top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-01-31

Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials

https://www.them.us/story/hiv-aids-vaccine-human-trials-moderna

3 years ago

1049 upvotes – 449 comments

The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

https://www.askamanager.org/2022/01/the-new-hire-who-showed-up-is-not-the-same-person-we-interviewed.html

3 years ago

1018 upvotes – 600 comments

The New York Times buys Wordle

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html

3 years ago

902 upvotes – 582 comments

Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web

https://imlefthanded.com/2022/adblocking-people-and-non-adblocking-people-experience-a-totally-different-web/

3 years ago

705 upvotes – 805 comments

Red Light Green Light

https://jamessevedge.com/articles/red-light-green-light/

3 years ago

694 upvotes – 158 comments

Please make a dumb car

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/29/please-make-a-dumb-car/

3 years ago

633 upvotes – 655 comments

My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi

https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/1487947074901463040

3 years ago

559 upvotes – 581 comments

Decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex for sale

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2432-Fair-Rd-Abilene-KS-67410/113177058_zpid/

3 years ago

350 upvotes – 209 comments

Pay attention to WebAssembly

https://harshal.sheth.io/2022/01/31/webassembly.html

3 years ago

344 upvotes – 244 comments

Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results

https://twitter.com/krebs_adrian/status/1488173888068542466

3 years ago

333 upvotes – 162 comments

Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/sony-to-buy-video-game-maker-bungie-in-3point6-billion-deal.html

3 years ago

309 upvotes – 259 comments

The GNU Name System

https://lsd.gnunet.org/lsd0001/

3 years ago

307 upvotes – 124 comments

I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS

https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-discovered-thousands-of-open-databases-on-aws-764729aa7f32?gi=ba781482d685

3 years ago

283 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers

https://magistrate.khanna.law/

3 years ago

279 upvotes – 101 comments

Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/23478/examples-of-common-false-beliefs-in-mathematics

3 years ago

245 upvotes – 173 comments

Zero-copy network transmission with io_uring (2021)

https://lwn.net/Articles/879724/

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 51 comments

Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system

https://github.com/jscd/Boyfriend-Alert

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 173 comments

I reversed a Node.js malware and found the author

https://medium.com/@devops-guy/how-i-reversed-a-nodejs-malware-and-found-the-author-7dd9531b389f

3 years ago

239 upvotes – 71 comments

Pyflow – Visual and modular block programming in Python

https://github.com/Bycelium/PyFlow

3 years ago

229 upvotes – 90 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones

https://www.benkuhn.net/11/

3 years ago

227 upvotes – 190 comments
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