top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-18

GPS

https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

4 years ago

Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/

4 years ago

Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

https://www.nginx.com/blog/do-svidaniya-igor-thank-you-for-nginx/

4 years ago

Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills

https://www.wired.com/story/nordictrack-ifit-treadmill-privilege-mode/

4 years ago

Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927410,00.html

4 years ago

No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption

https://noplacetohide.org.uk/

4 years ago

The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification

https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix-compliant-certified

4 years ago

Wine 7.0

https://www.winehq.org/announce/7.0

4 years ago

Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML

https://eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-copyright-court-case/

4 years ago

CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

4 years ago

OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog

https://github.com/water111/jak-project

4 years ago

A delightful quirk of relativity theory

https://twitter.com/MarkusDeserno/status/1482811504424542211

4 years ago

How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020)

https://archipro.co.nz/articles/architecture/building-without-heating-how-to-build-warm-comfortable-homes-with-virtually-no-heating-archipro

4 years ago

The Intel Split

https://stratechery.com/2022/the-intel-split/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978099

4 years ago

Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend

https://github.com/YousefED/Matrix-CRDT

4 years ago

Kakoune Code Editor

https://kakoune.org/

4 years ago

Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening (2020)

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/systemd-service-hardening.html

4 years ago

Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based liquid metals

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/ee/d1ee03283f

4 years ago

Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan

https://spacelift.io/blog/tricking-postgres-into-using-query-plan

4 years ago