top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-25

Ruby 3.0

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-released/

5 years ago

779 upvotes – 281 comments

Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25537230

5 years ago

729 upvotes – 170 comments

Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor

https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/kjvsoj/dasung_just_released_a_25_inch_eink_monitor/

5 years ago

725 upvotes – 382 comments

Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538586

5 years ago

689 upvotes – 312 comments

Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

5 years ago

549 upvotes – 60 comments

New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/[email protected]/T/#m0862c3484e0da7195dc8989421d30f01b3b1c63a

5 years ago

526 upvotes – 195 comments

Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/scott-hanselmans-2021-ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-windows

5 years ago

441 upvotes – 229 comments

ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion/4045278001/

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 483 comments

A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators

https://mukulrathi.co.uk/create-your-own-programming-language/llvm-ir-cpp-api-tutorial/

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 44 comments

Working at Apple (2011)

http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 300 comments

Mutated Covid-19 strain confirmed in Japan as case tally hits record high

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/25/national/tokyo-coronavirus-884-cases/

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 277 comments

Show HN: Mountain Peaks in WebGL

https://felixpalmer.github.io/peaks-of-austria/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 39 comments

Slower News

https://www.slowernews.com/

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 86 comments

Father Reginald Foster has died

https://theoldie.co.uk/blog/the-popes-latin-teacher

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 51 comments

The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway

https://brianli.com/2020/12/the-impact-of-apple-silicon-macs-on-broadway/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 280 comments

Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

https://useplanner.com/release/2020/12/24/merry-christmas-everyone-planner-2-6-is-here/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 42 comments

Salmon spawning in the upper Columbia River, first in 80 years

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/dec/17/for-the-first-time-in-more-than-80-years-salmon-sp/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 69 comments

New Orleans City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other

https://thelensnola.org/2020/12/18/new-orleans-city-council-approves-ban-on-facial-recognition-predictive-policing-and-other-surveillance-tech/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 99 comments

Trading Time for Money

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/trading-time-for-money

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 150 comments

FYI: TripleByte is emailing old referrals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25533487

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 71 comments

Vim³ – Vim rendered on a cube for no reason

https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed#vim

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 36 comments

Backdoor in Zyxel Products

https://www.eyecontrol.nl/blog/undocumented-user-account-in-zyxel-products.html

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 52 comments

Some Git internals

https://yurichev.com/news/20201220_git/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 34 comments

Some Differences Between macOS and Common Unix Systems

https://www.dyx.name/posts/macunix.html

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 76 comments

Figma: The product design team’s process

https://www.figma.com/blog/inside-figma-the-product-design-teams-process/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargo

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55340975

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 38 comments

Learning to Play the Chaos Game

https://hardmath123.github.io/chaos-game-fractal-foliage.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 9 comments

The biggest and weirdest commits in Linux kernel Git history (2017)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2017/the-biggest-and-weirdest-commits-in-linux-kernel-git-history

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 19 comments

Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021

https://news.gandi.net/en/2020/12/price-increase-on-io-on-january-1-2021/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 144 comments

Ham radio and astronauts

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-12-23/ham-radio-and-astronauts

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 49 comments

Stanisław Lem's Reflections on the Objects of His Childhood Home

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/stanislaw-lems-reflections-childhood/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 18 comments

Eyes hint at hidden mental-health conditions (2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01114-9

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 42 comments

NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/Raspberry_Pi

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 20 comments

WireGuard: Great protocol, but skip the Mac app

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/12/24/wg/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 104 comments

Redox OS 0.6.0

https://www.redox-os.org/news/release-0.6.0/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

Redox OS 0.6, the micro-kernel based Rust-written operating system

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Redox-OS-0.6-Released

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 8 comments

Draw.io and Terraform = Brainboard, Graphical Way to Do Terraform

https://www.brainboard.co/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 44 comments

18XX Train Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18XX

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

The Erlang Rationale (2008) [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zKsOgwZJ_YZ1bY3b3gNRjAxpn6VneR8b/view

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

One red paperclip

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

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Switching from Apple to Lenovo

https://ayedo.github.io/hardware/2020/12/25/switching-from-apple-to-lenovo.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 88 comments

Adopting Ruby 3 types with RBS

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/climbing-steep-hills-or-adopting-ruby-types

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Subuser: Docker as Desktop Programs

https://subuser.org/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments
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