top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-17

No Cookie for You

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

5 years ago

Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

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

5 years ago

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

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

5 years ago

Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware

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

5 years ago

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

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

5 years ago

51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities

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

5 years ago

Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077

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

5 years ago

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

Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years

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

5 years ago

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

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

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

5 years ago

Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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

5 years ago

Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration

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

5 years ago

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

GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

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

5 years ago

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

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

5 years ago

How I Met My Wife (1994)

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

5 years ago

DRY Is a Trade-Off

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

5 years ago

Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories

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

5 years ago

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

Zstandard v1.4.7

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.7

5 years ago

A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night

https://futurism.com/new-satellite-buildings-day-night

5 years ago

Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4601

5 years ago

Show HN: Make comic book layouts in the browser

https://andrewfulrich.gitlab.io/panelle/

5 years ago

MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1730358

5 years ago

Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28R0ZL

5 years ago

Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement-b140a9dfc9f5

5 years ago

Do It Yourself Bookbinding

http://www.diybookbinding.com/

5 years ago

Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS

https://plausible.io/blog/building-open-source

5 years ago

Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes

https://www.latimes.com/projects/toxic-chemicals-planes-covid-19-travel-woes/

5 years ago

Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/tech/google-timnit-gebru-ethical-ai-letter/index.html

5 years ago

A case study on strict null checks

https://www.figma.com/blog/inside-figma-a-case-study-on-strict-null-checks/

5 years ago

The Smalltalk Zoo

https://computerhistory.org/blog/introducing-the-smalltalk-zoo-48-years-of-smalltalk-history-at-chm/

5 years ago

Emails show Navy's 'UFO' patents went through significant internal review

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37134/emails-show-navys-ufo-patents-went-through-significant-internal-review-resulted-in-a-demo

5 years ago

Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/resources/statecharts.pdf

5 years ago

Philosophy of the GNU Project (2018)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

5 years ago

Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

https://stumblingon.com

5 years ago

Commits are shapshots, not diffs

https://github.blog/2020-12-17-commits-are-shapshots-not-diffs/

5 years ago

Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers

https://newatlas.com/medical/uncalled-faster-dna-sequencing-nanopore/

5 years ago

Creative Code-Generated Art

https://www.editorx.com/shaping-design/article/creative-coding

5 years ago

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

5 years ago

Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-352a

5 years ago

Airflow 2.0

http://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-two-point-oh-is-here/

5 years ago

Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-created-time-reversed-waves-of-light

5 years ago

Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/340000-surrealist-painting-was-found-recycling-bin-180976542/

5 years ago

Launch HN: ShareWith (YC W21) – Easily share internal websites securely

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457085

5 years ago

L-System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

5 years ago

Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica

https://www.accessnow.org/facebook-twitter-youtube-stop-silencing-critical-voices-mena/

5 years ago

The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook

https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/facebook-stolen-antiquities-art-black-market.html

5 years ago

How to let go of a lifelong dream

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-let-go-of-a-lifelong-dream-and-redirect-your-passion

5 years ago

Static Calls in Linux 5.10

https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/12/16/Static-calls-in-Linux-5-10

5 years ago

Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (1964) [pdf]

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf

5 years ago

Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (2017)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/22/richard-ford-do-we-really-need-friends

5 years ago

More information on the plant disturbance at Olkiluoto 2

https://www.tvo.fi/en/index/news/pressreleasesstockexchangereleases/2020/moreinformationontheplantdisturbanceatolkiluoto2.html

5 years ago

Show HN: Cimbar – File transfer via color barcodes and the Android camera

https://github.com/sz3/libcimbar

5 years ago

Map of quotation marks in European languages

https://jakubmarian.com/map-of-quotation-marks-in-european-languages/

5 years ago

Show HN: Deep learning tool that repairs damaged/faded photos

https://hotpot.ai/restore-picture?s=hn

5 years ago

When free software isn't practically superior (2015)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when-free-software-isnt-practically-superior.html

5 years ago