top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-03

Stripe Treasury

https://stripe.com/treasury

5 years ago

918 upvotes – 243 comments

Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/arecibo/

5 years ago

892 upvotes – 229 comments

Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940196997/amazon-reportedly-has-pinkerton-agents-surveil-workers-who-try-to-form-unions

5 years ago

809 upvotes – 445 comments

Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdv3j/colombia-is-considering-legalizing-its-massive-cocaine-industry

5 years ago

542 upvotes – 446 comments

My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants

https://twitter.com/martingund/status/1334465877153095680

5 years ago

493 upvotes – 169 comments

M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness

https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/m1_macs_truth_and_truthiness

5 years ago

491 upvotes – 860 comments

AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical

5 years ago

483 upvotes – 846 comments

Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017)

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

5 years ago

454 upvotes – 259 comments

S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021

https://www.reuters.com/article/cryptocurrencies-sp/sp-dow-jones-indices-to-launch-cryptocurrency-indexes-in-2021-idUSL1N2IJ0TG

5 years ago

449 upvotes – 548 comments

Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)

https://returntonow.net/2018/01/11/7-ways-mushrooms-can-save-world/

5 years ago

431 upvotes – 355 comments

An update to storage policies across your Google Account

https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 419 comments

A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

5 years ago

363 upvotes – 143 comments

Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and Theaters

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warner-bros-smashes-box-office-windows-will-send-2021-slate-to-hbo-max-and-theaters

5 years ago

341 upvotes – 303 comments

These are called opportunities

https://fabiensanglard.net/silicone/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 256 comments

Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-against-facebook-discriminating-against-us-workers

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 352 comments

TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-amazon-timestream-6000x-higher-inserts-175x-faster-queries-220x-cheaper/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 201 comments

Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-visas-proposed-acquisition-plaid

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 117 comments

Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55173063

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 104 comments

How I read books: a guide on how to learn

https://denzhadanov.com/how-i-read-books-a-guide-on-how-to-learn-a943123a4aeb

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 141 comments

Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334352694664957952

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 268 comments
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