top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-29

Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website

https://gdcolon.com/🗿

3 years ago

896 upvotes – 204 comments

Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969

3 years ago

725 upvotes – 271 comments

Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable

https://pypi.org/project/black/

3 years ago

500 upvotes – 288 comments

People don't work as much as they say

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/people-dont-work-as-much-as-you-think

3 years ago

492 upvotes – 305 comments

Phone is still the best way to order pizza

https://dan.bulwinkle.net/blog/phone-is-still-the-best-way-to-order-pizza/

3 years ago

352 upvotes – 438 comments

Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130535

3 years ago

331 upvotes – 106 comments

Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/apple-iphone-nso/

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 268 comments

War Is a Racket (1933)

https://man.fas.org/smedley.htm

3 years ago

287 upvotes – 217 comments

Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-advancing-privacy-innovation/

3 years ago

283 upvotes – 144 comments

Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of Service

https://www.jumboframeinternet.com/post/1/

3 years ago

274 upvotes – 114 comments

Reasons for servers to support IPv6

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/01/29/reasons-for-servers-to-support-ipv6/

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 310 comments

How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)

https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/12250/how-freedos-grew-up-and-became-a-modern-dos/

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 145 comments

Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer

https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard/issues/333

3 years ago

228 upvotes – 74 comments

USB Type-C finally shows up in power tools

https://www.xda-developers.com/usb-type-c-power-tools/

3 years ago

226 upvotes – 151 comments

What is the inverse of a circle?

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/inverse-of-a-circle

3 years ago

224 upvotes – 45 comments

Dennis Ritchie Home Page (2006)

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 79 comments

Request bodies in GET requests

https://evertpot.com/get-request-bodies/

3 years ago

219 upvotes – 151 comments

Treasury reconsiders IRS’s use of ID.me face recognition for web

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-28/treasury-weighing-id-me-alternatives-over-privacy-concerns

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 124 comments

Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/28/idc_chip_shortages/

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 176 comments

How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts

https://simonhearne.com/2021/layout-shifts-webfonts/

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 121 comments
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