top 50% 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

Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/12/30/unemployment-fraud-how-international-scammers-took-36-b-us/3960263001/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 203 comments

The Impossible Mirror Scene in 'Contact'

https://filmschoolrejects.com/contact-mirror-scene/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 73 comments

Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10

https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/12/27/adobe-flash-player-is-about-to-stop-working-on-windows-10/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 297 comments

An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project

https://www.gamesradar.com/microsoft-xbox-edge-game-changers/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 237 comments

The Cruise Ship Suicides

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-cruise-ship-suicides/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 286 comments

Learn Quantum Computation

https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 61 comments

SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0

http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html#2.1.0

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 74 comments

Thank HN: All of you, this place, gives me hope

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580152

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 36 comments

Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32202821/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 448 comments

Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579379

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 69 comments

Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with domestically built plane

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-12-30/china-eastern-unit-completes-maiden-passenger-flight-with-domestically-built-plane-101645055.html?rkey=4jojc%2BU9Dvsngy8ZDEibRfFL%2FE7ci4pK8bNFOzBEfLyZ3HhuWefoyg%3D%3D&cxg=web&Sfrom=twitter

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 191 comments

Stripe co-founder on how his billion-dollar company continues to evolve

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/john-collison-it-is-entirely-plausible-that-you-could-set-up-stripe-in-dublin-now-1.4438722

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

Talk Less, Listen More

https://thereformedbroker.com/2020/12/30/talk-less-listen-more/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 29 comments

Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/embargoed-uber-raising-its-prices-starting-jan-1/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 331 comments

Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/29/nashville-explosion-woman-warned-mnpd-warner-building-bomb-2019/4082253001/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 107 comments

Contributing Without Code

https://popey.com/blog/2020/12/contributing-without-code/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Voyager – write a web crawler/scraper as a state machine in Rust

https://github.com/mattsse/voyager

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 11 comments

Spirals, Snowflakes and Trees: Recursion in Pictures

http://learn.hfm.io/fractals.html

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 12 comments

Leading someone with more years of experience than my age

https://danielrrojas.com/2020/12/27/leading-someone-with-more-years-of-experience-than-my-age/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 98 comments

Google pilots a feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok, Instagram

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/29/google-pilots-a-search-feature-that-aggregates-short-form-videos-from-tiktok-and-instagram/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 75 comments

In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/l-a-county-hospitals-at-the-breaking-point-turn-away-ambulances

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 184 comments

It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn

https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-lot-of-energy-for-machines-to-learn-heres-why-ai-is-so-power-hungry-151825

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 119 comments

How Python attributes work

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-7-how-python-attributes-work/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js

https://saasbase.dev/candymail

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 58 comments

Virtualize Your Network on FreeBSD with VNET

https://klarasystems.com/articles/virtualize-your-network-on-freebsd-with-vnet/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Ultimate Debian Database

https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Wasmino = WASM and Arduino – Running Arduino Code in Browser

https://blog.yifangu.com/2020/12/30/wasmino-wasm-arduino-running-arduino-code-in-browser/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

Running BSDs on AMD Ryzen 5000 Series – FreeBSD/Linux Benchmarks

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-5900x-bsd

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 52 comments
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