top 50% 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

Gmail having issues

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

5 years ago

Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone

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

5 years ago

Firefox 84.0

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

5 years ago

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

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

5 years ago

Minimal safe Bash script template

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

5 years ago

AWS CloudShell

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

5 years ago

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

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

5 years ago

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

EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech

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

5 years ago

Shitlist Driven Development (2016)

https://sirupsen.com/shitlists/

5 years ago

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

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

Scientists tracked down a mass killer of salmon

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

5 years ago

SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES

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

5 years ago

Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal

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

5 years ago

Sponsoring Open Source Developers

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

5 years ago

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

What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries

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

5 years ago

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

PINE64 December Update

https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/15/december-update-the-longest-one-yet/

5 years ago

App privacy labels now live on the App Store

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3wann9gh

5 years ago

AWS Fault Injection Simulator

https://aws.amazon.com/fis/

5 years ago

Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse

https://github.com/google/mundane

5 years ago

Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44981013

5 years ago

The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/the-biggest-competitor-to-your-digital-service-the-mars-bar/

5 years ago

Amazon Managed Service for Grafana

http://aws.amazon.com/grafana

5 years ago

REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better

https://42papers.com/p/rest-vs-graphql-a-controlled-experiment

5 years ago

Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads

https://studio.polotno.dev/

5 years ago

A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55016453

5 years ago

Legally Free Python Books List

https://www.pythonkitchen.com/legally-free-python-books-list/

5 years ago

Neverware is now part of Google

https://cloudreadykb.neverware.com/s/article/Neverware-is-now-part-of-Google-FAQ

5 years ago

Understanding ProRAW

https://blog.halide.cam/understanding-proraw-4eed556d4c54

5 years ago

Saudi Arabia applied for diplomatic immunity for ten security guards in Norway

https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/the-saudi-security-team-to-norway/73159458

5 years ago

Preliminary Incident Statement

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20013

5 years ago

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

https://aws.amazon.com/prometheus/

5 years ago

Kate is 20 years old

https://kate-editor.org/post/2020/2020-12-14-kate-is-20-years-old/

5 years ago

Farewell, Periscope

https://periscope.medium.com/farewell-periscope-164db2742b7c

5 years ago

Visa and MasterCard Are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-are-trying-dictate-what-you-can-watch-pornhub

5 years ago

Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020

https://oceansasia.org/covid-19-facemasks/

5 years ago

Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/

5 years ago

Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/635709/when-italian-futurists-tried-ban-pasta

5 years ago

Show HN: Offline-First Personal Kanban

https://personalkanban.js.org/showcase.html

5 years ago

Free software needs free documentation

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html

5 years ago