 points · 209 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)24 Dec 2020 · 278 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. How We Saved Dot Org23 Dec 2020 · 1,187 points · 151 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Comic Mono23 Dec 2020 · 643 points · 216 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”23 Dec 2020 · 645 points · 239 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust23 Dec 2020 · 769 points · 402 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Interview advice that got me offers23 Dec 2020 · 642 points · 359 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Tips for a Better Life23 Dec 2020 · 1,271 points · 463 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. How bad is your Spotify?23 Dec 2020 · 974 points · 607 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC23 Dec 2020 · 285 points · 207 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Leaked documents from Nintendo investigation of hacker in 201322 Dec 2020 · 279 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Hotwire: HTML over the Wire22 Dec 2020 · 1,073 points · 545 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. Why can’t you buy a good webcam?22 Dec 2020 · 783 points · 773 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.21 Dec 2020 · 825 points · 352 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. I've been merging microservices back into the monolith21 Dec 2020 · 282 points · 196 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned21 Dec 2020 · 783 points · 248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan21 Dec 2020 · 608 points · 363 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. eBPF Is Awesome20 Dec 2020 · 268 points · 44 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. More challenging projects every programmer should try20 Dec 2020 · 757 points · 223 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)20 Dec 2020 · 290 points · 344 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit20 Dec 2020 · 622 points · 289 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. How and why I stopped buying new laptops20 Dec 2020 · 291 points · 279 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. The web is 30 years old today20 Dec 2020 · 754 points · 163 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)20 Dec 2020 · 826 points · 446 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google19 Dec 2020 · 283 points · 172 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Being kind to others is good for your health19 Dec 2020 · 690 points · 254 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents19 Dec 2020 · 270 points · 235 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square19 Dec 2020 · 685 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 202018 Dec 2020 · 729 points · 198 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide18 Dec 2020 · 615 points · 171 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee18 Dec 2020 · 745 points · 314 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help18 Dec 2020 · 1,245 points · 514 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster18 Dec 2020 · 274 points · 261 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. John Carmack: Career Advice18 Dec 2020 · 274 points · 169 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature18 Dec 2020 · 671 points · 420 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014)18 Dec 2020 · 269 points · 194 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews17 Dec 2020 · 1,086 points · 479 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates17 Dec 2020 · 289 points · 141 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. No Cookie for You17 Dec 2020 · 2,941 points · 609 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles17 Dec 2020 · 270 points · 171 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract16 Dec 2020 · 278 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]16 Dec 2020 · 860 points · 501 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M116 Dec 2020 · 274 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder16 Dec 2020 · 833 points · 533 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. Amazon Location Service16 Dec 2020 · 280 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death16 Dec 2020 · 276 points · 157 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. Bitcoin breaks above $20k16 Dec 2020 · 272 points · 452 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Firefox Was Always Enough16 Dec 2020 · 1,000 points · 586 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble16 Dec 2020 · 292 points · 144 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Gmail having issues15 Dec 2020 · 644 points · 432 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules15 Dec 2020 · 657 points · 487 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Firefox 84.015 Dec 2020 · 565 points · 315 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone15 Dec 2020 · 591 points · 386 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving for Texas15 Dec 2020 · 269 points · 580 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. The Case of the Extra 40ms15 Dec 2020 · 597 points · 197 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died14 Dec 2020 · 630 points · 338 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX14 Dec 2020 · 271 points · 300 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise14 Dec 2020 · 632 points · 329 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Google outage – resolved14 Dec 2020 · 2,316 points · 827 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year14 Dec 2020 · 602 points · 431 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots14 Dec 2020 · 278 points · 221 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain14 Dec 2020 · 669 points · 224 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. A leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members13 Dec 2020 · 269 points · 91 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources13 Dec 2020 · 773 points · 362 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys13 Dec 2020 · 869 points · 422 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel12 