top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-21

Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.

https://www.brandons.me/blog/write-code-not-too-much-mostly-functions

5 years ago

825 upvotes – 352 comments

Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/europe/russia-navalny-poisoning-underpants-ward/index.html

5 years ago

783 upvotes – 248 comments

Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan

https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/nikon-is-ending-70-years-of-camera-production-in-japan/

5 years ago

608 upvotes – 363 comments

YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices

https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-class-action-same-ip-address-used-to-upload-pirate-movies-file-dmca-notices-201221/

5 years ago

552 upvotes – 126 comments

Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autos-exclusive/exclusive-apple-targets-car-production-by-2024-and-eyes-next-level-battery-technology-sources-idUSKBN28V2PY

5 years ago

524 upvotes – 673 comments

Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/upshot/surprise-medical-bills-congress-ban.html

5 years ago

463 upvotes – 419 comments

iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/worker-protests-at-indian-iphone-factory-causes-up-to-7-million-in-damages/

5 years ago

458 upvotes – 405 comments

Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after legal threats

https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/12/20/paper-about-herbalife-related-patient-death-removed-after-company-threatens-to-sue-the-journal/

5 years ago

444 upvotes – 76 comments

Ignore AMP

https://meiert.com/en/blog/ignore-amp/

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 156 comments

Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/12/21/jaywalking-decriminalization-is-coming-to-virginia-100-years-after-the-auto-industry-helped-make-it-a-crime/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 438 comments

Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019)

https://steveblank.com/2019/04/10/startup-stock-options-why-a-good-deal-has-gone-bad/

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 360 comments

Evidence of “modified gravity” in 150 galaxies bolsters dark matter alternative

https://newatlas.com/physics/modified-gravity-evidence-dark-matter/

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 179 comments

Ruby 3.0.0 RC1

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/20/ruby-3-0-0-rc1-released/

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 131 comments

The universe is expanding faster than expected

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-get-their-wish-and-the-hubble-crisis-gets-worse-20201217/

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 230 comments

Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/16/facebooks-attempt-to-vilify-apple-tastes-like-sour-grapes

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 267 comments

Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more

https://sequoia.makes.software/parsing-json-at-the-cli-a-practical-introduction-to-jq-and-more/

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 102 comments

I've been merging microservices back into the monolith

https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3944-why-ive-been-merging-microservices-back-into-the-monolith-at-invision.htm

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 196 comments

Show HN: NoteCalc

https://github.com/bbodi/notecalc3/releases/tag/v0.3.0

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 76 comments

Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines

https://www.cortex.dev/post/reproducible-machine-learning-pipelines-with-metaflow-and-cortex

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 101 comments

New coronavirus variant: What do we know?

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55388846

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 266 comments
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