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
239
237
Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/12/should-there-be-limits-on-persuasive-technologies.html
236
176
Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417210
223
114
Coordinated disclosure of XML roundtrip vulnerabilities in Go’s standard library
https://mattermost.com/blog/coordinated-disclosure-go-xml-vulnerabilities/
201
93
Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (2015)
https://web.archive.org/web/20151217205414/http://www.exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php
200
144
The science of addiction: Do you always like the things you want?
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55221825
187
244
A Defer Mechanism for C
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a-defer-mechanism-for-c/
185
209
Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (2017)
https://www.quantcast.com/blog/death-by-1000-layers-the-perils-of-over-abstraction-in-java/
181
167
We need legal controls on web advertising
https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/14/google_manifest_plugin_opinion/
175
Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/tech/reddit-dubsmash/index.html
168
39
Show HN: Keytap2 – acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on n-gram frequencies
https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio/discussions/31
154
117
Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)
http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
153
29
How we built scalable spatial indexing in CockroachDB
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-spatial-indexing/
152
18
Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
http://www.windytan.com/2020/12/plotting-patterns-in-music-with-fantasy.html
150
173
Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sweeping-new-digital-database-emphasizes-enslaved-peoples-individuality-180976513
147
EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55300362
148
128
Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/slack-is-the-right-tool-for-the-wrong-way-to-work
146
42
Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?
https://spreadprivacy.com/one-click-away/
142
67
SolarWinds exposed FTP credentials in Public Github Repo: US Government Breach
https://savebreach.com/solarwinds-credentials-exposure-led-to-us-government-fireye-breach/
141
36
Code Points
https://github.com/Codepoints/awesome-codepoints
140
86
Show HN: I built a comprehensive Ark ETF tracker
https://cathiesark.com/
195
An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006531/The%20AI%20Girlfriend%20Seducing%20China%E2%80%99s%20Lonely%20Men/
131
New version of Apple-1 DIY kits start shipping
https://mailchi.mp/smartykit.io/project-update-december-all
127
19
Show HN: Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust
https://github.com/mattsse/chromiumoxide
134
What Did the Past Smell Like?
http://nautil.us/issue/93/forerunners/what-did-the-past-smell-like
88
Ultra High Resolution Photos of Snowflakes
https://smosa.com/cool-ultra-high-resolution-photos-of-snowflakes-because-science/
122
56
Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform
https://capiche.fm
111
100
Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-green-recovery-gdp-cambridge-economists.html
107
57
Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing
https://quixoticnomad.blog/technical-copywriting-what-engineers-can-learn-from-apples-m1-macbook-marketing-campaign/
102
SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/how-seo-is-gentrifying-the-internet
101
31
World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster
https://graphics.reuters.com/CLIMATE-CHANGE/ICEBERG/yzdvxjrbzvx/index.html
97
81
Best online communities for software developers
https://thehiveindex.com/topics/software-development/
90
Cardio fitness notifications are available today on Apple Watch
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/12/cardio-fitness-notifications-are-available-today-on-apple-watch/
16
Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (2015)
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html
87
21
The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN
https://programaudioseries.com/the-program-results-2/
8
The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords (2014) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q
85
32
Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization
http://bostonreview.net/arts-society/mugambi-jouet-reading-camus-time-plague-and-polarization
