top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-22

Brad Cox has died

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/scnow/name/brad-cox-obituary?pid=197454225

5 years ago

884 upvotes – 190 comments

Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

https://www.pidgin.im/plugins

5 years ago

687 upvotes – 453 comments

Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00161.html

5 years ago

664 upvotes – 125 comments

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-2.html

5 years ago

574 upvotes – 188 comments

Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain

https://swp.org.uk/press-release-facebook-shuts-down-major-left-wing-group-in-britain/

5 years ago

534 upvotes – 519 comments

Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable

https://iconduck.com/

5 years ago

528 upvotes – 74 comments

One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected

https://tass.com/science/1247847

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 324 comments

Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

https://hisham.hm/2019/07/26/remembering-windows-31-themes-and-user-empowerment/

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 323 comments

How hard should I push myself?

https://superorganizers.every.to/p/how-hard-should-i-push-myself

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 197 comments

Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/electric-vehicles-close-to-tipping-point-of-mass-adoption

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 655 comments

Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models

https://www.electrive.com/2021/01/22/audi-announces-end-of-combustion-a4-a6-a8-models/

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 316 comments

Loon’s final flight

https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96?gi=b913b3d1667e

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 250 comments

Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014)

https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Weak-Men-Are-Superweapons

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 168 comments

The people the suburbs were built for are gone

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gx5b/the-people-the-suburbs-were-built-for-are-gone

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 414 comments

Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Aging

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/01/study-reveals-immune-driver-of-brain-aging.html

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 133 comments

Rqlite: The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 84 comments

Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/why-isnt-differential-dataflow-more-popular/

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 120 comments

Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/20/raspberry-pi-enters-microcontroller-game-with-4-pico/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 112 comments

Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55632050

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 267 comments

PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances

https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/01/22/postgresql-on-arm-based-aws-ec2-instances-is-it-any-good/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 62 comments

React created roadblocks in our enterprise app

https://medium.com/better-programming/i-almost-got-fired-for-choosing-react-in-our-enterprise-app-846ea840841c

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 290 comments

Show HN: 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs

https://github.com/anthonynsimon/timeflake

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 137 comments

.NET GC Internals mini-series

https://tooslowexception.com/net-gc-internals-mini-series/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 74 comments

Why webcams aren’t good enough

https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/why-are-webcams-bad/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 289 comments

Android Ported to RISC-V

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/21/android_riscv_port/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 93 comments

Monarch butterfly population in California spirals to another record low

http://xerces.org/blog/monarch-population-in-california-spirals-to-another-record-low

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 65 comments

Access Control for GitHub Pages

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-01-21-access-control-for-github-pages/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 44 comments

Tales of Favicons and Caches: Persistent Tracking in Modern Browsers [pdf]

https://www.cs.uic.edu/~polakis/papers/solomos-ndss21.pdf

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 53 comments

Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/01/23/chipmaking-is-being-redesigned-effects-will-be-far-reaching

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 156 comments

Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)

https://www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/sidequests/game-design-perspective-stardew-valley

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 60 comments

B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

https://rocketgems.com/blog/saas-marketplaces/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/01/21/making-win32-apis-more-accessible-to-more-languages/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 49 comments

Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Most-read-in-2020/Toyota-s-game-changing-solid-state-battery-en-route-for-2021-debut

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 164 comments

Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations

https://dd.meddle.mobi/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

https://www.multy.me/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 60 comments

A story about pivots

https://posthog.com/blog/story-about-pivots

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 37 comments

How we improved our website's performance

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/01/smashingmag-performance-case-study/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Git News – Social News website for developers and GitHub fans

https://gitnews.tech

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 58 comments

Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts

http://autoredistrict.org/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 148 comments

Gist.cafe – Execute Gists of Python Node Deno C# Dart Swift Go Kotlin Java VB F#

https://gist.cafe

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Sony News Portable Workstation NWS-1250 (2020)

https://randoc.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/sony-news-portable-workstation-nws-1250/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25875386

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 188 comments

Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software

https://agfundernews.com/splinter-cargill-open-sources-software-to-build-a-better-agrifood-supply-chain.html

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 71 comments

ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP

https://www.heise.de//news/ownCloud-Infinite-Scale-Go-statt-PHP-Microservices-statt-LAMP-5029244.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 119 comments

Flipper Zero Manufacturing and Shipping Plan

https://blog.flipperzero.one/review-and-producing-plan/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

https://www.wired.com/story/palantirs-gods-eye-view-of-afghanistan/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 116 comments

On the complexity of JSON serialization (2020)

https://einarwh.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/on-the-complexity-of-json-serialization/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Welder – Record high-quality remote interviews

https://www.getwelder.com/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 43 comments

Programming Language Foundations in Agda

https://plfa.github.io/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: WickedBlocks – Tailwind Blocks ready to copy-paste

https://blocks.wickedtemplates.com/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Userbase – Auth and E2E encrypted storage in a few lines of code

https://userbase.com/?home

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years

https://www.reaktor.com/blog/why-ive-tracked-every-single-piece-of-clothing-ive-worn-for-three-years/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 100 comments

Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 135 comments

French news sites prevail in negotiations with Google over "neighboring rights”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/google-agrees-to-pay-french-news-sites-to-send-them-traffic/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 116 comments

Micro Benchmarking Dart

https://mrale.ph/blog/2021/01/21/microbenchmarking-dart-part-1.html

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 2 comments

When Historical Fiction Is a Crime (2020)

https://newrepublic.com/article/160719/historical-fiction-crime-ahmet-altan-turkey

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

r/wallstreetbets set to private after increased media coverage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Incompatible Timesharing System

https://github.com/PDP-10/its

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Read Hacker News on reMarkable tablet

https://github.com/khanhas/hackernews2remarkable

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments
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