top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-19

Being kind to others is good for your health

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-to-others-is-good-for-your-health

5 years ago

Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/china-based-executive-us-telecommunications-company-charged-disrupting-video-meetings

5 years ago

Facebook: Free as in Bullshit

https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/facebook_free_as_in_bullshit

5 years ago

Back to the '70s with Serverless

http://evrl.com/devops/cloud/2020/12/18/serverless.html

5 years ago

How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss

https://tedium.co/2020/12/15/altavista-history-digital-dot-com-domain-name

5 years ago

Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks

https://github.com/tuhdo/tuhdo.github.io/blob/master/emacs-tutor/zen3_vs_m1.org

5 years ago

Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/18/cyberpunk-2077-how-2020s-biggest-video-game-launch-turned-into-a-shambles

5 years ago

Great American Rail Trail

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20201213-a-new-way-to-travel-across-the-us

5 years ago

New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retracts-hit-podcast-series-caliphate-on-isis-executioner

5 years ago

Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

https://kiramclean.com/blog/how-to-set-up-your-own-nextcloud-server/

5 years ago

Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/18/948176807/stanford-apologizes-after-vaccine-allocation-leaves-out-nearly-all-medical-resid

5 years ago

9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan

https://archaeology-world.com/9000-year-old-stonehenge-like-structure-found-under-lake-michigan/

5 years ago

California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-california-plan-to-chase-away-the-rich-then-keep-stalking-them-11608331448

5 years ago

How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser

https://shopify.engineering/shopify-webassembly

5 years ago

Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55372499

5 years ago

London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-19/london-put-in-emergency-lockdown-as-u-k-fights-new-virus-strain

5 years ago

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990)

http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop

5 years ago

No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings

https://www.capellaspace.com/no-sar-cant-see-through-buildings/

5 years ago

FDA grants authorization to Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine

https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/18/fda-eua-moderna-vaccine-covid19/

5 years ago

Nature invented play long before it invented us

http://nautil.us/issue/94/evolving/why-it-pays-to-play-around-rp

5 years ago

Show HN: I wrote a book on implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing

https://leanpub.com/implementing-ddd-cqrs-and-event-sourcing

5 years ago

Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: U.S. Senate report

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737-max/boeing-inappropriately-coached-pilots-in-737-max-testing-u-s-senate-report-idUSKBN28S314

5 years ago

Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019)

https://bannedit.github.io/Virtual-Machine-Detection-In-The-Browser.html

5 years ago

The Abolition of Work (2002)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work

5 years ago

Inciteful: Using Citations to Explore Academic Literature

https://inciteful.xyz/

5 years ago

Commoditize your complement (2019)

https://www.gwern.net/Complement

5 years ago

Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern

http://qr.new

5 years ago

Why can we smell copper?

https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/7917

5 years ago

IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

https://ice-wm.org/

5 years ago

Show HN: I have found the world's greatest landing page

https://muzzleapp.com

5 years ago

The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/18/afghanistan-cia-militia-01-strike-force/

5 years ago

Bevy 0.4: data oriented game engine built in Rust

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-4/

5 years ago

The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1

https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/

5 years ago

Notebook Is A Better Readme

http://matyunya-readme.ellx.app/

5 years ago

Why Content Is King

https://divinations.substack.com/p/why-content-is-king

5 years ago

Extremist Programming (2012)

http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/11/extremist-programming/

5 years ago

TerraPi modular case system for Raspberry Pi supports multiple SSD's, DIN rail

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/12/19/terrapi-modular-case-for-raspberry-pi-supports-multiple-ssds-din-rail-horizontal-vertical-mounts/

5 years ago

VisUAL – A highly visual ARM emulator

https://salmanarif.bitbucket.io/visual/index.html

5 years ago

Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online

https://flurly.com/

5 years ago

Facebook’s campaign against Apple is against users and small businesses

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/facebooks-laughable-campaign-against-apple-really-against-users-and-small

5 years ago

Show HN: Argos Translate – Open-source offline translation app written in Python

https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate

5 years ago

Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-hunters-discover-mysterious-signal-from-proxima-centauri/

5 years ago

Solving Algorithmic Problems in Python with Pytest (2019)

https://adamj.eu/tech/2019/04/21/solving-algorithmic-problems-in-python-with-pytest/

5 years ago

IMF would use your search history for credit scores

https://gizmodo.com/your-credit-score-should-be-based-on-your-web-history-1845912592

5 years ago

Firefox to ship 'network partitioning' as a new anti-tracking defense

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-ship-network-partitioning-as-a-new-anti-tracking-defense/

5 years ago

John Le Carré Missed Nothing

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/john-le-carre-missed-nothing

5 years ago

The Laws of Core Data

https://davedelong.com/blog/2018/05/09/the-laws-of-core-data/

5 years ago