top 50% 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

Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship

https://www.state.gov/lifting-self-imposed-restrictions-on-the-u-s-taiwan-relationship/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 196 comments

Next Gen Static Blogging

https://inoads.com/articles/2020-01-09-Next-Gen-Static-Blogging

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 175 comments

Deep neck flexor exercises – Back and neck

https://www.sprintphysio.co.uk/patient-exercises/back-and-neck/deep-neck-flexor-exercises.html

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 116 comments

Games on GitHub – A list of popular/awesome video games hosted on GitHub

https://github.com/leereilly/games

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 9 comments

Writing a Kubernetes CRD Controller in Rust

http://technosophos.com/2019/08/07/writing-a-kubernetes-controller-in-rust.html

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 74 comments

Party Like It's 1925 on Public Domain Day

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/01/951171599/party-like-its-1925-on-public-domain-day-gatsby-and-dalloway-are-in

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 39 comments

To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (2018)

https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40163-018-0093-5

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 175 comments

SARS-CoV-2 induced remission of Hodgkin lymphoma

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjh.17116

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 35 comments

They spent 12 years solving a puzzle. It yielded the first Covid-19 vaccines

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/these-scientists-spent-twelve-years-solving-puzzle-yielded-coronavirus-vaccines/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 44 comments

ACLU Statement Opposing the 'Confronting the Threat of Domestic Terrorism Act' (2019)

https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-statement-opposing-hr-4192-confronting-threat-domestic-terrorism-act

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 110 comments

Clearview AI being used to identify Capitol rioters

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/09/us/trump-biden#facial-recognition-clearview-capitol

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 164 comments

Arrests of Hong Kong democrats shows why EU must reject China investment

https://www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021/1/6/chris-patten-mass-arrests-of-hong-kong-democrats-shows-why-eu-parliament-must-reject-china-investment-agreement

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 162 comments

Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020

https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/384-ways-to-help-45d0b9ac6ad8

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: JavaScript Program Synthesis

https://grgv.xyz/inductive_program_synthesis/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 17 comments

Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trending Topic

https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-stops-hang-mike-pence-trending-1560253

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 214 comments

Microprocessors Running on Air?

https://erik-engheim.medium.com/microprocessors-running-on-air-a47a702dd41f

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 55 comments

Raymarching Distance Fields (2008-2020 compilation)

https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarchingdf.htm

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

Campaign Monitor has suspended President Trump

https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1347724201331814401

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books

https://thesmartcoder.dev/books/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

Early clinical trial shows anti-depressant prevents hospitalization from Covid

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2773108

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 109 comments

Woo for Its Own Sake

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/woo-for-its-own-sake/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments

Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-twitter-campaign/twitter-suspends-trumps-campaign-account-teamtrump-for-violating-its-rules-idUSKBN29E04T

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 264 comments

Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers

https://convier.me

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 84 comments

Parler App delisted from Google Play; Apple threatening same within 24h

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/technology/parler-apple-google.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 160 comments

FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-trump-electoral-college-certification-congress/card/rghQKMAF2ju2wkrUlcj1

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 121 comments

ACLU Counsel Warns of 'Unchecked Power' of Twitter, Facebook

https://www.newsweek.com/aclu-counsel-warns-unchecked-power-twitter-facebook-after-trump-suspension-1560248

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 189 comments

Police found pickup truck full of bombs and guns near Capitol

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/us-capitol-riots-arrest-pelosi-desk/index.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 121 comments

What is happening to Lazada is happening to all companies acquired by Alibaba

https://thelowdown.momentum.asia/what-is-happening-to-lazada-is-happening-to-all-companies-acquired-by-alibaba/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

https://pikaso.me/blog/donald-trump-twitter-archive

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Parlor has been removed from Google Play

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/parler-removed-from-google-play-store-as-apple-app-store-suspension-reportedly-looms/ar-BB1cB6ny

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 113 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about Biometrics

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-biometrics/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

Writing an iRacing SDK Implementation in F#

https://markjames.dev/2021-01-08-writing-an-iracing-sdk-implementation-fsharp/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Voice of America CEO Accused of Fraud, Misuse of Office All in One Week

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/953999556/voice-of-america-ceo-accused-of-fraud-misuse-of-office-all-in-one-week?t=1610160818306&t=1610161474821

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

LenPEG (2017)

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

Roku buys Quibi content for less than $100M

https://deadline.com/2021/01/roku-confirms-quibi-deal-global-rights-streaming-shows-1234667170/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

Canon CR3 Fileformat

https://github.com/lclevy/canon_cr3

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Robot Made of Ice Can Repair and Rebuild Itself

https://www.freethink.com/articles/robot-made-of-ice

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

Holiday Hacking – Tracking my heart rate while playing Call of Duty

https://jcdav.is/2021/01/04/Holiday-Hacking-COD-HR/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments
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