top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-02

Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees

5 years ago

1941 upvotes – 1008 comments

Getting better at Linux with mini-projects

https://carltheperson.com/posts/10-things-linux

5 years ago

1009 upvotes – 120 comments

A Framework for Writing Better Documentation

https://documentation.divio.com/

5 years ago

637 upvotes – 76 comments

I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit

https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.html

5 years ago

550 upvotes – 844 comments

Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/02/just-because-i-have-a-vertical-screen-doesnt-mean-im-on-a-phone/

5 years ago

547 upvotes – 386 comments

Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service

https://www.scaleway.com/en/hello-m1/

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 226 comments

SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1356699321840721920

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 302 comments

AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review

https://mariusmasalar.me/airpods-max

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 384 comments

GoboLinux

https://www.gobolinux.org/

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 178 comments

Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/Go116OpenBSDUsesLibc

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 189 comments

20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown

https://qz.com/work/1965925/20000-honey-bees-took-over-a-tech-office-during-covid-19/

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 78 comments

It’s Time for Real Time Settlement

https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/2/2/its-time-for-real-time-settlement

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 422 comments

Bad TypeScript Habits

https://startup-cto.net/10-bad-typescript-habits-to-break-this-year/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 240 comments

Behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role

https://www.danielwatts.info/post/7-behaviours-to-avoid-software-architect/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 166 comments

“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l7bl3z/brokers_of_reddit_how_crazy_is_it_where_you_work/gl64yau/

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 334 comments

Academic media censorship conference censored by YouTube?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-censored-youtube/274918/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 95 comments

Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions

https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_report_fake_cluster_boosts_huawei.pdf

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 86 comments

Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 411 comments

Bill Evans – The Creative Process and Self-Teaching (2007) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEHWaGuurUk

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Archivy – Extensible Self Hosted Knowledge Base – v1 Release

https://archivy.github.io

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 17 comments

Oxford vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% in 3-month gap til second dose

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-02-02-oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-shows-sustained-protection-76-during-3-month-interval

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 176 comments

Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking

https://www.expressvpn.com/digital-security-lab/investigation-xoth

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 64 comments

Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect

https://www.okayhq.com/blog/engineering-productivity-can-be-measured

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 119 comments

EteSync – Secure Data Sync

https://www.etesync.com/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 36 comments

People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

https://debugger.medium.com/meet-the-people-keeping-blackberry-alive-in-2021-d86ee9ae6634

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 137 comments

The Canary Chirps

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/911-The-Canary-Chirps.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 17 comments

Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without slowing your website

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26002657

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 84 comments

Garuda Linux

https://garudalinux.org

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 92 comments

CompilerGym: A toolkit for reinforcement learning for compiler optimization

https://facebookresearch.github.io/CompilerGym/getting_started.html

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 16 comments

Exploring FPGA Graphics (2020)

https://projectf.io/posts/fpga-graphics/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 38 comments

S100 Computers

http://s100computers.com/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 55 comments

Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform

https://penpot.app/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 26 comments

Silence Is a Commons (1983)

http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1983_silence_commons.html

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/graalvm-21-jvm-java/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 19 comments

Donkey: A Highly-Performant HTTP Stack for Clojure

https://www.infoq.com/articles/clojure-donkey-http-stack/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 11 comments

The world is full of wasted motion

https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/mini-blog-post-22-the-8020-rule

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 87 comments

RISC-V isn’t as interesting as you think

https://sporks.space/2021/02/01/risc-v-isnt-as-interesting-as-you-think/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 151 comments

Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zZ7fIkpBgs

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 70 comments

Killing Containers at Scale

https://blog.repl.it/killing-containers-at-scale

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 20 comments

Dante's descendant seeks to overturn poet's 1302 corruption conviction

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/01/dante-descendant-seeks-to-overturn-poets-1302-corruption-conviction

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 112 comments

Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video

https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/aerobics-instructor-appears-to-capture-myanmar-coup-in-dance-video-watch/714885

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 55 comments

Australia’s PM suggests Bing adequate if Google blocks searches

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/02/australias-pm-suggests-bing-adequate-if-google-blocks-searches-down-under/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 175 comments

Covid-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 147 comments

2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 89 comments

Gam-COVID-Vac phase 3 trial results: 91·6% efficacy and well tolerated

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00234-8/fulltext

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 66 comments

Navy speaks up about its “UFO patent” experiments

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39012/the-navy-finally-speaks-up-about-its-bizarre-ufo-patent-experiments

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 72 comments

Google Cloud lost $5.6B in 2020

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/02/google-cloud-lost-5-6b-in-2020/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

Prosperity comes at 'devastating' cost to nature

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55893696

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 126 comments

The Reshaped Mac Experience

http://morrick.me/archives/9150

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 80 comments

Bangui magnetic anomaly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangui_magnetic_anomaly

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

Van Gogh hiding at the back of a Toulouse-Lautrec drawing

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/is-van-gogh-hiding-at-the-back-of-a-toulouse-lautrec-drawing

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Proprietary Software Is Often Malware

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 71 comments

Revolut has stopped trading GME and AMC

https://www.mrhack.io/blog/revolut-stops-trading-gme-amc-stocks-statement/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Generating Text with Markov Chains

https://healeycodes.com/generating-text-with-markov-chains/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24969

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 99 comments

Google, Department of Labor settlement resolves alleged pay, discrimination

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20210201

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments
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