top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-16

Firefox Was Always Enough

https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-enough.html

5 years ago

1000 upvotes – 586 comments

States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/admin/2020/Press/20201216%20COMPLAINT_REDACTED.pdf

5 years ago

860 upvotes – 501 comments

Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder

https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky

5 years ago

★ 9.5k
833 upvotes – 533 comments

I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

https://i3wm.org/

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 443 comments

Blob Opera

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/AAHWrq360NcGbw

5 years ago

456 upvotes – 59 comments

A computer science study plan to become a software engineer

https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

5 years ago

★ 342.7k CC-BY-SA-4.0
374 upvotes – 216 comments

Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday

https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/elderly-emergency-surgery-patients-23-more-likely-to-die-if-operation-takes-place-on-surgeons-birthday/

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 208 comments

Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs

https://annoying.technology/posts/86f4ea27e4cd90d0/

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 317 comments

Vercel raise $40M Series B

https://vercel.com/blog/series-b-40m-to-build-the-next-web

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 197 comments

FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test

https://www.axios.com/fda-authorizes-rapid-at-home-coronavirus-test-85012e02-6c4f-4d98-be7d-8334d85a6c4c.html

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 262 comments

Centering in CSS

https://web.dev/centering-in-css/

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 160 comments

A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)

https://dwheeler.com/chess-openings/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 132 comments

Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/d/mountain-view-jet-powered-volkswagen/7241823593.html

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 105 comments

Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

https://jonas.github.io/tig/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 96 comments

Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06884

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 105 comments

Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble

https://dyno-might.github.io/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box-fan-air-purifier/

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 144 comments

Amazon Location Service

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-location-add-maps-and-location-awareness-to-your-applications/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 94 comments

LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract

https://newatlas.com/military/liquidpiston-rotary-x-engine-army-generator/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 130 comments

The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-55330945

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 157 comments

Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1

https://www.docker.com/blog/download-and-try-the-tech-preview-of-docker-desktop-for-m1/

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 228 comments

Bitcoin breaks above $20k

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bitcoin-hits-record-above-%2420k-as-analysts-remain-confident-of-future-2020-12-16

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 452 comments

GTK 4.0 Released

https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 151 comments

Google Finance Finally Updated

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GOOG:NASDAQ

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 139 comments

Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25441664

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 204 comments

Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/16/22178068/facebook-apple-newspaper-ads-ios-privacy-changes

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 185 comments

A new release for GNU Octave

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/840050/47a639d7753cc988/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 90 comments

Google, Facebook Had Illegal Deal to Rig Ad Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/google-sued-by-texas-over-abuse-of-dominance-in-antitrust-case

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Analytics Opt Out

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 172 comments

I Regret Quitting Astrophysics

http://www.marcelhaas.com/index.php/2020/12/16/i-regret-quitting-astrophysics/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 140 comments

State of Rust Survey 2020 results

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/12/16/rust-survey-2020.html

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 43 comments

Zero to Emacs and Org-roam: a step-by-step guide on Windows 10

https://github.com/nobiot/Zero-to-Emacs-and-Org-roam

5 years ago

★ 648
186 upvotes – 56 comments

SolarWinds leaked FTP credentials through a public GitHub repo since 2018

https://www.savebreach.com/solarwinds-exposed-ftp-credentials-back-in-2018-says-security-researcher-vinoth/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 92 comments

When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet

https://glinden.blogspot.com/2020/12/when-will-virtual-reality-take-off-100.html

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 404 comments

Getting started with C

https://not.cafe/2020/10/12/getting-started-with-c-programming.html

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 103 comments

Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/why-postgres/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 57 comments

Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/brazil-scientists-map-forest-regrowth-keeping-amazon-from-collapse-study/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 108 comments

Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/28/child-safety-laws-may-reduce-the-birth-rate

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 386 comments

Sequoia PGP 1.0 Released: The Seedling Is a Sapling

https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2020/12/16/202012-1.0/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 57 comments

A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win back control of its ccTLD

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/niue-nu-internet-domain-reclaim-2020-12

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 73 comments

SaaSy Math: A Resource of SaaS Metrics for Your Startup

https://www.talkinsaasy.com/saasy-math

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 9 comments

January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2021/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 55 comments

Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/16/poverty-rising/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 264 comments

WireGuard Bounce Server Setup

https://gitlab.com/ncmncm/wireguard-bounce-server/-/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

★ 20
123 upvotes – 79 comments

Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+

https://montemagno.com/building-an-at-home-diy-spin-bike-for-peloton-apple-fitness/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 89 comments

bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree

https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm

5 years ago

★ 8.2k C BSD-2-Clause
121 upvotes – 31 comments

RoboScan: Lego+Raspberry Pi-powered analog film roll scanner

https://github.com/bezineb5/RoboScan#roboscan

5 years ago

★ 231 TypeScript GPL-3.0
115 upvotes – 34 comments

Github: Token authentication requirements for Git operations

https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 64 comments

Covid-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/covid-19-10-times-deadlier-people-down-syndrome-raising-calls-early-vaccination

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/fifty-years-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-didn-t-trickle-down-study-says

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

Scale is a fantastic book on the hidden order of complex systems

https://thinkthinkthink.substack.com/p/scale-by-geoffrey-west

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

Oso – open-source policy engine for authorization in Rust

https://github.com/osohq/oso

5 years ago

★ 3.4k Rust Apache-2.0
98 upvotes – 35 comments

NASA's Through-Hole Workmanship Req (2002)

https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sections/601%20General%20Requirements.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Debian CD Image for AArch64 Windows Laptops

https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/debian-cdimage

5 years ago

★ 85 Shell
93 upvotes – 36 comments

The demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2020.0008

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 100 comments

On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf]

https://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/educ/dijk/EWD1036.v4.pdf

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 120 comments

Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High

https://www.livecoinwatch.com/price/Bitcoin-BTC

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 139 comments

CentOS dropped because it “was not [..] providing [..] usefulness to Red Hat”

https://www.itprotoday.com/linux/community-concerns-prompt-red-hat-drop-centos-centos-stream

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 121 comments
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