top 50% 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

How to Find Focus

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

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 37 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

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

Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation

https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/fermilab-and-partners-achieve-sustained-high-fidelity-quantum-teleportation/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 157 comments

I Bought Apple Silicon

https://honzajavorek.cz/blog/i-bought-apple-silicon/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 290 comments

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-breach-idUSKBN28R2ZJ

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter

https://sqwok.im/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 104 comments

I've walked away from software development

https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/kfcmbj/ive_walked_away_from_software_development/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 228 comments

The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space

http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 82 comments

Rust 2021 Roadmap

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3037

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 81 comments

AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly

https://www.assemblyscript.org/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 54 comments

'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/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 95 comments

Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/11/perceus-tr-v1.pdf

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 44 comments

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

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 131 comments

AWS Joins the Blender Development Fund

https://www.blender.org/press/aws-joins-the-blender-development-fund/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 42 comments

Tech giants will block Kazakhstan’s web surveillance efforts again

https://www.engadget.com/tech-giants-browsers-block-kazakhstan-web-surveillance-080031499.html

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 113 comments

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

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 129 comments

Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

https://micromdm.io/blog/big-sur-softwareupdate/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 40 comments

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/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 95 comments

Brian Chesky on Ron Conway

https://news.airbnb.com/ron-conway-and-the-economic-empowerment-award/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 28 comments

California nurses union plans holiday strike over PPE

https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/california-nurses-union-plans-holiday-strike-over-ppe-shortage/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 90 comments

Selling a Tiny Project

https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/selling_a_tiny_project

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 7 comments

API-diff: a tool for side-by-side evaluations of JSON APIs

https://radar.io/blog/open-source-api-diff-library

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 7 comments

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

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit

https://www.courthousenews.com/seuss-star-trek-mash-up-crash-lands-with-ninth-circuit/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 87 comments

A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

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

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

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

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 107 comments

Equity guide for employees at fast-growing companies

https://withcompound.com/r/equity-guide-to-fast-growing-companies

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 90 comments

Postdocs under pressure: ‘Can I even do this any more?’

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03235-y

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 169 comments

Causality Is Graphically Simple

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09086

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 7 comments

Go 1.16 Beta 1

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/2-Rj3P5uRLs/m/mYxD2RJkAQAJ?pli=1

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

The Notation: Ken Iverson Centenary

https://kx.com/blog/the-notation/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

That Dothraki Horde, Part III: Horse Fiddles

https://acoup.blog/2020/12/18/collections-that-dothraki-horde-part-iii-horse-fiddles/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: How to make full colour PCB art

https://pixel.curious.supplies/blog/pcb_art/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments

On Design Patterns in C++

https://www.fluentcpp.com/2020/12/18/on-design-patterns-in-cpp/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 67 comments

Super Wood (2018)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stronger-than-steel-able-to-stop-a-speeding-bullet-mdash-it-rsquo-s-super-wood/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/google-kills-android-things-its-iot-os-in-january/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments
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