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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
2682 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
2220 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
2005 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
1981 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
1952 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
1906 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
1766 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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GitHub is fully available in Iran
1721 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
1695 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize
1621 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
1562 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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My Experience at Apple
1523 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
1491 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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A half-hour to learn Rust
1421 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
1410 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
1409 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
1393 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
1335 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
1316 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees
1301 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
1287 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
1274 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
1259 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
1248 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
1232 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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IPFS Support in Brave
1163 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
1143 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs
1126 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
1125 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
1043 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
1040 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
1038 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
1029 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
1028 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
1028 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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ECC matters
1027 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
997 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Slack is down
983 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
955 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
929 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed
928 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
927 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
917 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
915 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
915 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
904 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
897 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Signal is having technical difficulties
896 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy
884 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Brad Cox has died
880 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
878 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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I no longer trust The Great Suspender
874 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
870 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Still alive
843 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
831 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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GitHub Should Start an App Store
811 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment
803 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
799 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
798 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Rust for Windows
781 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not
781 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Signal WhatsApp Chats Import
780 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys
772 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Software effort estimation is mostly fake research
759 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
757 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Pip has dropped support for Python 2
755 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
748 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room
748 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects
743 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera
740 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
727 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Wikipedia is 20
720 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free
715 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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How to overcome Phone Addiction
710 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
710 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
707 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers
704 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Null
701 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
700 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Open Source Smartwatch
693 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework
691 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells
689 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
684 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals
683 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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School or Prison
680 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
679 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks
678 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Algorithms for Decision Making
678 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
675 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
672 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
671 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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PeerTube v3
667 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
663 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
663 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
660 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
659 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Open-source, not open-contribution
650 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
649 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
645 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR
644 points • comment • jan 27, 2021