top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-18

Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/czech-startup-founders-turn-billionaires-without-vc-help

5 years ago

1245 upvotes – 514 comments

I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/i-have-resigned-from-the-google-amp-advisory-committee/

5 years ago

745 upvotes – 314 comments

Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020

http://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20013#20013004

5 years ago

729 upvotes – 198 comments

Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature

https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/facebook-criticising-apples-ios-14

5 years ago

671 upvotes – 420 comments

Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide

https://reason.com/2020/12/17/justin-amash-introduces-bill-to-end-civil-asset-forfeiture-nationwide/

5 years ago

615 upvotes – 171 comments

I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months

https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 374 comments

Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/cyberpunk-2077-refunds/

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 618 comments

It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/it-took-two-days-to-develop-modernas-vaccine/

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 323 comments

Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET

https://twitter.com/zarfeblong/status/1339742840142872577

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 187 comments

Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hacked-officials-inform-congress-447855

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 211 comments

John Carmack: Career Advice

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1339777933871865857

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 169 comments

The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 261 comments

What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014)

https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 194 comments

Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo

https://www.skepdoc.info/ian-harris-on-surgery-the-ultimate-placebo/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 198 comments

Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/12/18/analyzing-solorigate-the-compromised-dll-file-that-started-a-sophisticated-cyberattack-and-how-microsoft-defender-helps-protect/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 143 comments

Ganja.js: Geometric Algebra Generator for JavaScript, C++, C#, Rust, Python

https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 83 comments

How to Find Focus

https://thesephist.com/posts/focus/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 37 comments

Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 55 comments

mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug?

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6523/1388.full

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 206 comments

Possible Radio Emission from Exoplanet Detected

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/12/cornell-postdoc-detects-possible-exoplanet-radio-emission

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 84 comments
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