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Archives for 14 Dec 2020
  1. Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
    (239 points | Comments)

  2. Police say civil asset forfeiture reduces crime – new study shows they’re wrong
    (352 points | Comments)

  3. SwiftUI tutorials rewritten completely
    (243 points | Comments)

  4. Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform
    (122 points | Comments)

  5. Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers
    (150 points | Comments)

  6. Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
    (630 points | Comments)

  7. How we built scalable spatial indexing in CockroachDB
    (153 points | Comments)

  8. Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work
    (148 points | Comments)

  9. “This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life”
    (307 points | Comments)

  10. Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (2015)
    (201 points | Comments)

  11. New version of Apple-1 DIY kits start shipping
    (131 points | Comments)

  12. FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services
    (373 points | Comments)

  13. How Video Works
    (241 points | Comments)

  14. The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd
    (339 points | Comments)

  15. Show HN: I built a comprehensive Ark ETF tracker
    (140 points | Comments)

  16. Coordinated disclosure of XML roundtrip vulnerabilities in Go’s standard library
    (223 points | Comments)

  17. Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX
    (271 points | Comments)

  18. Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence
    (390 points | Comments)

  19. Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
    (262 points | Comments)

  20. U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
    (632 points | Comments)

  21. SolarWinds exposed FTP credentials in Public Github Repo: US Government Breach
    (142 points | Comments)

  22. Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
    (364 points | Comments)

  23. Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)
    (261 points | Comments)

  24. An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
    (133 points | Comments)

  25. Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development
    (367 points | Comments)

  26. Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?
    (146 points | Comments)

  27. Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists
    (111 points | Comments)

  28. SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
    (102 points | Comments)

  29. The science of addiction: Do you always like the things you want?
    (200 points | Comments)

  30. Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash
    (175 points | Comments)

  31. A Defer Mechanism for C
    (187 points | Comments)

  32. Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work?
    (236 points | Comments)

  33. World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster
    (101 points | Comments)

  34. Show HN: Keytap2 – acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on n-gram frequencies
    (168 points | Comments)

  35. Show HN: Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust
    (127 points | Comments)

  36. EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B
    (150 points | Comments)

  37. Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
    (456 points | Comments)

  38. Google outage – resolved
    (2316 points | Comments)

  39. What Did the Past Smell Like?
    (127 points | Comments)

  40. Code Points
    (141 points | Comments)

  41. Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)
    (154 points | Comments)

  42. We need legal controls on web advertising
    (181 points | Comments)

  43. Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
    (602 points | Comments)

  44. Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
    (152 points | Comments)

  45. Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
    (278 points | Comments)

  46. Ultra High Resolution Photos of Snowflakes
    (124 points | Comments)

  47. Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing
    (107 points | Comments)

  48. Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (2017)
    (185 points | Comments)

  49. Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary
    (424 points | Comments)

  50. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
    (669 points | Comments)

  51. In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?
    (217 points | Comments)

  52. WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
    (179 points | Comments)

  53. Human Clock
    (214 points | Comments)

  54. Linux 5.10
    (354 points | Comments)

  55. Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market
    (153 points | Comments)