top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-02

Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/2/22047383/google-spied-workers-before-firing-labor-complaint

5 years ago

933 upvotes – 740 comments

Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2019/rga--ripgrep-for-zip-targz-docx-odt-epub-jpg/

5 years ago

684 upvotes – 139 comments

NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch

http://nandgame.com/

5 years ago

627 upvotes – 136 comments

Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf?si=1Y4i7boAQc-jCc2IP_BGSw&utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2020-12-02

5 years ago

585 upvotes – 568 comments

Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55145696

5 years ago

551 upvotes – 728 comments

Kubernetes is deprecating Docker runtime support

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.20.md

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 175 comments

A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars

https://jalopnik.com/a-chain-just-cut-through-a-capsized-cargo-ship-filled-w-1845784581

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 130 comments

Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/02/microsoft-apologises-productivity-score-critics-derided-workplace-surveillance

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 174 comments

A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/business/japan-old-companies.html

5 years ago

341 upvotes – 170 comments

QBE vs. LLVM

https://c9x.me/compile/doc/llvm.html

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 99 comments

South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 408 comments

Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/running-in-circles-uncovering-the-clients-of-cyberespionage-firm-circles/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 65 comments

TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B transistor GPUs

https://www.pcgamer.com/tsmc-confirms-3nm-tech-for-2022-could-enable-epic-80-billion-transistor-gpus/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 185 comments

A founder’s guide to understanding users

https://mgadams.com/the-founders-guide-to-actually-understanding-users-c68feaecac44

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 38 comments

Materialize Raises a $32M Series B

https://materialize.com/materialize-series-b/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 86 comments

Google partners with SkyWater to enable open source manufacturing of ASICs

https://www.skywatertechnology.com/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 53 comments

Experimental drug reverses age-related memory and cognitive decline in mice

https://neurosciencenews.com/age-cognition-reversal-drug-17347/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 66 comments

Managers, not workers, are losing jobs to AI and robots: study

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2020/11/15/its-managers-not-workers-who-are-losing-jobs-to-ai-and-robots-study-shows/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 186 comments

Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/12/02/bloom-filter-hash-graph-sync.html

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 18 comments

Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as group rejects substitute

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/31/crab-blood-to-remain-big-pharmas-standard-as-industry-group-rejects-substitute

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 129 comments

UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/agency-removes-cannabis-strictest-drug-category-74506360?cid=clicksource_4380645_7_heads_posts_headlines_hed

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 95 comments

The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

https://onezero.medium.com/the-modern-world-has-finally-become-too-complex-for-any-of-us-to-understand-1a0b46fbc292

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 168 comments

Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email

https://sacra.com/research/front-inside-the-startup-slackifying-email/?

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 132 comments

Teardown of the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/teardown-of-dishy-mcflatface-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 138 comments

Observable and Creative Coding

https://observablehq.com/@makio135/creative-coding

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 15 comments

Do not sign a contract with Snowflake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25281061

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 39 comments

National parks of New Zealand in 3D

https://felixpalmer.github.io/new-zealand-3d/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 41 comments

Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization

https://amnesia.openaire.eu/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 96 comments

Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

https://eloeffler.gitlab.io/eloeffler/proto-vcser/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 92 comments

Taking PHP Seriously (2016)

https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 138 comments

Winamp Skins Collection

https://archive.org/details/winampskins

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 59 comments

Arecibo Observatory Telescope Collapses, Ending an Era of World-Class Research

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/940767001/arecibo-observatory-telescope-collapses-ending-an-era-of-world-class-research

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 5 comments

Win by Segfault and Other Notes on Exploiting Chess Engines

https://chess.resistant.tech/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 15 comments

How the CCP Does Job Promotions

https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/how-the-ccp-does-job-promotions

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 202 comments

Archive and historians sue White House, seek to preserve presidential records

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia/2020-12-01/archive-historians-crew-sue-white-house-seek-preserve-presidential-records-during-transition

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 85 comments

Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits

https://a13xp0p0v.github.io/2020/11/30/slab-quarantine.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 31 comments

Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-measure-the-magic-fine-structure-constant-20201202/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 52 comments

No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 134 comments

Siteswap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

Google Poly is shutting down

https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 190 comments

Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen

https://thecounter.org/public-health-groups-alcohol-label-warnings-carcinogen-cancer-link-awareness-prop-65/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 180 comments

Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max-american-airline/boeings-upgraded-737-max-completes-first-flight-with-media-onboard-idUSKBN28C1LV

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 271 comments

Pakistan’s new regulations aim to ‘silence the internet’

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/2/pakistans-new-regulations-aim-to-silence-the

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 42 comments

Four Types of Kanji (2019)

https://learnjapanesebest.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/the-four-types-of-kanji/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 80 comments

Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13994

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online

https://thinkpol.ca/2020/12/01/airbnb-asked-canada-for-a-bailout-canada-slapped-airbnb-with-a-tax/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 127 comments

The Chrome Root Program

https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/3Q36J4flnQs/m/VyWFiVwrBQAJ

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone seen smart TVs connect to unsecured WiFi without permission?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 67 comments

Using Topology to Classify Labelled Graphs

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2020/topology_graphs/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments

Roger Penrose: Beauty above all

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/roger-penrose-black-holes-einstein-nobel-prize/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science [pdf]

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/371/bmj.m4425.full.pdf

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 97 comments

Messenger API Updates for Europe

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/europe-updates

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 78 comments

How to Escape the Modern Rat Race

https://durmonski.com/psychology/escape-the-modern-rat-race/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 92 comments

Vector 0.11 Release: K8s, ARC, and metrics collection

https://vector.dev/releases/0.11.0/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Urbit Precepts Discussion

https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 148 comments
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