top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-21

Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

https://musclewiki.com/

5 years ago

2019 upvotes – 329 comments

AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch

5 years ago

1314 upvotes – 935 comments

Still alive

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

5 years ago

898 upvotes – 342 comments

Rust for Windows

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

5 years ago

785 upvotes – 293 comments

New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16438/new-intel-ceo-making-waves-rehiring-retired-cpu-architects

5 years ago

747 upvotes – 532 comments

Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019)

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/google-blocking-web-privacy-proposals-at-w3c/

5 years ago

592 upvotes – 173 comments

The database servers powering Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2021/01/21/next-gen-database-servers.html

5 years ago

529 upvotes – 226 comments

Retiring Tucows Downloads

https://tucows.com/retired/

5 years ago

512 upvotes – 194 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Microcontroller

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-pico/

5 years ago

492 upvotes – 258 comments

DeLorean considering all-electric reboot

https://www.newdelorean.com/nhtsa-releases-final-low-volume-manufacturing-rules/

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 334 comments

Over 700k paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/01/21/over-700000-paintings-from-the-rijksmuseum-online-copyright-free/

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 147 comments

Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

https://bitwarden.com/help/article/releasenotes/#2021-01-19

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 150 comments

How We Ported Linux to the M1

https://corellium.com/blog/linux-m1

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 74 comments

Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/956486352/judge-refuses-to-reinstate-parler-after-amazon-shut-it-down

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 599 comments

Management by metrics leads us astray

https://jakobgreenfeld.com/metrics

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 245 comments

Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW

https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/regarding-csw

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 276 comments

Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/instacart-to-cut-1-900-jobs-including-its-only-union-positions

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 237 comments

Predicting Hard Drive Failure with Machine Learning

https://datto.engineering/post/predicting-hard-drive-failure-with-machine-learning

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 62 comments

Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1354807

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 52 comments

Prostate cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with AI

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-cancer-precisely-urine-artificial-intelligence.html

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 53 comments

Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25860819

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 73 comments

Why cats are crazy for catnip

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/why-cats-are-crazy-catnip

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 121 comments

DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ddos-guard-to-forfeit-internet-space-occupied-by-parler/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 300 comments

Twitter sued for allegedly refusing to remove child porn

https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-remove-child-porn/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 220 comments

VSCode, Dev Containers and Docker

https://blog.feabhas.com/2021/01/vscode-dev-containers-and-docker-moving-software-development-forward/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 228 comments

FunkWhale: Decentralized Music Server

https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 92 comments

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer – The case of the extra 40 ms

https://netflixtechblog.com/life-of-a-netflix-partner-engineer-the-case-of-extra-40-ms-b4c2dd278513

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 29 comments

Toolz: A functional standard library for Python

https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 108 comments

What is good and bad about the F-35 cockpit

https://hushkit.net/2021/01/21/what-is-good-and-bad-about-the-f-35-cockpit-a-panthers-pilots-guide-to-modern-cockpits/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 146 comments

California’s container-ship traffic jam

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/inside-californias-colossal-container-ship-traffic-jam/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 128 comments

Unlocking LUKS2 Volumes with TPM2, FIDO2, PKCS#11 Security HW on Systemd 248

http://0pointer.net/blog/unlocking-luks2-volumes-with-tpm2-fido2-pkcs11-security-hardware-on-systemd-248.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 99 comments

How to Start a Biotech Company on a Budget

https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-start-a-biotech-company-on-a-budget/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 45 comments

Trader Joe's, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/958849642/grocers-have-a-strategy-to-get-their-workers-vaccinated-against-covid-19-pay-the

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 184 comments

Golang's network stack attempts to parse HTTP headers as UTF-8

https://twitter.com/albinowax/status/1351936571080122372

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 73 comments

The right way to turn off your old APIs

https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/how-to-turn-off-your-old-apis/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 31 comments

SecureDrop: Share and accept documents securely

https://securedrop.org/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Pluto – In-browser spatial video chat

https://pluto.video

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 64 comments

Cgit, Nginx and Gitolite: A Personal Git Server

https://bryanbrattlof.com/cgit-nginx-gitolite-a-personal-git-server/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 82 comments

What my retraction taught me

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00073-4

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 52 comments

Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-assume-extraterrestrials-might-want-to-visit-us/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 286 comments

How to Build an Escrow Product

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/how-to-build-an-escrow-product

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 29 comments

Fastmail was down

https://www.fastmailstatus.com/services/general/2021-01-21

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 117 comments

The world must not accept the jailing of Alexei Navalny

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/01/23/the-world-must-not-accept-the-jailing-of-alexei-navalny

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 43 comments

SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.18.427166v1

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 125 comments

Wild lynx could be reintroduced into Scottish Highlands

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/20/wild-lynx-could-be-reintroduced-into-scottish-highlands

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 103 comments

Knuth-Morris-Pratt string-searching algorithm: DFA-less version

https://yurichev.com/news/20210121_Knuth_Morris_Pratt_1/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 38 comments

Basic Scripting with Awk and Gnuplot

https://cyberchris.xyz/posts/awk-and-gnuplot/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: A dead code killer for Erlang

https://tech.nextroll.com/blog/dev/2021/01/06/erlang-rebar3-hank.html

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 4 comments

The value of science (1955) [pdf]

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1575/1/Science.pdf

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32644-1/fulltext

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 49 comments

Bertrand Might: Life, legacy and next steps

http://bertrand.might.net/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 14 comments

Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

Tcl/Tk 8.6.11

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Changes+in+Tcl%2FTk+8%2E6%2E11

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments
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