top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-05

We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

https://blog.polyhaven.com/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400/

4 years ago

766 upvotes – 401 comments

I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/

4 years ago

704 upvotes – 666 comments

Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux

https://www.darlinghq.org/

4 years ago

652 upvotes – 199 comments

I Miss RSS

https://www.wilcosky.com/d/20-i-miss-rss

4 years ago

605 upvotes – 301 comments

How to design a house to last 1000 years

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/how-to-design-a-house-to-last-for

4 years ago

594 upvotes – 391 comments

Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

https://tauri.studio/en/

4 years ago

558 upvotes – 418 comments

Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-lawsuit-filed-in-california-alleging-google-is-paying-apple-to-stay-out-of-the-search-engine-business-301453098.html

4 years ago

534 upvotes – 368 comments

Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review

https://luisartola.com/framework-laptop-with-ubuntu-review/

4 years ago

512 upvotes – 514 comments

Best Pens for 2022: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-41-Best-Pens-for-2022-Gel-Ballpoint-Rollerball-and-Fountain-Pens/pt/974

4 years ago

459 upvotes – 245 comments

Minecraft as a Kubernetes admin tool

https://eric-jadi.medium.com/minecraft-as-a-k8s-admin-tool-cf16f890de42

4 years ago

419 upvotes – 61 comments

Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29804607

4 years ago

408 upvotes – 456 comments

Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/kosovo-bans-cryptocurrency-mining-save-electricity-2022-01-04/

4 years ago

347 upvotes – 193 comments

Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

https://newsletter.tonydinh.com/issues/i-make-3k-mo-from-a-browser-extension-december-2021-updates-966892

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 155 comments

How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months

https://masilotti.com/idea-to-sold-in-14-months/

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 153 comments

Why might you run your own DNS server?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/01/05/why-might-you-run-your-own-dns-server-/

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 203 comments

Psychogenic death, the phenomenon of “thinking” yourself to death

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/31/psychogenic/

4 years ago

306 upvotes – 246 comments

Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps

https://logankilpatrick.medium.com/6-julia-frameworks-to-create-desktop-guis-and-web-apps-9ae1a941f115

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 76 comments

Internet disrupted in Kazakhstan amid energy price protests

https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-kazakhstan-amid-energy-price-protests-oy9YQgy3

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 234 comments

TSMC’s Arizona Culture Clash

https://www.eetimes.com/tsmcs-arizona-culture-clash/

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 291 comments

Should you use Let's Encrypt for internal hostnames?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/01/should-you-use-lets-encrypt-for-internal-hostnames/

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 190 comments

Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357428572_Combined_triple_treatment_of_fibrin_amyloid_microclots_and_platelet_pathology_in_individuals_with_Long_COVID_Post-Acute_Sequelae_of_COVID-19_PASC_can_resolve_their_persistent_symptoms

4 years ago

233 upvotes – 219 comments

ISS Docking Simulator

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 91 comments

QR code scammers hitting on-street parking in Texas cities

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/01/05/qr-code-scammers-hitting-on-street-parking-in-texas-cities-this-is-what-houston-officials-want-you-to-know/

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 161 comments

Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__

https://til.simonwillison.net/python/init-subclass

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 124 comments

Launch HN: Gravitl (YC W22) – VPN Platform Based on WireGuard

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29809830

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 109 comments

I found a one-char typo in the docs for Python's typing_extensions library

https://twitter.com/PredragGruevski/status/1478782546624360453

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 112 comments

A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November

https://www.axios.com/workers-quit-jobs-november-data-labor-force-a58b23b6-ef54-4ed7-bb3b-78140b326a66.html

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 230 comments

You Don't Need a Mentor–Find a Nemesis Instead

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-a-mentorfind-a-nemesis

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 111 comments

My Evaluation of SvelteKit for Full-Stack Web App Development

https://cprimozic.net/blog/trying-out-sveltekit/

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 124 comments

Best Practices for Securing SSH

https://goteleport.com/blog/5-ssh-best-practices/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 141 comments

Japanese game developer hasn't left the house in 10 years

https://www.thegamer.com/japanese-game-developer-stay-home-10-years/

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 118 comments

I analyzed 20k recommendations made by Jim Cramer during the last 5 years

https://old.reddit.com/r/options/comments/rwmxel/should_you_listen_to_jim_cramer_i_analyzed_20000/

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 90 comments

Linuxgems – A succinct cheat sheet for newbie Linux coders and sysadmins

https://github.com/kevinthew/linuxgems

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 59 comments

Wave Function Collapse library in pure C

https://github.com/krychu/wfc

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 84 comments

“I just got *another* copyright claim for TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD!”

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1478858881283821569

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 32 comments

‘I felt powerless – so I started filming’: CyclingMikey vs. dangerous drivers

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/05/filming-cyclingmikey-dangerous-drivers-mike-van-erp-motorists-britain-roads-safer

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 216 comments

Simple Dungeon Map Generation

https://smoldungeon.com/maps

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 17 comments

Anarchists making their own medicine (2018)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 239 comments

Asus will release a 17“ foldable OLED laptop

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22867624/asus-zenbook-17-fold-oled-foldable-laptop-tablet-specs-price-release-date

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 76 comments

Kazakh president’s home ablaze as protests escalate

https://apnews.com/article/business-kazakhstan-almaty-9da42330ca51c36fe9fd88f9ef35ff4e

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 67 comments

The redacted lawsuit: Solarwinds board of directors sued by shareholders

https://github.com/jaybobo/jaybobo/blob/main/docs/solarwinds-complaint/summary-solarwinds.md

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Bel in Clojure

https://stopa.io/post/290

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 13 comments

The Last Wild Lions of Europe

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/lions-europe/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

Know how your org works, or how to become a more effective engineer

https://copyconstruct.medium.com/know-how-your-org-works-or-how-to-become-a-more-effective-engineer-1a3287d1f58d

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 27 comments

Do Not Log

https://sobolevn.me/2020/03/do-not-log

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 148 comments

Restricting SSH Agent Keys

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/880458/5c4147ec8a7ca8df/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Stars may form 10 times faster than thought

https://www.science.org/content/article/stars-may-form-10-times-faster-thought

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

PSA: If you want to know why a company rejected you, send them a GDPR request

https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/rw3p8u/psa_if_you_want_to_know_why_a_big_company/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 52 comments

We're two middle school teachers learning and teaching Python [audio]

https://www.teachingpython.fm/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant

https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/entrata-chair-emails-tech-ceos-claiming-covid-vaccine-part-of-sterilization-plot-by-the-jews

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 123 comments

History of energy consumption in the United States, 1775–2009 (2011)

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=10

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

Songdata

https://songdata.io/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: WordLines – A zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain puzzle game

https://github.com/nalinbhardwaj/wordlines

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Minitorch: Implement the Torch API from Scratch, from Cornell Tech

https://minitorch.github.io/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

BlackBerry held the tiny keys to my heart

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59859817

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 82 comments

Airbnb's experiment in combatting rental bias means swapping names for initials

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/04/1070411574/airbnbs-new-experiment-racial-bias-discrimination-oregon

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 157 comments

Beating the tradeoff between developer velocity and scalability

https://tomlinford.com/posts/beating-velocity-and-scalability-tradeoff/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Flatten Arrays in Vanilla JavaScript with Flat() and FlatMap()

https://www.wisdomgeek.com/development/flatten-arrays-in-vanilla-javascript-with-flat-and-flatmap/

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 89 comments

Browser-Vite – Vite in the Browser

https://divriots.com/blog/vite-in-the-browser

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments
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