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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research

    161 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  2. Games on GitHub – A list of popular/awesome video games hosted on GitHub

    161 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  3. WhatsApp and the Domestication of Users

    161 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  4. Rendering Moana with Swift

    161 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  5. Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift

    161 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  6. Why it’s usually crazier than you expect

    161 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  7. Party Like It's 1925 on Public Domain Day

    160 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  8. Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway

    160 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  9. Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax

    160 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  10. The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution

    160 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  11. Verified Programming in F*: A Tutorial

    159 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  12. I wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one

    159 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  13. Toolz: A functional standard library for Python

    159 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  14. Czech trainers teach dogs to sniff out Covid: 95-percent success rate

    159 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  15. A 432-year-old manual on social distancing

    159 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  16. Lispsyntax.jl: A Clojure-like Lisp syntax for julia

    159 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  17. A speaker placement tip that speaker manuals get wrong (2017)

    159 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  18. Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)

    159 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  19. Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned

    159 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  20. How does Clang 2.7 hold up in 2021?

    159 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  21. Working from Bed

    159 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  22. Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages

    158 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  23. Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

    158 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  24. Learning to Suffer

    158 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  25. Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above a laptop display

    158 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  26. Bumble S-1

    158 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  27. My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

    158 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  28. State-backed manipulation rampant on social media

    158 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  29. Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic particles from water

    157 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  30. Update on an Employee Matter

    157 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  31. Future Plans for Autotools

    157 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  32. The Lakota: A Human Story

    157 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  33. Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO

    157 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  34. We can do better than Signal

    157 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  35. Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room

    156 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  36. Enter Sandbox: Google is building an internet without cookies

    156 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  37. 2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing

    156 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  38. Why Apple Chose Clang (2008)

    156 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  39. Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

    156 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  40. Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry

    156 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  41. BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet

    156 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  42. FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing

    156 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  43. The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor

    156 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  44. Decoding the Peloton

    156 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  45. Shuffle — An online editor for busy developers

    156 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  46. GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces

    156 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  47. FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report

    156 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  48. The Future of Libjpeg-Turbo

    156 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  49. State of JavaScript 2020

    156 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  50. Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest

    156 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  51. Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory

    155 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  52. Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu

    155 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  53. Human-like neural network chess engine trained on lichess games

    155 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  54. Noise Planets

    155 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  55. System Design Interview book review

    154 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  56. Ask HN: Is HN slow today?

    154 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  57. Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf]

    154 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  58. Setting up personal OKR (objectives and key-results)

    153 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  59. Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)

    153 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  60. Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop

    153 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  61. Mealworms can compost styrofoam

    153 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  62. JackTrip WebRTC: high quality, uncompressed, low-delay audio streaming

    152 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  63. Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

    152 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  64. Graphics Programming Black Book (1997)

    152 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  65. The World's current and next Innovations depend on a single country, Taiwan

    152 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  66. Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in stores

    152 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  67. To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (2018)

    151 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  68. macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 adds full custom kernel support

    151 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  69. Data fetching on the web still sucks

    151 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  70. How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer

    151 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  71. An Uncommon Cold

    151 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  72. B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

    151 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  73. Colorize

    151 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  74. Department of Defense and Department of Commerce to Develop Open 5G Systems

    151 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  75. Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage

    151 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  76. 2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition

    150 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  77. Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland

    150 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  78. WhatsApp displays 404 not found when I send a link to Signal

    150 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  79. Ultraleap – tactile sensations projected onto your hands

    150 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  80. Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013)

    150 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  81. Uganda's internet Shutdown

    150 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  82. Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production

    150 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  83. Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste

    150 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  84. 10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)

    150 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  85. How you can get banned from Facebook permanently

    149 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  86. UPS sells trucking unit

    149 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  87. 'Too negative ': Welsh seaside images (1979)

    149 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  88. Encrypted Client Hello: The Future of ESNI in Firefox

    149 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  89. I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms for a research study

    149 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  90. XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought

    149 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  91. Opensource your abandonware (2010)

    149 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  92. Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost

    149 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  93. Citadel allegedly reloaded Shorts on GME before Robinhood put restrictions

    149 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  94. 50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon

    149 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  95. They spent 12 years solving a puzzle. It yielded the first Covid-19 vaccines

    148 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  96. The Perfect Media Server

    148 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  97. Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds

    148 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  98. How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay

    148 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  99. Food Grammar: Unspoken rules of cuisine

    147 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  100. Update: Prosecutors asked that Rebekah Jones be banned from the internet

    147 points • comment • jan 18, 2021