top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-01-27

An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

https://bradfitz.com/2020/01/27/leaving-google

6 years ago

1012 upvotes – 271 comments

Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation

6 years ago

759 upvotes – 192 comments

Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html

6 years ago

661 upvotes – 157 comments

CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions

https://cacheoutattack.com/

6 years ago

607 upvotes – 130 comments

“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28

6 years ago

577 upvotes – 207 comments

What’s wrong with computational notebooks?

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/notebookpainpoints.html

6 years ago

377 upvotes – 221 comments

Elixir v1.10

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/01/27/elixir-v1-10-0-released/

6 years ago

364 upvotes – 138 comments

Disk Prices on Amazon

https://diskprices.com/

6 years ago

363 upvotes – 222 comments

Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2020/01/27/bitcoin-gold-51-percent-attack-blockchain-reorg-cryptocurrency-binance-exchange/

6 years ago

342 upvotes – 187 comments

Ask HN: I think I’ve burnt out. What should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22162647

6 years ago

305 upvotes – 164 comments

KnightOS was an interesting operating system

https://drewdevault.com//2020/01/27/KnightOS-was-interesting.html

6 years ago

292 upvotes – 60 comments

A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

https://github.com/oldboyxx/jira_clone

6 years ago

★ 11k JavaScript MIT
286 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Binarysearch.io – Learn Algorithms Together

https://binarysearch.io/

6 years ago

279 upvotes – 38 comments

Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team

https://www.sifive.com/blog/with-sifive-we-can-change-the-world

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 182 comments

Porting Quake to the iPod Classic

https://www.fwei.tk/blog/adieu-quake.html

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 26 comments

Wine 5.0

https://www.winehq.org/news/2020012101

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 49 comments

U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/480152-government-privacy-watchdog-under-pressure-to-recommend-facial-recognition

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 109 comments

The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history

https://blog.zamzar.com/2020/01/27/jason-scott/

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 34 comments

Google App Maker Shutting Down

https://support.google.com/a/answer/9682494

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 226 comments

Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/ubuntu-removes-the-amazon-web-app

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 99 comments
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