top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-25

Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/time-lapse-film-shows-salamander-development/

5 years ago

911 upvotes – 292 comments

WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/24/whatsapp-loses-millions-of-users-after-terms-update

5 years ago

733 upvotes – 401 comments

Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

https://github.com/moneytoo/Player/issues/37

5 years ago

618 upvotes – 333 comments

PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space

https://pgm.di.unipi.it/

5 years ago

583 upvotes – 123 comments

Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

5 years ago

557 upvotes – 90 comments

Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Health-Care/Myopia-correcting-smart-glasses-from-Japan-to-be-sold-in-Asia

5 years ago

541 upvotes – 319 comments

Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dominion-voting-giuliani-trump-1.5886273

5 years ago

517 upvotes – 765 comments

Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/19/global-sales-of-electric-cars-accelerate-fast-in-2020-despite-covid-pandemic

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 507 comments

Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians

https://www.somagnews.com/giant-leak-exposes-data-from-almost-all-brazilians/

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 130 comments

FDA approves first monthly injectable to treat HIV infection

https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2021/01/21/fda-hiv-aids-injectable/

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 203 comments

Firefox Relay

https://relay.firefox.com/?ref=link

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 174 comments

The high price of mistrust

https://fs.blog/2021/01/mistrust/

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 269 comments

Introducing Open Web Docs

https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/updates/introducing-open-web-docs

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 73 comments

Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states

https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-races-2021-14-active-states

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 98 comments

Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)

http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 97 comments

Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack

https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 48 comments

Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing

https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/12/18/finland-has-slashed-homelessness-the-rest-of-europe-is-failing

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 352 comments

5nm in the USA: TSMC's Board Approves $3.5B Fab in Arizona

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-arizona-fab-investment

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: I made an alarm clock

https://www.stavros.io/posts/do-not-be-alarmed-clock/

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 192 comments

Europe’s telcos want ‘open’ 5G networks

https://www.politico.eu/article/oran-reflow-huawei-europe-telecoms-5g/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 77 comments

Otokichi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otokichi

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 71 comments

Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55751150

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 299 comments

Peering agreements between Backblaze and Cloudflare

https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/l2lq42/how_long_will_cloudflare_peering_stay_for/gk6qie0/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 61 comments

Tell HN: My entire company's Gsuite access has been banned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25899814

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 143 comments

SpaceX sends laser-linked Starlinks to the polar orbit

https://www.teslaoracle.com/2021/01/25/spacx-record-143-satellites-laser-starlinks/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 214 comments

Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (2014)

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/articles/250078-lets-not-dumb-down-the-history-of-computer-science/fulltext

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 167 comments

Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes

https://openai.com/blog/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 53 comments

Papercraft Models of Computers

http://rockybergen.com/papercraft

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 36 comments

Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies

https://www.axios.com/google-privacy-friendly-substitute-cookies-test-05c2c28e-77f1-4921-9a99-1ef0c009b064.html

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 292 comments

Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55797312

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 116 comments

A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/25/a-deeper-dive-into-our-may-2019-security-incident/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 58 comments

Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

https://mitjafelicijan.com/replacing-dropbox-in-favor-of-digitalocean-spaces.html

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 196 comments

We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril

https://nautil.us/issue/95/escape/we-crush-poison-and-destroy-insects-at-our-own-peril

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 150 comments

Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dinosaur-unearthed-argentina-could-be-largest-land-animal-ever-180976813/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 69 comments

Our Journey to PostgreSQL 12

https://tech.coffeemeetsbagel.com/our-journey-to-postgresql-12-3d6ee15d305a

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 114 comments

Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology

https://collapseos.org/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 116 comments

Making is show business now (2020)

https://alexdanco.com/2020/10/08/making-is-show-business-now/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 51 comments

First atomic clock wristwatch (2003)

http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 91 comments

Vancouver seaplane company to resume test flights with electric plane

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-electric-seaplane-test-flights-1.5884479

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 175 comments

Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25905467

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 263 comments

The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

http://themlbook.com/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 39 comments

18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

https://covidvaxcount.live/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 430 comments

