top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-12-27

US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]

https://digit.so36.net/Data/20221227_HIP_EBSP_IBIS.pdf

2 years ago

651 upvotes – 402 comments

Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/26/1145536902/southwest-flight-cancellations-winter-storm

2 years ago

584 upvotes – 570 comments

Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

https://gist.github.com/RobertAKARobin/850a408e04d5414e67d308a2b5847378

2 years ago

565 upvotes – 346 comments

Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/illegal-desi-call-centres-behind-10-billion-loss-to-americans-in-2022/articleshow/96501320.cms

2 years ago

546 upvotes – 474 comments

CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/afghanistan-biometrie

2 years ago

464 upvotes – 167 comments

I'm done with Google

https://deijin.bearblog.dev/im-done-with-google/

2 years ago

459 upvotes – 317 comments

All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/27/all-about-usb-c-illegal-adapters/

2 years ago

453 upvotes – 226 comments

What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/

2 years ago

425 upvotes – 285 comments

Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (2016)

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

2 years ago

373 upvotes – 185 comments

BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

https://www.borgbackup.org

2 years ago

334 upvotes – 177 comments

Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

https://lite-xl.com/

2 years ago

326 upvotes – 147 comments

I have reached Vim nirvana

https://www.maxwellrules.com/misc/nvim_jupyter.html

2 years ago

303 upvotes – 217 comments

Notepad Calculator

https://notepadcalculator.com/

2 years ago

298 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Dog API

https://dogapi.dog

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 73 comments

Anki SRS Algorithm : Spaced repetition explained with code

https://www.juliensobczak.com/inspect/2022/05/30/anki-srs.html

2 years ago

269 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted CMS on serverless Cloudflare

https://github.com/microfeed/microfeed

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 84 comments

Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/30000-year-old-indigenous-cave-drawings-in-australia-have-been-destroyed-180981363/

2 years ago

255 upvotes – 212 comments

Amazon packages burn in India, final stop in broken recycling system

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-india-plastic-recycling-pollution/

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 205 comments

Extending Python with Rust

https://maxwellrules.com/programming/rusty-python.html

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 85 comments

Experimental Rust Feature: Safer Interoperable ABI

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/105586

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 86 comments
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