HackerNews most popular stories from Dec 13, 2020 to Dec 20, 2020. In one blog post.
[0] No Cookie for You
https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
[1] Google outage – resolved
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989
[2] Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
[3] Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
http://blog.kevmod.com/2020/12/amazon-disallows-pointing-out-paid-reviews/
[4] Firefox Was Always Enough
https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-enough.html
[5] States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
[6] Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky
[7] U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
[8] Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
http://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20013#20013004
[9] I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/i-have-resigned-from-the-google-amp-advisory-committee/
[10] Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
[11] Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH
[12] Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
[13] U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
[14] Gmail having issues
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab
[15] Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
[16] Being kind to others is good for your health
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-to-others-is-good-for-your-health
[17] Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/apples-anti-tracking-plans-iphone/
[18] The Case of the Extra 40ms
[19] Facebook’s Hypocrisy on Apple’s New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/facebook-criticising-apples-ios-14
[20] All problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/19/change-your-life-sit-down-and-think
[21] Firefox 84.0
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/84.0/releasenotes/
[22] Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source ‘Stripe for Auth’
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458033
[23] Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year
https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-us/
[24] Minimal safe Bash script template
https://betterdev.blog/minimal-safe-bash-script-template/
[25] I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
[26] SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321
[27] Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware
https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
[28] AWS CloudShell
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloudshell-command-line-access-to-aws-resources/
[29] Blob Opera
https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/AAHWrq360NcGbw