top 50% 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

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

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

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

RFC 8959: The “secret-token” URI Scheme

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

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 71 comments

WhatsApp and the Domestication of Users

https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 108 comments

NumPy 1.20

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

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 60 comments

Rome in 3D

https://relivehistoryin3d.com/projects/rome-in-3d/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 59 comments

Building a personal data warehouse in Snowflake for fun and no profit

https://www.thomasdziedzic0.com/blog/building-a-personal-data-warehouse-in-snowflake-for-fun-and-no-profit

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 31 comments

How does Clang 2.7 hold up in 2021?

https://gist.github.com/zeux/3ce4fcc3a43072b4315abde95319ecb6

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 32 comments

Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO

https://www.coindesk.com/visa-may-add-cryptocurrencies-to-its-payments-network-says-ceo

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 164 comments

Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/chrome-89-beta-advanced-hardware.html

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 130 comments

Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production

https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3762886

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 177 comments

Food Grammar: Unspoken rules of cuisine

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-italians-eat-spaghetti-and-meatballs

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 126 comments

ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy

https://www.specnext.com/about/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 58 comments

Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles

https://reprobatepress.com/2021/01/30/black-bart-the-buried-tv-sequel-to-blazing-saddles/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Alsa_rnnoise – RNNoise-based noise removal plugin for ALSA

https://sr.ht/~arsen/alsa_rnnoise/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 47 comments

Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 52 comments

Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019)

https://vicki.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-kafka

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 124 comments

Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/chronicles-of-a-bubble-tea-addict

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 104 comments

‘Meme stock’ rally rescues AMC theaters from $600M debt

https://www.polygon.com/movies/2021/1/29/22256360/amc-stock-price-reddit-rally-robinhood-debt-conversion

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 113 comments

Crun: Fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers

https://github.com/containers/crun

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 45 comments

An Oral History of Disney's 'The Emperor's New Groove'

https://www.vulture.com/article/an-oral-history-of-disney-the-emperors-new-groove.html

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Fastfloat – C++ library 4x faster than strtod

https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 17 comments

MDMA Solo (2020) [pdf]

https://ia902906.us.archive.org/5/items/mdmasolo/MDMA%20solo.pdf

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 72 comments

Build your own X, a collection of tutorials (Search engine, Neural Net, etc.)

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 5 comments

US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

https://mnetax.com/us-argentina-agree-to-exchange-country-by-country-reports-of-large-multinational-42276

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

Access to vocational education can boost income over the long term

https://voxeu.org/article/access-vocational-education-can-boost-income-over-long-term

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon (2005)

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 67 comments

Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/30/22256577/alphabet-workers-union-turmoil-global-alliance-announcement-google-cwa

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 67 comments

Respect Your Power Users

https://tedium.co/2021/01/27/power-users-history/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

Null characters in Postgres: workarounds aren’t good enough

https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/null-characters-workarounds-arent-good-enough/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 47 comments

Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol [pdf] (2019)

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 70 comments

Phantom Malware: Conceal malicious actions by imitating user activity

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9186656#8866

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Catastrophe

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/01/28/Virus-Changed-Get-To-Zero-Face-Catastrophe/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 239 comments

FM Reception with the GNU Radio Companion

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/fm-reception-with-the-gnu-radio-companion

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere

https://www.publicbooks.org/james-baldwin-here-and-elsewhere/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments
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