top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-01-07

The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1

https://sha-mbles.github.io/

6 years ago

Firefox 72.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/

6 years ago

Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/apple-airpods-iphone-accessory-or-the-next-big-thing

6 years ago

Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)

https://humanparts.medium.com/i-am-a-little-too-fat-im-a-little-too-generous-i-think-i-know-why-e97cd25b7eeb

6 years ago

Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms

6 years ago

Translating Quake 3 into Rust

https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21981923

6 years ago

Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf]

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/zidar/files/slattery-zidar-taxincentives-2020.pdf

6 years ago

Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers

6 years ago

How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]

https://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf

6 years ago

Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System

https://jellyfin.org/

6 years ago

Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=07&month=01&year=2020

6 years ago

Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1214392496375025664

6 years ago

Loudness war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

6 years ago

Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/808575/9fd4fea3d86086f0/

6 years ago

Elixir lang 1.10.0-rc0

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.10.0-rc.0

6 years ago

★ 26.3k Elixir Apache-2.0

Comma Two Devkit

https://comma.ai/shop/products/comma-two-devkit

6 years ago

Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go

https://github.com/cube2222/jql

6 years ago

★ 906 Go MIT

The End of the Beginning

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-the-beginning/

6 years ago

Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020

https://blog.arduino.cc/2020/01/07/arduino-goes-pro-at-ces-2020/

6 years ago