top 10 hacker news stories for 2021-01-09

Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pfizer-biontech-vaccine-appears-effective-against-mutation-in-new-coronavirus-variants-study-suggests-1.5865885

5 years ago

661 upvotes – 231 comments

When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux

https://twitter.com/DanRose999/status/1347677573900242944

5 years ago

499 upvotes – 178 comments

You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act.shtml

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 292 comments

Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25700135

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 820 comments

Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)

https://sasha-f.medium.com/why-mmap-is-faster-than-system-calls-24718e75ab37

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 203 comments

AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682995

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 149 comments

Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parler.parler&hl=en&gl=US

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 809 comments

Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/09/pesticide-believed-kill-bees-authorised-use-england-eu-farmers

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 128 comments

Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)

https://blog.shitiomatic.tech/post/haskell-is-a-bad-programming-language/#👾

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 307 comments

Signal gaining popularity in India after WhatsApp policy changes

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/whatsapp-rival-signal-reports-growing-pains-after-elon-musks-tweet/articleshow/80172451.cms

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 111 comments
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