top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-25

Bolt founder on Stripe/YC

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Systemd by Example

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

4 years ago

I’m porting the TypeScript type checker tsc to Go

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

4 years ago

Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

Hacking the Apple Webcam (Again)

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes

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

4 years ago

Highlights from Git 2.35

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

4 years ago

WebAssembly techniques to speed up matrix multiplication

https://jott.live/markdown/mm_wasm

4 years ago

Store SQLite in Cloudflare Durable Objects

https://ma.rkusa.st/store-sqlite-in-cloudflare-durable-objects

4 years ago

Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?

https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-emoji-show-in-red/

4 years ago

Moving Google Contacts and Calendar to NextCloud

https://selfhostedheaven.com/posts/20220116-moving-google-contacts-and-calendar-to-nextcloud/

4 years ago

An Experience with Modafinil

https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=100310

4 years ago

Deno in 2021

https://deno.com/blog/deno-in-2021

4 years ago

Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos

https://positive.security/blog/video-depixelation

4 years ago

Gemini is a little gem

https://andregarzia.com/2022/01/gemini-is-a-little-gem.html

4 years ago

Scary fraud ensues when ID theft and usury collide

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/scary-fraud-ensues-when-id-theft-usury-collide/

4 years ago

Why our team cancelled our move to microservices

https://steven-lemon182.medium.com/why-our-team-cancelled-our-move-to-microservices-8fd87898d952

4 years ago

Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors?

https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/are-popular-toxicity-models-simply-profanity-detectors

4 years ago

Ask HN: Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30073066

4 years ago

What's new in Ruby 3.1?

https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-3-1/

4 years ago

AlphaFold-Powered Drug Discovery of a Novel CDK20 Inhibitor

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09647

4 years ago

Clearview AI challenges B.C. privacy watchdog order

https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/must-reads/us-mass-surveillance-company-challenges-bc-privacy-watchdog-order-4988007

4 years ago

Chesterton’s Fence (2020)

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

4 years ago

The history of the end of poverty has just begun

https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-poverty-has-just-begun

4 years ago

Gemini is Solutionism

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/gemini-is-solutionism-at-its-worst/

4 years ago

Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode

https://www.righto.com/2022/01/ibm360model50.html

4 years ago

About Citation Files on GitHub

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files

4 years ago

Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/01/22/economists-are-revising-their-views-on-robots-and-jobs

4 years ago

Request your personal information

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GXPU3YPMBZQRWZK2

4 years ago

Researchers Build AI That Builds AI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-build-ai-that-builds-ai-20220125/

4 years ago

Julia Macros for Beginners

https://jkrumbiegel.com/pages/2021-06-07-macros-for-beginners/

4 years ago

Papers We Love

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love

4 years ago

Flameshot v11.0.0

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/tag/v11.0.0

4 years ago

Thin PostgreSQL Clones

https://github.com/postgres-ai/database-lab-engine

4 years ago

Show HN: SPyQL – SQL with Python in the middle

https://github.com/dcmoura/spyql

4 years ago

Ascension’s response to Thedacare’s motion for restraining order [pdf]

https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/ascensionbriefjan24.pdf

4 years ago

Trailing slashes on URLs: Contentious or settled?

https://www.zachleat.com/web/trailing-slash/

4 years ago

US nuclear regulator: 2,868 employees; 47 yrs in operation; 0 license approvals

https://twitter.com/MarceloPLima/status/1480737105781346306

4 years ago

Building a production database in ten years or less

https://www.edgedb.com/blog/building-a-production-database-in-ten-years-or-less

4 years ago

Rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral

https://casdinteret.com/2022/01/rebuilding-notre-dame-painstaking-battle-between-new-and-old/

4 years ago

Lipids can modulate RNA activity, a possible clue to origin of life

https://tu-dresden.de/cmcb/bcube/news-termine/news/eine-unerwartete-anziehung-von-nukleinsaeuren-und-fett

4 years ago

25% of U.S. adults are not active enough to protect their health

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0120-inactivity-map.html

4 years ago

Launch HN: Castled Data (YC W22) – Open-Source Reverse ETL

https://github.com/castledio/castled

4 years ago

Israel’s ‘Facebook law’ plans to control all Palestinian content online

http://www.ramzybaroud.net/how-israels-facebook-law-plans-to-control-all-palestinian-content-online/

4 years ago

How I write and curate the cron.weekly newsletter (2020)

https://ma.ttias.be/how-to-cron-weekly-newsletter/

4 years ago

Apple's AirTag uncovers a secret German intelligence agency

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/25/apples-airtag-uncovers-a-secret-german-intelligence-agency

4 years ago

Node-Red

https://github.com/naimo84/awesome-nodered

4 years ago

Firefox about:config Menu Shortcut

https://github.com/garywill/aboutconfig-menu

4 years ago

My Manager Made Me Cry at My Desk (and Other Stories)

https://flameeyes.blog/2022/01/25/that-time-my-manager-made-me-cry-at-my-desk-and-other-stories/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30075048

4 years ago

Does the software industry learn?

https://www.tomrenner.com/blog/2022-01-24/does-the-software-industry-learn-

4 years ago

Get to Know the New Topics API for Privacy Sandbox

https://blog.google/products/chrome/get-know-new-topics-api-privacy-sandbox/

4 years ago

The Writing on the Wall: Sci-Fi’s Empty Techno-Optimism

https://bloodknife.com/inadequacy-of-inspirational-scifi/

4 years ago