top 50% 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/

4 years ago

1398 upvotes – 641 comments

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

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

4 years ago

1117 upvotes – 449 comments

How big was the Tonga eruption?

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

4 years ago

671 upvotes – 259 comments

PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL

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

4 years ago

650 upvotes – 292 comments

Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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

4 years ago

619 upvotes – 440 comments

The Curse of NixOS

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

4 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/

4 years ago

445 upvotes – 398 comments

GitHub Actions by Example

https://www.actionsbyexample.com/

4 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

4 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

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 207 comments

LogJ4 Security Inquiry – Response Required

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

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 118 comments

Foobar2000

https://www.foobar2000.org

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 215 comments

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

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

4 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/

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 185 comments

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

https://letsblock.it/

4 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/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 101 comments

Reverse engineering the 1988 NeXT keyboard protocol

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

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 61 comments

A trick to have arbitrary infix operators in Python

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

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 128 comments

Introduction to Probability for Data Science

https://probability4datascience.com/

4 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

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 86 comments

Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listen

https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/web3-crypto-skepticism/

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 414 comments

You Don't Need the Cloud

https://80daystartup.com/day-10/you-dont-need-the-cloud/

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 177 comments

Buy things, not experiences

https://write.as/harold-lee/theres-a-phrase-going-around-that-you-should-buy-experiences-not-things

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 194 comments

Scam Alert: Fake DMCA Takedown for Link Insertion

https://blog.fosketts.net/2022/01/24/scam-alert-fake-dmca-takedown-for-link-insertion/

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 71 comments

I was deceived about Covid vaccine safety

https://joomi.substack.com/p/i-was-deceived-about-covid-vaccine

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 290 comments

Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive)

https://skins.webamp.org

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 46 comments

$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/bitcoin-ether-fall-as-130-billion-wiped-off-cryptocurrency-markets-.html

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 372 comments

Malloy – A Better SQL, from Looker

https://github.com/looker-open-source/malloy

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 99 comments

Meta Unveils New AI Supercomputer

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-unveils-new-ai-supercomputer-11643043601

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 192 comments

Mozilla Rally

https://rally.mozilla.org/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 213 comments

FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and lifecycle (2012)

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-January/037294.html

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 177 comments

Meditation and the Unconscious

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/meditation-and-the-unconscious-buddhism-neuroscience-conversation/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 116 comments

The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation

https://www.fossi-foundation.org/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 12 comments

Silicon die teardown: a look inside an early 555 timer chip

https://www.righto.com/2022/01/silicon-die-teardown-look-inside-early.html

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 42 comments

Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags”

https://eleanorkonik.com/yet-another-hot-take-on-folders-versus-tags/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 174 comments

Webb’s Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/21/webbs-journey-to-l2-is-nearly-complete/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 33 comments

Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer

https://deskreen.com/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 67 comments

Amazon suggests user delete tweet showing how much data they collect

https://twitter.com/amazonhelp/status/1485629674264969216

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 42 comments

Const all the things?

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/01/23/dont-const-all-the-things/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 158 comments

DC Circuit Water Analogy (1998)

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/watcir.html

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 74 comments

Myths about FreeBSD

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Roger Ebert: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mighty-morphin-power-rangers-the-movie-1995

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone gone from software to physical engineering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30060667

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 97 comments

In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jersey-kale

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What technology is “cutting edge” in 2022?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053761

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 121 comments

Cloudflare.com was redirecting to Clickfunnels.com

https://cloudflare.com/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Who has changed careers from engineer to patent agent/lawyer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30058057

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 65 comments

Cheri C/C++ Programming Guide [pdf]

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-947.pdf

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments

The James Webb space telescope has arrived at L2

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?units=metric

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

The Power of Python Descriptors

https://piccolo-orm.com/blog/the-power-of-python-descriptors/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

The AI Research SuperCluster

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-rsc/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 50 comments

XSuspender Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications

https://kernc.github.io/xsuspender/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 71 comments

Get ahead by not shooting yourself in the foot

https://piszek.com/2022/01/24/stop-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 61 comments

Bitcoin value tumbles almost 50% since record November

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/investing/bitcoin-ethereum-cryptocurrency-price-record-high/index.html

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 140 comments

How to make Lisp go faster than C (2006) [pdf]

http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/issues_v32/issue_4/IJCS_32_4_19.pdf

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

A German school forked FluffyChat, a Matrix messenger

https://hermannschule.de/hermannpost.html

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Kazushige Goto, a patent clerk who became one of the best assembly optimisers

https://twitter.com/tef_ebooks/status/1484083444627947522

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

U.S. weighs sending 5k troops to Eastern Europe to counter Russia

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/23/1075240355/u-s-troops-ukraine-russia-crisis

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 322 comments

Solving Open Source Supply Chain Security for the PHP Ecosystem

https://paragonie.com/blog/2022/01/solving-open-source-supply-chain-security-for-php-ecosystem

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

Don't let computers generate your advertising or things like this will happen

https://www.amazon.com/Circular-Washable-Nursery-Pentagram-27-6x27-6IN/dp/B096KG31V5

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 46 comments

Removing Banding in Linelight

https://pixelmager.github.io/linelight/banding.html

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

In praise of the vertically sliced St. Louis bagel (2019)

https://www.seriouseats.com/in-praise-of-st-louis-bagels

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Internet disrupted in Burkina Faso amid military uprising

https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-burkina-faso-amid-reports-of-coup-attempt-oy9Y9Qy3

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 65 comments

SPyQL – SQL with Python in the Middle

https://github.com/dcmoura/spyql

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 1 comments

Why FreeBSD Desktop and My Linux Rant

https://randomnixfix.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/why-the-freebsd-desktop-and-my-linux-rant/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

How I built a date picker

https://decoding.io/2022/01/how-i-built-a-date-picker/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 56 comments

El Salvador Is Now over 31% Down on Its Bitcoin Bet

https://cryptobriefing.com/el-salvador-is-now-over-31-down-on-its-bitcoin-bet/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 65 comments

A New Approach to Extracting Information from Large Ensembles of Sensors

https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2022/062916

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

California school kids must get Covid vaccine under new bill

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-24/new-vaccine-legislation-california-schoolchildren-mandate

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: HomeownerLog – For tracking the tasks you complete around the house

https://homeownerlog.com/

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Burnt Out Amazon Employees Are Embracing the Great Resignation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-01-24/amazon-employees-are-burned-out-and-leaving-their-jobs

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments
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