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Hacker News (09 Jan 2021)

  1. Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants

    638 points • 229 comments • jan 09, 2021

  2. When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux

    489 points • 175 comments • jan 09, 2021

  3. You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA

    425 points • 284 comments • jan 09, 2021

  4. Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

    390 points • 736 comments • jan 09, 2021

  5. Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)

    378 points • 201 comments • jan 09, 2021

  6. AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86

    364 points • 146 comments • jan 09, 2021

  7. Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England

    341 points • 113 comments • jan 09, 2021

  8. Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store

    336 points • 687 comments • jan 09, 2021

  9. Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)

    327 points • 264 comments • jan 09, 2021

  10. Signal gaining popularity in India after WhatsApp policy changes

    313 points • 110 comments • jan 09, 2021