2316
827
Google outage – resolved
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989
5 years ago
669
224
Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html
632
329
U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/u-s-treasury-commerce-depts-hacked-through-solarwinds-compromise/
630
338
Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/07/friends-remember-microsoft-renegade-eric-engstrom-who-suggested-a-directx-console/
602
431
Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
https://www.reddit.com/r/LambdaSchool/comments/kb87od/lambda_school_is_the_biggest_mistake_i_made_this/
456
145
Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
https://write.privacytools.io/freddy/why-privacy-matters-even-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide
424
80
Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary
https://books-search.typesense.org/
390
349
Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/night-trains-europe-sleeper-obb/index.html
373
276
FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/12/ftc-issues-orders-nine-social-media-video-streaming-services-0
367
457
Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development
https://tech.ssut.me/apple-m1-chip-benchmarks-focused-on-the-real-world-programming/
364
523
Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content
352
124
Police say civil asset forfeiture reduces crime – new study shows they’re wrong
https://www.propublica.org/article/police-say-seizing-property-without-trial-helps-keep-crime-down-a-new-study-shows-theyre-wrong
339
130
The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-cleverest-floppy-disc-protection.html
307
105
“This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life”
https://github.com/amzn/selling-partner-api-docs/issues/180
278
221
Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
https://singularityhub.com/2020/12/11/europes-biggest-vertical-farm-will-be-powered-by-wind-and-planted-by-robots/
271
300
Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-is-getting-left-behind-due-to-horrible-ui-ux/
262
133
Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/12/14/provenance.html
261
305
Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-thermal-underwear.html
243
112
SwiftUI tutorials rewritten completely
https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/app-dev-training
241
25
How Video Works
https://howvideo.works
Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died