top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-08

AirPods Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/12/apple-introduces-airpods-max-the-magic-of-airpods-in-a-stunning-over-ear-design/

5 years ago

996 upvotes – 1831 comments

Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25346456

5 years ago

705 upvotes – 192 comments

GitHub Releases Dark Mode

https://github.com/settings/appearance

5 years ago

700 upvotes – 251 comments

Show HN: This website is valid JSON

https://webdatarender.com/

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 229 comments

CSS in GitHub Readmes

https://github.com/sindresorhus/css-in-readme-like-wat

5 years ago

544 upvotes – 193 comments

Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH

https://blog.cloudflare.com/oblivious-dns/

5 years ago

541 upvotes – 349 comments

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html

5 years ago

521 upvotes – 628 comments

Qt 6.0

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.0-released

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 360 comments

Expanding Fuchsia's open source model

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/12/expanding-fuchsias-open-source-model.html

5 years ago

387 upvotes – 323 comments

Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry

https://vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179656817318/designing-2d-graphics-in-japan-from-the-late-70s

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 71 comments

Kafka Is Not a Database

https://materialize.com/kafka-is-not-a-database/

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 165 comments

Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#200

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 188 comments

School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads

https://github.com/linkedin/school-of-sre

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 70 comments

ORC – Nim's new memory managment

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/08/introducing-orc.html

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 34 comments

FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/products-and-services/2020/12/fireeye-shares-details-of-recent-cyber-attack-actions-to-protect-community.html

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 241 comments

Little Tasks, Little Trust

http://adamard.com/little_tasks.html

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 86 comments

Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?

https://psyche.co/ideas/are-people-with-dark-personality-traits-more-likely-to-succeed

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 219 comments

FedEx and UPS hit companies with unexpected holiday shipping limits

https://www.modernretail.co/retailers/this-is-going-to-ruin-us-fedex-and-ups-hit-companies-with-unexpected-holiday-shipping-limits/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 201 comments

The complexity of building a lie-down workstation

https://altwork.com/blogs/news/the-complexity-of-building-a-lie-down-workstation

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 140 comments

Octopus with transparent head caught by blackwater photographer

https://mymodernmet.com/wu-yung-sen-blackwater-photography/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 56 comments

U.S. Judge Halts TikTok Ban

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/944039053/u-s-judge-halts-trumps-tiktok-ban-the-2nd-court-to-fully-block-the-action

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 338 comments

Show HN: End-to-end encrypted location sharing service like Google Latitude

https://www.zood.xyz/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 123 comments

Nannou – A Creative Coding Framework for Rust

https://nannou.cc/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 25 comments

80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming

https://www.nme.com/news/music/82-per-cent-of-musicians-earn-less-than-200-a-year-from-streaming-2833510

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 242 comments

We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0

https://terminusdb.com/blog/2020/12/08/we-love-gplv3-but-are-switching-license-to-apache-2-0-terminusdb/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 246 comments

Rebekah Jones' house raided at gunpoint

https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 42 comments

Building a scalable e-commerce data model

https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/ecommerce-data-model

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 25 comments

An unemployed trader who became a $700M exile

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/the-unemployed-trader-who-became-a-700-million-cum-ex-exile

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 96 comments

Etsy was a twee culture punchline, now it’s a Wall Street darling

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/business/etsy-masks-wall-street.html

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 163 comments

My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/opinion/esther-salas-murder-federal-judges.html

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 189 comments

Poor evidence that Q-tips are harmful

https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/on-the-exciting-subject-of-earwax

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 167 comments

Kubernetes 1.20

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/08/kubernetes-1-20-release-announcement/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 67 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory – EDIPARTYNAME null pointer de-reference

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20201208.txt

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 56 comments

Florida Agents Raid Home of Rebekah Jones, Former State Data Scientist

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944200394/florida-agents-raid-home-of-rebekah-jones-former-state-data-scientist

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off

https://askjerry.substack.com/p/follow-your-curiosity-read-your-ass

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 34 comments

Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/coronavirus/coronavirus-could-push-more-1-billion-people-extreme-poverty-174057

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 193 comments

Measuring "efficiency" in document prepration: Microsoft Word vs. LaTex

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20201206-msword.html

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 157 comments

What We Know of Sappho

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/12/08/what-we-know-of-sappho/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/technology/fireeye-hacked-russians.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 1 comments

A QR code built from Emoji

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/a-qr-code-built-from-emoji/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments
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