top 50% 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

1075 upvotes – 141 comments

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

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

4 years ago

785 upvotes – 890 comments

Is the madness ever going to end?

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

4 years ago

679 upvotes – 600 comments

Firefox 96

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

4 years ago

508 upvotes – 368 comments

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

470 upvotes – 414 comments

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

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

4 years ago

461 upvotes – 213 comments

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

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

4 years ago

432 upvotes – 298 comments

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

411 upvotes – 260 comments

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

405 upvotes – 629 comments

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

383 upvotes – 217 comments

Dear sir, you have built a compiler

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

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 175 comments

The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’

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

4 years ago

348 upvotes – 245 comments

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

340 upvotes – 281 comments

Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 150 comments

Embrace slow productivity

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

4 years ago

314 upvotes – 203 comments

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

309 upvotes – 49 comments

The WebSocket Handbook

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

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 119 comments

Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 352 comments

PHP in 2022

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

4 years ago

302 upvotes – 306 comments

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

296 upvotes – 215 comments

Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-deletes-reference-to-xinjiang-after-backlash-in-china

4 years ago

294 upvotes – 364 comments

Yesterday, US grounded all planes on the west coast for ten minutes

https://kion546.com/money/cnn-business-consumer/2022/01/11/us-grounded-planes-after-norad-alerted-a-north-korean-missile-launch-official-says-2/

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 238 comments

NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations/

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 335 comments

UltraRAM: 'Universal Memory' That Brings RAM-Like Speed to Non-Volatile Storage

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ultraram-implemented-in-silicon-for-first-time

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 129 comments

Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'

https://laorencha.blogspot.com/2022/01/yes-asian-boss-planted-deep-blue.html

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 212 comments

Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution

https://www.quantamagazine.org/eulers-243-year-old-impossible-puzzle-gets-a-quantum-solution-20220110/

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 99 comments

Google doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-is-intentionally-making-its-products-worse-for-users-reason-might-surprise-you.html

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 294 comments

PCI-Sig Releases 256GBps PCIe 6.0 X16 Spec

https://www.servethehome.com/pci-sig-releases-256gbps-pcie-6-0-x16-spec/

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 173 comments

Problem solving strategies in a graduate real analysis course (2010)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/245a-problem-solving-strategies/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 30 comments

Microsoft posts its own teardown and repair video for the Surface Laptop SE

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/microsoft-posts-its-own-teardown-and-repair-video-for-the-surface-laptop-se/

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 107 comments

Annotated equations for increased readability and understanding of papers

https://twitter.com/sibinmohan/status/1480583840858996743

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 90 comments

The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M

https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/the-matrix-resurrections-estimated-to-lose-warner-bros-100-million/

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 311 comments

Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/why-are-hyperlinks-blue-revisited/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 60 comments

Tell HN: GitHub no longer supporting unauthenticated `git://`

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29891656

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 136 comments

How we built a VS Code Extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript

https://www.osohq.com/post/building-vs-code-extension-with-rust-wasm-typescript

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896815

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 159 comments

The Righteousness Fix

https://www.orionmagazine.org/article/the-righteousness-fix/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 180 comments

Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/monumental-record

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 84 comments

On Learning Smalltalk

https://blog.robsayers.com/on-learning-smalltalk

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 117 comments

BioNTech-InstaDeep Early Warning System to Detect High-Risk SARS-CoV-2 Variants

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-and-instadeep-developed-and-successfully-tested-early/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 64 comments

“Modern” C++ Lamentations (2018)

https://aras-p.info/blog/2018/12/28/Modern-C-Lamentations/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 194 comments

Private Equity Firm Amassing Data on America’s Children

https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2022/01/11/this-private-equity-firm-is-amassing-companies-that-collect-data-on-americas-children

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 3 comments

Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892134

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 105 comments

Indian threat actor Patchwork APT caught in its own web

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-intelligence/2022/01/patchwork-apt-caught-in-its-own-web/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/01/11/how-to-find-a-domain-s-authoritative-nameserver/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 46 comments

New SysJoker Backdoor Targets Windows, Linux, and macOS

https://www.intezer.com/blog/malware-analysis/new-backdoor-sysjoker/

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 43 comments

What Defcon Sounds Like: Skyking Emergency Action Messages (2016)

https://specialcollections.radio/This-Is-What-DEFCON-Sounds-Like-Skyking-Emergency-Action-Messages

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy

https://maroonmacro.substack.com/p/issue-38-milton-friedmans-interest

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 107 comments

Jevons Paradox

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

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 90 comments

U.S. Justice Department forming unit to counter domestic terrorism

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-justice-department-forming-unit-counter-domestic-terrorism-2022-01-11/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 285 comments

RFC8890 – The Internet Is for End Users

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

Charge, Baby, Charge for Parking

https://www.econlib.org/charge-baby-charge/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 191 comments

Minecraft mod that runs RISC-V Linux

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/oc2?t=kCSXxSMmvEldLgPycfMRkg&s=09

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 34 comments

A small guide for naming stuff in front-end code

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2021/10/21/a-small-guide-for-naming-stuff-in-front-end-code/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 53 comments

Erlang/OTP Profiling: Fprof

https://medium.com/erlang-battleground/erlang-otp-profiling-fprof-b3a1b92e43e3

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 2 comments

Microtargeting as Information Warfare [pdf]

https://cyberdefensereview.army.mil/Portals/6/Documents/2021_winter_cdr/04_CDR_V6N1_Dawson.pdf

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

New documents reveal early beliefs that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered

https://technofog.substack.com/p/new-documents-reveal-early-beliefs

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Has Gmail spam blocking taken a sudden nosedive?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29894548

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Threeboard – a full-size mechanical USB keyboard with only three keys

https://github.com/taylorconor/threeboard

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 39 comments

Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surveillance camera program

https://www.startribune.com/edina-latest-suburb-to-roll-out-homeowner-surveillance-camera-program/600132122/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 104 comments

The Art of Lisp and Writing

https://dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 11 comments

Another new record in self-cleaning Turing machines

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2022/01/10/another-self-cleaning-turing-machine.html

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

Reading a Pacific navigator’s mysterious map may require a shift in perspective

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/reading-pacific-navigators-mysterious-map

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Solving Wordle with Z3

https://typon.github.io/wordle.html

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 67 comments

Strengthening our efforts against the spread of non-consensual intimate images

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/strengthening-efforts-against-spread-of-non-consensual-intimate-images/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: Processing 24 hours of video in ten minutes

https://sievedata.com/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Common Lisp: Macroexpand-time branching

https://mov.im/?blog/phoe%40movim.eu/f76c3cd8-8d55-409a-9827-c1b345e8e3ad

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments
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