Food delivery startup Wolt raises $530M

https://sifted.eu/articles/wolt-530m-raise/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 153 comments

Improving how we deploy GitHub

https://github.blog/2021-01-25-improving-how-we-deploy-github/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 97 comments

Everything I Know

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 90 comments

Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/382003/need-advice-or-assistance-for-son-who-is-in-prison-his-interest-is-scattering-t

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 204 comments

The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets

https://jeromysonne.com/the-nihilism-of-r-wallstreetbets/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 272 comments

Future Plans for Autotools

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2021-01/msg00049.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 214 comments

Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

https://offbase.org

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 92 comments

Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05673

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 45 comments

Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-ice/earth-is-losing-ice-faster-today-than-in-the-mid-1990s-study-suggests-idUSKBN29U0U0

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 70 comments

How do I safely store my files?

https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 132 comments

Shell buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/25/shell-agrees-deal-to-buy-electric-car-charging-company-ubitricity

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 113 comments

Gabe Newell on brain-computer interface technology

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/gabe-newell-says-brain-computer-interface-tech-allow-video-games-far-beyond-human-meat-peripherals-can-comprehend

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 87 comments

One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software

https://onethingwell.org/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 18 comments

The No-Order File System (2012)

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~vijayc/nofs.htm

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 48 comments

Krita 4.4.2 Released

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-4-2-released/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 22 comments

A Review of the Semantic Web Field

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/2/250085-a-review-of-the-semantic-web-field/fulltext

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 70 comments

A comprehensive list of UX design methods and deliverables

https://uxdesign.cc/a-comprehensive-list-of-ux-design-methods-deliverables-2021-2feb3e70e168

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 29 comments

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (2007)

https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 26 comments

Escaping the Roadmap Trap

https://productcrunch.substack.com/p/escaping-the-roadmap-trap

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2021/01/remembering-night-two-atomic-bombs-dropped-on-north-carolina/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 110 comments

New Transistor Structures At 3nm/2nm

https://semiengineering.com/new-transistor-structures-at-3nm-2nm/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 80 comments

Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema (2011)

http://www.midnighteye.com/features/post-human-nightmares-the-world-of-japanese-cyberpunk-cinema/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

Latches in C++20

http://modernescpp.com/index.php/latches-in-c-20

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications

https://github.com/rust-starter/rust-starter

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 48 comments

Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation

https://www.axios.com/taboola-public-spac-28deba29-9e85-415e-a174-2a0c4dddb71f.html

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 163 comments

The Armed Forces Officer Chapter Twenty: Writing and Speaking (1950)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25482/25482-h/25482-h.htm#CHAPTER_TWENTY

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

The Year of Grinding Teeth

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/01/21/the-year-of-grinding-teeth/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

CondensationDB: A general-purpose distributed database with end-to-end security

https://github.com/CondensationDB/Condensation

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

The road ahead for MirageOS in 2021

https://hannes.robur.coop/Posts/NGI

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

Obedience to Authority: The Experiments by Stanley Milgram

http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/milgram_obedience_experiment.html

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 53 comments

Node.js race conditions

https://www.nodejsdesignpatterns.com/blog/node-js-race-conditions/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 50 comments

Top Paying Companies by SWE Level

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fYLNyh_GaaFlmo5u8gYUk1TiQ6PmVsNs/view?usp=drivesdk

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 109 comments

What remote YC demo day looked like

https://papercups.io/blog/what-remote-demo-day-looked-like

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Oldest Libraries in the World

https://www.oldest.org/culture/libraries

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Italy consumer association sues Apple for planned iPhone obsolescence

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-apple-class-action-idUSKBN29U1BB

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 59 comments

Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-birdwatch-a-community-based-approach-to-misinformation.html

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 77 comments

Get notified when a file on GitHub has changed

https://blog.mastykarz.nl/get-notified-file-github-changed/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/how-wallstreetbets-pushed-gamestop-shares-to-the-moon

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Get started modding Factorio in TypeScript

https://cdaringe.github.io/factorio-type-kit/posts/get-started

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments
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