top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-02-18

Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19&p=1

4 years ago

Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-busts-myths-about-how-humans-burn-calories-and-why

4 years ago

Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

https://medium.com/@amy_riveter/the-united-states-of-amazon-the-day-amazon-sent-the-fbi-to-take-my-familys-bank-accounts-b5172b4ddda3

4 years ago

Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets

https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core

4 years ago

Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads

https://twitter.com/louisnicholls_/status/1487179285177815047

4 years ago

Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

https://twitter.com/seanhecht/status/1493432613628825600

4 years ago

Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17270/going-from-there-to-here-and-beyond

4 years ago

Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/18/22940517/windows-11-pro-require-microsoft-account-internet-connection

4 years ago

Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/covid-testing-firm-selling-swabs-carrying-customers-dna-to-third-parties-301236/

4 years ago

Facebook Shadow Profiles [pdf]

https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2022/working-paper/facebook-shadow-profiles

4 years ago

Nix: An idea whose time has come

https://revelry.co/insights/development/nix-time/

4 years ago

Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.php

4 years ago

Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers

https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs

4 years ago

An example of why RSS is useful and important

https://tech.chrishardie.com/2022/rss-useful-important/

4 years ago

The Dubai Debt Trap

https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/12/15/the-dubai-debt-trap

4 years ago

Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/dad-takes-down-towns-internet-by-mistake-to-get-his-kids-offline/

4 years ago

Plausibly deniable encryption (2020)

https://spacetime.dev/plausibly-deniable-encryption

4 years ago

The Day AppGet Died (2020)

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

4 years ago

LXC vs. Docker

https://earthly.dev/blog/lxc-vs-docker/

4 years ago

From macOS to FreeBSD

https://www.boucek.me/blog/from-mac-to-freebsd/

4 years ago