top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-17

No Cookie for You

https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

5 years ago

2941 upvotes – 609 comments

Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

http://blog.kevmod.com/2020/12/amazon-disallows-pointing-out-paid-reviews/

5 years ago

1086 upvotes – 479 comments

Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458033

5 years ago

545 upvotes – 339 comments

Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware

https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio

5 years ago

476 upvotes – 92 comments

SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 299 comments

Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077

http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2020/12/hallucinations-re-rendering-of.html

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 204 comments

51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities

https://thechief.io/c/news/51-4-million-docker-images-have-critical-vulnerabilities/

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 170 comments

Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/16/facebook-full-page-ad

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 185 comments

Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years

https://stripe.com/blog/payment-api-design

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 71 comments

Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/17/apple-has-stopped-providing-standalone-installers-for-macos-updates/

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 141 comments

Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles

https://newatlas.com/medical/biomarker-alzheimers-protein-sleep-cycles-rhythm/

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 171 comments

Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 88 comments

Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration

https://aeon.co/essays/playing-chess-is-an-essential-life-lesson-in-concentration

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 124 comments

The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-10/stock-market-when-oil-when-negative-these-essex-traders-pounced

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 105 comments

GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

https://github.com/Opticos/GWSL-Source

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 129 comments

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-cyber-breach-exclusive-int-idUSKBN28R3E2

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 183 comments

How I Met My Wife (1994)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-wife

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 125 comments

DRY Is a Trade-Off

https://orbifold.xyz/dry-trade-off.html

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 233 comments

Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/vonnegut-shapes

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 46 comments

FreeBSD src repository is transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2020-December/077858.html

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 74 comments
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