Hacker News on 6 December 2020

• Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
• LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
• Distributed Systems Reading List
• InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place
• How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
• The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal
• A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots
• EmacsConf 2020 Talks
• Docker's Second Death
• The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior