top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-01-31

CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/

5 years ago

1167 upvotes – 654 comments

GitHub Should Start an App Store

https://www.ankshilp.com/time_for_github_app_store/

5 years ago

814 upvotes – 291 comments

Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells

https://stu2b50.dev/posts/why-robinhood-d3580b

5 years ago

705 upvotes – 680 comments

NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework

https://nostalgic-css.github.io/NES.css/

5 years ago

704 upvotes – 121 comments

Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land

https://powersaurus.itch.io/cab-ride

5 years ago

549 upvotes – 95 comments

How to Turn an IKEA Coffee Table into a DIY Server Rack

https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 196 comments

The MIT License, Line by Line

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-by-Line.html

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 142 comments

Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (2005)

https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1320xkhl0443w/naked-shorting-the-curious-incident-of-the-shares-that-didnt-exist

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 298 comments

Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS mesh communicator

https://meshtastic.letstalkthis.com/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 99 comments

Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 386 comments

Why I still Lisp

https://mendhekar.medium.com/why-i-still-lisp-and-you-should-too-18a2ae36bd8

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 226 comments

Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution

https://bedrocklinux.org/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 105 comments

TeaVM: Build Fast, Modern Web Apps in Java

http://teavm.org/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 161 comments

RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V

https://www.eetimes.com/rv64x-a-free-open-source-gpu-for-risc-v/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 50 comments

A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises

https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 19 comments

Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10216-the-hidden-drawbacks-of-p2p-and-a-defense-of-signal

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 210 comments

RFC 8959: The “secret-token” URI Scheme

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8959.txt

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 71 comments

Math Inspector: A Visual Programming Environment for Scientific Computing

https://mathinspector.com/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 19 comments

Launch HN: LayerCI (YC S20) - Staging servers that act like (and replace) CI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25979941

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 61 comments

NumPy 1.20

https://numpy.org/doc/1.20/release/1.20.0-notes.html

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 60 comments
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