top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-12-28

Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html

5 years ago

599 upvotes – 166 comments

Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu

http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20201225_samples/

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559571

5 years ago

476 upvotes – 1239 comments

Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes

https://petapixel.com/2020/12/26/fujifilm-created-a-magnetic-tape-that-can-store-580-terabytes/

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 326 comments

Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtually every person

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/17/dark-waters-pfas-ticking-chemical-time-bomb-in-your-blood

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 226 comments

Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year

http://socketsite.com/archives/2020/12/average-rent-in-san-francisco-has-dropped-1000-this-year.html

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 537 comments

The Fight for WorldBox

https://www.reddit.com/r/Worldbox/comments/jmplqw/the_fight_for_worldbox_or_how_a_game_you_worked/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 40 comments

Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone

https://nonpolynomial.com/2020/12/28/buttplug-hits-v1-milestone/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 128 comments

Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs

https://savebreach.com/stealing-private-documents-through-a-google-docs-bug/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 138 comments

Why are video games graphics challenging? Productionizing rendering algorithms

https://bartwronski.com/2020/12/27/why-are-video-games-graphics-still-a-challenge-productionizing-rendering-algorithms/

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 89 comments
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