top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-20

Roblox October Outage Postmortem

https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/

3 years ago

687 upvotes – 310 comments

The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options

https://curl.se/mail/archive-2022-01/0043.html

3 years ago

536 upvotes – 177 comments

Gitlab Handbook's HN Page

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relations/developer-evangelism/hacker-news/

3 years ago

523 upvotes – 191 comments

UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/no_place_hide_campaign_anti_e2ee_ukgov/

3 years ago

518 upvotes – 108 comments

No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/is-a-glass-of-wine-a-day-good-for-me-heart-federation-says-no

3 years ago

451 upvotes – 948 comments

No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

https://world-heart-federation.org/news/no-amount-of-alcohol-is-good-for-the-heart-says-world-heart-federation/

3 years ago

432 upvotes – 5 comments

Everything must be paid for twice

https://www.raptitude.com/2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-for-twice/

3 years ago

405 upvotes – 241 comments

Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

https://makefrontendshitagain.party/

3 years ago

397 upvotes – 169 comments

Number of people on government websites now

https://analytics.usa.gov

3 years ago

362 upvotes – 139 comments

Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-camera-randomly-changes-some-qr-code-urls-on-android-12/

3 years ago

350 upvotes – 145 comments

JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono

3 years ago

341 upvotes – 188 comments

Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals

https://crypto.com/product-news/crypto-com-security-report-next-steps

3 years ago

327 upvotes – 306 comments

Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/472

3 years ago

319 upvotes – 293 comments

Police in tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’

https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html

3 years ago

299 upvotes – 394 comments

American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other

https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-and-the-points-guy-are-suing-each-other/

3 years ago

299 upvotes – 319 comments

Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o95

3 years ago

296 upvotes – 291 comments

70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/remote-work-y-combinator/

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 322 comments

Linux kernel heap buffer overflow in fs_context.c since version 5.1

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/54

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 110 comments

DynamoDB 10 years later

https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/amazons-dynamodb-10-years-later

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 216 comments

Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o102

3 years ago

220 upvotes – 235 comments

The Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-electric-grid-failure-warm-up/

3 years ago

220 upvotes – 250 comments

A note for LWN subscribers

https://lwn.net/Articles/881439/

3 years ago

219 upvotes – 51 comments

Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation (2017)

https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/patents-are-out-of-control-and-theyre-hurting-innovation/

3 years ago

202 upvotes – 87 comments

Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities

https://drewdevault.com/2022/01/18/Pine64s-weird-priorities.html

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 129 comments

Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure

https://www.macworld.com/article/606152/imessage-google-green-bubbles-sms-rcs.html

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 461 comments

The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021)

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 77 comments

NBA Metaverse Partner Terminates Relationship, Threatens Reporters Covering Deal

https://defector.com/metaverse-company-blames-unlikely-third-party-for-recent-misfortunes-following-termination-of-76ers-partnership/

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 62 comments

The long, slow process of carcinogenesis

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/long-slow-process-carcinogenesis

3 years ago

172 upvotes – 48 comments

Arm releases experimental CHERI-enabled Morello board

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2022/01/20/arm-releases-experimental-cheri-enabled-morello-board-as-part-of-187m-ukri-digital-security-by-design-programme/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 82 comments

Ben Stiller’s New Series Is a Sci-Fi Take on Office Space

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/ben-stiller-severance.html

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 110 comments

I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/im-a-public-school-teacher-the-kids

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 247 comments

Bad Emacs Advice

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/bad-emacs-advice

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 145 comments

Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich

https://hackaday.com/2022/01/19/make-your-python-cli-tools-pop-with-rich/

3 years ago

158 upvotes – 47 comments

The Eyes Have It (1953)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31516/31516-h/31516-h.htm

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 91 comments

Porting USB applications to the web. Part 1: libusb

https://web.dev/porting-libusb-to-webusb/

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 123 comments

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3 years ago

153 upvotes – 0 comments

When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018)

https://www.history.com/news/cigarette-ads-doctors-smoking-endorsement

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 191 comments

Five Levels of Hype

https://johannesklingebiel.de/2022/01/12/hype-as-a-scale.html

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 101 comments

Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech platforms

https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-panel-approves-antitrust-bill-restricting-big-tech-platforms-11642701487

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 114 comments

SICP: JavaScript Edition available for pre-order

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-computer-programs-1

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 117 comments

A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

https://old.bigcat.space/

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 128 comments

I'm keeping a job search diary on my blog

https://letmypeoplecode.com/notes-from-the-job-hunt-day-1/

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

A pair of dice which never roll 7 (2004)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/dice/

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 53 comments

My out-of-body experience in a sensory deprivation tank

https://nautil.us/issue/112/inspiration/my-out_of_body-experience

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 135 comments

Before wave of train thefts, Union Pacific laid off some of its police force

https://www.lataco.com/union-pacific-theft-police-laid-off/

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 194 comments

MicroShift

https://next.redhat.com/2022/01/19/introducing-microshift/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 82 comments

SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/suse_liberty_linux/

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 55 comments

AWS Service Terms: the clause 42.10

https://aws.amazon.com/aispl/service-terms/

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 36 comments

Totenpass is a permanent digital storage drive made of solid gold

https://www.totenpass.com/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 147 comments

RTM-Z80: Retro Tiny Multitasking System for Z80 Based Computers

https://github.com/Laci1953/RTM-Z80

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

NordVPN has killed their warrant canary

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nordvpn-actually-we-do-comply-with-law-enforcement-data-requests

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

How will the correction in the stock market impact startup fundraising?

https://tomtunguz.com/multiples-2022-01-19/

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 118 comments

FlyZolo – Youngest Woman Solo

https://flyzolo.com/

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

Tonga volcano eruption created ripples in Earth’s atmosphere

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00127-1

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 58 comments

An Armful of CHERIs

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/01/20/an_armful_of_cheris/

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 24 comments

How to grow monosodium glutamate (MSG) crystals

https://crystalverse.com/msg-crystals/

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

Iosevka – Versatile typeface for code, from code

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

G Suite legacy free edition is finally over

https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217?hl=en

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 11 comments

More people died of superbacteria in 2019 than HIV or malaria, study suggests

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/19/health/bacterial-antimicrobial-resistance/index.html

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 28 comments

Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021

https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/music-subscriber-market-shares-q2-2021

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 169 comments

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan shaped modern politics

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2022/01/how-thomas-hobbes-shapes-modern-politics

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments
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