1245
514
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
745
314
I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/i-have-resigned-from-the-google-amp-advisory-committee/
729
198
Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
http://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20013#20013004
671
420
Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/facebook-criticising-apples-ios-14
615
171
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/
425
374
I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months
https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/
379
618
Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/cyberpunk-2077-refunds/
360
323
It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/it-took-two-days-to-develop-modernas-vaccine/
326
187
Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET
https://twitter.com/zarfeblong/status/1339742840142872577
295
211
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hacked-officials-inform-congress-447855
274
169
John Carmack: Career Advice
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1339777933871865857
261
The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review
269
194
What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014)
https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html
Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo
https://www.skepdoc.info/ian-harris-on-surgery-the-ultimate-placebo/
253
143
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/
212
37
How to Find Focus
https://thesephist.com/posts/focus/
83
Ganja.js: Geometric Algebra Generator for JavaScript, C++, C#, Rust, Python
https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js
206
55
Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean
201
mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug?
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6523/1388.full
199
84
Possible Radio Emission from Exoplanet Detected
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/12/cornell-postdoc-detects-possible-exoplanet-radio-emission
157
Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation
https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/fermilab-and-partners-achieve-sustained-high-fidelity-quantum-teleportation/
196
290
I Bought Apple Silicon
https://honzajavorek.cz/blog/i-bought-apple-silicon/
155
Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-breach-idUSKBN28R2ZJ
185
104
Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter
https://sqwok.im/
182
228
I've walked away from software development
https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/kfcmbj/ive_walked_away_from_software_development/
179
82
The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space
http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html
178
81
Rust 2021 Roadmap
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3037
174
54
AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly
https://www.assemblyscript.org/
154
95
'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (2018)
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/i-am-mine-this-is-what-alzheimers-is-like-at-41/
153
44
Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf]
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/11/perceus-tr-v1.pdf
139
131
A swarm of drones flying through heavy forest–while staying in formation
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/watch-swarm-drones-fly-through-heavy-forest-while-staying-formation
137
42
AWS Joins the Blender Development Fund
https://www.blender.org/press/aws-joins-the-blender-development-fund/
134
113
Tech giants will block Kazakhstan’s web surveillance efforts again
https://www.engadget.com/tech-giants-browsers-block-kazakhstan-web-surveillance-080031499.html
133
129
Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/microsoft-is-designing-its-own-chips-for-servers-surface-pcs
132
40
Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version
https://micromdm.io/blog/big-sur-softwareupdate/
123
When important components become scarce: CPUs, GPUs
https://www.igorslab.de/en/if-important-components-will-become-shortage-cpus-gpus-console-chips-and-other-components-as-complex-handle-object/
117
28
Brian Chesky on Ron Conway
https://news.airbnb.com/ron-conway-and-the-economic-empowerment-award/
109
90
California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/california-nurses-union-plans-holiday-strike-over-ppe-shortage/
107
7
Selling a Tiny Project
https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/selling_a_tiny_project
API-diff: a tool for side-by-side evaluations of JSON APIs
https://radar.io/blog/open-source-api-diff-library
106
32
U.S. charges China-based Zoom employee for disrupting Tiananmen commemoration
https://www.axios.com/zoom-tiananmen-square-china-charges-5ba2e20b-0a75-492e-8ed9-2fcc25243fdd.html
102
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Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit
https://www.courthousenews.com/seuss-star-trek-mash-up-crash-lands-with-ninth-circuit/
101
18
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
99
FAA and Boeing manipulated 737 Max tests during recertification
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/18/22189609/faa-boeing-737-max-senate-report-coverup-tests-whistleblowers
97
How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?
https://getmeflyingcars.medium.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-send-1kg-to-lower-earth-orbit-2852e1821a6d
93
Equity guide for employees at fast-growing companies
https://withcompound.com/r/equity-guide-to-fast-growing-companies
Postdocs under pressure: ‘Can I even do this any more?’
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03235-y
Causality Is Graphically Simple
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09086
86
30
Go 1.16 Beta 1
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/2-Rj3P5uRLs/m/mYxD2RJkAQAJ?pli=1
31
The Notation: Ken Iverson Centenary
https://kx.com/blog/the-notation/
74
That Dothraki Horde, Part III: Horse Fiddles
https://acoup.blog/2020/12/18/collections-that-dothraki-horde-part-iii-horse-fiddles/
79
12
Show HN: How to make full colour PCB art
https://pixel.curious.supplies/blog/pcb_art/
67
On Design Patterns in C++
https://www.fluentcpp.com/2020/12/18/on-design-patterns-in-cpp/
78
46
Super Wood (2018)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stronger-than-steel-able-to-stop-a-speeding-bullet-mdash-it-rsquo-s-super-wood/
72
24
Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/google-kills-android-things-its-iot-os-in-january/