top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-25

Bolt founder on Stripe/YC

https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784823641755648

3 years ago

1165 upvotes – 314 comments

Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxpx/google-is-forcing-me-to-dump-a-perfectly-good-phone

3 years ago

855 upvotes – 676 comments

Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-25/nvidia-is-said-to-quietly-prepare-to-abandon-takeover-of-arm

3 years ago

784 upvotes – 454 comments

James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1075437484/james-webb-telescope-final-destination

3 years ago

754 upvotes – 342 comments

The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/old-internet-coming-back.html

3 years ago

622 upvotes – 390 comments

Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others

https://thezbook.com/the-biggest-mistake-i-see-engineers-make/

3 years ago

591 upvotes – 385 comments

717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch

https://hyper-resolution.org/view.html?pointer=0.111,0.001&i=Rijksmuseum/SK-C-5/SK-C-5_VIS_5-um_2020-09-08

3 years ago

565 upvotes – 134 comments

We purchased a machine from China and it came with malware preinstalled

https://www.rmcybernetics.com/general/zhengbang-zb3245tss-pick-place-machine

3 years ago

543 upvotes – 316 comments

Systemd by Example

https://systemd-by-example.com/

3 years ago

496 upvotes – 69 comments

I’m porting the TypeScript type checker tsc to Go

https://kdy1.dev/posts/2022/1/tsc-go

3 years ago

450 upvotes – 241 comments

Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/1/14784140/nintendo-switch-cartridges-taste-awful-psa

3 years ago

446 upvotes – 271 comments

The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/01/25/1075115539/the-great-resignation-more-like-the-great-renegotiation

3 years ago

396 upvotes – 497 comments

Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

https://www.military.com/history/militarized-dolphins-protect-almost-quarter-of-us-nuclear-stockpile.html

3 years ago

393 upvotes – 213 comments

Hacking the Apple Webcam (Again)

https://www.ryanpickren.com/safari-uxss

3 years ago

371 upvotes – 73 comments

Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead poisoning

https://ourworldindata.org/reducing-lead-poisoning

3 years ago

366 upvotes – 219 comments

Nova by Panic

https://nova.app

3 years ago

356 upvotes – 257 comments

Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/80

3 years ago

268 upvotes – 166 comments

A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes

https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/how-paul-giamatti-broke-the-california

3 years ago

267 upvotes – 233 comments

Highlights from Git 2.35

https://github.blog/2022-01-24-highlights-from-git-2-35/

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 88 comments

WebAssembly techniques to speed up matrix multiplication

https://jott.live/markdown/mm_wasm

3 years ago

251 upvotes – 128 comments
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