Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2020-12-29

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452

Do You Love Me? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw

5 years ago

1218 upvotes – 452 comments

1024

566

Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

https://gamesage.net/blogs/news/ten-year-long-study-confirms-no-link-between-playing-violent-video-games-as-early-as-ten-years-old-and-aggressive-behavior-later-in-life

5 years ago

1024 upvotes – 566 comments

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323

Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?

https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html

5 years ago

844 upvotes – 323 comments

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Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating

https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/google-maps-moat-is-evaporating

5 years ago

628 upvotes – 427 comments

575

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iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers

https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/29/iphone-workers-forced-labor/

5 years ago

575 upvotes – 1 comments

574

53

Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online

https://csgordon.github.io/books.html

5 years ago

574 upvotes – 53 comments

513

245

Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do

5 years ago

513 upvotes – 245 comments

412

218

20 Years Later

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12069

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 218 comments

405

131

Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world

https://thruhikes.net/

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 131 comments

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Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-technology-apple-uighur/

5 years ago

398 upvotes – 727 comments

357

129

Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

https://github.com/igbit/micro-displays/blob/main/README.md

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 129 comments

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CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11512-cia_vs_wikileaks

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 269 comments

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171

Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55475433

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 171 comments

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Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road

https://tekdeeps.com/google-maps-changes-a-route-after-the-drama-of-young-people-lost-on-a-ghost-road/

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 417 comments

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76

Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon

https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 76 comments

288

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Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/apple-corellium-lawsuit/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 58 comments

284

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YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mohammedadam24_cybersecurity-infosec-penetrationtesting-activity-6749595324978987008-UFbn

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 160 comments

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Top Python libraries of 2020 you should know about

https://tryolabs.com/blog/2020/12/21/top-10-python-libraries-of-2020/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 50 comments

267

162

iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple

https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/12/20-macs-for-2020-1-imac-g3/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 162 comments

266

128

C Template Library

https://github.com/glouw/ctl

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 128 comments

246

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Against Essential and Accidental Complexity

https://danluu.com/essential-complexity/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 102 comments

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Cider 1.0

https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/12/28/cider-1-0.html

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 30 comments

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Show HN: LinkAce – Self-hosted, FOSS bookmark archive

https://www.linkace.org/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 68 comments

219

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An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-KM6yc416Gh1wue92DHReoyZqheIaIM23fkz0KwOpkw/

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 190 comments

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Japan developing wooden satellites to cut down on space junk

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55463366

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 121 comments

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Bug drone for UK army that weights 196g, has 40 mins autonomy and 2km range

https://www.baesystems.com/en/collaborating-with-uavtek-to-develop-nano-bug-drone

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 179 comments

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Graph Toy, an interactive graph visualizer using mathematical functions

http://memorystomp.com/graphtoy/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 29 comments

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We should administer Covid-19 vaccines as fast as possible, not reserve doses

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-new-data-favour-administering-covid-19-vaccines-as-fast-as-possible/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 195 comments

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Germany: 'Colossal' cyberattack knocks out Funke news group

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-colossal-cyberattack-knocks-out-funke-news-group/a-56087804

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 111 comments

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New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-u-s-dietary-guidelines-reject-recommendation-to-cut-sugar-alcohol-intake-11609254000

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 185 comments

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The Life in the Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/life-simpsons-no-longer-attainable/617499/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 195 comments

160

73

Flow Browser Preview on the Raspberry Pi 400

https://www.ekioh.com/blog/flow-raspberry-pi/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 73 comments

157

91

Show HN: The Agora – an experimental social network

http://anagora.org/node/agora

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 91 comments

146

2

Bye-Bye Mastodon, our account on Fosstodon.org was deleted yesterday

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/bye-bye-mastodon-our-account-on-fosstodon-org-was-deleted-yesterday/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 2 comments

145

33

Show HN: Four years of profitable side-projects

https://www.coryzue.com/open/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 33 comments

144

75

Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14271

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 75 comments

129

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Coinbase to Suspend Trading in XRP

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-coinbase-xrp/coinbase-to-suspend-trading-in-xrp-idUSKBN292222

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 197 comments

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40

A Beginner's Guide to Houseplants

https://www.notion.so/rxhl/A-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Houseplants-f90190a8c15b4bb8b65c60f16e3f9502

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

120

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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 131 comments

119

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The Owl’s Right Eye (2019)

https://unintendedconsequenc.es/the-owls-right-eye/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 38 comments

111

40

Learn 3D Computer Graphics Programming from Scratch

https://courses.pikuma.com/courses/learn-computer-graphics-programming

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

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Pierre Cardin has died

https://p.dw.com/p/3nJq6

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 92 comments

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A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (1984)

https://sci-hub.tf/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40285282

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

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More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2020/dec/more-than-73-of-american-adults-overweight-or-obese.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 206 comments

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Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570308

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 80 comments

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Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]

https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/Assets/Documents/personal-pages/robin-burgess/why-do-people-stay-poor-evidence-on-poverty-traps-from-rural-bangladesh-revision-V4-32.pdf

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 204 comments

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A Brief Global History of the War on Cannabis