top 50% 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

Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

https://pop.com

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 136 comments

Joining Apple 40 years ago

https://mondaynote.com/joining-apple-40-years-ago-805114536a2

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 148 comments

GameLisp: Scripting language for Rust game development

https://gamelisp.rs/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 41 comments

My Engineering Axioms

https://martinrue.com/my-engineering-axioms/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 49 comments

Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components

https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 135 comments

Nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1340794861050605568

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: Find the safest well lit walking route between two locations

https://github.com/mfbx9da4/brightpath-backend#mission

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 110 comments

Introducing the Open Library Explorer

https://blog.openlibrary.org/2020/12/16/introducing-the-open-library-explorer/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 37 comments

Bash 5.1

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-12/msg00003.html

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 126 comments

Chef cofounder on CentOS: It’s time to open source everything

https://planetstoryline.com/chef-cofounder-on-centos-its-time-to-open-source-everything/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 91 comments

3D printing boats is becoming standard practice

https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/3d-printing-boats-is-becoming-standard-practice/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 123 comments

Cakelisp: A Programming Language for Games

https://macoy.me/blog/programming/CakelispIntro

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 64 comments

I rewrote a Clojure tool in Rust

https://timofreiberg.github.io/clojure-vs-rust/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 76 comments

Unix Recovery Legend (1986)

https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 97 comments

Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity Plea

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/21/facebook-vietnam-censorship/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 46 comments

Threema apps are Open Source

https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/open-source-discount

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 57 comments

Underwater Roundabout in the Faroe Islands

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55195390

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 53 comments

Pijul: Commutation and Scalability

https://pijul.org/posts/2020-12-19-partials/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 31 comments

Positioning Your Startup Is Vital

https://firstround.com/review/Positioning-Your-Startup-is-Vital-Heres-How-to-Do-It-Right/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 30 comments

Project Oberon 2013 on RISC-V

https://github.com/solbjorg/oberon-riscv

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

How the New Yorker Fell into the “Weird Japan” Trap

https://newrepublic.com/article/160595/new-yorker-japan-rent-family-fabricated

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 158 comments

World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster

https://graphics.reuters.com/CLIMATE-CHANGE/ICEBERG/yzdvxjrbzvx/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 41 comments

Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)

https://ericsink.com/entries/No_Great_Hackers.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 103 comments

“I took FSFE to court. This is my story”

https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 76 comments

Some U.S. Colleges Cut Tuition

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/some-u-s-colleges-cut-tuition-ending-relentless-price-spiral

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 156 comments

Mobile Home Skyscrapers: The Elusive Dream of Vertical Urban Trailer Parks

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/mobile-home-skyscrapers-elusive-dream-vertical-urban-trailer-parks/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

Dyon – A Rusty dynamically typed scripting language

https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Getting Started with Lisp (2019)

https://smalldata.tech/blog/2019/08/16/getting-started-with-lisp-in-2019

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Do you miss being excited about programming/tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25495334

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments
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