top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-20

Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

https://www.beeperhq.com/?hn

5 years ago

962 upvotes – 486 comments

I no longer trust The Great Suspender

https://dafoster.net/articles/2021/01/20/i-no-longer-trust-the-great-suspender/

5 years ago

889 upvotes – 371 comments

Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354

5 years ago

778 upvotes – 329 comments

Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850739

5 years ago

740 upvotes – 852 comments

Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

https://www.vim.so

5 years ago

667 upvotes – 280 comments

Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/01/porting-firefox-to-apple-silicon/

5 years ago

644 upvotes – 236 comments

Anthony Levandowski Pardoned

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/

5 years ago

574 upvotes – 942 comments

Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process

https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/intel-TSMC-5nm

5 years ago

495 upvotes – 296 comments

I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019)

https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 186 comments

Update: YouTube-dl reinstated thanks to EFF (2020)

https://assassinate-you.net/posts/2020/11/youtube-dl-update/

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 53 comments

Serverless SQLite

https://sql.lspgn.workers.dev/?hn

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 163 comments

Linux Running on Apple M1

https://twitter.com/cmwdotme/status/1351838924621099008

5 years ago

378 upvotes – 275 comments

FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks

https://kottke.org/21/01/fedex-shipping-damage-creates-fractured-artworks

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 167 comments

Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-alibaba-jack-ma/alibabas-jack-ma-makes-first-public-appearance-since-oct-in-online-meeting-state-media-idUSKBN29P0CA

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 332 comments

Can't uninstall Adobe apps without an account (2018)

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/cant-uninstall-adobe-apps-without-an-account/5f5f45ee4b561a3d4268bd5e

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 247 comments

Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent

https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/07/bmjnph-2020-000151

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 120 comments

SpaceX acquires former oil rigs to serve as floating Starship spaceports

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/01/spacex-rigs-starship-spaceports/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 179 comments

Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite

https://github.com/lmatteis/torrent-net

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 48 comments

Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores

https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/vertical-field-urban-farm-geoponics/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 231 comments

Have we already been visited by aliens?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/have-we-already-been-visited-by-aliens

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 356 comments

The Left-NIMBY Canon

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-left-nimby-canon

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 298 comments

Flow-Based Programming

https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/index.html

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week

https://www.sundayy.app/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 60 comments

Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 104 comments

India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/19/india-asks-whatsapp-to-withdraw-new-privacy-policy-expresses-grave-concerns/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 43 comments

Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 259 comments

Constructing an 8-bit relay computer from scratch

https://relaycomputer.co.uk/pages/overview.html

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 36 comments

The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz

https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreessen

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 55 comments

The Apgar Score helped decrease the infant mortality rate

https://massivesci.com/articles/virginia-apgar-score-anesthesiologist-our-science-heroes/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 50 comments

Fediverse in 2020

https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2020

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 99 comments

The Lakota: A Human Story

https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/the-lakota-as-a-human-story/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 83 comments

10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)

https://medium.com/the-mission/10-000-hours-with-claude-shannon-12-lessons-on-life-and-learning-from-a-genius-e8b9297bee8f

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 82 comments

Ultraleap – tactile sensations projected onto your hands

https://www.ultraleap.com/haptics/#how-it-works

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 53 comments

90% of Everything Is Crap

https://critter.blog/2021/01/20/90-of-everything-is-crap/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 90 comments

For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness

https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-rooted-in-loneliness

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 74 comments

Computer codes that transformed science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00075-2

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 74 comments

Navalny team releases investigation into ′Putin′s Palace′

https://www.dw.com/en/navalny-team-releases-investigation-into-putins-palace/a-56278956

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: SOUL Language 1.0 – A platform for writing and running audio code

https://soul-lang.github.io/SOUL/docs/SOUL_V1_Release.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 81 comments

Ajit Pai Is Officially Gone

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxpja/gigantic-asshole-ajit-pai-is-officially-gone-good-riddance-time-of-your-life

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown

https://github.com/treenotation/dumbdown

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 102 comments

Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes

https://tailscale.com/blog/nixos-minecraft/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 44 comments

Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist

https://www.axios.com/scoop-google-is-investigating-the-actions-of-another-top-ai-ethicist-50030739-ea3d-4ea2-b452-c228b4fc9773.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 116 comments

Syllabus for Classics of Computer Science

https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/34992/assignments/syllabus

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Trump pardons former Google self-driving car engineer Levandowski

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-google-idUSKBN29P0JM

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 86 comments

Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your-monopoly.html

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 99 comments

Bison rangers wanted to oversee U.K. herd

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.5871385/bison-rangers-wanted-to-oversee-u-k-herd-no-bison-experience-necessary-1.5871386

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 71 comments

Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL for Small Production Environments

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel#Bookmark%201

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 1 comments
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