top 50% 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

Wine 5.0

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

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 49 comments

Porting Quake to the iPod Classic

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

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 26 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

Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 203 comments

The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200116/08134343743/race-to-5g-is-giant-pile-lobbyist-nonsense.shtml

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 144 comments

Five Years of Btrfs

https://markmcb.com/2020/01/07/five-years-of-btrfs/

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 237 comments

Using mixed integer programming to assign air cargo to flights

https://flexport.engineering/using-mixed-integer-programming-to-assign-air-cargo-to-flights-42437bae9945

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 56 comments

Installing NextStep OS (OpenStep) in VirtualBox (2018)

http://stuffjasondoes.com/2018/07/25/installing-nextstep-os-openstep-on-virtualbox-in-2018/

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 61 comments

Elizabeth Holmes representing herself in Arizona civil case

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/24/theranos-founder-holmes-phones-in-to-court-hearing-solo-after-lawyers-say-she-stiffed-them-report/

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 164 comments

Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/why-do-american-houses-have-so-many-bathrooms/605338/

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 451 comments

How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/27/how-much-does-a-mile-of-road-actually-cost

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 312 comments

Photo of a suspended, glowing single atom wins photography prize

https://bigthink.com/news/photo-of-a-single-atom-wins-science-photography-prize

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 62 comments

How a Cruise Ship Makes 30k Meals Every Day [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2vXbFp5C9o

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 92 comments

Why numbering should start at zero (1982)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 220 comments

Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51208154

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 151 comments

Trust Is at the Core of Software Marketing

https://tomtunguz.com/trust-core-marketing/

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 63 comments

LInQer – C# Integrated Queries ported to Javascript

https://github.com/Siderite/LInQer

6 years ago

★ 506 JavaScript MIT
147 upvotes – 117 comments

To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect (2018)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-build-truly-intelligent-machines-teach-them-cause-and-effect-20180515

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 104 comments

Google Sheets was down

http://sheets.google.com

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 103 comments

The Shapes of Code

https://www.fluentcpp.com/2020/01/14/the-shapes-of-code/

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 68 comments

Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/01/22/this-rat-that-had-no-brain-it-somehow-lived-a-normal-life/

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 48 comments

Detroit's salt mine: City beneath the city

https://www.detroitnews.com/picture-gallery/news/local/michigan-history/2020/01/26/detroit-salt-mine-city-beneath-city/4523991002/

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 85 comments

Pinscreen Deepfake Live Prototype [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imOreIfpzsU

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Unison: A Content-Addressable Programming Language

https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/tour/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 12 comments

Glial brain cells, long in neurons’ shadow, reveal hidden powers

https://www.quantamagazine.org/glial-brain-cells-long-in-neurons-shadow-reveal-hidden-powers-20200127/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 22 comments

Using OpenAI Gym to train an open-source 3D printed robot

https://github.com/nicrusso7/rex-gym

6 years ago

★ 1k Python Apache-2.0
135 upvotes – 26 comments

Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy

https://mort.coffee/home/clang-compiler-hacking/

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 26 comments

Docker is a dangerous gamble which we will regret (2018)

http://archive.is/zkmaE

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 125 comments

Qt Offering Changes 2020

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 127 comments

Mamba Mentality (2018)

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kobe-bryant-lakers-photos-andrew-bernstein

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 24 comments

Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on Jan. 8, 2020

https://news.gandi.net/en/2020/01/postmortem-of-the-failure-of-one-hosting-storage-unit-at-lu-bi1-on-january-8-2020/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 77 comments

Bill Manning has died

https://rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com/2020/01/bill-manning.html

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 67 comments

Picardy Third

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

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

Cost of a 51% attack for different cryptocurrencies?

https://www.crypto51.app/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 128 comments

DebConf20: offer to speak in Palestine censored

https://debian.community/debconf20-palestine-messages-censored-debian-project/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22157166

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 99 comments

How to Become a Centaur (2018)

https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-case

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

FDA approves first US phage therapy trial (2019)

https://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/antimicrobials/news/online/%7B9f6c465a-3e93-476e-8397-665458cbc21f%7D/ucsd-researchers-get-ok-from-fda-for-first-trial-of-iv-phage-therapy

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 56 comments

Better-initramfs: initramfs supporting SSH, lvm, luks, raid, uswsusp and more

https://github.com/slashbeast/better-initramfs

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

The Wuhan Virus

https://www.genomic-quirks.org/post/the-wuhan-virus

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 64 comments

Nintendo’s iconic logo escaped an “age-up” remake

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/the-story-of-how-nintendos-iconic-logo-escaped-an-age-up-remake/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 70 comments

WLW: America's 500,000 watt radio station (2015)

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/mayjune/feature/in-the-1930s-radio-station-wlw-in-ohio-was-americas-one-and-only-sup

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 78 comments

Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behind recent cyberattacks

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-attack-hijack-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZQ10X

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

Beware the Mean

https://stephen.sh/posts/beware-the-mean

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Optacon

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

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 32 comments

Survivor: How We Made Eye of the Tiger

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/27/how-we-made-eye-of-the-tiger-rocky-iii-survivor-sylvester-stallone

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

Preliminary assessment of the International Spreading Risk of Coronavirus [pdf]

https://www.mobs-lab.org/uploads/6/7/8/7/6787877/wuhan_novel_coronavirus_jan26.pdf

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Performance First

https://tonsky.me/blog/performance-first/

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 95 comments

The good, the bad and the ugly standup

https://kristoff.it/blog/good-bad-ugly-standup/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22158218

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

Wolf Pups That Play Fetch

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/science/wolves-fetch-dogs-domestication.html

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200127005141/en/Google-Tesla-Engineer-Chris-Lattner-Lead-SiFive

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 2 comments

Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 62 comments

U.S. Opposed Breast-Feeding Resolution at World Health Assembly (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22161880

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 88 comments
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