top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-09

Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card

https://alanany.com/2021/12/23/upwork-12k-refund-client-using-another-credit-card/

4 years ago

1142 upvotes – 485 comments

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/

4 years ago

924 upvotes – 1063 comments

Oh, 2022

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/01/oh-2022.html

4 years ago

709 upvotes – 538 comments

Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)

https://www.boredpanda.com/spy-camera-secret-street-photography-carl-stormer-norway/

4 years ago

566 upvotes – 203 comments

Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017)

https://yakshav.es/the-patron-saint-of-yakshaves/

4 years ago

431 upvotes – 99 comments

Let's Settle This

https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/

4 years ago

397 upvotes – 498 comments

Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM

https://boingboing.net/2022/01/08/forced-by-shortages-to-sell-chipless-cartridges-canon-tells-customers-how-to-bypass-drm-warnings.html

4 years ago

374 upvotes – 216 comments

Simplicity of IRC

https://susam.net/maze/simplicity-of-irc.html

4 years ago

364 upvotes – 244 comments

Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

https://www.movieofthenight.com/about/api

4 years ago

364 upvotes – 95 comments

Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/youth-suicide-attempts-soared-during-pandemic-cdc-report-says-n1270463

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 624 comments

Iconoir – An Open-Source SVG Icons Library

https://iconoir.com/

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 25 comments

Tips for a Healthier Postgres Database

https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/five-tips-for-a-healthier-postgres-database-in-the-new-year

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 84 comments

RSS feeds are available for many U.S. Government collections

https://www.govinfo.gov/feeds

4 years ago

309 upvotes – 75 comments

The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (1972)

https://www.charlesmingus.com/mingus/cat-traning-program

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 143 comments

SSH Agent Restriction (new in OpenSSH 8.9)

https://www.openssh.com/agent-restrict.html

4 years ago

277 upvotes – 76 comments

FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON

https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 62 comments

Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior

https://www.pnas.org/content/107/40/17433

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 189 comments

Cryptoland [video]

https://peertube.social/videos/watch/8f7e61ed-47ab-4e82-a5c2-5a7d5e8bcb33

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 203 comments

Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles

https://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 40 comments

Open source maintainer pulls the plug on NPM packages colors and faker

https://snyk.io/blog/open-source-maintainer-pulls-the-plug-on-npm-packages-colors-and-faker-now-what/

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 14 comments

Re: Moxie on Web3

https://blog.plan99.net/re-moxie-on-web3-b0cfccd68067?gi=c5c13129e817

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 181 comments

Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working

https://alexanderell.is/posts/mscs/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 156 comments

Match Group file multiple lawsuits after repeated failed acquisition offer

https://muzmatch.com/en-GB/blog/muzmatch/were-getting-sued

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 65 comments

The Rise of Performative Work

https://www.economist.com/business/2022/01/08/the-rise-of-performative-work

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 154 comments

Ask HN: How do you start contracting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29864014

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Evil Wordle

https://swag.github.io/evil-wordle/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

https://keyboard-drill.com

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 54 comments

The James Webb Space Telescope – making 300 points of failure reliable

https://flyingbarron.medium.com/the-james-webb-space-telescope-making-300-points-of-failure-reliable-db669810a9d8

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 123 comments

Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)

http://akkartik.name/post/literate-programming

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 168 comments

Pluton is not currently a threat to software freedom

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/58125.html

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 204 comments

The vicious cycle of food and sleep

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2021/vicious-cycle-food-sleep

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 60 comments

On Web3 Infrastructure

https://mirror.xyz/suzuha.eth/vb5E5lhzmPTcpxOJcz6Q211TDgSvoFwDLA6JSM1V37Q

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 166 comments

Adversarial Wordle

https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 66 comments

Macrochips: A collection of laser engraved, 4 inch slate tile microchip coasters

https://www.evilgeniuslabs.org/macrochips

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 15 comments

Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End

https://keckobservatory.org/dying-star/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 73 comments

Practical Shell Patterns I Use

https://zwischenzugs.com/2022/01/04/practical-shell-patterns-i-actually-use/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 67 comments

Why I Like D

https://aradaelli.com/blog/why-i-like-d/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 127 comments

CalyxOS now supports Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

https://calyxos.org/news/2022/01/08/android-12-pixel-6/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 67 comments

John Deere unveils fully autonomous 8R tractor

https://www.agriculture.com/news/technology/john-deere-unveils-fully-autonomous-8r-tractor

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 153 comments

The Great Distractor

https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/work/the-great-distractor

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 63 comments

Rescue Sheet

http://rescuesheet.info/index.html

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 19 comments

Explaining to my parents what I do

https://www.neelsomani.com/blog/explaining-to-my-parents-what-i-do.php

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 47 comments

Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

https://www.ft.com/content/1270ee18-3ee0-4939-98a8-c4f40940e644

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 165 comments

I feel dumb(er) when typing, and smart(er) when writing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863108

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29864157

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 66 comments

Far-UVC light: A tool to control the spread of airborne-mediated microbial

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21058-w

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 85 comments

FD 100

https://susam.net/blog/fd-100.html

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

Command Line Video Player

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 34 comments

Drones used by farmers could be spying

https://taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/01/09/2003771022

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 70 comments

Bulgaria Freelance Taxes: Detailed Breakdown

https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/bulgaria_freelance_taxes

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 128 comments

Ask HN: How do I get over constant failure?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863974

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 122 comments

Ethereum co-founder recorded explaining how to “disguise” ICO ETH purchases

https://twitter.com/Leerzeit/status/1479075881125617670

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Disambiguating the ‘Observable Universe’

https://samenright.com/2022/01/09/disambiguating-the-observable-universe/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 55 comments

awkcc: awk-to-C transcompiler (1988, 2011)

https://github.com/nokia/awkcc

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

JWST User Documentation

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Alcohol should have cancer warnings, say researchers pushing to raise awareness

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-warning-labels-cancer-1.6304816

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments
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