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/

4 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

4 years ago

536 upvotes – 177 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/

4 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

4 years ago

451 upvotes – 949 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/

4 years ago

432 upvotes – 5 comments

Everything must be paid for twice

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

4 years ago

406 upvotes – 241 comments

Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

https://makefrontendshitagain.party/

4 years ago

397 upvotes – 169 comments

Number of people on government websites now

https://analytics.usa.gov

4 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/

4 years ago

350 upvotes – 145 comments

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

https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono

4 years ago

341 upvotes – 187 comments

Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals

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

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 306 comments

Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons

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

4 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

4 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/

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 319 comments

Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

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

4 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/

4 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

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 110 comments

DynamoDB 10 years later

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

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 216 comments

The Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up

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

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 250 comments

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

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

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 235 comments

A note for LWN subscribers

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

4 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/

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 87 comments

Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities

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

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 129 comments

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

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

4 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/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 62 comments

The long, slow process of carcinogenesis

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

4 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/

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 82 comments

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

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

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 247 comments

Bad Emacs Advice

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

4 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/

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 47 comments

Porting USB applications to the web. Part 1: libusb

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

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 124 comments

The Eyes Have It (1953)

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

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 91 comments

Five Levels of Hype

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

4 years ago

150 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

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 114 comments

SICP: JavaScript Edition available for pre-order

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

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 117 comments

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

https://old.bigcat.space/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 128 comments

A pair of dice which never roll 7 (2004)

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

4 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

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 135 comments

MicroShift

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

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 83 comments

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

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

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 54 comments

AWS Service Terms: the clause 42.10

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

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 36 comments

NordVPN has killed their warrant canary

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

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

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

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

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

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

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

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 118 comments

FlyZolo – Youngest Woman Solo

https://flyzolo.com/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

Tonga volcano eruption created ripples in Earth’s atmosphere

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

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 58 comments

An Armful of CHERIs

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

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 24 comments

How to grow monosodium glutamate (MSG) crystals

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

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

Iosevka – Versatile typeface for code, from code

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

G Suite legacy free edition is finally over

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

4 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

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 28 comments

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan shaped modern politics

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

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021

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

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 169 comments

GoJS 2.2: JavaScript and TypeScript Diagramming library

https://gojs.net/latest/index.html?v220

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6M to U.K. media groups

https://declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 75 comments

Using 4G LTE wireless modems on a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/using-4g-lte-wireless-modems-on-raspberry-pi

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 45 comments

An Entire Country Switched to Bitcoin and Now Its Economy Is Floundering

https://futurism.com/el-salvador-bitcoin-economy

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

https://artmatsak.com/post/first-three-months-with-nokia/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: AskPaulGraham

https://askpaulgraham.cyclic.app/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 71 comments

JSON Awareness in the Curl Tool

https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/JSON

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 2 comments

Daily Step Count and All-Cause Mortality: A Dose-Response Meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34417979/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

Welcome to C-- (2008)

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/index.html

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Typed Config Languages

https://kevincox.ca/2022/01/19/typed-config-languages/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 57 comments

Von Neumann, Einstein, Morgenstern, Morse and Lefschetz (1952)

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/privatdozent-photo-edition-4

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

Why introduce `std::launder` rather than have the compiler take care of it?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66176720/why-introduce-stdlaunder-rather-than-have-the-compiler-take-care-of-it

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 113 comments

Awesome Functional Programming

https://github.com/xgrommx/awesome-functional-programming

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 59 comments

Pulp: Playdate IDE Public Beta

https://play.date/pulp/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

The Ecology of Freedom (1982)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

NaturalDocs: Plain English code documentation

https://www.naturaldocs.org/getting_started/documenting_your_code/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Centers of Population

https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/centers-population.html

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 43 comments

Tackling the crisis of care for older people: lessons from India and Japan

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00074-x

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 93 comments

Motorola 68k Application Binary Interface (ABI)

https://m680x0.github.io/doc/abi.html

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Mercury – Publish Jupyter Notebook as web app by adding YAML header

https://github.com/mljar/mercury

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30005176

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: What are options to replace “G Suite legacy” when it's retired in May?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004468

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 66 comments

Best Practices for Deploying MinIO in Virtualized Environments

https://blog.min.io/best-practices-minio-virtualized/

4 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments
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