top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-05

Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

http://radicle.xyz#/beta

5 years ago

864 upvotes – 255 comments

Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

https://teddit.net/

5 years ago

716 upvotes – 293 comments

The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design

https://www.gameuidatabase.com/

5 years ago

609 upvotes – 101 comments

72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole

5 years ago

546 upvotes – 650 comments

Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 107 comments

Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole

https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 2 comments

This is Real, That's Not

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/12/this-is-real-thats-not.html

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 339 comments

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 633 comments

Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays

https://prolost.com/blog/edr

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 209 comments

The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon

https://digital.com/about/dec/

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 210 comments

Ask HN: Learning about philosophy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25312681

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 283 comments

R adds native pipe and lambda syntax

https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2020/12/04#n2020-12-04

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 144 comments

Kaitai: Describe the structure of data, not how you read or write it

https://kaitai.io

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 65 comments

Benefits of Walking

https://klimy.co/blog/benefits-of-walking

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 108 comments

Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-lambda-turn-excel-formulas-into-custom-functions/ba-p/1925546

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 135 comments

How does Brown University know where you are?

https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/brown-location-surveillance

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 138 comments

Major Flaws of Human Thinking

https://dandanua.github.io/posts/major-flaws-of-human-thinking/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 105 comments

Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web

https://withblue.ink/2020/11/12/maybe-we-shouldnt-want-a-fully-decentralized-web.html

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 452 comments

I accidentally built a spying app

https://withblue.ink/2020/09/24/that-time-i-accidentally-built-a-spying-app.html

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 60 comments

Exotic Programming Ideas

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic04.html

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 83 comments
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