top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-30

My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television

https://my90stv.com

5 years ago

527 upvotes – 147 comments

Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/afternoon-naps-linked-to-improved-cognitive-function/

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 151 comments

Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)

https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 118 comments

How to increase your luck surface area (2010)

https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surface-area

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 200 comments

Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3448307

5 years ago

349 upvotes – 100 comments

Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11871

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 123 comments

Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps

https://siliconpr0n.org/map/

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 78 comments

Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS

https://www.simplecto.com/docker-django-traefik-intercoolerjs-is-my-stack-for-2021/

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 343 comments

Show HN: Collection of deep learning implementations with side-by-side notes

https://nn.labml.ai

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 17 comments

The Great Unbundling

https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 131 comments

University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty

https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1355184163020804099

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 223 comments

Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00187-9

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 120 comments

Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?

https://aeon.co/essays/are-the-persian-gulf-city-states-slave-societies

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 146 comments

New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01027.html

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 41 comments

A vast web of vengeance

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-google-results.html

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 104 comments

Cory Doctorow: IP (2020)

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 122 comments

"ERROR: could not open temporary file" after upgrade to Mac OS Big Sur

https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/issues/610

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 256 comments

India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-55872480

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 387 comments

Electric cars are coming fast – is the nation’s grid up to it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/climate/gm-electric-cars-power-grid.html

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 438 comments

What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-did-we-lose-when-we-lost-the

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 106 comments

Analysis: Robinhood protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-robinhood-liability-an-idUSKBN29Z0HI

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 283 comments

Element Was Suspended from the Playstore

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.vector.app

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 3 comments

The Reddit GME short squeeze game plan (143 days old)

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ip6jnv/the_real_greatest_short_burn_of_the_century/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 181 comments

Why it’s usually crazier than you expect

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/crazy/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 154 comments

Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mqj4/watch-facebook-moderators-speak-out-about-poor-working-conditions-in-ireland

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 106 comments

Once we can see them, it’s too late

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5253

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 111 comments

Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3

https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/01/29/software-verification-and-analysis-using-z3/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 40 comments

Logical Fallacies

https://www.logicalfallacies.org/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 112 comments

A few HiDPI tricks for Linux

https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/12/24/A-few-HiDPI-tricks-for-Linux

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 189 comments

India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/india-proposes-law-to-ban-cryptocurrencies-create-official-digital-currency/article33703822.ece

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 147 comments

Cyclic dependencies are evil (2013)

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/cyclic-dependencies/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 121 comments

How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it's a bad idea

https://blog.maxwellgale.com/2021/01/30/streaming-video-over-webrtc-using-ffmpeg/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 39 comments

A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06774

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 145 comments

Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup

https://chimerical.ca/posts/creating-my-awesome-windows-10-dev-setup/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 149 comments

Chicago Museum – Public Access to Our Public Presence: Sharing Our API

https://www.artic.edu/articles/902/public-access-to-our-public-presence-sharing-our-api

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

City Guesser – GeoGuessr but with video

https://virtualvacation.us/guess

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 33 comments

Wayland Keylogger

https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 119 comments

IBM paperweight teardown: Reverse-engineering 1970s memory chips

https://www.righto.com/2021/01/ibm-paperweight-teardown-reverse.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

SOPHIE has died

https://pitchfork.com/news/sophie-has-died/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

Universal Basic Income Is Superior to a $15 Minimum Wage (2019)

https://basicincometoday.com/opinion-universal-basic-income-is-superior-to-a-15-minimum-wage/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 176 comments

ESE: The server-grade, embedded DB ships with Windows

https://github.com/microsoft/Extensible-Storage-Engine

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 37 comments

Quad Gods: The world-class gamers who play with their mouths

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55811621

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Fast Commits for Ext4

https://lwn.net/Articles/842385/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 7 comments

Fixing 200 broken raspberry Pis to prevent e-waste and donating the money raised

https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/i-bought-200-raspberry-pi-model-bs-and-im-going-to-fix-them-part-4/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/29/number-parsing-at-a-gigabyte-per-second/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support

https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6-6t-mainline-linux-kernel-support/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

Uf2: USB Flashing Format

https://github.com/microsoft/uf2

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 37 comments

I checked Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/29/apple-privacy-nutrition-label/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Philosophical Landmines (2013)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L4HQ3gnSrBETRdcGu/philosophical-landmines

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Watchpoints, an easy to use watchpoints equivalent library for Python

https://github.com/gaogaotiantian/watchpoints

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Robinhood Is the Facebook of Investing. You're the Data, Not the Customer

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/robinhood-is-facebook-of-investing-youre-data-not-customer.html

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Humanlike thumb dexterity may date back as far as 2M years ago

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humanlike-thumb-dexterity-hominid-evolution

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

In Philadelphia, a scandal erupts over vaccination startup led by 22-year-old

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962143659/in-philadelphia-a-scandal-erupts-over-vaccination-start-up-led-by-22-year-old

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: League of Legends Build Orders by Genetic Algorithm

https://www.lolsolved.gg/builds/

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Dogecoin trading volume hits $5B, surpassing Bitcoin's for the first time ever

https://cointelegraph.com/news/dogecoin-trading-volume-hits-5b-surpassing-bitcoin-s-for-the-first-time-ever

5 years ago

59 upvotes – 54 comments

Teaching a Bayesian spam filter to play chess (2005)

http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess-1.html

5 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments
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