top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-12-13

Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys

https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API

5 years ago

869 upvotes – 422 comments

U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-amazon-com-exclsuive/u-s-treasury-breached-by-hackers-backed-by-foreign-government-sources-idUSKBN28N0PG

5 years ago

773 upvotes – 362 comments

Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz

https://computer.rip/2020-11-28%20the%20verboten%20band.html

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 165 comments

If-then-else had to be invented

https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 248 comments

The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system

https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 344 comments

Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber

https://abooklikefoo.com/escape/

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 254 comments

John le Carré has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 136 comments

Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 215 comments

Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants

https://macwright.com/2020/12/04/sharrows.html

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 400 comments

A leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6215946537001

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 91 comments
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