top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-01-19

How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/

2 years ago

1028 upvotes – 620 comments

Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-gorgeous-photos-capture-life-inside-drop-seawater-180981297/

2 years ago

890 upvotes – 195 comments

What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)

http://milk.com/wall-o-shame/security_clearance.html

2 years ago

864 upvotes – 545 comments

Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34441697

2 years ago

657 upvotes – 337 comments

Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439828

2 years ago

619 upvotes – 317 comments

Amazon Closing AmazonSmile

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programs-with-greater-impact

2 years ago

517 upvotes – 557 comments

A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016)

https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster

2 years ago

514 upvotes – 106 comments

Twitterrific has been discontinued

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

2 years ago

505 upvotes – 367 comments

Pandoc 3.0

https://pandoc.org/releases.html

2 years ago

504 upvotes – 72 comments

Stock market charts you never saw (2021)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3050736

2 years ago

456 upvotes – 268 comments

Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34436606

2 years ago

445 upvotes – 367 comments

Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/19/amazon-ends-charity-donation-program-amazonsmile/

2 years ago

407 upvotes – 2 comments

Lisa Source Code Release

https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-lisa-apples-most-influential-failure/

2 years ago

387 upvotes – 113 comments

ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model

https://github.com/BlinkDL/ChatRWKV

2 years ago

300 upvotes – 132 comments

How to destroy a certificate authority in one month

https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/868933-how-to-destroy-a-cer

2 years ago

276 upvotes – 151 comments

Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-19/beyond-meat-bynd-impossible-foods-burgers-are-just-another-food-fad

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 789 comments

Show HN: A version control system based on rsync

https://jamsync.dev/about

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 118 comments

Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil

https://blest.co.jp/eng/service/be-h/

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 275 comments

Show HN: Retool Mobile

https://retool.com/products/mobile

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 78 comments

Facebook Container Extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 104 comments
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