top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-26

AirPods don't “just work”

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

4 years ago

927 upvotes – 937 comments

A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15

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

4 years ago

813 upvotes – 391 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

4 years ago

686 upvotes – 323 comments

Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?

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

4 years ago

569 upvotes – 316 comments

Google rewrites many page titles

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

4 years ago

547 upvotes – 250 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/

4 years ago

491 upvotes – 484 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/

4 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

4 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/

4 years ago

400 upvotes – 1209 comments

Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

4 years ago

383 upvotes – 140 comments

Zim – A Desktop Wiki

https://zim-wiki.org/

4 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

4 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

4 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

4 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/

4 years ago

334 upvotes – 973 comments

The Internals of PostgreSQL

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

4 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/

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 319 comments

Guide to Using YubiKey for GPG and SSH

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

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 92 comments

How the Soviets put a lander on Venus

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

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 82 comments

Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)

https://fly.io/blog/run-ordinary-rails-apps-globally/

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 113 comments

The case against masks at school

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/kids-masks-schools-weak-science/621133/

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 1052 comments

Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30082234

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 168 comments

Stop Brainstorming

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/stop-brainstorming/

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 95 comments

Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far

https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases

https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/01/26/electric-tables/

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 37 comments

The window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1485971823288328193

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 311 comments

About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.2

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213054

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 107 comments

Vim Galore: everything you need to know about Vim

https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 109 comments

Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/01/26/facebooks-libra-is-still-dead-diem-to-be-sold-off-for-spare-parts/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 148 comments

Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec

https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 41 comments

Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-019-0055-z

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 105 comments

Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Health-Care/Myopia-correcting-smart-glasses-from-Japan-to-be-sold-across-Asia

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 161 comments

Issue with TLS-ALPN-01 Validation Method

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2022-01-25-issue-with-tls-alpn-01-validation-method/170450

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 89 comments

13 years sailing around the world

http://blog.mailasail.com/wildfox

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 162 comments

A prisoner who worked out how to input Chinese characters into a machine

https://www.wired.com/story/kingdom-of-characters-jing-tsu-china-language-information/

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 72 comments

Rancher Desktop 1.0

https://www.suse.com/c/rancher_blog/rancher-desktop-1-0-0-has-arrived/

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 64 comments

Windows Subsystem for Android

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 120 comments

Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/25/malls-adding-apartments-to-offset-dwindling-numbers-of-shoppers/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 179 comments

How Claude Shannon helped kick-start machine learning

https://spectrum.ieee.org/claude-shannon-information-theory

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 31 comments

An embeddable Prolog scripting language for Go

https://github.com/ichiban/prolog

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Worst practices are viral for the wrong reasons (2014)

https://www.haskellforall.com/2014/04/worst-practices-are-viral-for-wrong.html

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Infracost (YC W21) – Open-source cloud cost policies

https://github.com/infracost/infracost

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 28 comments

Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04281-w

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

Quebec bans unvaccinated from buying groceries at Walmart, Costco

https://tnc.news/2022/01/24/quebec-bans-unvaccinated-from-buying-groceries-at-walmart-costco/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 163 comments

Show HN: A simple Wordle clone in 60 lines, using Hyperscript

https://arhamjain.com/hyperwordle/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 49 comments

Panwriter – Distraction-free Markdown editor with pandoc integration

https://panwriter.com/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (2014)

https://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 70 comments

Court rejects $1.2B EU antitrust fine against Intel

https://www.reuters.com/technology/court-rejects-12-bln-eu-antitrust-fine-against-intel-2022-01-26/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 123 comments

North Korean internet downed by suspected cyber attacks

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorean-internet-downed-by-suspected-cyber-attacks-researchers-2022-01-26/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 65 comments

Why don't we use the math we learn in school?

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/01/24/why-dont-we-use-the-math-we-learn-in-school/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 150 comments

Xcode Through the Years

https://martiancraft.com/blog/2022/01/xcode-through-the-years/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 77 comments

Vintage radio broadcasting equipment

https://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge [pdf]

https://www.nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Simple Zero-Knowledge Proof Treasure Hunt Game

https://zk-treasure-hunt.glitch.me/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Privacy concerns are breaking the Census

https://www.slowboring.com/p/census-data

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

No, Ethereum Name Service is still a clown show

https://yanmaani.github.io/no-ethereum-name-service-is-still-a-clown-show/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 79 comments

YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/youtube-permanently-bans-fox-news-host-dan-bongino-2022-01-26/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: MockRocket – 3D app mockups and animations in the browser

https://mockrocket.io

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Open Sourcing the App Engine Standard Java Runtime

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/open-sourcing-app-engine-standard-java-runtime

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Turing Pi Trouble with PayPal

http://r.m.turingpi.com/mk/cl/f/SZzw-XuTuCG97cXCEr272YUNFvSE7EzBrX9767KDtWBeGCU9y6WiSybKiEa55s2o7HcwNzAu33JAkMrxayvLyxGEkjGJTSwGlz13hDSZHG5aada-YHjvP7lEpzPRIXPF4l4ibA4r9zR83oZ1H3CzX3jf6PjOwYgx1AHhD7Y2vYP8tzPUbuNKB9IE_vs7vwZrqd_pesR634uATmHTN6OihNFo4vldA0NCbs__7ET3

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

US Special Operations Command picks Anduril to lead counter-drone in $1B deal

https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2022/01/24/us-special-operations-command-picks-anduril-to-lead-counter-drone-integration-work-in-1b-deal/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 97 comments

Ask HN: Do you consider Hacker News to be a positive/useful use of your time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30082377

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 101 comments

Abstractions, Their Algorithms, and Their Compilers

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/2/258231-abstractions-their-algorithms-and-their-compilers/fulltext

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 1 comments

Topology and Computability

https://billwadge.com/2022/01/25/topology-and-computability/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 2 comments

Nasm – A cross-platform x86 assembler with an Intel-like syntax

https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments
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