top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-01

My Experience at Apple

https://ex-apple-engineer.medium.com/my-experience-apple-5d8b6205cb56

5 years ago

1602 upvotes – 778 comments

TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

https://omar.website/tabfs/

5 years ago

1400 upvotes – 235 comments

California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2149

5 years ago

1317 upvotes – 620 comments

Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store

https://github.com/x74353/SaveAmphetamine

5 years ago

946 upvotes – 648 comments

EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology

https://www.eetimes.eu/eu-signs-e145bn-declaration-to-develop-next-gen-processors-and-2nm-technology/

5 years ago

752 upvotes – 478 comments

School or Prison

https://www.schoolprison.com/

5 years ago

708 upvotes – 475 comments

Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/

5 years ago

539 upvotes – 328 comments

Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/01/peer-reviewed-papers-are-getting-increasingly-boring/

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 204 comments

State machines are wonderful tools

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/12/31/

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 101 comments

Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly

https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 49 comments

The Great Software Stagnation

https://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=1475

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 299 comments

Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple

https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/08/political-discrimination-lawsuit-against-apple-can-go-forward/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 206 comments

Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration

https://news.utexas.edu/2020/12/31/desalination-breakthrough-could-lead-to-cheaper-water-filtration/

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 101 comments

Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38035/russian-off-roaders-crossed-2000-miles-of-siberia-to-reach-one-of-the-most-isolated-cities-on-earth

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 96 comments

Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years

https://twitter.com/markpinc/status/1344742333443493889

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 177 comments

You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner

https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-new-years-resolutions-never-think-youre-too-old-to-become-a-beginner-11609426707

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 94 comments

The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

http://pile.eleuther.ai/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 60 comments

What’s Entering Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby, Music by Duke Ellington

https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/whats-entering-the-public-domain-in-2021.html

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 71 comments

White House wins ruling on disclosing health care prices

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-kayleigh-mcenany-courts-f0700210fe86004255f68f15d12e9932

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 85 comments

George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/jan/01/george-orwell-is-out-of-copyright-what-happens-now

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 99 comments

Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC

https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/lichee-nano-pi-will-it-run-debian/

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 108 comments

Best of HN 2020

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1609415804&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1577836800&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 21 comments

The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution

https://twitter.com/davidfickling/status/1344404814256504832

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 67 comments

The World's current and next Innovations depend on a single country, Taiwan

https://erickhun.com/posts/world-innovation-taiwan-semiconductors/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 45 comments

A megacorp is not your dream job

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/01/Megacorps-are-not-your-dream-job.html

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 124 comments

One Year of Excalidraw

https://blog.excalidraw.com/one-year-of-excalidraw/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 19 comments

The parenting style that creates leaders

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200406-what-leader-are-you-it-depends-on-your-parents

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 96 comments

Things I Didn't Learn in 2020

https://damnoptimist.substack.com/p/8-things-i-didnt-learn-in-2020

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: I made a job board that doesn't allow HackerRank tests

http://borderline.biz/careers

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 152 comments

Eagle Cash

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

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 103 comments

How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: What was your favorite comment in 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25604828

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 41 comments

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RcifQCKkRc9XTjxC2/anti-aging-state-of-the-art

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 47 comments

Sparse Matrices (2019)

https://matteding.github.io/2019/04/25/sparse-matrices

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 19 comments

After embracing remote work in 2020 companies face conflicts making it permanent

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/01/after-embracing-remote-work-in-2020-companies-face-conflicts-making-it-permanent/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 90 comments
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