2941
609
No Cookie for You
https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
5 years ago
1086
479
Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
http://blog.kevmod.com/2020/12/amazon-disallows-pointing-out-paid-reviews/
545
339
Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458033
476
92
Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware
https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
457
299
SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321
333
170
51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities
https://thechief.io/c/news/51-4-million-docker-images-have-critical-vulnerabilities/
204
Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2020/12/hallucinations-re-rendering-of.html
325
185
Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/16/facebook-full-page-ad
309
71
Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
https://stripe.com/blog/payment-api-design
289
141
Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/17/apple-has-stopped-providing-standalone-installers-for-macos-updates/
270
171
Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles
https://newatlas.com/medical/biomarker-alzheimers-protein-sleep-cycles-rhythm/
265
88
Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages/
229
124
Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration
https://aeon.co/essays/playing-chess-is-an-essential-life-lesson-in-concentration
228
105
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
223
129
GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL
https://github.com/Opticos/GWSL-Source
219
183
Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-cyber-breach-exclusive-int-idUSKBN28R3E2
217
125
How I Met My Wife (1994)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-wife
216
233
DRY Is a Trade-Off
https://orbifold.xyz/dry-trade-off.html
213
46
Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories
https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/vonnegut-shapes
212
74
FreeBSD src repository is transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2020-December/077858.html
211
73
Zstandard v1.4.7
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.7
194
89
A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night
https://futurism.com/new-satellite-buildings-day-night
193
337
Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4601
192
34
Show HN: Make comic book layouts in the browser
https://andrewfulrich.gitlab.io/panelle/
191
166
MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1730358
184
139
Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28R0ZL
182
135
Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement-b140a9dfc9f5
177
47
Do It Yourself Bookbinding
http://www.diybookbinding.com/
173
41
Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
https://plausible.io/blog/building-open-source
121
Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes
https://www.latimes.com/projects/toxic-chemicals-planes-covid-19-travel-woes/
169
405
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
112
A case study on strict null checks
https://www.figma.com/blog/inside-figma-a-case-study-on-strict-null-checks/
163
61
The Smalltalk Zoo
https://computerhistory.org/blog/introducing-the-smalltalk-zoo-48-years-of-smalltalk-history-at-chm/
155
164
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
142
64
Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/resources/statecharts.pdf
138
113
Philosophy of the GNU Project (2018)
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon
https://stumblingon.com
136
150
Commits are shapshots, not diffs
https://github.blog/2020-12-17-commits-are-shapshots-not-diffs/
134
53
Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers
https://newatlas.com/medical/uncalled-faster-dna-sequencing-nanopore/
38
Creative Code-Generated Art
https://www.editorx.com/shaping-design/article/creative-coding
154
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/
132
Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-352a
79
Airflow 2.0
http://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-two-point-oh-is-here/
119
45
Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-created-time-reversed-waves-of-light
116
59
Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/340000-surrealist-painting-was-found-recycling-bin-180976542/
22
Launch HN: ShareWith (YC W21) – Easily share internal websites securely
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457085
17
L-System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
66
Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica
https://www.accessnow.org/facebook-twitter-youtube-stop-silencing-critical-voices-mena/
104
28
The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook
https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/facebook-stolen-antiquities-art-black-market.html
102
60
How to let go of a lifelong dream
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-let-go-of-a-lifelong-dream-and-redirect-your-passion
98
20
Static Calls in Linux 5.10
https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/12/16/Static-calls-in-Linux-5-10
97
33
Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (1964) [pdf]
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf
82
Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/22/richard-ford-do-we-really-need-friends
More information on the plant disturbance at Olkiluoto 2
https://www.tvo.fi/en/index/news/pressreleasesstockexchangereleases/2020/moreinformationontheplantdisturbanceatolkiluoto2.html
87
26
Show HN: Cimbar – File transfer via color barcodes and the Android camera
https://github.com/sz3/libcimbar
85
Map of quotation marks in European languages
https://jakubmarian.com/map-of-quotation-marks-in-european-languages/
83
23
Show HN: Deep learning tool that repairs damaged/faded photos
https://hotpot.ai/restore-picture?s=hn
107
When free software isn't practically superior (2015)
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when-free-software-isnt-practically-superior.html
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says