top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-04

A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/4/22212347/google-employees-contractors-announce-union-cwa-alphabet

5 years ago

1643 upvotes – 1344 comments

Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering

https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/

5 years ago

1290 upvotes – 200 comments

Slack is down

https://status.slack.com/2021-01/9ecc1bc75347b6d1

5 years ago

989 upvotes – 803 comments

Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

https://read.cv

5 years ago

938 upvotes – 358 comments

USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USA-v-Assange-judgment-040121.pdf

5 years ago

814 upvotes – 606 comments

Slack is down

https://status.slack.com/#

5 years ago

563 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

https://github.com/GRVYDEV/Project-Lightspeed

5 years ago

452 upvotes – 138 comments

Julian Assange extradition to US blocked by UK court

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55528241

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 133 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632982

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 840 comments

After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off

https://jordan-shared.medium.com/after-spending-over-57-million-on-facebook-ads-they-kicked-me-and-my-pages-off-without-warning-c6d7e611b01c

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 300 comments

20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy

https://dsebastien.medium.com/20-months-in-2k-hours-spent-and-200k-lost-a-story-about-resilience-and-the-sunk-cost-fallacy-69fd4f61ef59

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 235 comments

Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 147 comments

Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-the-digital-manor/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 242 comments

We’re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 90 comments

SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/solarwinds-the-more-we-learn-the-worse-it-looks/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 110 comments

China: The Disappearing Millionaires (2019) [video]

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/083456-000-A/china-the-disappearing-millionaires/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 179 comments

Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/01/04/taking-fosdem-online-via-matrix

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 42 comments

A comparison of city building games

https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1345955063353597954

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 127 comments

Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccines-moderna/update-1-moderna-raises-2021-vaccine-output-forecast-to-at-least-600-mln-doses-idUSL4N2JF30F

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 238 comments

Quitting a New Job

https://yolken.net/blog/quitting-a-new-job

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 232 comments

Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632048

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 73 comments

Jack Ma has not been seen in public for two months

https://www.ft.com/content/a91dfeae-da1e-4348-8212-bbfbe94d93bd

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 68 comments

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 112 comments

BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet

https://www.singlelunch.com/2020/10/21/badeconomics-putting-400m-of-bitcoin-on-your-company-balance-sheet/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 574 comments

Verified Programming in F*: A Tutorial

http://fstar-lang.org/tutorial/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Is HN slow today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635115

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't one-time sign in links more popular for authentication?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25628729

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 192 comments

Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks

https://www.singlelunch.com/2020/12/28/why-im-lukewarm-on-graph-neural-networks/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

LibreSSL Languishes on Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/841664/0ba4265680b9dadf/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 68 comments

Singapore says contact tracing data may be used for criminal investigations

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-police-force-can-obtain-tracetogether-data-covid-19-13889914

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 137 comments

Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949764249/fork-the-government

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632979

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 273 comments

Fair-Code Automation with n8n.io

https://tech.davidfield.co.uk/opensourced-ifttt-with-n8n-io/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

Greenland Sharks

https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2020/12/31/several-short-sentences-about-greenland-sharks/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 19 comments

AMD's desktop CPU share passes Intel's for first time in 15 years

https://www.techspot.com/news/88148-amd-desktop-cpu-share-passes-intel-first-time.html

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 20 comments

“Hello, World” in zero lines of code

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/215705/hello-world-in-zero-lines-of-code

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 51 comments

ZX81 Webserver

http://zx81-siggi.zx-team.org/index.html

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 54 comments

30 years since the Human Genome Project began – what's next?

https://www.wired.com/story/30-years-since-the-human-genome-project-began-whats-next/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 42 comments

The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)

http://willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 34 comments

America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/manufacturing-united-states-masks.html

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 186 comments

An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy theories

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233879

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 109 comments

Jack Ma's disappearing act fuels speculation about billionaire's whereabouts

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-ant-group-jack-ma/jack-mas-disappearing-act-fuels-speculation-about-billionaires-whereabouts-idUSKBN2991DA

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 51 comments

Gov.uk site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement

https://twitter.com/therealnooshu/status/1346188723667533826

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 75 comments

Brexit stops Brooks England sales of ‘Made in Britain’ saddles to UK shoppers

https://road.cc/content/news/brooks-england-stops-sales-uk-shoppers-because-brexit-279791

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 127 comments

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan End Health-Care Venture Haven

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/haven-the-amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-venture-to-disrupt-healthcare-is-disbanding-after-3-years.html

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic About Section 230

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210104/01172345990/60-minutes-episode-is-pure-misleading-moral-panic-about-section-230-blames-unrelated-issues-it.shtml

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 95 comments
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