top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-15

Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH

5 years ago

657 upvotes – 487 comments

Gmail having issues

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab

5 years ago

644 upvotes – 432 comments

Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/apples-anti-tracking-plans-iphone/

5 years ago

591 upvotes – 386 comments

Firefox 84.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/84.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

565 upvotes – 315 comments

Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year

https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-us/

5 years ago

503 upvotes – 493 comments

Minimal safe Bash script template

https://betterdev.blog/minimal-safe-bash-script-template/

5 years ago

494 upvotes – 276 comments

AWS CloudShell

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloudshell-command-line-access-to-aws-resources/

5 years ago

443 upvotes – 230 comments

Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25434753

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 210 comments

Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact

https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/lonely-people-have-a-unique-brain-signature-perhaps-due-to-so-much-imagined-social-contact/

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 246 comments

EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55318225

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 319 comments

Shitlist Driven Development (2016)

https://sirupsen.com/shitlists/

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 137 comments

EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-unveil-landmark-law-curbing-power-of-tech-giants/a-55939862

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 367 comments

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 229 comments

Scientists tracked down a mass killer of salmon

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/climate/salmon-kill-washington.html

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 148 comments

SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES

https://www.shironekolabs.com/posts/superrt/

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 74 comments

Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal

https://signal.org/blog/group-calls/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 117 comments

Sponsoring Open Source Developers

https://cognitect.com/blog/2020/12/15/sponsoring-open-source-developers

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 73 comments

CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/12/call-transcript_en.pdf

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 657 comments

What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries

https://eigenfoo.xyz/tensor-computation-libraries/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 85 comments

Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/12/welcome-yari-mdn-web-docs-has-a-new-platform/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 107 comments
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