top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-12

Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1481339345822879745

3 years ago

690 upvotes – 724 comments

Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/11/scientists-believed-covid-leaked-wuhan-lab-feared-debate-could/

3 years ago

687 upvotes – 785 comments

In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)

https://adamhooper.medium.com/in-mysql-never-use-utf8-use-utf8mb4-11761243e434

3 years ago

643 upvotes – 350 comments

Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?

https://waifulabs.com/blog/ai-creativity

3 years ago

455 upvotes – 226 comments

Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructure-beta-system-transparency-stboot/

3 years ago

423 upvotes – 129 comments

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml

https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/

3 years ago

393 upvotes – 72 comments

Living on 24 hours a day

https://www.justindfuller.com/2022/01/living-on-24-hours-a-day/

3 years ago

388 upvotes – 179 comments

Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier

https://parceljs.org/blog/parcel-css/

3 years ago

345 upvotes – 122 comments

Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/google-hired-union-busting-consultants-to-convince-employees-unions-suck/

3 years ago

337 upvotes – 464 comments

IPython 8.0

https://blog.jupyter.org/release-of-ipython-8-0-6e034ff122ef?gi=5efbb52d543e

3 years ago

335 upvotes – 124 comments

Dark Web – Justice League

https://analyst1.com/blog/dark-web-justice-league

3 years ago

326 upvotes – 199 comments

Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29900496

3 years ago

301 upvotes – 183 comments

The State of Web Scraping 2022

https://scrapeops.io/blog/the-state-of-web-scraping-2022/

3 years ago

291 upvotes – 144 comments

Apache PLC4X announcing end of community support due to missing funding

https://github.com/chrisdutz/blog/blob/main/plc4x/free-trial-expired.adoc

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 156 comments

Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection

https://www.axios.com/n95-mask-protection-covid-958039c9-07f1-45a1-81e7-b7436707fee5.html

3 years ago

288 upvotes – 478 comments

Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29904654

3 years ago

267 upvotes – 176 comments

Lawsuit aiming to break up Facebook group Meta can go ahead, US court rules

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/12/lawsuit-aiming-to-break-up-facebook-group-meta-can-go-ahead-us-court-rules

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 186 comments

Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)

https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-test-pt-1-battery-testing-fundamentals/

3 years ago

263 upvotes – 194 comments

Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-storage/goldman-sachs-just-made-a-record-setting-investment-in-long-duration-energy-storage

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 313 comments

State of Machine Learning in Julia

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/state-of-machine-learning-in-julia/74385

3 years ago

256 upvotes – 95 comments
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