top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-24

Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

https://snapdrop.net

5 years ago

527 upvotes – 144 comments

Fantasy UI

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/fui/

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 147 comments

Sony publishes an official Linux driver for Playstation 5 DualSense controllers

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sony-HID-PlayStation-PS5

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25525457

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 1091 comments

The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free

https://www.freepianomethod.com/

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 264 comments

I wired a Christmas tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvlpIojusBE

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 87 comments

I am lonely will anyone speak to me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_to_me

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 209 comments

Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)

https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 120 comments

BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38406/bmw-will-publicly-shame-out-of-warranty-drivers-with-smart-billboards-and-license-plate-readers

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 336 comments

Craft – A fresh take on documents

https://www.craft.do/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 122 comments

Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping (2004)

https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2004/diaconis-69.html

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 120 comments

UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/24/uk-eu-agree-brexit-trade-deal-agreement

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 716 comments

Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 89 comments

What Shape Are You?

https://tynan.com/shapes

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 64 comments

Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015)

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2559

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 113 comments

Facebook managers trash their own ad targeting in unsealed remarks

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/24/facebook-ad-targeting-small-business/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 128 comments

Datasette.io, an official project website for Datasette

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Dec/13/datasette-io/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 29 comments

GoDaddy employees told they were getting a holiday bonus in a phishing test

https://coppercourier.com/story/godaddy-employees-holiday-bonus-secruity-test/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 251 comments

Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life

https://github.com/davidhampgonsalves/life-dashboard

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 38 comments

How to Start a Startup (2014)

https://startupclass.samaltman.com/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 67 comments

The Mystery of Deceased Hiker ‘Mostly Harmless’ Is at Long Last Solved

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2020/12/the-mystery-of-deceased-hiker-mostly-harmless-is-at-long-last-solved/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 37 comments

Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55439190

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 151 comments

Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/facebook-declared-war-on-apple-it-just-may-signal-end-of-facebook.html

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 183 comments

Anticipatory Procastrination [pdf]

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~elder/stuff/ant-proc.pdf

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 36 comments

Adobe Lightroom v6 is Falling Apart

https://petapixel.com/2020/12/24/adobe-lightroom-v6-is-falling-apart/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 129 comments

Fictional Videogame Stills

https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amenu.html

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 38 comments

Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phishing scam

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/books/publishing-manuscripts-phishing-scam.html

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 94 comments

University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI

https://ethics-of-ai.mooc.fi/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 60 comments

Video taken by pilots of what could be the elusive Los Angeles jet pack guy

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38403/video-taken-by-pilots-of-what-could-be-the-elusive-los-angeles-jet-pack-guy-emerges

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: TreeOS – A 16-bit bootsector Christmas tree demo

https://github.com/cfallin/treeos

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese

https://www.polygon.com/videos/2020/3/22/21188355/animal-crossing-new-horizons-language-video

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with citizenship

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55423257

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 137 comments

TiddlyWiki 5.1.23

https://tiddlywiki.com

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 31 comments

FreeBSD src repository has transitioned from Subversion to Git

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=5ef5f51d2bef80b0ede9b10ad5b0e9440b60518c

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 58 comments

Paleontologists are trying to understand why the fossil record is mostly males

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fossil-record-prefers-males

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 107 comments

The Google Fitbit Deal: Hazardous to competition, privacy, and our health [pdf]

https://www.democraticmedia.org/sites/default/files/field/public-files/2020/googlefitbitdeal020820.pdf

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 90 comments

In CPython, types implemented in C are part of the type tree

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/CPythonCTypesHaveTree

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 99 comments

Vacietis, a C compiler targeting Common Lisp

https://github.com/vsedach/Vacietis

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25528481

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

Making a digital clock in Google Sheets

https://www.therobinlord.com/making-a-digital-clock-in-google-sheets/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Grenfell Tower inquiry: key things we’ve learned this year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55349395

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 71 comments

Big Sur 11.1 External Display Issues

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252174979

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25530700

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 138 comments

CubicDOOM a ray-casting game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes)

https://github.com/nanochess/cubicDoom

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50-year-old IBM 1401 mainframe

http://www.righto.com/2015/03/12-minute-mandelbrot-fractals-on-50.html?m=1

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Kit-Kat Xclock

https://github.com/BarkyTheDog/catclock

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments
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