986
236
Happy New Year HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595865
5 years ago
881
959
Bitcoin is a disaster
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2020-December/036510.html
676
384
SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/31/microsoft-internal-solorigate-investigation-update/
466
99
MF DOOM Has Died
https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/12/mf-doom-dead-obituary/
460
295
Linux Hardening Guide
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html
408
506
Why Jira Sucks
https://whyjirasucks.com/
394
214
WebAssembly Studio
https://webassembly.studio
386
136
LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos
310
56
Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction
https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html
306
80
AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples
https://github.com/nsriram/lambda-the-terraform-way
108
The Big Little Guide to Message Queues
https://sudhir.io/the-big-little-guide-to-message-queues/
287
61
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
282
59
The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]
https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/ESLII.pdf
262
163
PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2020/12/mac-meets-arm64.html
430
Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068
251
129
Why do we dream? A new theory on how it protects our brains
https://time.com/5925206/why-do-we-dream/
241
111
Rust 1.49.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/12/31/Rust-1.49.0.html
81
The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators
https://blog.thea.codes/the-design-of-the-juno-dco/
232
164
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
227
Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe
https://www.turkishminute.com/2020/12/31/erdogans-censorship-now-targeting-media-outlets-in-europe/
226
244
Firefox not planning on supporting PWA
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593
225
92
Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/30/22206955/ticketmaster-songkick-crowdsurge-hacking-deferred-prosecution-fine
221
153
Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/shigeru-miyamoto-wants-to-create-a-kinder-world
212
32
Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/part-2-reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/
210
211
Mitsubishi Heavy to build biggest zero-carbon steel plant
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Environment/Climate-Change/Mitsubishi-Heavy-to-build-biggest-zero-carbon-steel-plant
203
98
USDS Digital Services Playbook
https://playbook.cio.gov/
189
118
Nim in 2020: A Short Recap
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/28/nim-in-2020-a-short-recap.html
188
213
Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019)
https://nadiaeghbal.com/shameless
105
“Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited
https://singularityhub.com/2020/12/30/wtf-newly-discovered-ghostly-circles-in-the-sky-cant-be-explained-by-current-theories-and-astronomers-are-excited/
181
FCC orders phone companies to help trace illegal robocallers
https://www.engadget.com/fcc-illegal-robocalls-tracing-new-rules-122542768.html
173
37
The best things and stuff of 2020
http://blog.fogus.me/2020/12/31/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2020/
170
38
Interview Transcript – Donald Knuth [pdf]
https://philipkiely.com/assets/files/WfSD_Bonus_Interview_-_Donald_Knuth.pdf
145
89
Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML
https://www.quaxio.com/pure_css_digital_clock.html
143
22
Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/daperture-load-balancer.html
142
Well, Actually – Physics Answers
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/12/well-actually-10-physics-answers.html
135
Tesla Service Centers Are Preventing Delivery Refusals in Weird Ways
https://insideevs.com/news/463589/tesla-service-centers-preventing-delivery-refusals/
132
249
How Texas Can Become the Next Silicon Valley
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-30/how-texas-can-become-the-next-silicon-valley
103
The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-theory-of-interstellar-trade
115
My Favorite Books 2020
https://oleb.net/2020/favorite-books-2020/
127
113
What Is Life? (2019)
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-is-life/
126
231
Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszl4l
124
91
Distilleries that made hand sanitizer charged $14k surprise fee by FDA
https://reason.com/2020/12/30/when-there-wasnt-enough-hand-sanitizer-distilleries-stepped-up-now-theyre-facing-14060-fda-fees/
121
I can’t work the hours I did in 2020 again yet struggling to see how to avoid it
https://twitter.com/AkikoMHart/status/1344567257733730304
25
Photographer Catches the ISS Crossing the Sun and Moon
https://petapixel.com/2020/11/05/photographer-catches-the-iss-crossing-the-sun-and-moon-from-his-backyard/
109
48
Show HN: A Mashup to find LineageOS supported phones that are repairable
https://www.sustaphones.com/
104
230
UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years
https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2020/1231/1187075-brexit-transition-end/
100
2
Some of my favorite systems research reads from 2020
https://twitter.com/MarcJBrooker/status/1344779967276597249
57
When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers'
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/super-mario-enhancer-1990-1.5799393
95
Yamaha’s DX7 synthesiser changed modern music
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2020/12/31/yamahas-dx7-synthesiser-changed-modern-music
94
47
Autofocus for the 16mm Telephoto Lens Mounted on the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera
https://lemariva.com/blog/2020/12/raspberry-pi-hq-camera-autofocus-telephoto-lens
90
The Wonderful Uses of Asbestos (1942) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfZSEboVM4
Apple Took Three Years to Cut Ties with Supplier That Used Underage Labor
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-took-three-years-to-cut-ties-with-supplier-that-used-underage-labor
87
Uber’s Real-Time Push Platform
https://eng.uber.com/real-time-push-platform/
84
Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested
https://www.tomshardware.com/features/zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-x86-cpu-tested
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