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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Apple fails to overturn VirnetX patent verdict, could owe over $1.1B

    122 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  2. Doing Symbolic Math with SymPy

    122 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  3. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood in the State of New York

    122 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  4. Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trending Topic

    122 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  5. SecureDrop: Share and accept documents securely

    122 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  6. The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero (2016)

    122 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  7. Krita 4.4.2 Released

    122 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  8. Crony Beliefs

    122 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  9. Differentiable Rasterizer for Vector Graphics

    122 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  10. Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine

    122 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  11. Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

    122 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  12. How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it's a bad idea

    122 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  13. How to Build an Escrow Product

    122 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  14. Clojure, Faster

    122 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  15. A Review of the Semantic Web Field

    121 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  16. 30 years since the Human Genome Project began – what's next?

    121 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  17. What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (2007)

    121 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  18. Degoogling My Life

    121 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  19. Debian 11 “bullseye” freeze started

    121 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  20. The RustyHermit Unikernel

    121 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  21. Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement

    121 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  22. The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-Stage Major Bubble

    121 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  23. Worldsheet: Wrapping the World in a 3D Sheet, View Synthesis from a Single Image

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  24. A comprehensive list of UX design methods and deliverables

    120 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  25. Antioxidants Vitamin C and Vitamin E associated with lower risk of Parkinson’s

    120 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  26. US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs

    120 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  27. YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel

    120 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  28. Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?

    120 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  29. USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018)

    120 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  30. Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

    120 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  31. Merkaartor – a Qt-based OpenStreetMap editor

    120 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  32. Tencent is acquiring a majority stake in Klei Entertainment

    120 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  33. Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year

    120 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  34. Habitat 67, Montreal's 'failed dream'

    120 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  35. Rollerball Pens of 2021

    119 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  36. One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software

    119 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  37. Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic

    119 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  38. Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools

    119 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  39. Fastmail was down

    119 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  40. How Ray Kurzweil’s 1998 predictions about 2019 are faring

    119 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  41. Oxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, then sold them to pharma

    119 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  42. Deno in 2020

    119 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  43. Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (2019)

    119 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  44. Early clinical trial shows anti-depressant prevents hospitalization from Covid

    119 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  45. Startup Studios

    118 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  46. Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsearch lockdown

    118 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  47. Metaballs and Marching Squares

    118 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  48. Show HN: v8-riscv — Port of JavaScript V8 engine to RISC-V

    118 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  49. Ten years without Elixir

    117 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  50. Escaping the Roadmap Trap

    117 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  51. Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon

    117 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  52. Full success of first-ever cubesat mission equipped with Hall-effect propulsion

    117 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  53. Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study from 2018

    117 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  54. A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow

    117 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  55. Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte

    117 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  56. Show HN: SOUL Language 1.0 – A platform for writing and running audio code

    117 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  57. Snakes Found a New Way to Slither

    117 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  58. Blërg, a microblogging platform

    117 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  59. Clubhouse uploads all your contacts

    117 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  60. Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold

    117 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  61. Soyuz spacecraft digital clock teardown

    117 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  62. Show HN: Thumbnail.ai – Just paste a blog post link and get a thumbnail

    116 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  63. Sparse Matrices (2019)

    116 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  64. An interactive review of the Oklab perceptual color space

    116 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  65. Hack together your own e-paper smartwatch with this $50 open-source kit

    116 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  66. RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey

    116 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  67. Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix

    116 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  68. Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support

    116 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  69. Twitter improves API usage for researchers

    115 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  70. The Newton hypothesis: Is science done by a small elite?

    115 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  71. A Simple and Dynamic Method for Consistent Productivity

    115 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  72. Show HN: Experimental Semantic Code Explorer

    115 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  73. CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it

    115 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  74. Campaign Monitor has suspended President Trump

    115 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  75. Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism

    115 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  76. Show HN: A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products

    115 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  77. Baron Samedit: Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo (CVE-2021-3156)

    115 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  78. Dostoevsky in Love

    115 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  79. Wild lynx could be reintroduced into Scottish Highlands

    114 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  80. Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books

    114 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  81. Intel Talks with TSMC, Samsung to Outsource Some Chip Production

    114 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  82. The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)

    114 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  83. Show HN: 100 LOC Ruby forward proxy using only standard libraries

    114 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  84. Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem

    114 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  85. Google Sued by YouTube Rival Rumble over Search Rankings

    114 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  86. After a decade, NASA’s big rocket fails its first real test

    114 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  87. Over 100 Scientists and Doctors Call for Increased Vitamin D to Combat Covid-19

    114 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  88. AWS Boots Parler

    114 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  89. Chicago Museum – Public Access to Our Public Presence: Sharing Our API

    114 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  90. Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina

    114 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  91. Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector

    114 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  92. Analyzing and breaking an externally encrypted HDD

    114 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  93. Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?

    114 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  94. A 10B Pixel Scan of Vermeer’s Masterpiece

    113 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  95. Europe: close to power grid blackout (49,74Hz power line frequency)

    113 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  96. An overview of the decentralized social ecosystem [pdf]

    113 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  97. An Oral History of Disney's 'The Emperor's New Groove'

    113 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  98. Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself

    113 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  99. Ask HN: How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?

    113 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  100. Woo for Its Own Sake

    113 points • comment • jan 09, 2021