top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-24

I got pwned by my cloud costs

https://www.troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwned-by-my-cloud-costs/

3 years ago

1398 upvotes – 641 comments

Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

https://twitter.com/emilyldolson/status/1485434187968614411

3 years ago

1117 upvotes – 449 comments

How big was the Tonga eruption?

https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/lgpdwjyqbvo/

3 years ago

671 upvotes – 259 comments

PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL

https://github.com/max-sixty/prql

3 years ago

650 upvotes – 292 comments

Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055222

3 years ago

619 upvotes – 440 comments

The Curse of NixOS

https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/the-curse-of-nixos

3 years ago

583 upvotes – 353 comments

We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/01/24/why-were-migrating-many-of-our-servers-from-linux-to-freebsd/

3 years ago

445 upvotes – 398 comments

GitHub Actions by Example

https://www.actionsbyexample.com/

3 years ago

436 upvotes – 71 comments

I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and it worked

https://rohitpaulk.com/articles/accidentally-used-yaml-instead-of-json

3 years ago

346 upvotes – 201 comments

Saving on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner

https://blog.fleetdm.com/saving-over-100x-on-egress-switching-from-aws-to-hetzner-169888bd6650?gi=c7e9ad0d5001

3 years ago

326 upvotes – 207 comments

LogJ4 Security Inquiry – Response Required

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/24/logj4-security-inquiry-response-required/

3 years ago

323 upvotes – 118 comments

Foobar2000

https://www.foobar2000.org

3 years ago

298 upvotes – 215 comments

A surprisingly hard CS problem: sums of square roots (2018)

https://shlegeris.com/2018/10/23/sqrt.html

3 years ago

297 upvotes – 178 comments

An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't even notice

https://kvirkvelia.com/ads-plugin-steals-30-of-your-money/

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 185 comments

Show HN: Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy

https://letsblock.it/

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 82 comments

Scientists find there are 70% fewer pollinators, due to air pollution

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/pollination-air-pollution/127964/

3 years ago

243 upvotes – 101 comments

Reverse engineering the 1988 NeXT keyboard protocol

https://journal.spencerwnelson.com/entries/nextkb.html

3 years ago

239 upvotes – 61 comments

A trick to have arbitrary infix operators in Python

http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/Infix-Operators/

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 126 comments

Introduction to Probability for Data Science

https://probability4datascience.com/

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 15 comments

VW fired senior employee after they raised cyber security concerns

https://www.ft.com/content/f5db8164-6d82-495e-a0a0-f12ae96dbd55

3 years ago

232 upvotes – 87 comments
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