top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-12

I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel

https://alaa.blog/2020/12/how-i-hacked-facebook-part-one/

5 years ago

669 upvotes – 290 comments

Chrome Is Bad

https://chromeisbad.com/

5 years ago

651 upvotes – 290 comments

Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can

https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/2020/longest-known-exposure-photograph-ever-captured-using-a-beer-can

5 years ago

610 upvotes – 107 comments

Johnny.Decimal

https://johnnydecimal.com/

5 years ago

531 upvotes – 187 comments

Become Shell Literate

https://drewdevault.com/2020/12/12/Shell-literacy.html

5 years ago

512 upvotes – 330 comments

Earnestness

http://paulgraham.com/earnest.html

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 439 comments

SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights

https://ij.org/press-release/u-s-supreme-court-rules-unanimously-you-may-sue-government-agents-for-damages-when-they-violate-your-individual-rights/

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 167 comments

Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397339

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 304 comments

GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark

https://blog.karenying.com/posts/github-darkmode-sucks

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 194 comments

Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

https://dangoldin.com/2020/12/11/amazon-owns-more-than-2b-worth-of-ipv4-addresses/

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 357 comments

Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music

https://happymag.tv/dragonforce-guitarist-twitch-ban/

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 125 comments

Buy Don't Build

https://jrott.com/posts/why-buy/

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 218 comments

Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS

https://www.servethehome.com/red-hat-goes-full-ibm-and-says-farewell-to-centos/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 318 comments

Chinese authorities detain Bloomberg News staff member

https://www.axios.com/china-government-bloomberg-news-arrest-journalist-5016b770-6ece-476d-a108-653a0667ece9.html

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 47 comments

FDA Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First Covid-19 Vaccine

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-takes-key-action-fight-against-covid-19-issuing-emergency-use-authorization-first-covid-19

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 228 comments

How the novel coronavirus has evolved

https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/EVOLUTION/yxmpjqkdzvr/index.html

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 122 comments

Imgdiff: Faster than the fastest pixel-by-pixel image difference tool

https://github.com/n7olkachev/imgdiff

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 62 comments

I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years

https://framelabs.eu/en/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 82 comments

Writing a Memory Allocator (2019)

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/compilers/writing-a-memory-allocator/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers

https://usedevbook.com

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 52 comments
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