top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-30

Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC

https://psxparty.kosmi.io/?ref=hn1

5 years ago

676 upvotes – 171 comments

Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55485010

5 years ago

571 upvotes – 329 comments

Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/amazon-still-hasnt-fixed-its-problem-with-bait-and-switch-reviews

5 years ago

506 upvotes – 425 comments

Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580637

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 582 comments

Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55280671

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 417 comments

How We Built the GitHub Globe

https://github.blog/2020-12-21-how-we-built-the-github-globe/

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 101 comments

HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash

https://twitter.com/larsiusprime/status/1344404336252768257

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 364 comments

Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/what-is-the-source-of-covid-19-sars-cov-2

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 351 comments

Clams filter the water and check whether the water is polluted or clean

https://www.polishnews.co.uk/poznan-the-clams-filter-the-water-they-check-whether-the-water-is-polluted-or-clean/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 76 comments

Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry

https://amypeniston.com/ditching-excel-for-python/

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 279 comments

GHC 9.0, supporting linear types

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/glasgow-haskell-compiler-9-0-1-rc1-now-available/1706

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 130 comments

Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-00807-1

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 246 comments

ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets

https://blog.t8012.dev/ace-part-1/

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 125 comments

Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators to target modders

https://twitter.com/eclipse_tt/status/1341187958838321158

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 108 comments

“Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved

https://findsatoshi.com/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 69 comments

Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source

https://www.hu-berlin.de/en/press-portal/nachrichten-en/december-2020/nr-201221

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 84 comments

IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/12/intellij-idea-2020-3-1/

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 120 comments

Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry

https://richardstartin.github.io/posts/dont-use-protobuf-for-telemetry

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 187 comments

Things I Learnt in 2020

https://drobinin.com/posts/things-i-learnt-in-2020/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 65 comments

Baltimore police lied about almost every aspect of its spy plane program

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpjqd/baltimore-police-lied-about-almost-every-aspect-of-its-spy-plane-program

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 101 comments
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