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12/16/2020
23 : 14
Firefox Was Always Enough — Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules — and Gmail having issues
Issue #254 — Top 20 stories of December 17, 2020 Issue #254 — December 17, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/16/2020
0 : 14
Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died — Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone — and The Case of the Extra 40ms
Issue #253 — Top 20 stories of December 16, 2020 Issue #253 — December 16, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/14/2020
23 : 14
Google outage – resolved — and U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
Issue #252 — Top 20 stories of December 15, 2020 Issue #252 — December 15, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/13/2020
23 : 14
I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel — and Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
Issue #251 — Top 20 stories of December 14, 2020 Issue #251 — December 14, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/12/2020
23 : 14
Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can — and The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
Issue #250 — Top 20 stories of December 13, 2020 Issue #250 — December 13, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/11/2020
23 : 14
Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course — Who Americans spend their time with, by age — and A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
Issue #249 — Top 20 stories of December 12, 2020 Issue #249 — December 12, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/10/2020
23 : 14
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization — and Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
Issue #248 — Top 20 stories of December 11, 2020 Issue #248 — December 11, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/8/2020
23 : 14
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard — AirPods Max — and AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
Issue #246 — Top 20 stories of December 09, 2020 Issue #246 — December 09, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/7/2020
23 : 14
Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams — and Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
Issue #245 — Top 20 stories of December 08, 2020 Issue #245 — December 08, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/6/2020
23 : 14
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe — InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place — and How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
Issue #244 — Top 20 stories of December 07, 2020 Issue #244 — December 07, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/5/2020
23 : 14
Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub — and Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
Issue #243 — Top 20 stories of December 06, 2020 Issue #243 — December 06, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/5/2020
0 : 14
Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) — Self-host your fonts for better performance — and EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
Issue #242 — Top 20 stories of December 05, 2020 Issue #242 — December 05, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/4/2020
4 : 4
Email a Dumpster Fire — Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery — and macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years
Issue #233 — Top 20 stories of November 26, 2020 Issue #233 — November 26, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/4/2020
3 : 54
I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track — PHP 8 — and An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
Issue #234 — Top 20 stories of November 27, 2020 Issue #234 — November 27, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/4/2020
3 : 44
Tell HN: Thank You Dang — How to Think for Yourself — and CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
Issue #235 — Top 20 stories of November 28, 2020 Issue #235 — November 28, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/4/2020
3 : 34
Tony Hsieh has died — Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework — and K6: Like unit testing, for performance
Issue #236 — Top 20 stories of November 29, 2020 Issue #236 — November 29, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/4/2020
3 : 25
Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 — Growl in Retirement — and Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
Issue #237 — Top 20 stories of November 30, 2020 Issue #237 — November 30, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/4/2020
3 : 15
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology — and A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
Issue #238 — Top 20 stories of December 01, 2020 Issue #238 — December 01, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/4/2020
3 : 10
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances — Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? — and Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
Issue #239 — Top 20 stories of December 02, 2020 Issue #239 — December 02, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/4/2020
3 : 8
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack — S3 Strong Consistency — and An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
Issue #240 — Top 20 stories of December 03, 2020 Issue #240 — December 03, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1