top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-19

Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing

https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS

5 years ago

1461 upvotes – 681 comments

IPFS Support in Brave

https://brave.com/ipfs-support/

5 years ago

1170 upvotes – 433 comments

What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/18/leak-zoom-meeting/

5 years ago

735 upvotes – 211 comments

Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25833639

5 years ago

702 upvotes – 528 comments

Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/capitol-attack-was-months-making-facebook

5 years ago

616 upvotes – 875 comments

GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/01/2021-01-14-mpa.md

5 years ago

580 upvotes – 310 comments

Intel Problems

https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-problems/

5 years ago

569 upvotes – 426 comments

The State of State Machines

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-state-of-state-machines.html

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Virtual breadboard in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502

https://www.tejotron.com/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 73 comments

Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/world/asia/thailand-king-lese-majeste.html

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 259 comments

NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels

https://novelwriter.io/

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 270 comments

This Anime Does Not Exist

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 184 comments

Everything you need to know to design your own CNC router

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/cnc-router

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 166 comments

Free Math Books

https://klkuttler.com/

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 70 comments

User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy

https://hisham.hm/2020/12/18/user-power-not-power-users-htop-and-its-design-philosophy/

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 97 comments

Container networking is simple (2020)

https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 67 comments

Make Your Own Internet Archive with Archive Box

https://nixintel.info/osint-tools/make-your-own-internet-archive-with-archive-box/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 77 comments

Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular

https://medium.com/graalvm/java-on-truffle-going-fully-metacircular-215531e3f840

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 162 comments

How to leave Google and why

https://jach.me/how-to-leave-google

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 142 comments

Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/three-mathematicians-we-lost-in-2020

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-labor-supplier-3-years-cut-costs-2020-12

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 131 comments

Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines

https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-supply-chain-of-the-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-covid-19-vaccines/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 56 comments

Compilers are hard

https://blog.shipreq.com/post/compilers_are_hard

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 125 comments

China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub

https://restofworld.org/2021/china-gitee-to-rival-github/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 206 comments

Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a17477/why-the-hell-do-they-still-make-car-alarms/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 515 comments

Paint.wtf

https://paint.wtf/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 82 comments

Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing

https://hisham.hm/2021/01/18/again-on-0-based-vs-1-based-indexing/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 504 comments

When costs are nonlinear, keep it small

https://jessitron.com/2021/01/18/when-costs-are-nonlinear-keep-it-small/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 65 comments

Launch HN: Seed (YC W21) – A Fully-Managed CI/CD Pipeline for Serverless

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25835280

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 102 comments

When radio was king, many outlets chose to stop broadcasting Father Coughlin

https://theconversation.com/that-time-private-us-media-companies-stepped-in-to-silence-the-falsehoods-and-incitements-of-a-major-public-figure-in-1938-153157

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 194 comments

Datalegreya Font

http://www.datalegreya.com/?lang=en

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 26 comments

Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes

http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-issues-enforcement-advisory-radio-users-reminded-not-to-use-radios-in-crimes

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 301 comments

Lispsyntax.jl: A Clojure-like Lisp syntax for julia

https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 52 comments

Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax

https://realpython.com/python-f-strings/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 141 comments

Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry

https://www.subscriptioninsider.com/topics/business-operations/amazon-permanently-shuts-down-prime-pantry

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 90 comments

Colorize

https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: A high-performance TensorFlow library for quantitative finance

https://github.com/google/tf-quant-finance

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 38 comments

'Too negative ': Welsh seaside images (1979)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/19/welsh-seaside-images-controversy-michael-bennett-in-pictures

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 70 comments

Storming Reddit's Moat

https://floodstate.substack.com/p/storming-reddits-moat

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 157 comments

Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/19/Elasticsearch-does-not-belong-to-Elastic.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 89 comments

Is this plane landing or departing? (2017)

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/34586/is-this-plane-landing-or-departing

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 48 comments

What Anime CLI?

https://github.com/irevenko/what-anime-cli

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 59 comments

Periodical cicada Brood X will emerge in 15 states in 2021

https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/category/types/magicicada/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 95 comments

How religion shaped modern economics

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-religion-shaped-modern-economics-11610643698

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 99 comments

USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018)

http://www.hisutton.com/USN_AN-1_Submarine_Aircraft_Carrier.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 90 comments

Soyuz spacecraft digital clock teardown

http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 34 comments

An interactive review of the Oklab perceptual color space

https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments

Full success of first-ever cubesat mission equipped with Hall-effect propulsion

https://exotrail.com/news/2021-01-12/100-exotrail-paves-the-way-for-new-space-mobility-with-first-of-its-kind-successful-in-orbit-demonstration-mission/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

Raspberry Pi Lego Sorter

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-lego-sorter/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/gaming-the-system-how-gamestop-stock-surged-1500-in-nine-months/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 175 comments

Vineyard: An open-source in-memory data manager

https://github.com/alibaba/libvineyard

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 11 comments

Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest

https://www.reuters.com/article/turkey-twitter-int-idUSKBN29O0CM

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 133 comments

Meow-chine learning for a mouse-free home

https://github.com/gerrito333/mousehunter-edge

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 2 comments

Crossword.el – download and play crossword puzzles in Emacs

https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-crossword

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear

https://puri.sm/posts/parler-tricks-making-software-disappear/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 172 comments

KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital

https://esoteric.codes/blog/kfc-col-sanders-talks-malbolge-general-hospital

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 83 comments

Creating a Signal account

https://builtformars.com/creating-an-account-with-signal/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 102 comments

Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)

https://lithub.com/color-or-fruit-on-the-unlikely-etymology-of-orange/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 121 comments

Running Racket CS on iOS

https://defn.io/2021/01/19/racket-cs-on-ios/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England

https://www.caitlingreen.org/2020/12/another-medieval-chinese-coin-from-england.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments
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