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Archives for 17 Dec 2020
  1. Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes
    (170 points | Comments)

  2. The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil
    (228 points | Comments)

  3. Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
    (219 points | Comments)

  4. The Smalltalk Zoo
    (163 points | Comments)

  5. Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon
    (138 points | Comments)

  6. FreeBSD src repository is transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend
    (212 points | Comments)

  7. The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook
    (104 points | Comments)

  8. Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies
    (132 points | Comments)

  9. Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
    (333 points | Comments)

  10. Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
    (116 points | Comments)

  11. How I Met My Wife (1994)
    (217 points | Comments)

  12. Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration
    (229 points | Comments)

  13. DRY Is a Trade-Off
    (216 points | Comments)

  14. Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
    (1086 points | Comments)

  15. 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
    (134 points | Comments)

  16. Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement
    (182 points | Comments)

  17. A case study on strict null checks
    (166 points | Comments)

  18. Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates
    (289 points | Comments)

  19. Commits are shapshots, not diffs
    (136 points | Comments)

  20. Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
    (545 points | Comments)

  21. Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers
    (134 points | Comments)

  22. Airflow 2.0
    (129 points | Comments)

  23. No Cookie for You
    (2941 points | Comments)

  24. Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more
    (184 points | Comments)

  25. MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube
    (191 points | Comments)

  26. Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica
    (105 points | Comments)

  27. Launch HN: ShareWith (YC W21) – Easily share internal websites securely
    (112 points | Comments)

  28. Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles
    (270 points | Comments)

  29. Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition
    (193 points | Comments)

  30. Philosophy of the GNU Project (2018)
    (138 points | Comments)

  31. Do It Yourself Bookbinding
    (177 points | Comments)

  32. Show HN: Make comic book layouts in the browser
    (192 points | Comments)

  33. Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
    (309 points | Comments)

  34. SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources
    (457 points | Comments)

  35. Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
    (265 points | Comments)

  36. Zstandard v1.4.7
    (211 points | Comments)

  37. L-System
    (112 points | Comments)

  38. Emails show Navy's 'UFO' patents went through significant internal review
    (155 points | Comments)

  39. How to let go of a lifelong dream
    (102 points | Comments)

  40. A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night
    (194 points | Comments)

  41. Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
    (173 points | Comments)

  42. Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light
    (119 points | Comments)

  43. GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL
    (223 points | Comments)

  44. 51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities
    (333 points | Comments)

  45. Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]
    (142 points | Comments)

  46. Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
    (325 points | Comments)

  47. Creative Code-Generated Art
    (134 points | Comments)

  48. Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO
    (169 points | Comments)

  49. Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories
    (213 points | Comments)

  50. Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware
    (476 points | Comments)

  51. SolarWinds’ shares drop 22 per cent. But what’s this? $286M in stock sales
    (192 points | Comments)

  52. Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder
    (200 points | Comments)

  53. Flanderization
    (159 points | Comments)

  54. A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp
    (126 points | Comments)

  55. You have the right to record police in public, federal court rules
    (333 points | Comments)