Google outage – resolved — and U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government

Issue #252 — December 15, 2020

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Google outage – resolved news.ycombinator.com \| points: 2285 \| comments: 792

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U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources reuters.com \| points: 757 \| comments: 352

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Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain fireeye.com \| points: 629 \| comments: 213

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Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year reddit.com \| points: 520 \| comments: 385

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U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise krebsonsecurity.com \| points: 432 \| comments: 194

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Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide” write.privacytools.io \| points: 407 \| comments: 126

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Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary books-search.typesense.org \| points: 366 \| comments: 77

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Linux 5.10 lore.kernel.org \| points: 342 \| comments: 131

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John le Carré has died bbc.com \| points: 326 \| comments: 133

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Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform vice.com \| points: 317 \| comments: 427

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Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development tech.ssut.me \| points: 315 \| comments: 398

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Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants macwright.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 384

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A leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members skynews.com.au \| points: 265 \| comments: 87

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Europe’s Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots singularityhub.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 213

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Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011) lowtechmagazine.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 254

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Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX danielmiessler.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 248

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In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating? aljazeera.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 156

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Human Clock humanclock.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 51

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U-2: The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace bbc.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 86

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Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed ziglang.org \| points: 183 \| comments: 90

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