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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Google reportedly scraps thousands of negative Robinhood reviews

    103 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  2. Knuth-Morris-Pratt string-searching algorithm: DFA-less version

    103 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  3. Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets

    103 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  4. How Homogeneous Is Japan?

    102 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  5. Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (2008)

    102 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  6. Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear

    102 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  7. Lua and Python (2020)

    102 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  8. Tracking down a segfault that suddenly started happening

    102 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  9. Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes

    102 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  10. Mammalian Aggression

    102 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  11. MDMA Solo (2020) [pdf]

    102 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  12. Show HN: A dead code killer for Erlang

    102 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  13. Codebreaking: A Practical Guide

    102 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  14. US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals

    102 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  15. Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software

    102 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  16. C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books

    101 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  17. How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop

    101 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  18. Is my vintage equipment trying to send me a message? [video]

    101 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  19. Locust – Open-source Load Testing Tool

    101 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  20. France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside

    101 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  21. 'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build

    101 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  22. The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned (2014)

    101 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  23. How To Get Your First 1,000 Users (2011)

    101 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  24. Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics

    101 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  25. VM Manager: Operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease

    100 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  26. A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI

    100 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  27. Ajit Pai Is Officially Gone

    100 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  28. Python – Create large ZIP archives without memory inflation

    99 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  29. What Writers and Editors Do

    99 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  30. Reed-Solomon error recovery in RAID-6

    99 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  31. The Pyra Handheld Linux PC is Shipping

    99 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  32. GNU Radio 3.9

    99 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  33. FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests

    99 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  34. A worry junior engineers frequently have is that they ask too many questions

    99 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  35. Somerset cattle grid mistaken for wall by car sensors

    99 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  36. Basic Scripting with Awk and Gnuplot

    99 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  37. US Navy – Tic Tac UFO – High frequency gravitational wave generator

    99 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  38. The Now Habit

    99 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  39. Evidence for entropy maximisation in human free choice behaviour

    98 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  40. Research team demonstrates world’s fastest optical neuromorphic processor

    98 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  41. Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?

    98 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  42. Lack of Vitamin D is associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality

    98 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  43. IBM paperweight teardown: Reverse-engineering 1970s memory chips

    98 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  44. What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs

    98 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  45. I Replaced Baremetrics and ChartMogul with Rake

    98 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  46. I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (2020)

    98 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  47. Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization

    98 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  48. Identical twins are not so identical, study suggests

    97 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  49. KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital

    97 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  50. Access to vocational education can boost income over the long term

    97 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  51. The SOC2 Starting Seven (2020)

    97 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  52. ChrysaLisp

    97 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  53. Build your own X, a collection of tutorials (Search engine, Neural Net, etc.)

    97 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  54. LA: Ambulance crews to not transport patients with little chance of survival

    97 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  55. Einstein and Hume’s philosophy of time

    97 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  56. Our Response to the Violence in Washington

    97 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  57. Show HN: RevoGrid – Spreadsheet data table for all frameworks

    96 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  58. Full Throttle – fan film script by Duncan Jones [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?

    96 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  60. Facebook is banning leftwing users like me

    96 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  61. Brexit stops Brooks England sales of ‘Made in Britain’ saddles to UK shoppers

    96 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  62. Parler App delisted from Google Play; Apple threatening same within 24h

    96 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  63. Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation

    95 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  64. Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan End Health-Care Venture Haven

    95 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  65. The Uncensored Guide to ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, and That Harvard Astronomer

    95 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  66. Glenn Greenwald: ‘Journalists Are Authoritarians’

    95 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  67. Ask HN: Any luck negotiating better terms for on-call?

    95 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  68. Dns.Watch: Public DNS Servers

    95 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  69. Show HN: Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications

    95 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  70. ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP

    95 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  71. Robinhood apparently selling people's shares ”for their own good“

    95 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  72. Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch

    95 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  73. Bertrand Might: Life, legacy and next steps

    95 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  74. Wikipedia frequently-encountered sources, color-coded by perceived reliability

    95 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  75. What is happening to Lazada is happening to all companies acquired by Alibaba

    95 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  76. AOC calls out Robinhood for blocking GameStop, suggests holding a hearing

    95 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  77. Ask HN: What are the expectations of a principal engineer in your company?

    95 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  78. Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)

    94 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  79. Frugal Web Browser: A Design Experiment

    94 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  80. MakAir: Covid-19 ventilator with a Raspberry Pi

    94 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  81. Flipper Zero Manufacturing and Shipping Plan

    94 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  82. Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer

    94 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  83. Vole.wtf

    94 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  84. Meals based on vegetable protein sources (beans and peas) are more satiating (2016)

    94 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  85. New hard disk write head analytical technology can increase hard disk capacities

    94 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  86. Going to the Moon Was Easy Compared to 100UL

    94 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  87. Stop the “Hard Work” Obsession

    94 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  88. Gov.uk site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement

    94 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  89. Surround sound from lightweight roll-to-roll printed loudspeaker paper

    93 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  90. TRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM

    93 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  91. Show HN: BFS, Dijkstra and A* interactive demo made in React

    93 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  92. CS50 for Lawyers

    93 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  93. The Year of Grinding Teeth

    93 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  94. I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts

    93 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  95. FBI Seeking Information Related to Violent Activity at the U.S. Capitol Building

    93 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  96. Limiting Private API Availability in Chromium

    92 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  97. SOPHIE has died

    92 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  98. Tor – All v3 onion addresses are unavailable

    92 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  99. The Armed Forces Officer Chapter Twenty: Writing and Speaking (1950)

    92 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  100. The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist

    92 points • comment • jan 06, 2021