Hacker News on 8 December 2021

• Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
• We will be retiring Alexa.com
• Rust support in the Linux kernel
• Improving GitHub Code Search
• Groups never admit failure
• Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
• Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
• Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
• Player of Games
• The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe