top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-01-21

Programming Fonts – Test Drive

http://app.programmingfonts.org/

7 years ago

712 upvotes – 283 comments

On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

https://www.gwern.net/zeo/CO2

7 years ago

576 upvotes – 306 comments

Bed that saved me from the Taliban

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-46882917

7 years ago

576 upvotes – 133 comments

Why does APT not use HTTPS?

https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/

7 years ago

515 upvotes – 420 comments

H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it

7 years ago

509 upvotes – 190 comments

Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961793

7 years ago

491 upvotes – 130 comments

$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-corporate-debt-risks-20190120-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

7 years ago

465 upvotes – 265 comments

Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?

https://thinkfaster.co/2019/01/are-we-in-the-middle-of-a-giant-programming-bubble/

7 years ago

386 upvotes – 397 comments

Intro to hacking MicroSD cards (2013)

http://bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

7 years ago

352 upvotes – 29 comments

CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google

https://www.cnil.fr/en/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-financial-penalty-50-million-euros-against-google-llc

7 years ago

330 upvotes – 222 comments

Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times

https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/letter-response-jan-17-article-new-york-times

7 years ago

294 upvotes – 136 comments

Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS

https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/

7 years ago

271 upvotes – 64 comments

If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/opinion/5g-cybersecurity-china.html

7 years ago

243 upvotes – 169 comments

NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst

7 years ago

240 upvotes – 109 comments

A Lifetime of Systems Thinking

https://thesystemsthinker.com/a-lifetime-of-systems-thinking/

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 48 comments

Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/tech/billion-oyster-project/index.html

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 111 comments

Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust

https://github.com/djc/quinn/releases/tag/0.2.0

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 50 comments

Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems

https://genode.org/about/index

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 31 comments

An Introduction to Ray Tracing (1989)

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/an-introduction-to-ray-tracing-is-now-free-for-download/

7 years ago

194 upvotes – 19 comments

Flutter: Futures, Isolates, Event Loop

https://www.didierboelens.com/2019/01/futures---isolates---event-loop/

7 years ago

193 upvotes – 39 comments
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