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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

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

    147 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  2. Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust

    147 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  3. Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss

    147 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  4. What Is a Gamma Squeeze in the Context of Stock Trading?

    147 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  5. Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

    146 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  6. Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk

    146 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  7. Our Dumb Security Questionnaire

    146 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  8. Shell buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network

    146 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  9. ACLU Statement Opposing the 'Confronting the Threat of Domestic Terrorism Act' (2019)

    146 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  10. SARS-CoV-2 induced remission of Hodgkin lymphoma

    146 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  11. Python's Type Checking Renaissance

    146 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  12. What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die

    146 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  13. For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness

    145 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  14. New quantum algorithms finally crack nonlinear equations

    145 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  15. Unlocking LUKS2 Volumes with TPM2, FIDO2, PKCS#11 Security HW on Systemd 248

    145 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  16. Show HN: A high-performance TensorFlow library for quantitative finance

    145 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  17. Open Sourcing Tilt Brush

    145 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  18. The parenting style that creates leaders

    145 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  19. Apply to YC on Your Schedule

    145 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  20. One Year of Excalidraw

    145 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  21. What is good and bad about the F-35 cockpit

    145 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  22. At-home test for colon cancer is as reliable as traditional screening: experts

    145 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  23. AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat

    144 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  24. The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets

    144 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  25. Robinhood blocks purchases of Gamespot, AMC

    144 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  26. Show HN: Leet Resumes – a free technical resume-writing service

    144 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  27. How to teach technical concepts with cartoons

    144 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  28. Things I Didn't Learn in 2020

    144 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  29. In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

    143 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  30. Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android

    143 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  31. Ask HN: Why aren't one-time sign in links more popular for authentication?

    143 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  32. Mozilla announces Open Web Docs

    143 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  33. Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020

    143 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  34. LibreSSL Languishes on Linux

    143 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  35. California’s container-ship traffic jam

    143 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  36. Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?

    143 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  37. Quick Overview of Julia language [pdf]

    143 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  38. Storming Reddit's Moat

    143 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  39. The Reddit GME short squeeze game plan (143 days old)

    143 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  40. How do I safely store my files?

    143 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  41. Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks

    143 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  42. Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020 (2020)

    142 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  43. Internet outages hit the East Coast, causing issues for Verizon, Zoom, etc.

    142 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  44. 90% of Everything Is Crap

    142 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  45. ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy

    142 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  46. Why can't I write code inside my browser?

    142 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  47. Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use

    142 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  48. Rebuilding the spellchecker

    142 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  49. Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (2012)

    141 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  50. The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans

    141 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  51. Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]

    141 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  52. I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors (2011) [video]

    141 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  53. Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles

    141 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  54. Trader Joe's, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines

    141 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  55. Clearview AI being used to identify Capitol rioters

    141 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  56. How I was failing to find time for life while working remotely

    141 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  57. Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data

    141 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  58. AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested

    140 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  59. Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems

    140 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  60. Sci-Founder Fellowship: Helping scientists to start companies

    140 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  61. Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

    140 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  62. Ask HN: Is frugality underrated in startups?

    139 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  63. Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut

    139 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  64. 1938 vs. 1940 (2018)

    139 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  65. The Earth has been spinning faster lately

    139 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  66. A few HiDPI tricks for Linux

    138 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  67. Parler Databases Disclosed

    138 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  68. Hotwire: A new old way to build web apps

    138 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  69. How to Start a Biotech Company on a Budget

    138 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  70. Designing Engineering Organizations

    138 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  71. Software Verification and Analysis Using Z3

    138 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  72. Is this plane landing or departing? (2017)

    138 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  73. Peter M. Neumann has died

    138 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  74. PBRT in Rust

    138 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  75. Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters

    138 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  76. A framework that makes things worse on purpose

    137 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  77. Leaked memos Amazon warn 'be vigilant' due to threats to blow up data centers

    137 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  78. Greens: why we eat the leaves that we do (2013)

    137 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  79. Ory Hydra 1.9: Open-source Golang OAuth2 provider

    137 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  80. Best Paper Awards in Computer Science in the Past 25 Years (1996-2020)

    137 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  81. DrScheme in Space

    136 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  82. The Wire in HD (2014)

    136 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  83. Command Path Security in Go

    136 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  84. DNS Key Value Storage

    136 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  85. Show HN: A cool Drag-and-Drop implementation for Svelte

    136 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  86. Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal

    136 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  87. Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians arrested

    136 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  88. Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black (2019)

    135 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  89. Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)

    135 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  90. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)

    135 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  91. 81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends

    135 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  92. Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History

    135 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  93. Why Combustion Is Exothermic

    135 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  94. Archiving the Capitol Hill Riots

    135 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  95. Emacs Symbolic Integration

    134 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  96. Parable of Alien Chess

    134 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  97. Golang's network stack attempts to parse HTTP headers as UTF-8

    134 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  98. Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in northeastern Yakutia

    134 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  99. Nissan code leaked after bitbucket repo set-up with defaults admin/admin

    134 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  100. Eagle Cash

    134 points • comment • jan 01, 2021