690
725
Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1481339345822879745
4 years ago
687
785
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/
643
350
In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
https://adamhooper.medium.com/in-mysql-never-use-utf8-use-utf8mb4-11761243e434
455
226
Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
https://waifulabs.com/blog/ai-creativity
423
129
Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructure-beta-system-transparency-stboot/
393
72
Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml
https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/
388
179
Living on 24 hours a day
https://www.justindfuller.com/2022/01/living-on-24-hours-a-day/
345
122
Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier
https://parceljs.org/blog/parcel-css/
337
464
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/
335
124
IPython 8.0
https://blog.jupyter.org/release-of-ipython-8-0-6e034ff122ef?gi=5efbb52d543e
326
199
Dark Web – Justice League
https://analyst1.com/blog/dark-web-justice-league
301
183
Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29900496
291
144
The State of Web Scraping 2022
https://scrapeops.io/blog/the-state-of-web-scraping-2022/
290
156
Apache PLC4X announcing end of community support due to missing funding
https://github.com/chrisdutz/blog/blob/main/plc4x/free-trial-expired.adoc
288
478
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
267
176
Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29904654
266
186
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
263
194
Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)
https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-test-pt-1-battery-testing-fundamentals/
258
313
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
256
95
State of Machine Learning in Julia
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/state-of-machine-learning-in-julia/74385
248
45
Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling
https://www.scylladb.com/2022/01/12/async-rust-in-practice-performance-pitfalls-profiling/
244
250
Teaching how to code is broken
https://neil.computer/notes/teaching-how-to-code-is-broken/
219
102
Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
https://github.com/amritb/poor-mans-vpn
205
221
The next big Wi-Fi standard is for sensing, not communication (2021)
https://staceyoniot.com/the-next-big-wi-fi-standard-is-for-sensing-not-communication/
196
214
Catching Native Apps
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/01/12/catching-native-apps/
195
149
Ask HN: I suck at math, where to start?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29905554
185
101
The Great Siberian Thaw
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/the-great-siberian-thaw
184
79
Using Git commit message templates to write better commit messages
https://gist.github.com/lisawolderiksen/a7b99d94c92c6671181611be1641c733
165
171
Young people from Brazil's favelas set out to conquer digital world
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/brazil-s-favela-tech-boom-young-people-from-poor-neighborhoods-set-out-to-conquer-digital-world-a-81a80497-0634-49e1-ad31-d1c8d5f83382
161
201
Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29906328
159
103
Why don't I have a blog?
https://fede.dm/blog/
155
People behave more sadistically when they’re bored
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2022/01/12/people-behave-more-sadistically-when-theyre-bored/
151
Favor real dependencies for unit testing
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/01/03/favor-real-dependencies-for-unit-testing/
150
73
What Do We Know About Time Pressure in Software Development?
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2021/05/09184214/1mLHZkBtQiI
137
158
World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded
https://www.axios.com/global-ocean-temperatures-record-high-935b1b7e-2adf-4759-b8a6-d4747a94c809.html
136
223
Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category.htm#
135
43
Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality and stability
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2021/12/22/wine-on-wayland-year-end-update-improved-functionality-stability/
134
69
Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate (2015)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200123174440/https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate-34502
132
133
Grocery store shortages are back
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072462477/grocery-shortage-shelves-reasons
130
210
US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982
https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9
62
Amish Hackers (2009)
https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
128
108
Losing our product to button syndrome
https://olickel.com/button-syndrome
125
They Still Haven't Told You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00223
Rust in 2022
https://www.ncameron.org/blog/rust-in-2022-2/
123
175
From TypeScript to ReScript
https://www.greyblake.com/blog/from-typescript-to-rescript/
104
Large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning
https://eng.uber.com/how-we-saved-70k-cores-across-30-mission-critical-services/
116
High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits
https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/poor
113
Alternative DNS Roots
https://scholz.ruhr/post/alternative-dns-root/
112
Zooko: Decentralized, immutable and uncensorable microblogging
https://github.com/publiusfederalist/zooko
110
20
Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/
109
27
Folders.py: a language with no code and just folders
https://github.com/SinaKhalili/Folders.py
44
Dutch athletes warned to keep phones and laptops out of China
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/dutch-athletes-warned-keep-phones-laptops-out-china-media-2022-01-11/
34
Ask HN: I need to quickly move to South Korea, How?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29910964
23
Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2020 and 2021?
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2022/01/who-contributed-to-postgresql.html
100
8
My process for building a feature
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jan/12/how-i-build-a-feature/
93
6
New info about cellular death process previously thought to be irreversible
https://today.uic.edu/scientists-uncover-new-information-about-cellular-death-process-previously-thought-to-be-irreversible
89
145
Ask HN: Are Microsoft development stack and Azure a dead-end career path?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29909541
49
FOSS donations which reach the roots
https://github.com/openfare/openfare
86
60
About the security content of iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213043
181
Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interior minister
https://www.reuters.com/technology/germany-doesnt-rule-out-closing-telegram-interior-minister-2022-01-12/
82
The specs behind the specs – a deep-dive on ASN.1
https://engineering.wgtwo.com/the-specs-behind-the-specs-part-1
31
Autofocus on a Pi – ArduCam's new 16MP camera
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/autofocus-on-pi-arducams-new-16mp-camera
78
17
RDS vs. PlanetScale: Pricing Considerations
https://www.vantage.sh/blog/2022-01-12-rds-vs-planetscale-pricing-considerations
77
120
Ask HN: Where Is the COLA?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29907013
76
SAGE jumpstarted today’s technology and built IBM into a powerhouse
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/the-most-important-computer-youve-never-heard-of/
98
DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s public self-driving test
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-11/dmv-message-to-legislatures-ontesla-full-self-driving-safety-its-not-our-job
53
Professor Ehud Qimron: “Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure”
https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/
70
146
Two Years Is Long Enough
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/i-want-my-life-back-fear-covid/621214/
52
Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/who-is-the-network-access-broker-wazawaka/
61
How to easily read 50 books a year
https://www.ramoswriter.com/how-to-read-more/
67
Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html
64
Show HN: I built a gravity simulator in pure CSS
https://www.multiplanetary.website/rocketscience
