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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

    2682 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  2. WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

    2220 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  3. Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store

    2005 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  4. Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

    1981 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  5. U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

    1952 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  6. Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

    1906 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  7. Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend

    1766 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  8. GitHub is fully available in Iran

    1721 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  9. Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

    1695 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  10. A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

    1621 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  11. Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

    1562 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  12. My Experience at Apple

    1523 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  13. GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

    1491 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  14. A half-hour to learn Rust

    1421 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  15. Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing

    1410 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  16. The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

    1409 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  17. TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

    1393 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  18. Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living

    1335 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  19. California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement

    1316 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  20. No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees

    1301 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  21. AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

    1287 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  22. Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering

    1274 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  23. What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry

    1259 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  24. DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

    1248 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  25. Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time

    1232 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  26. IPFS Support in Brave

    1163 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  27. Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice

    1143 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  28. CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

    1126 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  29. Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

    1125 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  30. GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

    1043 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  31. Software engineering topics I changed my mind on

    1040 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  32. The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

    1038 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  33. How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

    1029 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  34. Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

    1028 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  35. Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

    1028 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  36. ECC matters

    1027 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  37. Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair

    997 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  38. Slack is down

    983 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  39. Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

    955 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  40. Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

    929 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  41. IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed

    928 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  42. Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store

    927 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  43. Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

    917 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  44. We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood

    915 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  45. Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”

    915 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  46. Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)

    904 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  47. Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago

    897 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  48. Signal is having technical difficulties

    896 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  49. Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy

    884 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  50. Brad Cox has died

    880 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  51. I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?

    878 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  52. I no longer trust The Great Suspender

    874 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  53. 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

    870 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  54. Still alive

    843 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  55. Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’

    831 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  56. GitHub Should Start an App Store

    811 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  57. USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment

    803 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  58. Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

    799 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  59. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

    798 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  60. Rust for Windows

    781 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  61. What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not

    781 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  62. Signal WhatsApp Chats Import

    780 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  63. Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys

    772 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  64. Software effort estimation is mostly fake research

    759 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  65. Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

    757 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  66. Pip has dropped support for Python 2

    755 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  67. EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology

    748 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  68. If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room

    748 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  69. New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

    743 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  70. Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera

    740 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  71. What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting

    727 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  72. Wikipedia is 20

    720 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  73. GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

    715 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  74. How to overcome Phone Addiction

    710 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  75. Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult

    710 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  76. Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen

    707 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  77. We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers

    704 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  78. Null

    701 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  79. Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

    700 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  80. Open Source Smartwatch

    693 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  81. NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework

    691 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  82. Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells

    689 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  83. WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

    684 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  84. EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals

    683 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  85. School or Prison

    680 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  86. Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

    679 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  87. Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks

    678 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  88. Algorithms for Decision Making

    678 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  89. I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

    675 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  90. Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?

    672 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  91. WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source

    671 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  92. PeerTube v3

    667 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  93. Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

    663 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  94. HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know

    663 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  95. The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours

    660 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  96. Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time

    659 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  97. Open-source, not open-contribution

    650 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  98. Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project

    649 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  99. Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support

    645 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  100. My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR

    644 points • comment • jan 27, 2021