top 50% 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

Letter from Union Pacific to LA District Attorney re: train thefts, safety [pdf]

https://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/@uprr/@newsinfo/documents/up_pdf_nativedocs/pdf_up_la_district_atty_211221.pdf

4 years ago

TypeScript Features to Avoid

https://www.executeprogram.com/blog/typescript-features-to-avoid

4 years ago

Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)

https://special.usps.com/testkits

4 years ago

PostgreSQL query performance bottlenecks

https://pawelurbanek.com/postgresql-query-bottleneck

4 years ago

How A.I. Conquered Poker

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/magazine/ai-technology-poker.html

4 years ago

You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline

https://twitter.com/DoesItPlay1/status/1483126058325090304

4 years ago

I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR

https://www.wired.com/story/hours-working-vr-tips/

4 years ago

It’s great to be a consultant

https://zwischenzugs.com/2022/01/17/why-its-great-to-be-a-consultant/

4 years ago

Geometry from Another Universe

https://www.falsifian.org/blog/2022/01/17/s3d/

4 years ago

Farming Co. Says John Deere Is Monopolizing Repair Market

https://www.law360.com/articles/1454988/farming-co-says-john-deere-is-monopolizing-repair-market

4 years ago

Myths about Social Media

https://twitter.com/M_B_Petersen/status/1483457679800651787

4 years ago

GNU Emacs Telegram Client

https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el

4 years ago

How do you visualize code?

https://alexanderell.is/posts/visualizing-code/

4 years ago

U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-oks-45-commercial-airplane-fleet-operations-after-5g-deployment-2022-01-16/

4 years ago

Automation is reaching more companies

https://www.wired.com/story/rent-robot-worker-less-paying-human/

4 years ago

Ireland to launch basic income program for artists

https://www.artforum.com/news/ireland-to-launch-universal-basic-income-program-for-artists-87612

4 years ago

Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report $600 in transactions to IRS

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/venmo-paypal-zelle-must-report-600-transactions-irs-rcna11260

4 years ago

Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (2015)

https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/d-learn-workings-git/

4 years ago

A CIA website was out of date about who runs the UK

https://www.opensanctions.org/articles/2022-01-18-peppercat/

4 years ago

Zooming in on Zero-Click Exploits

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/01/zooming-in-on-zero-click-exploits.html

4 years ago

Switzerland’s astonishingly polite armed conflict of 1847 (2019)

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/02/27/charm-offensive-switzerlands-polite-war-of-1847/

4 years ago

US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)

https://web.archive.org/web/20111102045835/http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2083906/claims-com-net-websites-jurisdiction

4 years ago

Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

https://life-cal.com

4 years ago

The PinePhone Pro brings upgraded hardware to the Linux phone

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/the-pinephone-pro-brings-upgraded-hardware-to-the-linux-phone/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Does anyone know of the whereabouts of the source code of FlexOS/386?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983702

4 years ago

Around 1860, Britain was gripped with a craze for “cartes de visite”

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220114-the-surprising-ways-that-victorians-flirted

4 years ago

Activision Blizzard fires 3 dozen people in sexual harassment probe

https://www.reuters.com/business/activision-blizzard-fires-more-people-sexual-harassment-probe-report-says-2022-01-17/

4 years ago

Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (1990)

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9

4 years ago

The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/the-rise-of-ai-fighter-pilots

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983542

4 years ago

The Mesa Programming Language (1979) [pdf]

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-79-3_Mesa_Language_Manual_Version_5.0.pdf

4 years ago

Discovering Paxlovid

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/discovering-paxlovid

4 years ago

The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial

https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-big-business-of-uyghur-genocide-denial/

4 years ago

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec

4 years ago

No Hello (2013)

https://www.nohello.com/

4 years ago

Show HN: Stop Putting AWS Credentials in GitHub Secrets

https://github.com/saml-to/assume-aws-role-action

4 years ago

ID systems analysed: e-Estonia (X-Road)

https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/4737/id-systems-analysed-e-estonia-x-road

4 years ago

The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.786220/full

4 years ago