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Top of Month - Dec 2020

1. No Cookie for You
   (17 Dec 2020 | 2941 points | Comments)

2. Google outage – resolved
   (14 Dec 2020 | 2316 points | Comments)

3. Cameras and Lenses
   (9 Dec 2020 | 2132 points | Comments)

4. FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
   (9 Dec 2020 | 1752 points | Comments)

5. Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
   (7 Dec 2020 | 1307 points | Comments)

6. Tips for a Better Life
   (23 Dec 2020 | 1271 points | Comments)

7. Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
   (18 Dec 2020 | 1245 points | Comments)

8. Just Wanted to Say Thanks
   (27 Dec 2020 | 1244 points | Comments)

9. Do You Love Me? [video]
   (29 Dec 2020 | 1218 points | Comments)

10. How We Saved Dot Org
    (23 Dec 2020 | 1187 points | Comments)

11. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
    (9 Dec 2020 | 1183 points | Comments)

12. Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
    (1 Dec 2020 | 1091 points | Comments)

13. Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
    (17 Dec 2020 | 1086 points | Comments)

14. Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
    (22 Dec 2020 | 1073 points | Comments)

15. Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
    (29 Dec 2020 | 1024 points | Comments)

16. Firefox Was Always Enough
    (16 Dec 2020 | 1000 points | Comments)

17. AirPods Max
    (8 Dec 2020 | 996 points | Comments)

18. Happy New Year HN
    (31 Dec 2020 | 986 points | Comments)

19. How bad is your Spotify?
    (23 Dec 2020 | 974 points | Comments)

20. Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard
    (7 Dec 2020 | 969 points | Comments)

21. With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
    (7 Dec 2020 | 938 points | Comments)

22. Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
    (2 Dec 2020 | 933 points | Comments)

23. Stripe Treasury
    (3 Dec 2020 | 918 points | Comments)

24. A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
    (7 Dec 2020 | 893 points | Comments)

25. Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
    (3 Dec 2020 | 892 points | Comments)

26. Bitcoin is a disaster
    (31 Dec 2020 | 881 points | Comments)

27. Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
    (13 Dec 2020 | 869 points | Comments)

28. Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
    (5 Dec 2020 | 864 points | Comments)

29. States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
    (16 Dec 2020 | 860 points | Comments)

30. Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
    (1 Dec 2020 | 858 points | Comments)

31. Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
    (29 Dec 2020 | 844 points | Comments)

32. Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
    (16 Dec 2020 | 833 points | Comments)

33. Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
    (11 Dec 2020 | 827 points | Comments)

34. All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
    (20 Dec 2020 | 826 points | Comments)

35. Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.
    (21 Dec 2020 | 825 points | Comments)

36. Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
    (3 Dec 2020 | 809 points | Comments)

37. Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
    (21 Dec 2020 | 783 points | Comments)

38. Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
    (22 Dec 2020 | 783 points | Comments)

39. Ruby 3.0
    (25 Dec 2020 | 779 points | Comments)

40. Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
    (1 Dec 2020 | 776 points | Comments)

41. U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
    (13 Dec 2020 | 773 points | Comments)

42. Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust
    (23 Dec 2020 | 769 points | Comments)

43. More challenging projects every programmer should try
    (20 Dec 2020 | 757 points | Comments)

44. Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
    (4 Dec 2020 | 755 points | Comments)

45. The web is 30 years old today
    (20 Dec 2020 | 754 points | Comments)

46. Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
    (10 Dec 2020 | 752 points | Comments)

47. Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
    (9 Dec 2020 | 748 points | Comments)

48. I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
    (18 Dec 2020 | 745 points | Comments)

49. Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
    (18 Dec 2020 | 729 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
    (25 Dec 2020 | 729 points | Comments)

51. Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor
    (25 Dec 2020 | 725 points | Comments)

52. Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
    (6 Dec 2020 | 717 points | Comments)

53. Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
    (5 Dec 2020 | 716 points | Comments)

54. A former Uber engineer's disaster story
    (10 Dec 2020 | 710 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
    (8 Dec 2020 | 705 points | Comments)

56. GitHub Releases Dark Mode
    (8 Dec 2020 | 700 points | Comments)

57. S3 Strong Consistency
    (2 Dec 2020 | 699 points | Comments)

58. Being kind to others is good for your health
    (19 Dec 2020 | 690 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?
    (25 Dec 2020 | 689 points | Comments)

60. Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
    (19 Dec 2020 | 685 points | Comments)

61. Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
    (2 Dec 2020 | 684 points | Comments)

62. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
    (30 Dec 2020 | 676 points | Comments)

63. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
    (31 Dec 2020 | 676 points | Comments)

64. Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
    (18 Dec 2020 | 671 points | Comments)

65. I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
    (12 Dec 2020 | 669 points | Comments)

66. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
    (14 Dec 2020 | 669 points | Comments)

67. Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
    (9 Dec 2020 | 657 points | Comments)

68. Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
    (15 Dec 2020 | 657 points | Comments)

69. Chrome Is Bad
    (12 Dec 2020 | 651 points | Comments)

70. An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
    (1 Dec 2020 | 647 points | Comments)

71. AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
    (7 Dec 2020 | 647 points | Comments)

72. Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
    (10 Dec 2020 | 647 points | Comments)

73. No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”
    (23 Dec 2020 | 645 points | Comments)

74. Gmail having issues
    (15 Dec 2020 | 644 points | Comments)

75. Comic Mono
    (23 Dec 2020 | 643 points | Comments)

76. Who Americans spend their time with, by age
    (11 Dec 2020 | 642 points | Comments)

77. Interview advice that got me offers
    (23 Dec 2020 | 642 points | Comments)

78. Chuck Yeager has died
    (8 Dec 2020 | 636 points | Comments)

79. EU countries team up for semiconductor push
    (9 Dec 2020 | 633 points | Comments)

80. U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
    (14 Dec 2020 | 632 points | Comments)

81. Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
    (14 Dec 2020 | 630 points | Comments)

82. Ethereum 2.0 launches
    (1 Dec 2020 | 629 points | Comments)

83. AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
    (1 Dec 2020 | 629 points | Comments)

84. Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
    (29 Dec 2020 | 628 points | Comments)

85. NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch
    (2 Dec 2020 | 627 points | Comments)

86. The Airbnbs
    (10 Dec 2020 | 623 points | Comments)

87. Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
    (20 Dec 2020 | 622 points | Comments)

88. Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide
    (18 Dec 2020 | 615 points | Comments)

89. LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
    (6 Dec 2020 | 613 points | Comments)

90. Self-host your fonts for better performance
    (4 Dec 2020 | 610 points | Comments)

91. Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
    (12 Dec 2020 | 610 points | Comments)

92. The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design
    (5 Dec 2020 | 609 points | Comments)

93. California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M
    (27 Dec 2020 | 609 points | Comments)

94. Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
    (21 Dec 2020 | 608 points | Comments)

95. Show HN: This website is valid JSON
    (8 Dec 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

96. Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
    (14 Dec 2020 | 602 points | Comments)

97. Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library
    (28 Dec 2020 | 599 points | Comments)

98. The Case of the Extra 40ms
    (15 Dec 2020 | 597 points | Comments)

99. Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone
    (15 Dec 2020 | 591 points | Comments)

100. Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
     (2 Dec 2020 | 585 points | Comments)