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SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code 556 by accountinhn | 339 comments on Hacker News.

Bitcoin is a disaster 572 by wyldfire | 597 comments on Hacker News.

Happy New Year HN 509 by thunderbong | 147 comments on Hacker News. Thanks to the mods and to all the members of HN for one of the bright spots of 2020. So many submissions, so many comments. Most of all, so many intelligent discussions. Also, so much guidance in how to live life - with curiosity, empathy and optimism. Times, both bad and good, will come and go. Lives will be lived and time will move on. But seeing the humanism of people, in my humble opinion, is reason for hope for a better future. Have a wonderful new year everyone!

Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores' 480 by edward | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews 454 by Carducci | 360 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC 462 by hauxir | 118 comments on Hacker News.

Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out 491 by enjoyyourlife | 233 comments on Hacker News.

Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online 529 by MrXOR | 49 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? 441 by orbOfOrthanc | 1189 comments on Hacker News. I love asking new colleagues this question, figured I would open it here as well. What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating 567 by ephesee | 401 comments on Hacker News.

Do You Love Me? [video] 618 by modeless | 226 comments on Hacker News.

iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers 545 by notRobot | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior 582 by chops | 315 comments on Hacker News.

Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? 502 by polm23 | 205 comments on Hacker News.

Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu 494 by naetius | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library 490 by pantalaimon | 126 comments on Hacker News.

Just Wanted to Say Thanks 633 by compumike | 136 comments on Hacker News.

California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M 563 by js2 | 196 comments on Hacker News.

Fun with IP address parsing 479 by mr_tyzic | 138 comments on Hacker News.

1937 film explains how a car differential works 473 by oedmarap | 142 comments on Hacker News.

Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100% 545 by bookofjoe | 265 comments on Hacker News.

New Linux port for the Nintendo 64 515 by MegaDeKay | 174 comments on Hacker News.

Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor 628 by tyler109 | 348 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results? 552 by Winterflow3r | 272 comments on Hacker News. More and more often when I search (using text queries, not image search, which I know has been polluted by Pinterest for years), I get pages upon pages of Pinterest results, sometimes the same Pinterest page but from the different pinterest country domains like pinterest.fi for Finland and pinterest.se for Sweden. Does anyone know if Google gives Pinterest preferential treatement in SEO rankings? Edit: A few comments were asking what my queries were to generate search results where Pinterest dominates, so clarifying that a bit. I run a site that has a colour search engine for lipsticks and since Google is one of the dominant ways in which people land on my site (searching for things like "nyx budapest lipstick dupes"), I was studying various makeup related queries to see which sites ranked highest . Edit2: Edited the title for clarity - I mean text search, not...

Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? 557 by sid6376 | 135 comments on Hacker News. 2019: https://ift.tt/2sbFTaf 2018: https://ift.tt/2KrA5P8 2017: https://ift.tt/2qauEx1 2016: https://ift.tt/2dHkYEA Ever: https://ift.tt/2AaxNzG It's been a weird year, wonder if there were still good tech talks in 2020.

Ruby 3.0 548 by 0x54MUR41 | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back 521 by monort | 207 comments on Hacker News.

Comic Mono 590 by thesephist | 212 comments on Hacker News.

Interview advice that got me offers 574 by ZainRiz | 335 comments on Hacker News.

No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption” 618 by hprotagonist | 234 comments on Hacker News.

Tips for a Better Life 645 by CapitalistCartr | 284 comments on Hacker News.

How We Saved Dot Org 556 by thomasahle | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust 536 by carllerche | 264 comments on Hacker News.

How bad is your Spotify? 528 by feross | 359 comments on Hacker News.

Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming 519 by totaldude87 | 466 comments on Hacker News.

Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill 519 by CharlesW | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources 517 by coloneltcb | 663 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices 540 by parsecs | 122 comments on Hacker News.

Why can’t you buy a good webcam? 635 by murkt | 674 comments on Hacker News.

Hotwire: HTML over the Wire 636 by samename | 317 comments on Hacker News.

Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions. 586 by brundolf | 249 comments on Hacker News.

Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan 510 by giuliomagnifico | 303 comments on Hacker News.

Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit 599 by arkadiyt | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned 632 by antfarm | 139 comments on Hacker News.

More challenging projects every programmer should try 548 by pavehawk2007 | 174 comments on Hacker News.

International Operation Disrupts Supply of Firearms to Terrorists Published December 22, 2020 at 05:00AM Read more at unodc.org

The web is 30 years old today 501 by Anon84 | 130 comments on Hacker News.

Back to the '70s with Serverless 457 by pjmlp | 252 comments on Hacker News.

All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) 576 by chesterfield | 278 comments on Hacker News.

Being kind to others is good for your health 510 by diminish | 192 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook: Free as in Bullshit 463 by throw0101a | 208 comments on Hacker News.

Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square 452 by imraj96 | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 413 by saifulwebid | 119 comments on Hacker News.

Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide 489 by boogies | 145 comments on Hacker News.

I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee 481 by edent | 183 comments on Hacker News.

Jetbrains Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help 467 by OJFord | 186 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature 449 by anupamchugh | 269 comments on Hacker News.

Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth' 447 by advaitruia | 267 comments on Hacker News. We (my cofounder and I) have built several startups previously and spent an unnecessary amount of effort on auth. This led us to build an open source alternative to Auth0 and AWS Cognito, that’s called SuperTokens. We’ve spoken to 100s of developers and startups to understand the pain points with current services and we hope you find this useful! Why did we build this? To be able to control our user data and have it stored in our own database. Have certain customisations that other identity providers do not offer We couldn’t afford to pay It took too long to understand the documentation of alternate service providers How are we any easier? We think that Auth0, Firebase etc are great services but auth is complex. There are many different use cases for different types of apps. Since services have to cater to each of these, they tend to become complex in the...

SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources 441 by ericliuche | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews 439 by kmod | 207 comments on Hacker News.

Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware 443 by known | 82 comments on Hacker News.

Blob Opera 424 by BerislavLopac | 56 comments on Hacker News.

I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager 455 by Gedxx | 427 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue 425 by sanity31415 | 204 comments on Hacker News. Back in 2010 I had an idea for a service that would allow people to easily create semi-permanent email aliases so that they could give an email address to people and websites without revealing their real email address. These aliases will continue to work indefinitely unless you choose to block them. My brother and I spent a few months building the initial version and launched the website in July 2010. For the first year we had about 50 signups per month, by 2013 this had increased to 1500 and it's currently around 3500 per month. Similarly, our revenue grew consistently but slowly - doubling about every 18 months, reaching its current level of around $8k/mo. Over this time we redesigned the website, and found a company to create an explainer video for the service (both through 99Designs). We have not spent much on paid user acquisition, we experimented with it a bi...

No Cookie for You 665 by todsacerdoti | 233 comments on Hacker News.

States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf] 467 by pondsider | 337 comments on Hacker News.

Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder 595 by andyjpb | 371 comments on Hacker News.

AWS CloudShell 434 by jeffbarr | 225 comments on Hacker News.

Minimal safe Bash script template 472 by signa11 | 254 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox Was Always Enough 589 by adambyrtek | 315 comments on Hacker News.

Gmail having issues 539 by mangoman | 354 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules 475 by EB-Barrington | 340 comments on Hacker News.

Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year 450 by infodocket | 436 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox 84.0 435 by easton | 233 comments on Hacker News.

Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone 553 by nojito | 341 comments on Hacker News.

The Case of the Extra 40ms 555 by atg_abhishek | 185 comments on Hacker News.

Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died 601 by WalterBright | 326 comments on Hacker News.

Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide” 444 by freddyym | 140 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary 407 by jabo | 80 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise 551 by parsecs | 256 comments on Hacker News.

Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year 536 by barry-cotter | 390 comments on Hacker News.

Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain 504 by anigbrowl | 171 comments on Hacker News.

Google Outage 1748 by abluecloud | 489 comments on Hacker News. various services are broken - youtube returning error - gmail returning 502 - docs returning 500 - drive not working status page now reflecting outage: https://ift.tt/Pn6GVU -------------- services look to be restored.

U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources 458 by re_re | 174 comments on Hacker News.

SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights 420 by apsec112 | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Become Shell Literate 480 by als0 | 311 comments on Hacker News.

Earnestness 412 by jger15 | 416 comments on Hacker News.

Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys 519 by buttscicles | 313 comments on Hacker News.

I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel 374 by hackerpain | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Chrome Is Bad 519 by kjakm | 218 comments on Hacker News.

Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can 532 by lnguyen | 98 comments on Hacker News.

The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire 507 by garraeth | 815 comments on Hacker News.

Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course 604 by matt_d | 162 comments on Hacker News.

Who Americans spend their time with, by age 481 by EOO_OWID | 324 comments on Hacker News.

The Airbnbs 597 by todsacerdoti | 479 comments on Hacker News.

Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds 521 by saurik | 418 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue 499 by gigamick | 252 comments on Hacker News. It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong. I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow. My product is SongBox ( https://songbox.rocks ) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately. I'm at a stage now where I've bottomed out all the work I've wanted to do and I'm looking for a fresh round of feedback. Would love you guys to check it out and see what you can think of. Thanks!

A former Uber engineer's disaster story 494 by epaga | 246 comments on Hacker News.

Elon Musk moves to Texas 490 by cft | 1069 comments on Hacker News.

Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow? 478 by mostlystatic | 374 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook hit with antitrust probe for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts 654 by Liriel | 210 comments on Hacker News.

Cameras and Lenses 667 by mariuz | 75 comments on Hacker News.

Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable 539 by andyfleming | 220 comments on Hacker News.

Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics 559 by tazlor | 153 comments on Hacker News.

EU countries team up for semiconductor push 530 by rvieira | 532 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud 522 by 1cvmask | 1641 comments on Hacker News.

FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization 568 by minimaxir | 248 comments on Hacker News.

CSS in GitHub Readmes 526 by MH15 | 177 comments on Hacker News.

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream 495 by rwky | 606 comments on Hacker News.

Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH 529 by websirnik | 331 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: This website is valid JSON 554 by gpnt | 216 comments on Hacker News.

FIFA and UNODC join forces to encourage football to speak out against match-fixing Published December 10, 2020 at 06:22AM Read more at unodc.org

Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020? 522 by luizfelberti | 143 comments on Hacker News. I know there are classics that get posted every time this question comes around, so bias them towards more recent ones :)

GitHub Releases Dark Mode 524 by m1 | 176 comments on Hacker News.

Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects 505 by jameshilliard | 180 comments on Hacker News. I guess it was inevitable https://ift.tt/3lPHB6R https://twitter.com/james_hilliard/status/133608177669184307... Hello James, Thanks for writing in. At the moment, credit allocation for OSS projects is on hold as per directives from management. Sincere apologies please. We will provide updates once we get additional approval from management. Thanks for your patience -- MK Your Friends @Travis CI Test and Deploy with Confidence.

Distributed Systems Reading List 504 by dedalus | 62 comments on Hacker News.

AirPods Max 642 by css | 1104 comments on Hacker News.

Chuck Yeager has died 609 by awnird | 158 comments on Hacker News.

AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits 540 by km3r | 306 comments on Hacker News.