top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-04

Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/

5 years ago

1171 upvotes – 388 comments

Making Vaccine

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/niQ3heWwF6SydhS7R/making-vaccine

5 years ago

536 upvotes – 363 comments

McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mckinsey-idUSKBN2A405Q

5 years ago

508 upvotes – 543 comments

Native Mac APIs for Go

https://github.com/progrium/macdriver

5 years ago

480 upvotes – 69 comments

Waiting for PostgreSQL 14 – SEARCH and CYCLE clauses

https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/04/waiting-for-postgresql-14-search-and-cycle-clauses/

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 65 comments

New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/new-report-on-apples-vr-headset-8k-in-each-eye-potential-3000-price-tag/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 455 comments

Parler CEO says he was fired by board

https://www.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-parler-ceo-idCAKBN2A33B0-OCATC

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 488 comments

Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/02/amazon-ftc-tip-settlement/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 332 comments

Peter Naur's view of programming

https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/autonomy

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 190 comments

Rust-Analyzer Architecture

https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/dev/architecture.md

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 65 comments

The Dunant subsea cable

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/googles-dunant-subsea-cable-is-now-ready-for-service

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 252 comments

An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 118 comments

Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Machine Learning

https://github.com/filipsPL/cat-localizer

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 161 comments

Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features

https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2021/02/pythons-tug-of-war-between-beginner.html

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 431 comments

Godot Shaders: View and Share Shaders for Godot

https://godotshaders.com/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 41 comments

Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/02/04/stepping-down-as-ceo-of-the-wikimedia-foundation/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 237 comments

Monkey.org

https://monkey.org/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 146 comments

The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding

https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/01/the-visitor-pattern-is-essentially-same.html

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 134 comments

Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides

http://www.geofcrowl.com/blog/articles/2020/2/17/collection-higs/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 18 comments

Powerpaste, a hydrogen technology for small vehicles

https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2021/february-2021/hydrogen-powered-drives-for-e-scooters.html

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 96 comments
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