Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-12-19

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
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• I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
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• Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
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• U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
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• Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
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• Google outage – resolved
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• U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
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• Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
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• Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
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• Gmail having issues
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• Firefox Was Always Enough
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• Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
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• States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
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• No Cookie for You
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• Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
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• Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
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• Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
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• I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
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• Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
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• Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
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