top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-01-16

Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d

5 years ago

1714 upvotes – 543 comments

Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible

https://thatcomputerscientist.com/big-o-notation-explained-as-easily-as-possible

5 years ago

489 upvotes – 160 comments

Running a fake power plant on the internet for a month

https://grimminck.medium.com/running-a-fake-power-plant-on-the-internet-for-a-month-4a624f685aaa

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 102 comments

Toxic positivity does more harm than good

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/what-is-fono-toxic-positivity-is-doing-more-harm-than-good

5 years ago

397 upvotes – 282 comments

Computer System Engineering

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-033-computer-system-engineering-spring-2018/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 35 comments

Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP

https://mnmnotmail.org/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 204 comments

Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802714

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 136 comments

A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web21w/newswire-k2-first-winter-ascent

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 131 comments

The Problem with Gradle

https://www.bruceeckel.com/2021/01/02/the-problem-with-gradle/

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 223 comments

Google Images Restored

https://github.com/fanfare/googleimagesrestored

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 169 comments

REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rest-servers-in-go-part-1-standard-library/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 144 comments

“Appointment” as professor at Harvard was an elaborate phishing attack

https://www.ndtv.com/blog/how-i-fell-for-a-phishing-attack-my-story-by-nidhi-razdan-2353395

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 210 comments

Signal apps DDoS'ed their own server

https://twitter.com/NovakDaniel/status/1350471722034745348

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 132 comments

The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life (1999)

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131815/the_cabal_valves_design_process_.php

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 84 comments

Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway

https://mauricio.github.io/2021/01/14/building-digitaloceans-api-gateway.html

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 29 comments

My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

https://scottspence.com/2020/07/17/my-second-brain-zettelkasten/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 103 comments

The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor

https://medium.com/swlh/apples-m1-secret-coprocessor-6599492fc1e1

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 104 comments

FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-10-2020-12.html

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 47 comments

Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)

https://www.palkeo.com/en/projets/ethereum/bzx.html

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 116 comments

Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/14/have-the-tables-turned-on-nosql/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 224 comments
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