top 50% 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

StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails

https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 85 comments

AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16405/amd-launches-ryzen-5000-mobile-zen-3-and-cezanne-for-notebooks

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 190 comments

Encoding Data in Dubstep Drops

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/encoding-data-into-dubstep-drops

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 90 comments

Oberon OS Walkthrough (2009)

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 59 comments

State of JavaScript 2020

https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 181 comments

Clojure Core

http://blog.fogus.me/2021/01/15/clojure-core/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 40 comments

Bumble S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1830043/000119312521009745/d20761ds1.htm

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 231 comments

Fast Commits for Ext4

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/842385/069d98ea9d94f2ed/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 52 comments

A speaker placement tip that speaker manuals get wrong (2017)

https://sonicscoop.com/2017/12/14/the-1-speaker-placement-tip-speaker-manuals-get-completely-wrong/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 100 comments

How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-vs-google-chrome/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 159 comments

Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu

https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=41283

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 74 comments

Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic particles from water

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/15/seagrass-neptune-balls-sieve-millions-of-plastic-particles-from-water-study-finds

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 40 comments

Graphics Programming Black Book (1997)

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 42 comments

Uganda's internet Shutdown

https://blog.cloudflare.com/uganda-january-13-2021-internet-shut-down/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 91 comments

Rebuilding the spellchecker

https://zverok.github.io/blog/2021-01-05-spellchecker-1.html

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 24 comments

Our Dumb Security Questionnaire

https://hangar.tech/posts/our-dsq/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 88 comments

Why can't I write code inside my browser?

https://tomcritchlow.com/2021/01/14/new-browsers/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 604 comments

Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 94 comments

Lua, a Misunderstood Language

https://andregarzia.com/2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language.html

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 134 comments

NTFS Corruption on Win10

https://twitter.com/jonasLyk/status/1347900440000811010

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 31 comments

The surprisingly difficult problem of user-defined order in SQL

https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-03-20-user-defined-order.html

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 93 comments

The difference between note-taking and note-making

https://nesslabs.com/from-note-taking-to-note-making?ck_subscriber_id=1121211548&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Creating+Habits+%F0%9F%A7%A4%20-%205117179

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

Donut.c Without a Math Library

https://www.a1k0n.net/2021/01/13/optimizing-donut.html

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 22 comments

Debian 11 “bullseye” freeze started

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/01/msg00002.html

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 89 comments

Apple fails to overturn VirnetX patent verdict, could owe over $1.1B

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-virnetx-idUSKBN29K2DU

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 89 comments

The State of VR on Linux

https://boilingsteam.com/the-state-of-virtual-reality-on-linux/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 66 comments

Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-world-oldest-cave-indonesia.html

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 90 comments

Establishment of a closed artificial ecosystem to ensure human survival on moon

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.12.426282v1

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 74 comments

The Newton hypothesis: Is science done by a small elite?

https://nintil.com/newton-hypothesis

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 94 comments

Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/14/hellabyte_si_prefix/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 97 comments

Microsoft Space Simulator (Or, Charles Guy’s Galaxy in a Box)

https://www.filfre.net/2021/01/microsoft-space-simulator-or-charles-guys-galaxy-in-a-box/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

.NET NanoFramework

https://www.nanoframework.net

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

macOS malware used run-only AppleScripts to avoid detection for five years

https://www.zdnet.com/article/macos-malware-used-run-only-applescripts-to-avoid-detection-for-five-years/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 24 comments

Bugtraq: BugTraq Shutdown

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2021/Jan/0

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Forgo.js – a 4kb React alternative based on plain JS and DOM APIs

https://forgojs.org/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 119 comments

Lua and Python (2020)

https://lwn.net/Articles/812122/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 80 comments

Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets

https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(20)31227-3/fulltext

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 62 comments

Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch

https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/elasticsearch-is-dead-long-live-open-distro-for-elasticsearch

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 59 comments

Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54189074

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 91 comments

The State of IPv6 support on the Tor network

https://blog.torproject.org/state-of-ipv6-support-tor-network

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Dns.Watch: Public DNS Servers

https://dns.watch/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 66 comments

68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal

https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-should-warn-users-who-are-likely-using-insecure-ime-apps/10272

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 73 comments

Request for Startups

https://evaz.substack.com/p/rfs

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Is Signal Down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792323

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 72 comments

Time Management by Randy Pausch [pdf]

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/RandyPauschTimeManagement2007.pdf

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

Technical issue resolved after ‘150k police records lost’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55672194

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 68 comments

Exploring Swap on FreeBSD

https://klarasystems.com/articles/exploring-swap-on-freebsd/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

Pristine GM EV1 Preserved by University Caretaker

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38743/theres-a-pristine-gm-ev1-saved-by-a-secretive-caretaker-in-the-depths-of-a-university

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments

January Update: Happy New Gear

https://www.pine64.org/2021/01/15/january-update-happy-new-gear/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

The Games That Weren’t

https://retroarcadia.blog/2021/01/13/book-review-the-games-that-werent-by-frank-gasking/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

WhatsApp Status to convince your family and friends to switch to Signal

https://teddit.net/r/signal/comments/kwovyz/whatsapp_status_to_convince_your_family_friends/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Night.fm

https://night.fm/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

Giving More Time for Our Recent Update

https://blog.whatsapp.com/giving-more-time-for-our-recent-update

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

Books helped South African man overcome homelessness

http://www.one.org/international/blog/the-homeless-man-who-turned-his-life-arround-by-offering-book-reviews-instead-of-begging

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 87 comments

Facebook Reinstates Trump's Account

https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Implementing FastAPI Services – Abstraction and Separation of Concerns

https://camillovisini.com/article/abstracting-fastapi-services/

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

InfiniCache: In-memory cache that is built atop ephemeral serverless functions

https://github.com/mason-leap-lab/infinicache

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/billionaires-net-worth-coronavirus-pandemic-jeff-bezos-elon-musk

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments
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