top 50% 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

Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination

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

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 20 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

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

FiOS service disruption in Northeast US

https://istheservicedown.com/problems/verizon-fios/map

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 8 comments

We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

https://catchjs.com/Blog/PerformanceInTheWild

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 163 comments

How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2021/jan/26/how-we-made-typerighter-the-guardians-style-guide-checker

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 33 comments

The Teeniest Tiniest Laptop in the West

https://thecrow.uk/gpd-p2-max-ultrabook-cyberdeck-review/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 103 comments

Launch HN: Airbyte (YC W20) – Open-Source ELT (Fivetran/Stitch Alternative)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917403

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 87 comments

What does the night sky look like on Mars?

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/what-does-night-sky-look-like-mars/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 82 comments

Evcxr: A Rust REPL and Jupyter Kernel

https://github.com/google/evcxr

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 27 comments

UPS sells trucking unit

https://www.themiddlemarket.com/news-analysis/ups-sells-trucking-unit-for-800m

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 66 comments

Python's Type Checking Renaissance

https://dafoster.net/articles/2021/01/26/python%27s-type-checking-renaissance/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 180 comments

Mozilla announces Open Web Docs

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/01/welcoming-open-web-docs-to-the-mdn-family/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 1 comments

Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/26/air-pollution-linked-to-higher-risk-of-irreversible-sight-loss

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 40 comments

Open Sourcing Tilt Brush

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/01/the-future-of-tilt-brush.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 45 comments

Internet outages hit the East Coast, causing issues for Verizon, Zoom, etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/internet-outage-east-coast/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 27 comments

Greens: why we eat the leaves that we do (2013)

https://botanistinthekitchen.blog/2013/04/08/greens-why-we-eat-the-leaves-that-we-do/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

Window System Design: If I had it to do over again in 2002 [pdf]

https://hack.org/mc/texts/gosling-wsd.pdf

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 20 comments

Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine

https://blog.vpetkov.net/2019/07/12/netflix-and-spotify-on-a-raspberry-pi-4-with-latest-default-chromium/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 57 comments

CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 136 comments

A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products

https://thesustainablecoopstore.splashthat.com/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 53 comments

Merkaartor – a Qt-based OpenStreetMap editor

https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 24 comments

Baron Samedit: Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo (CVE-2021-3156)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/26/3

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 2 comments

Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/26/facebook-ads-combat-gear-rightwing-users

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 98 comments

Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-research/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 2 comments

The Pros and Cons of DRY Code

https://qvault.io/2021/01/25/the-pros-and-cons-of-dry-code/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 84 comments

The Endless Browser Wars

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/843607/6c830d9c90684026/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 93 comments

Tell HN: Someone seems to be trying to make people more fearful through YouTube

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25913722

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

Lobster shell patterns make concrete stronger

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN29V1ND

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

84% of Waterloo Software Engineering undergrads move to the US upon graduation

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1351785083598893062

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 90 comments

Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted against election results

https://www.axios.com/google-donations-pull-congress-members-election-results-5b007d40-1015-40bd-9952-cc495776b31c.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 172 comments

Big Ideas 2021 [pdf]

https://research.ark-invest.com/hubfs/1_Download_Files_ARK-Invest/White_Papers/ARK%E2%80%93Invest_BigIdeas_2021.pdf

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 43 comments

JITX – Software-Defined Electronics

https://www.jitx.com/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals

https://www.perl.com/article/extracting-the-list-of-o-reilly-animals/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

Load balancing and its different types

https://www.wisdomgeek.com/development/software-architecture/load-balancing-and-its-different-types/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

GME: Or, why we shouldn't underestimate “4chan with a Bloomberg terminal”

https://twitter.com/toxic/status/1353890766800621569

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Are you playing your violin (viola, guitar, etc.) in tune?

https://ctrager.github.io/pitch.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 76 comments

MasterCard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU due to Brexit

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55796426

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 163 comments

Facebook restores service to socialist pages, claiming “automation error”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/26/pers-j26.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 83 comments

Topology 101: The Hole Truth

https://www.quantamagazine.org/topology-101-how-mathematicians-study-holes-20210126/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Todo List for Vim

https://vimhelp.org/todo.txt.html

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments

Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-020-00998-8

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 79 comments
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