2022-01-11 front | Hacker News

Stories from January 11, 2022

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone” (joshwcomeau.com)
		1075 points by joshwcomeau on Jan 11, 2022 \| 141 comments
2.		U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient (apnews.com)
		804 points by danso on Jan 10, 2022 \| 701 comments
3.		Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018) (boredpanda.com)
		566 points by jakobdabo on Jan 9, 2022 \| 203 comments
4.		Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite (ansiwave.net)
		461 points by sekao on Jan 11, 2022 \| 213 comments
5.		Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022 (surgehq.ai)
		470 points by echen on Jan 11, 2022 \| 414 comments
6.		Show HN: I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon (armbrustusa.com)
		594 points by lloydarmbrust on Jan 10, 2022 \| 237 comments
7.		PCI-Sig Releases 256GBps PCIe 6.0 X16 Spec (servethehome.com)
		209 points by ksec on Jan 11, 2022 \| 173 comments
8.		The WebSocket Handbook (ably.com)
		303 points by AlexTDiaconu on Jan 11, 2022 \| 119 comments
9.		Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc. (multiprocess.io)
		309 points by eatonphil on Jan 11, 2022 \| 49 comments
10.		You can build a skyscraper anywhere in Davis, California (burke.dev)
		263 points by kevinburke on Jan 10, 2022 \| 179 comments
11.		Embrace slow productivity (newyorker.com)
		314 points by lxm on Jan 11, 2022 \| 203 comments
12.		Nothing like this will be built again (2002) (antipope.org)
		411 points by arethuza on Jan 11, 2022 \| 260 comments
13.		Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
		140 points by attasi on Jan 11, 2022 \| 105 comments
14.		The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom (jim-nielsen.com)
		432 points by ksec on Jan 11, 2022 \| 298 comments
15.		Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution (quantamagazine.org)
		231 points by nsoonhui on Jan 11, 2022 \| 99 comments
16.		Firefox 96 (mozilla.org)
		508 points by NiekvdMaas on Jan 11, 2022 \| 368 comments
17.		Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue (blog.mozilla.org)
		177 points by TangerineDream on Jan 11, 2022 \| 60 comments
18.		Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018) (maizure.org)
		157 points by firefly284 on Jan 10, 2022 \| 7 comments
19.		“Modern” C++ Lamentations (2018) (aras-p.info)
		146 points by 0xedb on Jan 11, 2022 \| 194 comments
20.		What Defcon Sounds Like: Skyking Emergency Action Messages (2016) (specialcollections.radio)
		131 points by riffic on Jan 11, 2022 \| 64 comments
21.		Jevons Paradox (wikipedia.org)
		113 points by rememberlenny on Jan 11, 2022 \| 90 comments
22.		That famous Pixar lunch of 1994 (2014) (blcklst.com)
		148 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 10, 2022 \| 59 comments
23.		Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza (historytoday.com)
		152 points by diodorus on Jan 11, 2022 \| 84 comments
24.		Indian threat actor Patchwork APT caught in its own web (malwarebytes.com)
		140 points by akshaybhalotia on Jan 11, 2022 \| 27 comments
25.		Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy (maroonmacro.substack.com)
		115 points by cinquemb on Jan 11, 2022 \| 107 comments
26.		LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage (alternativeto.net)
		383 points by tytso on Jan 11, 2022 \| 217 comments
27.		Gunicorn (gunicorn.org)
		208 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 10, 2022 \| 171 comments
28.		How we built a VS Code Extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript (osohq.com)
		167 points by thunderbong on Jan 11, 2022 \| 19 comments
29.		Window.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming (github.com/windowjs)
		163 points by EntICOnc on Jan 10, 2022 \| 49 comments
30.		Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots (airlive.net)
		296 points by aloisdg on Jan 11, 2022 \| 215 comments
		More

HN For You