top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-11

CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/make-beautiful-gradients/

4 years ago

I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now

https://cushychicken.github.io/why-you-cant-hire-engineers/

4 years ago

Is the madness ever going to end?

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/is-the-madness-ever-going-to-end.html

4 years ago

Firefox 96

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0/releasenotes/

4 years ago

Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022

https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/is-google-search-deteriorating-measuring-search-quality-in-2022

4 years ago

Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite

https://ansiwave.net/blog/semantic-web.html

4 years ago

The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/a-web-for-all/

4 years ago

Nothing like this will be built again (2002)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-like-this-will-be-buil.html

4 years ago

Google says iMessage is too powerful

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-android-messaging-google-says-imessage-is-too-powerful/

4 years ago

LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage

https://alternativeto.net/news/2022/1/lastpass-seemingly-deliberately-holding-users-password-data-hostage-alongside-new-pricing-plans/

4 years ago

Dear sir, you have built a compiler

https://rachitnigam.com/post/you-have-built-a-compiler/

4 years ago

The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

4 years ago

Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?

https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge

4 years ago

Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888599

4 years ago

Embrace slow productivity

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/its-time-to-embrace-slow-productivity

4 years ago

Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.

https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2022-01-11-dsq.html

4 years ago

Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

https://twitter.com/zerforschung/status/1480924205352996870

4 years ago

The WebSocket Handbook

https://ably.com/blog/introducing-the-websocket-handbook

4 years ago

PHP in 2022

https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2022

4 years ago

Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots

https://www.airlive.net/lufthansa-group-confirmed-that-18000-flights-had-been-flown-empty-to-keep-airport-slots/

4 years ago