Dec 2020 · 669 points · 290 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. Chrome Is Bad12 Dec 2020 · 651 points · 290 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can12 Dec 2020 · 610 points · 107 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course11 Dec 2020 · 827 points · 232 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. Who Americans spend their time with, by age11 Dec 2020 · 642 points · 419 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data11 Dec 2020 · 285 points · 22 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants11 Dec 2020 · 270 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. We can have democracy or we can have Facebook11 Dec 2020 · 283 points · 502 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Google Alternatives11 Dec 2020 · 287 points · 233 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. Google Stories10 Dec 2020 · 273 points · 242 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. The Airbnbs10 Dec 2020 · 623 points · 494 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts10 Dec 2020 · 752 points · 237 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. A former Uber engineer's disaster story10 Dec 2020 · 710 points · 332 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue10 Dec 2020 · 647 points · 313 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt10 Dec 2020 · 282 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable09 Dec 2020 · 657 points · 280 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics09 Dec 2020 · 748 points · 248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial09 Dec 2020 · 281 points · 147 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization09 Dec 2020 · 1,752 points · 709 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. DoorDash from Application to IPO09 Dec 2020 · 272 points · 273 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud09 Dec 2020 · 1,183 points · 3,065 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. EU countries team up for semiconductor push09 Dec 2020 · 633 points · 647 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Cameras and Lenses09 Dec 2020 · 2,132 points · 213 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Show HN: This website is valid JSON08 Dec 2020 · 604 points · 229 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. GitHub Releases Dark Mode08 Dec 2020 · 700 points · 251 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?08 Dec 2020 · 705 points · 192 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. AirPods Max08 Dec 2020 · 996 points · 1,831 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. Chuck Yeager has died08 Dec 2020 · 636 points · 168 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard07 Dec 2020 · 969 points · 635 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states07 Dec 2020 · 288 points · 254 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits07 Dec 2020 · 647 points · 361 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. A Modern JavaScript Tutorial07 Dec 2020 · 893 points · 292 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux07 Dec 2020 · 938 points · 544 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves07 Dec 2020 · 269 points · 343 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs07 Dec 2020 · 272 points · 371 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams07 Dec 2020 · 1,307 points · 317 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers07 Dec 2020 · 274 points · 303 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained06 Dec 2020 · 717 points · 326 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe06 Dec 2020 · 613 points · 277 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon05 Dec 2020 · 289 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design05 Dec 2020 · 609 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub05 Dec 2020 · 864 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy05 Dec 2020 · 716 points · 293 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs04 Dec 2020 · 564 points · 212 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)04 Dec 2020 · 755 points · 455 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. Self-host your fonts for better performance04 Dec 2020 · 610 points · 403 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming04 Dec 2020 · 281 points · 122 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid03 Dec 2020 · 286 points · 117 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse03 Dec 2020 · 892 points · 229 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions03 Dec 2020 · 809 points · 445 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Stripe Treasury03 Dec 2020 · 918 points · 243 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch02 Dec 2020 · 627 points · 136 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges02 Dec 2020 · 933 points · 740 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify02 Dec 2020 · 585 points · 568 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz02 Dec 2020 · 684 points · 139 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. S3 Strong Consistency02 Dec 2020 · 699 points · 227 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive01 Dec 2020 · 274 points · 91 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey01 Dec 2020 · 647 points · 272 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack01 Dec 2020 · 858 points · 633 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer01 Dec 2020 · 288 points · 113 commentsPartial reading withheld
  155. AWS Lambda pricing now per ms01 Dec 2020 · 629 points · 275 commentsPartial reading withheld
  156. macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS01 Dec 2020 · 292 points · 348 commentsPartial reading withheld
  157. Ethereum 2.0 launches01 Dec 2020 · 629 points · 603 commentsPartial reading withheld
  158. Arecibo Observatory Collapsed01 Dec 2020 · 776 points · 309 commentsPartial reading withheld
  159. Amazon EC2 Mac Instances01 Dec 2020 · 1,091 points · 481 commentsPartial reading withheld
  160. Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory01 Dec 2020 · 269 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld