top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-31

Happy New Year HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595865

5 years ago

986 upvotes – 236 comments

Bitcoin is a disaster

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2020-December/036510.html

5 years ago

881 upvotes – 959 comments

SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/31/microsoft-internal-solorigate-investigation-update/

5 years ago

676 upvotes – 384 comments

MF DOOM Has Died

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/12/mf-doom-dead-obituary/

5 years ago

466 upvotes – 99 comments

Linux Hardening Guide

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html

5 years ago

460 upvotes – 295 comments

Why Jira Sucks

https://whyjirasucks.com/

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 506 comments

WebAssembly Studio

https://webassembly.studio

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 214 comments

LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 136 comments

Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction

https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 56 comments

AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples

https://github.com/nsriram/lambda-the-terraform-way

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 80 comments

The Big Little Guide to Message Queues

https://sudhir.io/the-big-little-guide-to-message-queues/

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 108 comments

Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why

https://medium.com/@lukehollomon/anesthesia-works-on-plants-too-and-we-dont-know-why-dc7ed8a89909

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 61 comments

The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/ESLII.pdf

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 59 comments

PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2020/12/mac-meets-arm64.html

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 163 comments

Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 430 comments

Why do we dream? A new theory on how it protects our brains

https://time.com/5925206/why-do-we-dream/

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 129 comments

The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators

https://blog.thea.codes/the-design-of-the-juno-dco/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 81 comments

Rust 1.49.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/12/31/Rust-1.49.0.html

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 111 comments

Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (1975)

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/24/archives/exoperative-says-he-worked-for-fbi-to-disrupt-political-activities.html

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 164 comments

Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe

https://www.turkishminute.com/2020/12/31/erdogans-censorship-now-targeting-media-outlets-in-europe/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 136 comments
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