top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-01-17

BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass

https://secret.club/2021/01/15/bitlocker-bypass.html

5 years ago

‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years

https://singularityhub.com/2021/01/10/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronomers-say-global-myths-about-seven-sisters-stars-may-reach-back-100000-years/

5 years ago

JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

https://www.jingos.com/

5 years ago

The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla

https://www.murilopereira.com/the-values-of-emacs-the-neovim-revolution-and-the-vscode-gorilla/

5 years ago

The Buy Nothing Project

https://buynothingproject.org/about/

5 years ago

Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

https://www.inputmag.com/design/apple-macbook-revival-plan-is-stupid-smart-bring-back-old-features

5 years ago

E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/e-ink-has-developed-acep-gallery-4100-color-e-paper

5 years ago

The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yinmn-blue-comes-market-1921665

5 years ago

Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu

https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap

5 years ago

That's not how 2FA works

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/thats-not-how-2fa-works/

5 years ago

Signal Is Back

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350595202872823809/

5 years ago

“Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”

https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350625255765671938

5 years ago

BladeRF-wiphy: Open-source, software defined radio modem

https://www.nuand.com/bladeRF-wiphy/

5 years ago

Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (2018)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8

5 years ago

German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance

https://www.complianceweek.com/regulatory-enforcement/german-laptop-retailer-fined-127m-under-gdpr-for-employee-surveillance/29911.article

5 years ago

Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2021/01/16/arrest-warrant-issued-for-ex-florida-data-scientist-rebekah-jones/

5 years ago

GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2021-cloud-report/

5 years ago

I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-looked-at-all-the-ways-microsoft-teams-tracks-users-and-my-head-is-spinning/

5 years ago

Review broken products instead of new ones

https://www.buyforlife.com/blog/6CNqJGMKraaQhfivS0EH6L/why-we-should-review-broken-products-instead-of-new-ones

5 years ago

MuseScore 3.6

https://musescore.org/en/3.6

5 years ago