top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-26

AirPods don't “just work”

https://philip.design/blog/airpods-dont-just-work/

3 years ago

927 upvotes – 936 comments

A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15

https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/LinuxDevice.html

3 years ago

813 upvotes – 392 comments

Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-investigation-shuts-down-amazon-price-fixing-program-nationwide

3 years ago

686 upvotes – 323 comments

Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30083783

3 years ago

569 upvotes – 316 comments

Google rewrites many page titles

https://zyppy.com/blog/google-title-rewrite-study/

3 years ago

547 upvotes – 249 comments

Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car

https://fullstackeconomics.com/why-agatha-christie-could-afford-a-maid-and-a-nanny-but-not-a-car/

3 years ago

491 upvotes – 484 comments

Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/two-weeks-after-his-operation-david-bennett-is-alive-his-pig-s-heart-beating-soundly-1.4783776

3 years ago

458 upvotes – 490 comments

To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/whats-left-for-the-webb-telescope-now-waggling-mirrors-turning-on-instruments/

3 years ago

429 upvotes – 213 comments

Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse

https://on.substack.com/p/society-has-a-trust-problem-more

3 years ago

413 upvotes – 576 comments

Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates

https://ntdca.com/pfizer-board-member-suggests-end-to-mask-vaccine-mandates/

3 years ago

400 upvotes – 1209 comments

Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

3 years ago

383 upvotes – 141 comments

Zim – A Desktop Wiki

https://zim-wiki.org/

3 years ago

363 upvotes – 165 comments

Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download

https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1486120144141123584

3 years ago

343 upvotes – 140 comments

Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11k per article

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00995-2

3 years ago

341 upvotes – 205 comments

In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/gang-chen-mit-china.html

3 years ago

336 upvotes – 446 comments

Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/26/spotify-neil-young-joe-rogan/

3 years ago

334 upvotes – 973 comments

The Internals of PostgreSQL

https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html

3 years ago

328 upvotes – 39 comments

UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ubs-buy-us-wealth-management-specialist-wealthfront-14-bln-2022-01-26/

3 years ago

322 upvotes – 319 comments

How the Soviets put a lander on Venus

https://asianometry.substack.com/p/how-the-soviets-put-a-lander-on-venus

3 years ago

274 upvotes – 83 comments

Guide to Using YubiKey for GPG and SSH

https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide

3 years ago

274 upvotes – 92 comments
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