top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-22

I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house

https://twitter.com/LukeBerndt/status/1484916000139194375

4 years ago

On Leaving Facebook

https://frantic.im/leaving-facebook/

4 years ago

WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-90-wordpress-themes-plugins-backdoored-in-supply-chain-attack/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What's Up with Google?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30031672

4 years ago

How E Ink developed full-color e-paper

https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-e-ink-developed-full-color-epaper

4 years ago

Amazon activist’s firing deemed illegal by labor board officials

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-21/amazon-activist-s-firing-deemed-illegal-by-labor-board-officials

4 years ago

Why skyscrapers are so short

https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-skyscrapers-are-so-short/

4 years ago

Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb43x/shell-quest-carbon-capture-plant-alberta

4 years ago

Many clothing donations end up in African landfills

https://expmag.com/2022/01/what-fast-fashion-costs-the-world/

4 years ago

Ant mill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

4 years ago

Linux on a 486SX

https://ocawesome101.github.io/486-linux.html

4 years ago

Myths about cooking steak that need to go away (2013)

https://www.seriouseats.com/old-wives-tales-about-cooking-steak

4 years ago

ImageGlass added malware with this commit

https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/commit/97c716cf1ad23535b7b6840ba189270e440e742e

4 years ago

The case for a modern language

https://jeang3nie.codeberg.page/case-for-modern-language-pt1/

4 years ago

The control group is out of control (2014)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/

4 years ago

Bell Labs Org Chart (1980)

https://neil.computer/notes/bell-labs-org-chart/

4 years ago

Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/ireland-set-rapidly-drop-almost-all-covid-19-restrictions-2022-01-21/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Is it just me or do 99% of SWE jobs offers seem completely pointless?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30038145

4 years ago

‘Farms are failing’ as fertilizer prices drive up cost of food

https://www.wsj.com/articles/farms-are-failing-as-fertilizer-prices-drive-up-cost-of-food-11642770182

4 years ago

Zombocom is a well of deep wisdom (2021)

https://expmag.com/2021/09/the-internets-most-useless-website-is-a-well-of-deep-wisdom/

4 years ago