top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-10

GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbnails-in-the-file-picker.html

5 years ago

1505 upvotes – 724 comments

Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-parler.html

5 years ago

1058 upvotes – 3675 comments

What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-right-on-software-engineers/

5 years ago

805 upvotes – 324 comments

Wikipedia is 20

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/01/09/wikipedia-is-20-and-its-reputation-has-never-been-higher

5 years ago

733 upvotes – 372 comments

Algorithms for Decision Making

http://algorithmsbook.com/

5 years ago

693 upvotes – 85 comments

PeerTube v3

https://framablog.org/2021/01/07/peertube-v3-its-a-live-a-liiiiive/

5 years ago

677 upvotes – 231 comments

Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348079223701794819/

5 years ago

645 upvotes – 199 comments

Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws

5 years ago

484 upvotes – 10 comments

Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform

https://cabal.chat/

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 312 comments

Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)

http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 287 comments

Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform

https://scuttlebutt.nz/index

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 164 comments

Build Your Own Text Editor

http://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 34 comments

GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust

https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 173 comments

Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees

https://www.ecosia.org/

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 144 comments

Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations

https://element.io/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 118 comments

FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS toolchain

https://github.com/tinyvision-ai-inc/UPduino-v3.0

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 75 comments

Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55608089

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 347 comments

A Polar Vortex collapse sequence has begun

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-collapse-winter-weather-europe-united-states-2021-fa/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 189 comments

Skynet – Build a Free Internet

https://siasky.net/

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 134 comments

St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries (516)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50040/50040-h/50040-h.html

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads

https://trungdq88.github.io/hn-big-threads/index.html

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 59 comments

NixOS Linux

https://nixos.org/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 79 comments

EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/eff-response-social-media-companies-decision-block-president-trumps-accounts

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 147 comments

The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

https://bou.ke/blog/macbouk-air/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 327 comments

The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud

https://ea.rna.nl/2021/01/10/the-many-lies-about-reducing-complexity-part-2-cloud/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 125 comments

Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)

https://www.livescience.com/22109-cycles-violence-2020.html

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 221 comments

Amazon Is Booting Parler Off of Its Web Hosting Service

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 3 comments

Apple Removes Parler from App Store

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/tech/parler-suspended-apple-app-store/index.html

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 1 comments

The Platform Is the Enemy

https://danielbmarkham.com/the-platform-is-the-enemy/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 80 comments

Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 145 comments

Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 168 comments

Foundations of Embedded Systems

https://f-of-e.org/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 19 comments

WhatsApp displays 404 not found when I send a link to Signal

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0t5venwty2oe2re/Screenshot%202021-01-10%20at%2022.50.34.png?dl=0

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 41 comments

A 432-year-old manual on social distancing

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210107-the-432-year-old-manual-on-social-distancing

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 45 comments

Noise Planets

https://avinayak.github.io/art/2021/01/09/noise-planets.html

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 16 comments

The Future of Libjpeg-Turbo

https://groups.google.com/g/libjpeg-turbo-announce/c/_H2BZDmSQWA/m/Fvy9sEByBwAJ?pli=1

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 30 comments

2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing

https://www.axios.com/video-conferencing-zoom-skype-meetings-119f5b65-4416-411f-9e65-b1f5b01c07a1.html

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 155 comments

Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55551300

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 164 comments

Ferrum: An actor-based programming language

https://quizzical-dijkstra-2acb9c.netlify.app/ferrum/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 2 comments

How I was failing to find time for life while working remotely

https://timeawareness.substack.com/p/time-awareness-and-remote-work

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 50 comments

Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

https://www.linux.org/threads/common-pronunciations-of-linux-directories-commands-etc.4445/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 256 comments

Quick Overview of Julia language [pdf]

http://algorithmsbook.com/files/appendix-g.pdf

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 55 comments

Reverse Cargo Cult (2017)

https://hanshowe.org/2017/02/04/trump-and-the-reverse-cargo-cult/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 112 comments

Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine

https://www.startpage.com/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 84 comments

FBI Seeking Information Related to Violent Activity at the U.S. Capitol Building

https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/aad18481a3e8f02

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 125 comments

The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/style/retrocomputing.html

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 134 comments

The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-Stage Major Bubble

https://www.gmo.com/asia/research-library/waiting-for-the-last-dance

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 127 comments

The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero (2016)

http://blog.joshhaas.com/2016/10/the-weirdness-of-kentucky-route-zero/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 31 comments

US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/us/ufo-report-emergency-relief-bill-trnd/index.html

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 62 comments

AWS Boots Parler

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1348092163708612609

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 3 comments

Mortality rate for Black babies plummets when they’re delivered by Black doctors

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/black-baby-death-rate-cut-by-black-doctors/2021/01/08/e9f0f850-238a-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 84 comments

Governor Schwarzenegger's message following the attack on the Capitol [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_P-0I6sAck

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books

https://reasonabletheology.org/cs-lewis-on-reading-old-books/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 82 comments

Discovering and exploring mmap using Go

https://brunocalza.me/2021/01/10/discovering-and-exploring-mmap-using-go/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments

Stop the “Hard Work” Obsession

https://erik-engheim.medium.com/stop-the-hard-work-obsession-america-6e5c29b1c07c

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 126 comments

Tor – All v3 onion addresses are unavailable

https://old.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/ktv8bw/the_entire_tor_v3_consensus_is_down

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 26 comments

Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

https://deadline.com/2021/01/parler-ceo-says-service-dropped-by-every-vendor-and-could-end-the-company-1234670607/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 227 comments

CS50 for Lawyers

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-lawyers?delta=0

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

CTO day 2: downsizing the team

https://danlebrero.com/2020/12/02/cto-diary-downsizing-team-firing/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 107 comments

The Duct Tape Programmer (2009)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-programmer/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 50 comments

Gab’s Response to Senator Mark Warner

https://news.gab.com/2021/01/09/gabs-response-to-senator-mark-warner/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 94 comments
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