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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Synchronized violin players reveal uniqueness of human networks

    84 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  2. No-code platform Webflow (YC) raises $140M at a $2.1B valuation

    84 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  3. Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned

    84 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  4. Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition

    83 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  5. Show HN: Array – A Better Python List

    83 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  6. The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview (2003)

    83 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  7. If memristors act like neurons, put them in neural networks

    83 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  8. The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32

    83 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  9. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

    83 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  10. Safe dead code removal in a pure functional language

    83 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  11. Dogger Bank's giant turbines herald a wind of change in UK industry

    83 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  12. Obedience to Authority: The Experiments by Stanley Milgram

    83 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  13. The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later

    83 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  14. Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (2018)

    83 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  15. Apache Beam for Search: Getting Started by Hacking Time

    83 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  16. Uf2: USB Flashing Format

    82 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  17. EFF, Cory Doctorow warn about the dangers of de-platforming and censorship

    82 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  18. Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist

    82 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  19. Who Invented the Alphabet?

    82 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  20. Live Cells seen with 7x Greater Sensitivity using new Microscopy Technique

    82 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  21. “A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic”

    82 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  22. Koan: A word2vec negative sampling implementation with correct CBOW update

    82 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  23. Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation

    82 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  24. Programming Language Foundations in Agda

    81 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  25. React Component for 3D Maps

    81 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  26. Valetudo is a cloud-free web interface for robot vacuum cleaners

    81 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  27. Show HN: CheerpX – x86 Node.js/python3/Ruby REPL in browser via WebAssembly JIT

    81 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  28. Nepalese team makes first successful winter ascent of K2

    81 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  29. Big Ideas 2021 [pdf]

    81 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  30. Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL for Small Production Environments

    81 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  31. GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer

    81 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  32. Show HN: Welder – Record high-quality remote interviews

    81 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  33. StrictMark: Markdown, Refactored

    80 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  34. The Art of Whaling: Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships

    80 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  35. Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors

    80 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  36. GameStop: Amateur investors continue to outwit Wall Street

    80 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  37. Amazon is cutting off Parler's servers

    80 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  38. Philosophical Landmines (2013)

    80 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  39. Apple First Quarter Results

    80 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  40. The largest dam-removal in US history

    80 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  41. A Shell Language in Lisp

    80 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  42. Cooking for Founders

    80 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  43. Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with passphrase lock

    80 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  44. zForth – Tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth for embedded systems

    80 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  45. Solar2D Game Engine

    80 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  46. Avoid using wood burning stoves if possible, warn health experts

    80 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  47. C2nim: A tool to translate ANSI C code to Nim

    79 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  48. Microsoft job posting suggests a major user interface update expected in 2021

    79 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  49. Why we should leave old oil rigs in the sea, and why we don’t

    79 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  50. The Supply Chain for Lithium (2020)

    79 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  51. When You’re Outnumbered: Lessons from Two British Masters of Irregular Warfare

    79 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  52. Twitch disables Trump’s account indefinitely

    79 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  53. Writing an iRacing SDK Implementation in F#

    79 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  54. What remote YC demo day looked like

    79 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  55. Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code

    79 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  56. Done, and Gets Things Smart (2008)

    79 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  57. Cyclone Scheme: A R7RS Scheme Compiler

    79 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  58. Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is less than half an inch thick

    79 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  59. Technical issue resolved after ‘150k police records lost’

    78 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  60. Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (1958)

    78 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  61. Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Cellular Automata (1986) [pdf]

    78 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  62. Vons, Pavilions to Replace Drivers with Independent Contractors

    78 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  63. Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second

    78 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  64. Node.js race conditions

    78 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  65. Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

    78 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  66. LenPEG (2017)

    78 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  67. Beating Up on Qsort (2019)

    78 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  68. I checked Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false

    78 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  69. How to convert existing web extensions for Safari

    78 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  70. Teacher creates ingenious exam question to find cheaters and catches 14 students

    78 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  71. The Environmental Cost of Bitcoin

    78 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  72. QuantMath: Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and risk in Rust

    78 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  73. Assembly language, arcade games, YouTube: former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer

    78 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  74. Ask HN: Is Signal Down?

    78 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  75. Libvirt: Adoption of GLib library to replace GNULIB and home grown code

    78 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  76. Voice of America CEO Accused of Fraud, Misuse of Office All in One Week

    78 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  77. Another scam paper published in a “scientific” journal

    78 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  78. Threema – Secure and Private Messenger

    78 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  79. I Tried to Get a ‘Leftover Dose’ of the Vaccine Last Night

    77 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  80. Twitter locks account of China's US embassy over its defence of Xinjiang policy

    77 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  81. Salesforce says it has 'taken action' to prevent further U.S. political violence

    77 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  82. Knot Theory and its Applications [pdf]

    77 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  83. Synthesizing Correct-by-Construction Code for Cryptographic Primitives

    77 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  84. History of Tcl (2009)

    77 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  85. Oldest Libraries in the World

    77 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  86. Microsoft patent: Creating a conversational chat bot of a specific person

    77 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  87. Some Unlikely 2021 Predictions

    77 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  88. Rendering a Sphere on a Quad

    77 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  89. Show HN: AI-powered landing page builder

    77 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  90. Joint Chiefs remind U.S. forces that they defend the constitution

    77 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  91. Facebook restores service to socialist pages, claiming “automation error”

    76 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  92. Time Management by Randy Pausch [pdf]

    76 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  93. No More KYC with ShapeShift

    76 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  94. I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler

    76 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  95. Politician's Syllogism

    76 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  96. Super-expressive – Write regex in natural language

    76 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  97. Topology 101: How Mathematicians Study Holes

    76 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  98. FM Reception with the GNU Radio Companion

    76 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  99. CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo

    76 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  100. Elon Musk becomes world’s richest person as wealth tops $185B

    76 points • comment • jan 07, 2021