The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2020

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No Cookie for You github.blog · todsacerdoti · 17 Dec 2020

2.9k pts 609 comments

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Google outage – resolved abluecloud · 14 Dec 2020

2.3k pts 827 comments

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Cameras and Lenses ciechanow.ski · mariuz · 9 Dec 2020

2.1k pts 213 comments

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FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization ftc.gov · minimaxir · 9 Dec 2020

1.8k pts 709 comments

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Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams github.com · Tomte · 7 Dec 2020

1.3k pts 317 comments

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Tips for a Better Life ideopunk.com · CapitalistCartr · 23 Dec 2020

1.3k pts 463 comments

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Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help bloomberg.com · OJFord · 18 Dec 2020

1.2k pts 514 comments

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Just Wanted to Say Thanks github.com · compumike · 27 Dec 2020

1.2k pts 241 comments

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Do You Love Me? [video] youtube.com · modeless · 29 Dec 2020

1.2k pts 452 comments

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How We Saved Dot Org eff.org · thomasahle · 23 Dec 2020

1.2k pts 151 comments

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YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud blog.youtube · 1cvmask · 9 Dec 2020

1.2k pts 3.1k comments

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Amazon EC2 Mac Instances aws.amazon.com · appwiz · 1 Dec 2020

1.1k pts 481 comments

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Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews blog.kevmod.com · kmod · 17 Dec 2020

1.1k pts 479 comments

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Hotwire: HTML over the Wire hotwire.dev · samename · 22 Dec 2020

1.1k pts 545 comments

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Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior gamesage.net · chops · 29 Dec 2020

1k pts 566 comments

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Firefox Was Always Enough ianbicking.org · adambyrtek · 16 Dec 2020

1k pts 586 comments

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AirPods Max apple.com · css · 8 Dec 2020

996 pts 1.8k comments

18

Happy New Year HN thunderbong · 31 Dec 2020

986 pts 236 comments

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How bad is your Spotify? pudding.cool · feross · 23 Dec 2020

974 pts 607 comments

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Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard tallahassee.com · 8ig8 · 7 Dec 2020

969 pts 635 comments

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With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux protondb.com · OJFord · 7 Dec 2020

938 pts 544 comments

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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges theverge.com · brundolf · 2 Dec 2020

933 pts 740 comments

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Stripe Treasury stripe.com · timf · 3 Dec 2020

918 pts 243 comments

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A Modern JavaScript Tutorial javascript.info · ivanche · 7 Dec 2020

893 pts 292 comments

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Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse nsf.gov · uptown · 3 Dec 2020

892 pts 229 comments

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Bitcoin is a disaster metzdowd.com · wyldfire · 31 Dec 2020

881 pts 959 comments

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Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys joealcorn.co.uk · buttscicles · 13 Dec 2020

869 pts 422 comments

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Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub radicle.xyz · dweberz · 5 Dec 2020

864 pts 255 comments

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States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf] texasattorneygeneral.gov · pondsider · 16 Dec 2020

860 pts 501 comments

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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack salesforce.com · jmsflknr · 1 Dec 2020

858 pts 633 comments

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Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? grubstreet.com · polm23 · 29 Dec 2020

844 pts 323 comments

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Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder github.com · andyjpb · 16 Dec 2020

833 pts 533 comments

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Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course cs.cornell.edu · matt_d · 11 Dec 2020

827 pts 232 comments

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All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) theguardian.com · chesterfield · 20 Dec 2020

826 pts 446 comments

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Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions. brandons.me · brundolf · 21 Dec 2020

825 pts 352 comments

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Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions npr.org · pdkl95 · 3 Dec 2020

809 pts 445 comments

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Why can’t you buy a good webcam? vsevolod.net · murkt · 22 Dec 2020

783 pts 773 comments

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Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned cnn.com · antfarm · 21 Dec 2020

783 pts 248 comments

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Ruby 3.0 ruby-lang.org · 0x54MUR41 · 25 Dec 2020

779 pts 281 comments

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Arecibo Observatory Collapsed space.com · BrentOzar · 1 Dec 2020

776 pts 309 comments

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U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources reuters.com · re_re · 13 Dec 2020

773 pts 362 comments

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Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust tokio.rs · carllerche · 23 Dec 2020

769 pts 402 comments

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More challenging projects every programmer should try web.eecs.utk.edu · pavehawk2007 · 20 Dec 2020

757 pts 223 comments

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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) web.archive.org · brandrick · 4 Dec 2020

755 pts 455 comments

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The web is 30 years old today home.cern · Anon84 · 20 Dec 2020

754 pts 163 comments

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Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts techcrunch.com · Liriel · 10 Dec 2020

752 pts 237 comments

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Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics therobotreport.com · tazlor · 9 Dec 2020

748 pts 248 comments

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I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee shkspr.mobi · edent · 18 Dec 2020

745 pts 314 comments

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Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 status.cloud.google.com · saifulwebid · 18 Dec 2020

729 pts 198 comments

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Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? sid6376 · 25 Dec 2020

729 pts 170 comments

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Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor reddit.com · tyler109 · 25 Dec 2020

725 pts 382 comments

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Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained github.com · mkirchner · 6 Dec 2020

717 pts 326 comments

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Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy teddit.net · oftenwrong · 5 Dec 2020

716 pts 293 comments

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A former Uber engineer's disaster story twitter.com · epaga · 10 Dec 2020

710 pts 332 comments

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Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020? luizfelberti · 8 Dec 2020

705 pts 192 comments

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GitHub Releases Dark Mode github.com · m1 · 8 Dec 2020

700 pts 251 comments

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S3 Strong Consistency aws.amazon.com · juliansimioni · 2 Dec 2020

699 pts 227 comments

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Being kind to others is good for your health bbc.com · diminish · 19 Dec 2020

690 pts 254 comments

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Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results? Winterflow3r · 25 Dec 2020

689 pts 312 comments

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Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square justice.gov · imraj96 · 19 Dec 2020

685 pts 228 comments