top 20 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

The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-capitol-attack-doesnt-justify-expanding-surveillance/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 403 comments

An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/07/11/royalty-free-web-video-codecs/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 165 comments

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 119 comments

Ray Tracing in pure CMake

https://64.github.io/cmake-raytracer/

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 166 comments

NASA's Curiosity rover: 3k days on Mars

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55562150

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695682

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 226 comments

Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube

https://techjaja.com/govt-blocks-google-playstore-apple-appstore-and-youtube/

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 367 comments

Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, a Boeing 737, has disappeared from radar

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1347856317839417345

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 149 comments

Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1347597998155591680

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 58 comments

Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p090s793/advice-from-a-104-year-old-phd-student

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 143 comments
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