top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-12

How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic

5 years ago

1060 upvotes – 1795 comments

Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/pirated-academic-database-sci-hub-is-now-on-the-uncensorable-web-2021-01-11

5 years ago

842 upvotes – 397 comments

If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room

https://critter.blog/2021/01/12/if-it-matters-after-today-stop-talking-about-it-in-a-chat-room/

5 years ago

751 upvotes – 315 comments

Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/visa-and-plaid-abandon-merger-after-antitrust-division-s-suit-block

5 years ago

610 upvotes – 275 comments

Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44379593

5 years ago

549 upvotes – 60 comments

Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol

https://community.teamspeak.com/t/teamspeak-5-beta-bug-report-bbcode-not-working-channel-commander-not-shown/14670/4

5 years ago

541 upvotes – 224 comments

Plain Text Accounting

https://plaintextaccounting.org/

5 years ago

473 upvotes – 200 comments

Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be real and functional

https://electronupdate.blogspot.com/2021/01/amazon-echo-flex-microphone-mute-real.html

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 239 comments

I received my first donation on my open-source side project

https://gourav.io/blog/first-donation-on-open-source-side-project

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 106 comments

U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/u-s-to-require-negative-covid-19-tests-for-international-air-passengers-sources-idUSKBN29H2KD

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 439 comments

Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections

https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 150 comments

What Is Social Cooling?

https://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/10/31/what-is-social-cooling/

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 246 comments

Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos

https://laconicml.com/computer-science-curriculum-youtube-videos/

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 135 comments

Theranos destroyed subpoenaed SQL blood test database, prosecutors say

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/12/theranos_database_loss/

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 124 comments

Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine

https://aquadzn.github.io/learn-x-by-doing-y/

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 51 comments

Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own safety

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-trump-ban-staff-company-branded-clothing-safety-concerns-2021-1

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 336 comments

Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

https://github.com/jukefoxer/Signal-Android/tree/feature/wa-db-import

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 153 comments

Solarwind, Fireeye, Microsoft and Cisco leaks are offered for sale

http://solarleaks.net/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 124 comments

EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/no-longer-acceptable-for-platforms-to-take-key-decisions-alone-eu-commission-says/

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 269 comments

Show HN: Amplication – Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API

https://github.com/amplication/amplication

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 102 comments

Beaker Browser – experimental peer to peer web browser

https://beakerbrowser.com/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 58 comments

A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go

https://blog.golang.org/generics-proposal

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 270 comments

Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience

https://www.vantage.sh/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 87 comments

India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-many-kinds-bananas-are-there

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 78 comments

A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3

https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 116 comments

Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page

https://twitter.com/ronpaul/status/1348694943905308672

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 233 comments

BioNTech CEO applies Covid-19 vaccine's mRNA tech to multiple sclerosis

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/biontech-ceo-turns-covid-19-vaccine-s-mrna-tech-against-multiple-sclerosis

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 71 comments

Software That Sucks Less

https://suckless.org/philosophy/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 162 comments

SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/solarwinds-what-hit-us-could-hit-others/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 150 comments

Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images

https://blog.mozilla.org/attack-and-defense/2021/01/11/leaking-silhouettes-of-cross-origin-images/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 43 comments

Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16408/samsung-confirms-amd-rdna-gpu-in-next-exynos-flagship

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 124 comments

Central Spain records temperatures of -25°C after snowstorm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55632791

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 132 comments

The Paradox of Abundance

https://perell.com/note/the-paradox-of-abundance/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 108 comments

Uganda bans social media ahead of presidential election

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uganda-election/ugandan-opposition-presidential-candidate-bobi-wine-says-military-raided-his-home-idUSKBN29H0KH

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 202 comments

Why Apple Chose Clang (2008)

https://opensource.apple.com/source/clang/clang-23/clang/tools/clang/www/comparison.html

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 122 comments

How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay

https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/11/why-the-canadian-tech-scene-doesnt-work/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 153 comments

Department of Defense and Department of Commerce to Develop Open 5G Systems

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2467484/department-of-defense-and-department-of-commerce-explore-5g-challenge-to-develo/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 47 comments

At-home test for colon cancer is as reliable as traditional screening: experts

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/health/colonoscopy-health-home-testing.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 95 comments

Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems

https://threedots.ovh/blog/2021/01/huawei-exagear-x86_64-apps-on-arm64/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 58 comments

Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History

https://stratechery.com/2021/internet-3-0-and-the-beginning-of-tech-history/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: A cool Drag-and-Drop implementation for Svelte

https://github.com/isaacHagoel/svelte-dnd-action

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 43 comments

Leaked memos Amazon warn 'be vigilant' due to threats to blow up data centers

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-cloud-exec-warns-employees-vigilant-after-parler-ban-2021-1

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 215 comments

Why lasers are so brilliantly useful

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2021/01/07/why-lasers-are-so-brilliantly-useful

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 91 comments

Signal increased limits for group calls

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348728450895384578

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 109 comments

Airbus hit as new US tariffs come into force

https://simpleflying.com/airbus-us-tariffs/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 209 comments

Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55615214

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 233 comments

Major Incident at Fastly

https://status.fastly.com/incidents/1rbr326kjsmt

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

Differentiable Rasterizer for Vector Graphics

https://people.csail.mit.edu/tzumao/diffvg/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

Snakes Found a New Way to Slither

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/science/brown-tree-snake-climbing.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 61 comments

The State of FOSS in India

https://state-of-foss.in/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 42 comments

How America Bankrupted its Cities [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 83 comments

Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days

https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1349014065931284480

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 63 comments

Using GPT-3 for plain language incident root cause from logs

https://www.zebrium.com/blog/using-gpt-3-with-zebrium-for-plain-language-incident-root-cause-from-logs

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 34 comments

Full Throttle – fan film script by Duncan Jones [pdf]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojb9zaplszjcp63/FULL%20THROTTLE%20-for%20all.pdf?dl=0

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

The Lies that can Undermine Democracy

https://martinfowler.com/articles/202101-lies-and-democracy.html

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 75 comments

GoDaddy Boots AR15.com

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-deplatforming-continues-godaddy-boots-ar15-com/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 142 comments

US military and intelligence computer networks (2015)

https://www.electrospaces.net/2015/03/us-military-and-intelligence-computer.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Hardkernel adds 4x 2.5Gbps to H2

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/h2-net-card/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 90 comments

Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is less than half an inch thick

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/11/22224757/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-titanium-yoga-carbon-business-laptops-intel

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 153 comments

Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with passphrase lock

https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 89 comments

Old Compilers and Old Bugs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/842122/2ed09eb12c8ca4bf/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Cyclone Scheme: A R7RS Scheme Compiler

https://github.com/justinethier/cyclone

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 4 comments

Salesforce says it has 'taken action' to prevent further U.S. political violence

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-corporate-salesforce-com/salesforce-says-it-has-taken-action-to-prevent-further-u-s-political-violence-idUSKBN29H003

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 225 comments

The Smalltalk Zoo

https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows

https://gizmodo.com/parler-users-breached-deep-inside-u-s-capitol-building-1846042905

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 92 comments

AlmaLinux an open-source RHEL fork

https://almalinux.org/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments
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