top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-14

PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

https://www.engadget.com/paypal-lawsuit-freezing-customer-accounts-funds-073128563.html

4 years ago

814 upvotes – 311 comments

Multiple Sclerosis Causality

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/multiple-sclerosis-causality

4 years ago

635 upvotes – 244 comments

Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?

https://www.cyberlink.com:443/support/faq-content.do?id=26690

4 years ago

618 upvotes – 407 comments

Train burglaries in LA

https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384

4 years ago

568 upvotes – 602 comments

Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29934192

4 years ago

421 upvotes – 353 comments

How bad is my gas stove?

https://carbonswitch.co/how-bad-is-my-gas-stove-part-two

4 years ago

369 upvotes – 520 comments

YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

https://twitter.com/evilksandr/status/1479507618066571268

4 years ago

363 upvotes – 182 comments

Show HN: RootMy.TV

https://rootmy.tv/

4 years ago

361 upvotes – 120 comments

Simple.css – A classless CSS framework

https://simplecss.org

4 years ago

351 upvotes – 103 comments

Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/nuclear-startup-oklo-gets-thumbs-down-from-regulators-what-does-this-mean-for-next-gen-nuclear

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 291 comments

Woob: Web Outside of Browsers

https://woob.tech/

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 122 comments

Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/01/humble-subscription-service-is-dumping-mac-linux-access-in-18-days/

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 156 comments

India's richest man pouring $80B into green energy, including new ventures

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/business/india-reliance-gujarat-green-energy-investment-intl-hnk/index.html

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 231 comments

Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29938544

4 years ago

273 upvotes – 167 comments

Zendesk pretends to be open source?

https://www.zendesk.co.uk/help-desk-software/open-source-ticket-system/#tools

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 79 comments

Interactive piano reference to major and minor scales

https://muted.io/major-minor-scales/

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 89 comments

Format Strings in Rust 1.58

https://www.rustnote.com/blog/format_strings.html

4 years ago

261 upvotes – 154 comments

Mathematicians clear hurdle in quest to decode primes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-clear-hurdle-in-quest-to-decode-prime-numbers-20220113/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 73 comments

Congress Needs to Stop Day Trading, Says Sen. Mark Warner

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/congress-needs-to-stop-day-trading

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 162 comments

Mortgages are a manufactured product

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/mortgages-are-a-manufactured-product/

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 222 comments

Self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/01/new-year-same-old-you-the-secret-to-self-improvement-is-embracing-your-messy-imperfect-life

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 95 comments

FSB arrests REvil ransomware gang members

https://therecord.media/fsb-raids-revil-ransomware-gang-members/

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 167 comments

“Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/01/13/chatbots-still-dumb-after-all-these-years/

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 162 comments

Tek Fog in Action: Targeting Women Journalists

https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/3.html

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 41 comments

GravityLight – Light from the Lift of a Weight

https://deciwatt.global/gravitylight

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 58 comments

Shodan 2000

https://2000.shodan.io/

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 56 comments

Are you sure you want to use MMAP in your database management system? [pdf]

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2022/cidr2022-p13-crotty.pdf

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 127 comments

Game-makers creating new Game Boy games (2021)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/meet-the-developers-making-og-game-boy-games-in-2021/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 88 comments

New theory proposes ‘forgetting’ is a form of learning

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/why-do-we-forget-new-theory-proposes-forgetting-is-actually-a-form-of-learning/

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 70 comments

The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013)

http://hackingportuguese.com/pronunciation/portuguese-r-the-long-version/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 170 comments

Cognitive load theory and its applications for learning

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/01/04/cognitive-load-theory/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 19 comments

Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Moderna's 2015/2016 patents

https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/how-to-blast-your-way-to-the-truth

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 150 comments

We used C++20 to eliminate a class of runtime bugs

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/how-we-used-cpp20-to-eliminate-an-entire-class-of-runtime-bugs/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 101 comments

Meta sued for £2.3bn over claim Facebook users in UK were exploited

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/14/meta-sued-for-23bn-over-claim-facebook-users-in-uk-were-exploited

