top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-01

Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter

https://alexchesser.medium.com/career-advice-nobody-gave-me-never-ignore-a-recruiter-4474eac9556

4 years ago

790 upvotes – 619 comments

Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167865

4 years ago

745 upvotes – 438 comments

Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco

https://www.getcruise.com/news/welcome-riders/

4 years ago

729 upvotes – 636 comments

Fetch API has landed into Node.js

https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ec225392675c92b102d3caad02ee3a157c9d1b7

4 years ago

679 upvotes – 206 comments

The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02027/

4 years ago

575 upvotes – 210 comments

America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/31/americas-covid-job-saving-programme-gave-most-of-its-cash-to-the-rich

4 years ago

528 upvotes – 416 comments

Framework Raises $18M Series A

https://frame.work/blog/frameworks-series-a-and-the-years-ahead

4 years ago

488 upvotes – 205 comments

Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/01/nearly-1000-mysterious-strands-revealed-in-milky-ways-center/

4 years ago

468 upvotes – 175 comments

Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recalls-nearly-54000-us-vehicles-rolling-stop-software-feature-2022-02-01/

4 years ago

445 upvotes – 1055 comments

How to Mislead with Facts

https://consilienceproject.org/how-to-mislead-with-facts/

4 years ago

422 upvotes – 277 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30162767

4 years ago

390 upvotes – 490 comments

The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding

http://mcnamarafallacy.com/

4 years ago

365 upvotes – 217 comments

MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

https://mariadb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-corporation-ab-to-become-a-publicly-traded-company-via-combination-with-angel-pond-holdings-corporation/

4 years ago

362 upvotes – 220 comments

Tell HN: Replace the X with a 5 in arXiv.org to display a paper in HTML

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30163308

4 years ago

356 upvotes – 89 comments

WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser

https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machines-in-the-browser/

4 years ago

352 upvotes – 105 comments

A toy DNS resolver

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/02/01/a-dns-resolver-in-80-lines-of-go/

4 years ago

309 upvotes – 85 comments

The web starts on page four

https://christianheilmann.com/2021/12/20/the-web-starts-on-page-four/

4 years ago

306 upvotes – 236 comments

Origin of the Bluetooth Name

https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 215 comments

You can now send replies from your Duck Addresses

https://duckduckgo.com/email/faq

4 years ago

292 upvotes – 122 comments

Koenigsegg's Tiny Electric Motor Makes 335 HP and 443 LB-FT of Torque

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a38940998/koenigsegg-quark-electric-motor/

4 years ago

277 upvotes – 338 comments

BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/31/blackberry-sells-mobile-patents-to-patent-troll-for-600m

4 years ago

273 upvotes – 135 comments

Installing Every Arch Package

https://ta180m.exozy.me/posts/installing-every-arch-package/

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164271

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 873 comments

Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS

https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 90 comments

Analysis of Magic Leap 2 at SPIE AR/VR/Mr 2022

https://kguttag.com/2022/01/31/magic-leap-2-at-spie-ar-vr-mr-2022/

4 years ago

250 upvotes – 130 comments

Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-31/europe-s-nuclear-power-plants-are-disappearing-just-as-energy-crisis-hits-hard

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 469 comments

Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016)

https://blondihacks.com/furiosas-cat-feeder/

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 61 comments

Why does my diet soda taste off? Aspartame hydrolysis

https://foodscienceinstitute.com/2022/01/31/why-does-my-diet-soda-taste-off/

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 241 comments

How to Explain an Idea

https://www.markpollard.net/how-to-explain-an-idea/

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 24 comments

Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression

https://freespeech.mit.edu/improving-mit%E2%80%99s-written-commitment-freedom-expression

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 181 comments

Code colocation is king

https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/code-colocation-is-king

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30160282

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 242 comments

Predicting the tide with an analog computer made from Lego

http://pepijndevos.nl/2022/01/30/predicting-the-tide-with-an-analog-computer-made-from-lego.html

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 22 comments

Tell HN: Unable to login to HN from Firefox, a Lovecraftian tale

https://andregarzia.com/2022/02/unable-to-login-to-hn-from-firefox-a-lovecraftian-tale.html

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 91 comments

Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/mozilla-vpn/multi-account-containers-add-on-on-mozilla-vpn/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 91 comments

C2rust: Transpile C to Rust

https://c2rust.com/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 87 comments

Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Based Cloud Services

https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/01/austrian-privacy-gdpr-google/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 181 comments

Fourth journalist killed in Mexico this year

https://www.axios.com/fourth-journalist-killed-mexico-january-2022-f71e872d-ddee-452e-9ed4-e7ba5c13a86e.html

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 43 comments

Stablecoins: Growth potential and impact on banking

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/stablecoins-growth-potential-and-impact-on-banking.htm

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 152 comments

Twitter stores original account names, dox vulnerability via Twitter Spaces

https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1488466979799265281

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164269

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 246 comments

Python Tools for the Semantic Web, an Overview

https://github.com/pysemtec/semantic-python-overview

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=d72fc76

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 126 comments

Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement

https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-and-c-interoperability-workgroup-announcement/54998

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30161578

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 182 comments

Israel rolls out laser defense system

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-speeds-roll-out-laser-based-defence-systems-bennett-says-2022-02-01/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 243 comments

Review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on Covid-19 mortality [pdf]

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 97 comments

A Pixel's Color

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/color-and-hdr/-/blob/main/doc/pixels_color.md

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

The Economics of Data Businesses

https://pivotal.substack.com/p/economics-of-data-biz

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 5 comments

Writing a printer driver in JavaScript

https://kubesail.com/blog/2022-02-01-printer-driver-in-javascript

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

A Transistor for Sound Points Toward Whole New Electronics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/topological-transistor-acoustic

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

https://www.onemodel.app

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Speeding up LXC container pull by up to 3x

https://databricks.com/blog/2022/01/26/creating-a-faster-tar-extractor.html

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

Most websites are implicitly designed with a short lifetime

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebsiteShortDesignLifetime?showcomments

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 81 comments

The Problem with C (2020)

https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/c/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 173 comments

German gov plans software company's liability for damages caused by vulns

https://www.golem.de/sonstiges/zustimmung/auswahl.html?from=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2Fnews%2Fnancy-faeser-bundesregierung-plant-hersteller-haftung-fuer-software-maengel-2202-162832.html

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 83 comments

The bureaucracy of hiking Hungary's Blue Trail

https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/13432/hungary-hiking-leisure-outdoors-bureaucracy-blue-trail

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

Vectorscan – portable fork of hyperscan – high-performance regex matching lib

https://github.com/VectorCamp/vectorscan

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30160348

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 127 comments

A web app to generate valid QR codes with readable images

https://github.com/HughChen/qr_image

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Pesto, a Digital Workplace

https://pesto.app/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 76 comments

Tell HN: Nobody at Facebook has worked on Jest for years

https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/11529

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

Trio of Rust Core Team members hit the road

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/01/rust_core_team_departures/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

How a PhD astrophysicist thinks about data

https://hex.tech/blog/friends-of-data/melodie-kao-1/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

The Road to OCIv2 Images: What's Wrong with Tar? (2019)

https://www.cyphar.com/blog/post/20190121-ociv2-images-i-tar

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Critical Samba flaw presents code execution threat

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/critical-samba-flaw-presents-code-execution-threat

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments

Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

https://www.designfax.net/cms/dfx/opens/article-view-dfx.php?nid=4&bid=1189&et=featurearticle&pn=03

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Should HN users be incentivized to use/visit newest submissions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159462

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored

https://pixel.vkoskiv.com

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Wordles of the World

https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments
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