top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-10

Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/facebook-hit-with-antitrust-probe-for-tying-oculus-use-to-facebook-accounts/

5 years ago

752 upvotes – 237 comments

A former Uber engineer's disaster story

https://twitter.com/StanTwinB/status/1336890442768547845

5 years ago

710 upvotes – 332 comments

Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372464

5 years ago

647 upvotes – 313 comments

The Airbnbs

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-airbnbs/

5 years ago

623 upvotes – 494 comments

Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/10/cydia-apple-lawsuit/

5 years ago

535 upvotes – 443 comments

Pointer Pointer (2012)

https://pointerpointer.com/

5 years ago

455 upvotes – 64 comments

How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/users-lightbulb.html

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 177 comments

Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 238 comments

Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/wall-street-begins-trading-water-futures-as-a-commodity

5 years ago

378 upvotes – 479 comments

New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform

https://blog.pixielabs.ai/pixie-new-relic/

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 63 comments

Free to download public domain art, posters and illustrations

https://artvee.com/?

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 32 comments

After centuries, a seemingly simple math problem gets an exact solution

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-centuries-old-grazing-goat-problem-exactly-20201209/

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25377696

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 105 comments

Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-1/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 388 comments

Google Stories

http://stories.google

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 242 comments

Mojeek: Independent search engine with its own spider

https://www.mojeek.com

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 139 comments

A 73-year-old Japanese artist took YouTube by storm

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/09/asia/shibasaki-japan-youtube-star-spc-intl/index.html

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 52 comments

Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ema-cyber/hackers-steal-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-data-in-europe-companies-say-idUSKBN28J2Q7

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 176 comments

The Future of Clojure

https://www.thoughtworks.com/podcasts/future-clojure

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 293 comments

Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi

https://www.google.com/search?q=emacs

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 82 comments

French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookies rules

https://fr.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28K0NA

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 140 comments

Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/lenovo_seeks_to_render_nokias/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Losing all interest in programming, what now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25374140

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 166 comments

Am I Disabled?

https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-it-mean-to-consider-yourself-a-disabled-person

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 233 comments

MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites unlawful content

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pornhub-mastercard/mastercard-to-stop-processing-payments-on-pornhub-cites-unlawful-content-idUSKBN28K30C

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 329 comments

Common Expression Language

https://github.com/google/cel-spec

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 106 comments

Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprinting easier

https://palant.info/2020/12/10/how-anti-fingerprinting-extensions-tend-to-make-fingerprinting-easier/

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 146 comments

Adobe has released the last Flash update ever

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/9/22166160/adobe-last-flash-player-update-support-ending-december

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 159 comments

Vim Creep (2011)

https://rudism.com/vim-creep/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 167 comments

Morgan Stanley to Shift About $120B of Assets to Germany

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/morgan-stanley-to-shift-about-120-billion-of-assets-to-germany

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 183 comments

Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week

https://www.coryzue.com/writing/black-friday/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 42 comments

Weather Service faces bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/09/nws-data-limits-internet-bandwidth/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 168 comments

Debugging WebAssembly with Modern Tools

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/12/webassembly

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 25 comments

CentOS Linux is dead–and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 137 comments

Getting our first thousand users in one day

https://francescodilorenzo.com/typefully-launch

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 55 comments

Open Security Training: open license training material for computer security

https://opensecuritytraining.info/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 31 comments

AR with SceneKit and Metal

https://emillindfors.com/blog/2020-12/ar-with-scenekit-and-metal/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 43 comments

A guide to product analytics tools for startups

https://satchel.com/web-analytics/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 27 comments

IMAP API – self hosted daemon to access IMAP and SMTP accounts via HTTP API

https://github.com/andris9/imapapi

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

A New Take on RSS

https://findka.com/blog/new-take-on-rss/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 33 comments

Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/honeybees-use-tools-dung-repels-giant-hornets/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 33 comments

A New species of whale has been discovered off the western coast of Mexico

https://www.thevast.net/post/breaking-new-species-of-whale-discovered

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

Brave Complies With Apple iOS Guidelines

https://brave.com/rewards-ios/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 172 comments

Coronavirus kills more people in the US in one day than on September 11

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-10/coronavirus-us-marks-deadliest-day-since-september-11/12953842

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 102 comments

Can developer productivity be measured?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/12/07/measuring-developer-productivity/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 150 comments

More Americans are shoplifting food

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/10/pandemic-shoplifting-hunger/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 147 comments

California judge says L.A. officials 'arbitrarily' set outdoor dining ban

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/12/08/california-judge-says-la-officials-arbitrarily-set-outdoor-dining-ban-9424881

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 134 comments

Canada's 350-year-old department store Hudson's Bay locked out by landlords

https://www.timescolonist.com/business/hudson-s-bay-in-coquitlam-closes-as-other-hbc-stores-stop-paying-rent-1.24243453

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 128 comments

Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-hide-web-skimmer-inside-a-websites-css-files/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 78 comments

The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (1971)

http://www.thestacksreader.com/the-making-of-the-godfather-sort-of-a-home-movie/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 6 comments

Cyberpunk 2077 a 'warning' about the future

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-55247702

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 116 comments

The Solar Storm of 2012

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

CentOS Stream, or Debian?

https://jonathancarter.org/2020/12/10/centos-stream-or-debian/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 96 comments

The CentOS Project Just Committed Suicide

https://fosspost.org/centos-project-suicide/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Crossminds.ai – A knowledge graph indexed AI research video library

https://crossminds.ai/explore/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 7 comments
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