top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-01-26

Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/

5 years ago

1569 upvotes – 760 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

5 years ago

1064 upvotes – 378 comments

Firefox 85

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/85.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

488 upvotes – 291 comments

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/

5 years ago

480 upvotes – 173 comments

Nq – A simple Unix job queue system

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nq

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 132 comments

Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

https://www.newsweek.com/agent-fired-literary-agency-using-parler-gab-1564687

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 554 comments

Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo

https://www.qualys.com/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156/baron-samedit-heap-based-overflow-sudo.txt

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 317 comments

Postgres scaling advice

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgres-scaling-advice-for-2021/

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 200 comments

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 175 comments

Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/26/new-gitlab-product-subscription-model/

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 292 comments

LZ4 – Extremely fast compression

https://lz4.github.io/lz4/

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 112 comments

Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint

https://noyb.eu/en/gay-dating-app-grindr-be-fined-almost-eu-10-mio

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 289 comments

East Coast Internet Outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917798

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 254 comments

System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021

https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/01/26/system-separation-in-the-continental-europe-synchronous-area-on-8-january-2021-2nd-update/

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 131 comments

What color was “Apple Beige”?

https://bzotto.medium.com/what-color-was-apple-beige-acd14bca0c1a

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 79 comments

Twitter acquires Revue

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/making-twitter-a-better-home-for-writers.html

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 259 comments

Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/dataviz/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 20 comments

Bryan Fogel on why streaming platforms were scared of releasing The Dissident

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/the-dissident-saudi-arabia-netflix-bryan-fogel-icarus-1234886662/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 134 comments

Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)

https://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2010/3/16/In-Their-Own-Words-Claude-Shannon-Demonstrates-Machine-Learning

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 51 comments

A Map of Mathematics

https://mathmap.quantamagazine.org/map/

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 40 comments
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