HackerNews most popular stories from Jan 10, 2021 to Jan 17, 2021. In one blog post.
[0] Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d
[1] GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbnails-in-the-file-picker.html
[2] Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792719
[3] Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/
[4] Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
https://community.signalusers.org/t/reminder-please-be-nice/21217
[5] Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/europe-guarantee-right-to-repair-ifixit/
[6] Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-December/006226.html
[7] Signal is having technical difficulties
[8] 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
[9] Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25731566
[10] How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic
[11] Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1349488392732491776
[12] Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
[13] If it will matter after today, don’t talk about it in a chat room
https://critter.blog/2021/01/12/if-it-matters-after-today-stop-talking-about-it-in-a-chat-room/
[14] What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-right-on-software-engineers/
[15] We don’t need data scientists, we need data engineers
https://www.mihaileric.com/posts/we-need-data-engineers-not-data-scientists/
[16] Null
https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/null/
[17] WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
https://tedium.co/2021/01/13/linksys-wrt54g-router-history/
[18] Ubiquiti Networks Breach
https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification?e=30527b2904
[19] Algorithms for Decision Making
[20] Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55615214
[21] Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/visa-and-plaid-abandon-merger-after-antitrust-division-s-suit-block
[22] Stripe bans Trump campaign
[23] BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
[24] Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for ‘Signal’
https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348079223701794819/
[25] Aquafaba
http://aquafaba.com/index.html
[26] Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/intel-ceo-bob-swan-to-step-down-in-february.html
[27] Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol
[28] Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25789603
[29] Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/twitter-shuts-down-account-sci-hub-pirated-papers-website