top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-13

Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice

https://community.signalusers.org/t/reminder-please-be-nice/21217

5 years ago

1149 upvotes – 431 comments

Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-December/006226.html

5 years ago

926 upvotes – 376 comments

WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source

https://tedium.co/2021/01/13/linksys-wrt54g-router-history/

5 years ago

679 upvotes – 319 comments

BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

https://beaglev.seeed.cc/

5 years ago

619 upvotes – 305 comments

Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an7pn/pirate-bay-founder-thinks-parlers-inability-to-stay-online-is-embarrassing

5 years ago

618 upvotes – 593 comments

Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/intel-ceo-bob-swan-to-step-down-in-february.html

5 years ago

572 upvotes – 325 comments

Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/dropbox-to-cut-11percent-of-its-global-workforce.html

5 years ago

478 upvotes – 665 comments

Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation

https://www.hse.ru/en/news/research/433782660.html

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 239 comments

Foam: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 107 comments

Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25766884

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 945 comments

An Unlikely Database Migration

https://tailscale.com/blog/an-unlikely-database-migration/

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 178 comments

The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine

https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2021/01/08/the-neural-network-of-the-stockfish-chess-engine/

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: Do we need a Google Customers Union? Could it work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25760750

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 169 comments

New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/new-superconductor-microprocessor-yields-a-substantial-boost-in-efficiency

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 230 comments

McDonald’s Theory on How Best to Rescue Conversations

https://karthrajan.medium.com/mcdonalds-theory-on-how-best-to-rescue-conversations-e65c23ad41b9

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 136 comments

Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide

https://rambo.codes/posts/2021-01-08-distributing-mac-apps-outside-the-app-store

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 158 comments

Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25764142

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 236 comments

2020 Game

https://2020game.io/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 75 comments

How Huawei controls its employees in Europe

https://netzpolitik.org/2021/wolf-culture-how-huawei-controls-its-employees-in-europe/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 249 comments

A rabbit hole full of Lisp

https://www.murilopereira.com/a-rabbit-hole-full-of-lisp/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 37 comments

The J1 Forth CPU

https://www.excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 49 comments

TimeTagger: Open-Source Time Tracker

https://timetagger.app/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 116 comments

Debian discusses vendoring again

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/842319/8adb13e08d0302bd/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 159 comments

CIA Releases UFO Documents

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 193 comments

TikTok: All under-16s' accounts made private

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55639920

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 190 comments

I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months

https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-ireland-event-2/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 198 comments

Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16416/qualcomm-to-acquire-nuvia-a-cpu-magnitude-shift

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 56 comments

Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above a laptop display

https://michaelnaimark.medium.com/a-cheap-simple-hack-for-improving-your-online-classtime-experiences-802071cd34c1

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 71 comments

FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/01/developer-popular-womens-fertility-tracking-app-settles-ftc

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: How do we build the new remote education system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25760960

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 203 comments

Airbnb to Block and Cancel D.C. Reservations During Inauguration

https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-to-block-and-cancel-d-c-reservations-during-inauguration/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 179 comments

Magic Mushrooms Injected into Man's Veins Started to Grow in Blood

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-injected-magic-mushrooms-into-his-veins-and-they-started-to-grow-in-his-blood/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 96 comments

Ory Hydra 1.9: Open-source Golang OAuth2 provider

https://github.com/ory/hydra/releases/tag/v1.9.0

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 33 comments

NSA UFO Documents Index

https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 158 comments

YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55643774

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 232 comments

I Downvoted Because

https://idownvotedbecau.se/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 172 comments

Ten years without Elixir

http://blog.cretaria.com/posts/ten-years-without-elixir.html

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 139 comments

Helping to secure internet routing

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/how-aws-is-helping-to-secure-internet-routing/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 48 comments

Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem

https://mfkl.github.io/2021/01/13/half-a-million-downloads.html

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 68 comments

Dropbox is reducing its workforce by 11%

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/-a-message-from-our-ceo

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: Grafito – Portable, Serverless and Light SQLite-Based Graph Database

https://github.com/arturo-lang/grafito

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 1 comments

Joint Chiefs remind U.S. forces that they defend the constitution

https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/12/956170188/joint-chiefs-remind-u-s-forces-that-they-defend-the-constitution

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 97 comments

I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts

https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-stole-the-data-in-millions-of-peoples-google-accounts-aa1b72dcc075

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: What are the expectations of a principal engineer in your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25758663

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

The Only M1 Benchmark That Matters

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/01/13/the-only-m1-benchmark-that-matters/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 51 comments

“A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/01/11/a-headline-that-will-make-global-warming-activists-apoplectic-hows-that-one-going-huh/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 72 comments

Berlin car sharing startup Miles demands €13k from customer whose car was stolen

https://www.mobilegeeks.com/news/miles-mobility-is-demanding-money-from-customers-whose-berlin-car-stole-damages-what-to-do/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 96 comments

No-code platform Webflow (YC) raises $140M at a $2.1B valuation

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/13/no-code-development-platform-webflow-raises-140-million-at-2-1-billion-valuation/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

Management Debt (2012)

https://a16z.com/2012/01/19/management-debt/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Hiding execution of unsigned code in Windows system threads

https://secret.club/2021/01/12/callout.html

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

The Art of Whaling: Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-whaling

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler

https://anonymousdata.medium.com/violent-hashtag-frequencies-in-parler-eddab2871b66

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 93 comments

Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Cellular Automata (1986) [pdf]

https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/34/2020/07/cellular-automaton-fluids-theory.pdf

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruptio

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/13/top-scientists-warn-of-ghastly-future-of-mass-extinction-and-climate-disruption-aoe

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Some Unlikely 2021 Predictions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/840632/5120a4e4b44f7d2a/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 61 comments

JavaScript Rising Stars 2020

https://risingstars.js.org

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

Trump Impeached for Second Time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-55645957

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

The platforms have acted, raising hard questions about technology and democracy

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/big-tech-unplugs-trump

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 118 comments

Quant Fund or Metal Band?

http://www.quantfundormetalband.com/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments
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