top 50% 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

Olbers' Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox#:~:text=In%20astrophysics%20and%20physical%20cosmology,infinite%20and%20eternal%20static%20universe.

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 81 comments

How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-pfizer-delivered-a-covid-vaccine-in-record-time-crazy-deadlines-a-pushy-ceo-11607740483

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 218 comments

AlphaFold2 at CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.”

https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/alphafold2-casp14-it-feels-like-ones-child-has-left-home/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: I wrote a book about Debugging CSS

http://debuggingcss.com/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 31 comments

Facebook Profits as Users Are Ripped Off by Scam Ads

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ad-scams-revenue-china-tiktok-vietnam

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 49 comments

Risk-First Software Development

https://riskfirst.org

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 40 comments

Periodic table of the web's APIs

http://wwwperiodictable.surge.sh/?hn5

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

Germany's State Distance-Learning University

https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 116 comments

Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system

https://vectorized.io/blog/tpc-buffers/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 36 comments

Re: Flex Dance: open-source dance pad

https://reflex.dance/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/529942-twitter-prevents-users-from-liking-replying-to-trumps-tweets-about-stolen

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 280 comments

Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison

https://www.highgo.ca/2020/12/08/bulk-loading-into-postgresql-options-and-comparison/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 28 comments

Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55285805

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

The HP-35

http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 62 comments

Understanding mRNA Covid-19 vaccines

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 99 comments

ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/12/11/arm-macbook-vs-intel-macbook/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 100 comments

Google Cloud: $72,000 bill overnight

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

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 93 comments

Reverse Engineering the TP-Link HS110

https://www.softscheck.com/en/reverse-engineering-tp-link-hs110/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Gamers allege EA uses dynamic difficulty adjustment so players spend more money

https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/electronic-arts-fifa-madden-nhl-lawsuit-dynamic-difficulty-adjustment.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 97 comments

Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with real-time collab (2018)

https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lessons-learned-from-creating-a-rich-text-editor-with-real-time-collaboration/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Molly

https://thevolta.org/im-bbutler.html

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Uhubctl – control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs

https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Yo WASM – The Easy Way to WebAssembly

https://deislabs.io/posts/introducing-yo-wasm/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 2 comments

“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C

https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1728174

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone working on a less painful intubation tube?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25395314

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 41 comments

Naked Yoga videos don’t violate Community Guidelines says YouTube

https://www.sausageroll.com.au/tech/naked-yoga-videos-dont-violate-community-guidelines-says-youtube/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading

https://www.sentiatechblog.com/aws-re-invent-2020-day-3-optimizing-lambda-cost-with-multi-threading

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

The unexpected rule of adjectival ordering in English (2016)

https://qz.com/773738/how-non-english-speakers-are-taught-this-crazy-english-grammar-rule-you-know-but-youve-never-heard-of/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 101 comments

Why I Wrote “The Crucible” (1996)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/10/21/why-i-wrote-the-crucible

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 86 comments

I've designed Python fantasy cards to learn it easier

https://summonthejson.com/products/summon-the-json-python-deck

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 42 comments

Stressed banks: evidence from the largest-ever supervisory review [pdf]

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/cfr/working-papers/2020/cfr-wp2020-06.pdf

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 80 comments
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