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 49 comments

Former Uber Chief Security Officer to Face Wire Fraud Charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-uber-chief-security-officer-face-wire-fraud-charges-0

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 47 comments

Tell HN: Stop Accepting Shitty Interviews

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29930670

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 125 comments

Stop Being the Hero

https://www.productlessons.xyz//article/stop-being-hero

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 35 comments

Cyberattack hits Ukrainian government websites amid Russia tensions

https://www.reuters.com/technology/massive-cyberattack-hits-ukrainian-government-websites-amid-russia-tensions-2022-01-14/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 48 comments

The Facebook Text Prompt Zombie Land

https://www.garbageday.email/p/viral-content-optimized-to-piss-off

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 90 comments

dwm

https://dwm.suckless.org

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 94 comments

Former child prodigy Ruth Slenczynska will release a new album at the age of 97

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59986543

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 54 comments

Jailer: A tool for database subsetting, schema and data browsing

https://wisser.github.io/Jailer/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 14 comments

FFmpeg 5.0

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/release/5.0/Changelog

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 29 comments

Counterfeit KN95 respirators

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 134 comments

Jan 6 committee subpoenas Meta, Google, Reddit etc. after 'inadequate responses'

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-tech-giants-after-inadequate-response-n1287442

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 181 comments

The largest group of nesting fish ever found lives beneath Antarctic ice

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ice-fish-nest-antarctica-breeding-colony-largest-group

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Does Not Translate

https://doesnottranslate.com/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 127 comments

Rewriting my toy blockchain in Rust

https://ezzeriesa.notion.site/Rewriting-my-toy-blockchain-in-Rust-9a130f225666488491ba497004821fbb

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 21 comments

Deta Cloud – Developer-friendly cloud platform

https://www.deta.sh/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 65 comments

Grep one-liners as CI tasks

https://phili.pe/posts/using-grep-for-simple-ci-tasks/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 34 comments

Kirby’s Adventure – Nintendo Developer Interview (1993)

http://shmuplations.com/kirbysadventure/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration

https://twitter.com/BenRothenberg/status/1481882690140131328

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 331 comments

COVIDtests.gov – Free at-home Covid-19 tests

https://www.covidtests.gov/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 105 comments

FedEx: equip aircraft with countermeasure against heat-seeking missiles [pdf]

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-00505.pdf

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 94 comments

HTML is/as a programming language

https://github.com/marianoguerra/hiapl

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

Reversing an integer hash function

https://taxicat1.github.io/hash6432shift_inversion.html

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Expose server behind NAT with Tor

https://golb.hplar.ch/2019/01/expose-server-tor.html

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

Hallucinogens, alcohol and leadership strategies in the ancient Peruvian Andes

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/hallucinogens-alcohol-and-shifting-leadership-strategies-in-the-ancient-peruvian-andes/15030A62A428B74805BADF7DB4137298

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Nim Community Survey 2021 Results

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/01/14/community-survey-results-2021.html

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 43 comments

Quantum particles feel the influence of gravitational fields they never touch

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-particles-gravity-spacetime-aharonov-bohm-effect

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 60 comments

Reddit Blocks Firefox

https://twitter.com/LikelyFinn/status/1482063150916812805

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

History of Pepper

https://www.ipcnet.org/history-of-pepper/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments

https://accomplishments.app/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 80 comments

Badger leads archaeologists to hoard of Roman coins in Spain

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/badger-roman-coins-spain-scli-intl-scn/index.html

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KtWAoEy83I

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 43 comments

Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)

http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

https://landscape.cncf.io/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

Wikipedia Editors Have Voted Not to Classify NFTs as Art, Sparking Outrage

https://news.artnet.com/market/wikipedia-editors-nft-art-classification-2060018

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Emulating the Sega Genesis – Part I

https://jabberwocky.ca/posts/2022-01-emulating_the_sega_genesis_part1.html

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Space anemia

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/we-dont-know-why-but-being-in-space-causes-us-to-destroy-our-blood/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Yachts to Be Exempt from EU's Carbon Pricing Plan

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yachts-be-exempt-eus-carbon-pricing-plan

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

How to become good at system design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29931816

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments
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