top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-01-15

Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792719

5 years ago

1364 upvotes – 182 comments

Signal is having technical difficulties

HTTPS://status.signal.org/

5 years ago

907 upvotes – 720 comments

Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25789603

5 years ago

618 upvotes – 384 comments

Be My Eyes

https://www.bemyeyes.com/

5 years ago

533 upvotes – 112 comments

New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/15/new-macbook-pro-models-magsafe-ports/

5 years ago

499 upvotes – 460 comments

WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash

https://p.dw.com/p/3nzYg

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 385 comments

Maximizing Developer Effectiveness

https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.html

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 162 comments

Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World

https://smist08.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/apple-m1-assembly-language-hello-world/

5 years ago

372 upvotes – 111 comments

Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/948819324/amazon-warehouse-workers-to-decide-whether-to-form-companys-first-u-s-union

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 362 comments

Why cancer cells waste so much energy

https://news.mit.edu/2021/cancer-cells-waste-energy-0115

5 years ago

341 upvotes – 189 comments

Rust is a hard way to make a web API

https://macwright.com/2021/01/15/rust.html

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 422 comments

The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine

https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-inside-cryptos-doomsday-machine-f8dcf78a64d3

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 283 comments

Escaping VirtualBox 6.1: Part 1

https://secret.club/2021/01/14/vbox-escape.html

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 46 comments

How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state

https://labs.detectify.com/2021/01/15/how-i-hijacked-the-top-level-domain-of-a-sovereign-state/

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 62 comments

Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?

https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 259 comments

The unsettling truth about the ‘Mostly Harmless’ hiker

https://www.wired.com/story/unsettling-truth-mostly-harmless-hiker/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 200 comments

How to join a team and learn a codebase (2020)

https://www.samueltaylor.org/articles/how-to-learn-a-codebase.html

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 56 comments

The Spoon Theory (2003)

https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 128 comments

My preferred .NET console stack

https://www.devlead.se/posts/2021/2021-01-15-my-preferred-console-stack

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs

https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 28 comments
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