top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-21

Open-Sourcing our Firmware

https://frame.work/blog/open-sourcing-our-firmware

4 years ago

1168 upvotes – 368 comments

FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign

4 years ago

939 upvotes – 390 comments

Danish government makes its new economic model open source

https://github.com/DREAM-DK/MAKRO

4 years ago

842 upvotes – 152 comments

Free Postgres databases for small projects

https://fly.io/blog/free-postgres/

4 years ago

841 upvotes – 223 comments

My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

https://github.com/khuedoan/homelab

4 years ago

716 upvotes – 222 comments

Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-plans-new-chip-manufacturing-site-ohio-report-2022-01-21/

4 years ago

708 upvotes – 603 comments

Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review

https://www.addictionjournal.org/posts/cannabis-use-produces-persistent-cognitive-impairments

4 years ago

546 upvotes – 535 comments

Thich Nhat Hanh has died

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/thich-nhat-hanh-dies/

4 years ago

519 upvotes – 126 comments

The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward

https://www.pcworld.com/article/549576/the-windows-11-taskbar-is-an-annoying-step-backward.html

4 years ago

497 upvotes – 629 comments

Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30027925

4 years ago

332 upvotes – 350 comments

WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?

https://wingolog.org/archives/2021/12/13/webassembly-the-new-kubernetes

4 years ago

328 upvotes – 356 comments

How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR

https://www.scrapingbee.com/journey-to-one-million-arr/

4 years ago

316 upvotes – 148 comments

International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Problems

https://ioling.org/problems/samples/

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 97 comments

Sir David Cox has died

https://rss.org.uk/news-publication/news-publications/2022/general-news/sir-david-cox-1924-2022/

4 years ago

292 upvotes – 31 comments

Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/palomar-survey-instrument-analyzes-impact-of-starlink-satellites

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 373 comments

Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30021404

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 318 comments

Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, written in Rust and GTK4

https://github.com/flxzt/rnote

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 79 comments

Off the Grid

http://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 118 comments

The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the-hot-water-bottle.html

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 381 comments

Audio Sparklines

https://melatonin.dev/blog/audio-sparklines/

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 32 comments

Atlas – Terraform but for Database Migrations

https://atlasgo.io/

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 90 comments

Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now

https://jasonstanford.substack.com/p/he-thought-tending-bar-sounded-like

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 439 comments

I built my own Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) hardware dev kit from scratch

https://nestenius.se/2022/01/18/how-i-built-my-own-sega-mega-drive-hardware-dev-kit-from-scratch/

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 38 comments

DIY Raspberry Pi Spectrometer Guide

https://github.com/leswright1977/PySpectrometer

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 28 comments

How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition

https://write.as/n5r0vjolumdnuk2k.md

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 216 comments

ISO C became unusable for operating systems development

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07845

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 475 comments

Alphabet's Calico has begun trials on a molecule for neurodegenerative diseases

https://aspenbraininstitute.org/blog-posts/the-miracle-molecule-that-could-treat-brain-injuries-and-boost-your-fading-memory

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 108 comments

The tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost by Black Sparrow Press (2013)

https://mjpbooks.com/blog/the-senseless-tragic-rape-of-charles-bukowskis-ghost-by-john-martins-black-sparrow-press/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 101 comments

Soviet Military Maps of North America and UK

https://www.sovietmaps.com/node/2

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 154 comments

Briar Desktop for Linux

https://briarproject.org/download-briar-desktop/

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 84 comments

French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021)

https://www.science.org/content/article/france-issues-moratorium-prion-research-after-fatal-brain-disease-strikes-two-lab

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 186 comments

Twitter shakes up its security team

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/technology/twitter-security-team.html

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 110 comments

Ten years against division of labor in software

http://akkartik.name/post/division-of-labor

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 181 comments

Hubble captures a black hole that is forming stars, not absorbing them

https://petapixel.com/2022/01/19/hubble-captures-a-black-hole-that-is-forming-stars-not-absorbing-them/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 45 comments

Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-gsuite-free-legacy-class-action-investigation/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 138 comments

Binance kept weak money-laundering checks even as it promised tougher compliance

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/finance-crypto-currency-binance/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 99 comments

StackOverflow: Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story by April 2022

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-jobs-developer-story

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 79 comments

Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty

https://www.economist.com/international/2022/01/22/divorce-in-the-rich-world-is-getting-less-nasty

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 394 comments

The revenge of the hot water bottle

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the-hot-water-bottle.html

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 4 comments

Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime

https://converged.yt/primel/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 127 comments

Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication through induction of host ER stress

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi6110

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 105 comments

Common Lisp ASDF maintainer considers resignation

https://mailman.common-lisp.net/pipermail/asdf-devel/2022-January/006680.html

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 66 comments

A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/a-3bn-bet-on-finding-the-fountain-of-youth/21807244

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 202 comments

NoJS – Creating a calculator with only HTML and CSS

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2022/01/20/noJS-making-a-calculator-in-pure-css-html.html

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 42 comments

G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?passive=1209600&continue=https://apps.google.com/supportwidget/articlehome?hl%3Den%26article_url%3Dhttps://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl%253Den%26product_context%3D2855120%26product_name%3DUnuFlow%26trigger_context%3Da&followup=https://apps.google.com/supportwidget/articlehome?hl%3Den%26article_url%3Dhttps://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl%253Den%26product_context%3D2855120%26product_name%3DUnuFlow%26trigger_context%3Da&hl=en

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 157 comments

I cannot begin to tell you how proficient I am in Microsoft Word

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-cannot-begin-to-tell-you-how-proficient-i-am-in-microsoft-word

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 155 comments

A better way to display museum hours (2017)

https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/museumhours.html

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 26 comments

EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-bans-use-of-sensitive-personal-data-for-targeted-ads/

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 146 comments

IP Addressing in 2021

https://blog.apnic.net/2022/01/19/ip-addressing-in-2021/

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 115 comments

Google Creates Blockchain Unit, Hires New ‘Founding Leader’

https://blockworks.co/google-creates-blockchain-unit-hires-new-founding-leader/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 113 comments

How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is

https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/how-bad-is-qwerty-really-a-review-of-the-literature-such-as-it-is/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 142 comments

AWS is not a dumb pipe

https://matt-rickard.com/aws-is-not-a-dumb-pipe/

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 87 comments

My Elm Experience

https://underjord.io/my-elm-experience.html

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 97 comments

Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out Of Hell' singer, has died at 74

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/entertainment/meat-loaf-obit/index.html

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

Crystal Installs OpenBSD on the PinePhone

https://www.exoticsilicon.com/crystal/pinephone_openbsd

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 58 comments

Yemen has lost internet after Saudi-led airstrikes

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074659054/yemen-has-lost-internet-after-saudi-led-airstrikes

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 74 comments

Notepad++ v8.2 Released

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22330/notepad-v8-2-release

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 117 comments

Two Phase Commit

https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/two-phase-commit.html

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

https://freecivweb.com

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 31 comments

Leadership as a Type B Introvert (2018)

https://www.upbuild.io/blog/leadership-as-a-type-b-introvert/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered via the Server Auction

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022698

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 139 comments

Lies that powered the invention of Pong

https://spectrum.ieee.org/pong

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Meta AI: Fist high-performance self-supervised algorithm for multiple modalities

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/the-first-high-performance-self-supervised-algorithm-that-works-for-speech-vision-and-text/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

Focalboard open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Framework Laptop Embedded Controller (EC)

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

Security vulnerability in Rust standard library

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/20/cve-2022-21658.html

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 41 comments

How to make it easier to build semiconductor factories

https://semiliterate.substack.com/p/no-permits-no-fabs

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

Solving Wordle in Python

https://deepnote.com/@the21st/Wordle-Jan-18-2022-qsrZVCpiQACl-eli3JZFWg

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 2 comments
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