top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-12-22

Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286

4 years ago

Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-shutters-lending-by-vc-backed-fintech-for-violating-agency-order/

4 years ago

How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes

https://dragonman225.js.org/curved-arrows.html

4 years ago

Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/20/technology/china-facebook-twitter-influence-manipulation.html

4 years ago

Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech

https://paulefou.com/blog/tinder-permaban

4 years ago

Skillsoft Buys Codecademy for $525M

https://www.skillsoft.com/press-releases/skillsoft-to-acquire-codecademy-a-leading-platform-for-learning-high-demand-technical-skills-creating-a-worldwide-community-of-more-than-85-million-learners

4 years ago

(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

http://swallowmygraphicdesign.com/project/macostalgia

4 years ago

Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities

https://positive.security/blog/ms-teams-1-feature-4-vulns

4 years ago

DeepMind’s new AI with a memory outperforms algorithms 25 times its size

https://singularityhub.com/2021/12/20/biggers-not-always-better-deepminds-new-language-ai-is-small-but-mighty/

4 years ago

Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It

https://hothardware.com/news/linux-a-viable-pc-gaming-platform-steam-stats-prove-it

4 years ago

Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/germany-is-closing-half-of-its-reactors-at-worst-possible-time-1.1698757

4 years ago

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/amazing-dna/

4 years ago

FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)

https://topikettunen.com/blog/freebsd-jails-for-fun-and-profit/

4 years ago

Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notification-emails-google-drive.html

4 years ago

South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus-cases/

4 years ago

Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser

https://www.zdnet.com/article/now-duckduckgo-is-building-its-own-desktop-browser/

4 years ago

Woe be unto you for using a WebSocket

http://www.adama-lang.org/blog/woe-of-websocket/

4 years ago

Seconds before a 6.2 earthquake rattled California, phones got a warning

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/21/california-earthquake-early-warning-system

4 years ago

This Year in Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/22/the-mega-matrix-holiday-special-2021/

4 years ago

Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/scientists-find-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird

4 years ago