top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-01

Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2020/12/01/salesforce-definitive-agreement-update/

5 years ago

858 upvotes – 633 comments

Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

https://www.space.com/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapses

5 years ago

776 upvotes – 309 comments

An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html

5 years ago

647 upvotes – 272 comments

Ethereum 2.0 launches

https://twitter.com/ethereum/status/1333743998637400073

5 years ago

629 upvotes – 603 comments

AWS Lambda pricing now per ms

https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/

5 years ago

629 upvotes – 275 comments

Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

https://github.com/monicahq/monica

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 198 comments

Self-Hosting Still Pays

https://www.servethehome.com/falling-from-the-sky-2020-self-hosting-still-pays/

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 331 comments

Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 624 comments

The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201123-the-psychology-behind-revenge-bedtime-procrastination

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 267 comments

How to buy gifts that people actually want

https://www.willpatrick.co.uk/articles/how-to-buy-gifts-that-people-actually-want

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 271 comments

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271676

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266288

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 760 comments

Yet another macOS privacy protections bypass

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/disclosure3.html

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 90 comments

PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/01/kde-community-edition-is-now-available/

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 196 comments

Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)

https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 43 comments

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

https://antranigv.am/weblog_en/posts/macos_to_freebsd/

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 348 comments

Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/want-more-postgresql-you-just-might-like-babelfish/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 113 comments

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

https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 91 comments

Wyze $20 Smart Watch

https://wyze.com/wyze-watch.html

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 283 comments

The Road to the JIT

http://blog.erlang.org/the-road-to-the-jit/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 54 comments

Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system

https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 160 comments

Obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore (2013)

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/10-secret-trig-functions-your-math-teachers-never-taught-you/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 134 comments

New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 89 comments

Busybox-based Linux distro from scratch

https://re-ws.pl/2020/11/busybox-based-linux-distro-from-scratch/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 26 comments

Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team

https://sacks.substack.com/p/simple-math-to-set-up-a-sales-team

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266287

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 265 comments

Long-acting injectable is effective in preventing HIV acquisition in women

https://www.who.int/news/item/09-11-2020-trial-results-reveal-that-long-acting-injectable-cabotegravir-as-prep-is-highly-effective-in-preventing-hiv-acquisition-in-women

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 29 comments

Precursor’s Custom PCBs

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6011

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 22 comments

John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 169 comments

Randall Munroe is learning new things from Google

https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1333529967079120896

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 44 comments

QEMU Advent Calendar 2020

https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2020/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 30 comments

Rancher Lab Acquired by SUSE

https://rancher.com/blog/2020/suse-day1

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 20 comments

Feature Casualties of Large Databases

https://brandur.org/large-database-casualties

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 35 comments

CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-long-forgotten-cia-document-from

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

The Strength of Being Misunderstood

https://blog.samaltman.com/the-strength-of-being-misunderstood

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Tiny mobile-friendly interactive fiction game

https://memalign.github.io/m/dungeon/index.html

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 22 comments

AWS Proton

https://aws.amazon.com/proton/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 71 comments

Foundations of Probabilistic Programming

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/foundations-of-probabilistic-programming/819623B1B5B33836476618AC0621F0EE

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 8 comments

An open source portable terminal for every dev

https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Wisdom-of-crowds survey tool that finds hidden consensus at scale

http://opinionx.co

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

Why scientists are turning to Rust

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03382-2

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 100 comments

Unilever to try out four-day working week in New Zealand

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-unilever-newzealand-idUSKBN28A34V

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 73 comments

Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ecr-public-a-new-public-container-registry/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments
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