Hacker News

1.		How AltaVista, our first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss (tedium.co)
		109 points by chris_f 2 hours ago \| hide \| 67 comments
2.		'New York Times' Retracts Core of Hit Podcast Series 'Caliphate' on Isis (npr.org)
		33 points by RickJWagner 42 minutes ago \| hide \| 4 comments
3.		Great American Rail Trail - A new way to travel across the US (bbc.com)
		138 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
4.		Facebook: Free as in Bullshit (daringfireball.net)
		217 points by throw0101a 2 hours ago \| hide \| 80 comments
5.		'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (macleans.ca)
		45 points by well_i_never 2 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
6.		Stanford Apologizes After Vaccine Allocation Leaves Out Medical Residents (npr.org)
		41 points by potench 1 hour ago \| hide \| 29 comments
7.		Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack (microsoft.com)
		37 points by thejj100100 2 hours ago \| hide \| 21 comments
8.		How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser (shopify.engineering)
		143 points by oedmarap 6 hours ago \| hide \| 82 comments
9.		California plan for a wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days/year in the state (wsj.com)
		124 points by Bostonian 2 hours ago \| hide \| 228 comments
10.		Why ‘Useless’ Surgery Is Still Popular (2016) (nytimes.com)
		8 points by aminozuur 48 minutes ago \| hide \| 8 comments
11.		Top Retractions of 2020 (the-scientist.com)
		52 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago \| hide \| 32 comments
12.		The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org)
		114 points by ingve 6 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
13.		Commoditize your complement (2019) (gwern.net)
		81 points by harperlee 7 hours ago \| hide \| 36 comments
14.		Information Management in Times of Crisis [pdf] (fdic.gov)
		5 points by luu 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
15.		AssemblyScript: A Language Made for Web Assembly (assemblyscript.org)
		57 points by washclothjr 5 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
16.		Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring for Tech Support Eng and Software Eng (lever.co)
		4 hours ago \| hide
17.		Show HN: Argos Translate – Neural machine translation made easy with Python (github.com/argosopentech)
		24 points by pjfin123 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
18.		Notebook Is A Better Readme (ellx.app)
		62 points by matyunya 6 hours ago \| hide \| 45 comments
19.		Extremist Programming (2012) (ezyang.com)
		39 points by joubert 3 hours ago \| hide \| 24 comments
20.		As the world quieted down in 2020, Raspberry Shakes listened (arstechnica.com)
		45 points by feross 7 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
21.		Solving Algorithmic Problems in Python with Pytest (2019) (adamj.eu)
		55 points by BerislavLopac 6 hours ago \| hide \| 30 comments
22.		Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf] (microsoft.com)
		125 points by Bootvis 12 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
23.		The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads (theintercept.com)
		13 points by sudoaza 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
24.		Why Content Is King (divinations.substack.com)
		55 points by nbashaw 8 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
25.		When DevSecOps goes wrong: a short lesson from Huawei's source code (r2c.dev)
		17 points by DyslexicAtheist 4 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
26.		Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles (theguardian.com)
		74 points by helsinkiandrew 12 hours ago \| hide \| 89 comments
27.		Peter Saville and New Order’s Colour Code (2011) (wharferj.wordpress.com)
		28 points by elvis70 6 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
28.		Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 (cloud.google.com)
		661 points by saifulwebid 19 hours ago \| hide \| 184 comments
29.		Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes (bbc.com)
		192 points by aluket 6 hours ago \| hide \| 77 comments
30.		L-System (wikipedia.org)
		99 points by lemonspat 13 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
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