top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-23

Tips for a Better Life

https://ideopunk.com/2020/12/22/100-tips-for-a-better-life/

5 years ago

1271 upvotes – 463 comments

How We Saved Dot Org

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-review

5 years ago

1187 upvotes – 151 comments

How bad is your Spotify?

https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify

5 years ago

974 upvotes – 607 comments

Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust

https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-12-tokio-1-0

5 years ago

769 upvotes – 402 comments

No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/

5 years ago

645 upvotes – 239 comments

Comic Mono

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

5 years ago

643 upvotes – 216 comments

Interview advice that got me offers

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-interviewing-advice-no-one-shares/

5 years ago

642 upvotes – 359 comments

Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

https://telegra.ph/What-happened-to-the-old-MAPSME-12-20

5 years ago

548 upvotes – 239 comments

Things You're Allowed to Do

https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/

5 years ago

537 upvotes – 416 comments

‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)

https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/06/14/youtube-recommendations-toxic-algorithm-google-ai/

5 years ago

423 upvotes – 352 comments

Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel

https://twitter.com/cmdkhalilov/status/1341462579680587778

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 210 comments

Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2096

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 192 comments

Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death

https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/englisch/anti-diarrhoea-drug-drives-cancer-cells-to-cell-death/

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 99 comments

How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-favicon-in-2021-six-files-that-fit-most-needs

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 82 comments

Xfce 4.16

https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 105 comments

Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/lets-encrypt-comes-up-with-workaround-for-abandonware-android-devices/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 131 comments

Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-focus/google-told-its-scientists-to-strike-a-positive-tone-in-ai-research-documents-idUSKBN28X1CB

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 271 comments

Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers [pdf]

https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/policy_insights/PolicyInsight107.pdf

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 130 comments

Robinhood was indeed too good to be true

https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1015686/robinhood-was-indeed-too-good-to-be-true

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 264 comments

The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC

https://fabiensanglard.net/tb3/index.html

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 207 comments

Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

https://opensourcestash.com

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 64 comments

The FBI Is Breaking into Encrypted Devices – We’re Suing

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-secretly-breaking-into-encrypted-devices-were-suing

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 62 comments

UX Issues with Notion

https://telegra.ph/Notion-is-a-UX-Disaster-12-23

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 158 comments

India’s booming dark data economy

https://restofworld.org/2020/all-the-data-fit-to-sell/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 80 comments

Git Koans (2013)

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 65 comments

MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/muzero-mastering-go-chess-shogi-and-atari-without-rules

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 78 comments

Build a tiny certificate authority for your homelab

https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi-yubikey/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 81 comments

Stan is a state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling

https://mc-stan.org/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 72 comments

Building My Own Chess Engine

https://healeycodes.com/building-my-own-chess-engine/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 64 comments

Telegram Voice Chats

https://telegram.org/blog/voice-chats

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 120 comments

We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

https://itnext.io/we-rendered-a-million-web-pages-to-find-out-what-makes-the-web-slow-72bbba9ade96

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 116 comments

Web Authentication Methods Compared

https://testdriven.io/blog/web-authentication-methods/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 102 comments

Jepsen: Scylla 4.2-rc3

https://jepsen.io/analyses/scylla-4.2-rc3

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 31 comments

Medo: A modern UHD 4K open source Media editor for Haiku OS in less than 1.44 Mb

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/announcement-haiku-media-editor-r1-0-0-beta-1/10218

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 29 comments

TerarkDB, ByteDance's RocksDB replacement

https://github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 78 comments

Octopuses Like to Punch Fish

https://gizmodo.com/octopuses-like-to-punch-fish-new-research-suggests-1845929379

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 100 comments

Interactive C++ for Data Science

https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2020-12-21-interactive-cpp-for-data-science/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 56 comments

Linux 5.10 BTRFS performance regression

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kieqyu/warning_linux_510_has_a_500_to_2000_btrfs/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 198 comments

IPv6 WireGuard Peering

https://fly.io/blog/ipv6-wireguard-peering/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Django and React SaaS boilerplate tutorial

https://github.com/saasitive/django-react-boilerplate

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 114 comments

PureOS: Freedom, Privacy, and Security

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/841105/d99c445b4aca536f/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 48 comments

Going All in on the Mac App Store

https://www.unboundapp.com/blog/mac-app-store/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 231 comments

BlocklySQL: A new block-based editor for SQL

https://www.dbinf.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/google-blockly-4efa0da/sql/index.html

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 38 comments

The First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me

https://www.wired.com/story/secret-history-of-the-first-microprocessor-f-14/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 54 comments

Flix – Next-generation reliable, concise, functional-first programming language

https://flix.dev/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 84 comments

Real Time Continuous Blood Monitoring

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/12/21/new-blood-test-device-monitors-blood-chemistry-continually/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 25 comments

Military scrambling to understand aviation crash risk from new 5G sale

https://www.defensenews.com/2020/12/21/the-military-is-scrambling-to-understand-the-aviation-crash-risk-from-a-new-5g-sale/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 104 comments

Booting an M1 Mac from an external disk

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/22/booting-an-m1-mac-from-an-external-disk-it-is-possible/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 86 comments

PC DOS Reimagined

https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2020/12/22/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 73 comments

Visions of Alt-Berlin in “Man in the High Castle” (2017)

https://mitsap.medium.com/visions-of-alt-berlin-in-man-in-the-high-castle-no-spoilers-b3beaba77984

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 53 comments

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

https://dlmf.nist.gov/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

Finding Software Bugs Using Symbolic Execution

https://sasnauskas.eu/finding-software-bugs-using-symbolic-execution/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 10 comments

US deaths in 2020 top 3M, by far most ever counted

https://apnews.com/article/us-coronavirus-deaths-top-3-million-e2bc856b6ec45563b84ee2e87ae8d5e7

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 116 comments

Facebook Employees Say Apple Fight Is “Self Serving”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-apple-fight-self-serving

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: Edamagit – Magit for VSCode

https://github.com/kahole/edamagit

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

What if incomes grew like GDP?

https://www.rand.org/blog/2020/10/a-25-trillion-question-what-if-incomes-grew-like-gdp.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 124 comments

Raster CRT Typography (According to Dec)

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Israeli Cyber Experts Uncover Attack on 85,000 MySQL Servers

https://www.srnnews.com/the-media-line-israeli-cyber-experts-uncover-massive-attack-on-85000-mysql-servers/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments
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