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December 2020 Archive
31.
Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? (grubstreet.com)
844 points by polm23 on Dec 29, 2020 | 323 comments
32.
Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder (github.com)
833 points by andyjpb on Dec 16, 2020 | 533 comments
33.
Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course (cs.cornell.edu)
827 points by matt_d on Dec 11, 2020 | 232 comments
34.
All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) (theguardian.com)
826 points by chesterfield on Dec 20, 2020 | 446 comments
35.
Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions. (brandons.me)
825 points by brundolf on Dec 21, 2020 | 352 comments
36.
Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions (npr.org)
809 points by pdkl95 on Dec 3, 2020 | 445 comments
37.
Why can’t you buy a good webcam? (vsevolod.net)
783 points by murkt on Dec 22, 2020 | 773 comments
38.
Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned (cnn.com)
783 points by antfarm on Dec 21, 2020 | 248 comments
39.
Ruby 3.0 (ruby-lang.org)
779 points by 0x54MUR41 on Dec 25, 2020 | 281 comments
40.
Arecibo Observatory Collapsed (space.com)
776 points by BrentOzar on Dec 1, 2020 | 309 comments
41.
U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources (reuters.com)
773 points by re_re on Dec 13, 2020 | 362 comments
42.
Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust (tokio.rs)
769 points by carllerche on Dec 23, 2020 | 402 comments
43.
More challenging projects every programmer should try (web.eecs.utk.edu)
757 points by pavehawk2007 on Dec 20, 2020 | 223 comments
44.
Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) (web.archive.org)
755 points by brandrick on Dec 4, 2020 | 455 comments
45.
The web is 30 years old today (home.cern)
754 points by Anon84 on Dec 20, 2020 | 163 comments
46.
Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts (techcrunch.com)
752 points by Liriel on Dec 10, 2020 | 237 comments
47.
Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics (therobotreport.com)
748 points by tazlor on Dec 9, 2020 | 248 comments
48.
I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee (shkspr.mobi)
745 points by edent on Dec 18, 2020 | 314 comments
49.
Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 (status.cloud.google.com)
729 points by saifulwebid on Dec 18, 2020 | 198 comments
50.
Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
729 points by sid6376 on Dec 25, 2020 | 170 comments
51.
Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor (reddit.com)
725 points by tyler109 on Dec 25, 2020 | 382 comments
52.
Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained (github.com)
717 points by mkirchner on Dec 6, 2020 | 326 comments
53.
Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy (teddit.net)
716 points by oftenwrong on Dec 5, 2020 | 293 comments
54.
A former Uber engineer's disaster story (twitter.com)
710 points by epaga on Dec 10, 2020 | 332 comments
55.
Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
705 points by luizfelberti on Dec 8, 2020 | 192 comments
56.
GitHub Releases Dark Mode (github.com)
700 points by m1 on Dec 8, 2020 | 251 comments
57.
S3 Strong Consistency (aws.amazon.com)
699 points by juliansimioni on Dec 2, 2020 | 227 comments
58.
Being kind to others is good for your health (bbc.com)
690 points by diminish on Dec 19, 2020 | 254 comments
59.
Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?
689 points by Winterflow3r on Dec 25, 2020 | 312 comments
60.
Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square (justice.gov)
685 points by imraj96 on Dec 19, 2020 | 228 comments