woid

top stories

Hacker News (Jan 2021)

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

    76 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  2. No More KYC with ShapeShift

    76 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  3. The Dark Past of Algorithms That Associate Appearance and Criminality

    76 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  4. GME: Or, why we shouldn't underestimate “4chan with a Bloomberg terminal”

    75 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  5. GameStop Opened at $300+ Today

    75 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  6. Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated

    75 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  7. My 3D maze game for the ZX Spectrum

    75 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  8. James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere

    75 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  9. Bitmessage: A decentralized and trustless P2P communications protocol

    75 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  10. What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

    75 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  11. Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery

    75 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  12. Show HN: Are you playing your violin (viola, guitar, etc.) in tune?

    75 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  13. Siuba – A Dplyr Port to Python

    75 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  14. Show HN: Userbase – Auth and E2E encrypted storage in a few lines of code

    75 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  15. Holiday Hacking – Tracking my heart rate while playing Call of Duty

    75 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  16. Solar-Powered, Off-Grid Bike Can Bust Poachers Anywhere

    75 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  17. AnyDB: An Architecture-Less DBMS for Any Workload

    75 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  18. Keyboard that shocks you if you type with incorrect technique [video]

    75 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  19. The Smalltalk Zoo

    75 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  20. Dire wolves were not wolves, new genetic clues reveal

    75 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  21. TV Tuner History

    75 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  22. Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible

    75 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  23. Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruptio

    75 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  24. GitHub repo of ALL known bug bounty platforms (45) and Halls of Fame (497)

    75 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  25. AlmaLinux an open-source RHEL fork

    75 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  26. VisualAge for Java 1.0 – Let the Future Begin (1997)

    74 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  27. Show HN: ZuccNet – Encrypted Facebook Messaging

    74 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  28. Any Monotone Boolean Function Can Be Realized by Interlocked Polygons (2010)

    74 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  29. Ajit Pai, FCC drops Section 230 plan

    74 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  30. Examining a technology sample kit: IBM components from 1948 to 1986

    74 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  31. The Evolution of the QEMU Translator

    74 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  32. Do we have negative prime numbers?

    74 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  33. We've been running a bootstrapped startup for a year

    74 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  34. Robot Made of Ice Can Repair and Rebuild Itself

    74 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  35. Chatmosphere

    74 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  36. ZFS copies=n is not a substitute for device redundancy (2016)

    74 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  37. MasterCard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU due to Brexit

    73 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  38. An experiment in teaching a language without relying on translation

    73 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  39. A Porsche Taycan Just Beat Tesla for the Fastest EV Cannonball Run Record

    73 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  40. Red Hat to acquire Kubernetes security company StackRox

    73 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  41. Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system

    73 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  42. AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy

    73 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  43. Gary Numan: 'One of my songs got over a million streams – I got £37'

    73 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  44. Square’s federal comment letter regarding FinCEN’s proposed rulemaking

    73 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  45. Arplisp Interpreter for Raspberry Pi in a Single ASM File, No Libraries Used

    73 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  46. Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment

    73 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  47. Brexit VAT rules: shipping notice on a Dutch ecommerce store

    73 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  48. Pristine GM EV1 Preserved by University Caretaker

    73 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  49. Advertisements have emerged on Substack's 'ad-free' newsletter platform

    72 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  50. Italy consumer association sues Apple for planned iPhone obsolescence

    72 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  51. Geometric effects of certain system design choices

    72 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  52. Log Pattern Recognition: LogMine

    72 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  53. An Elegant Revolution Followed by Slaughter

    72 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  54. RAM is the new disk – and how to measure its performance (2015)

    72 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  55. Session Protocol: Technical implementation details

    72 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  56. Chinese regulators to push tech giants to share consumer credit data

    72 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  57. A dynamic approach to detecting browser fingerprinting

    72 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  58. Canon CR3 Fileformat

    72 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  59. This Year, Autonomous Trucks Will Take to the Road with No One on Board

    72 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  60. Show HN: Watchpoints, an easy to use watchpoints equivalent library for Python

    72 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  61. Micro Benchmarking Dart

    72 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  62. Roku buys Quibi content for less than $100M

    72 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  63. Publishing Is Back to the Future

    72 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  64. State of the Octoverse

    71 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  65. The many ways of splitting a rectangle in many

    71 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  66. Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual labourers

    71 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  67. The Early Development of Programming Languages (1976) [pdf]

    71 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  68. Show HN: krunvm – Create and run lightweight VMs from OCI images

    71 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  69. Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks (2019)

    71 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  70. The lesser-known Orwell: are his novels deserving of reappraisal?

    71 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  71. Revature coding program promises jobs but costs $36,500 to quit

    71 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  72. WontFix: Chromium forcing its own title bar and borders on Linux

    71 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  73. Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues

    71 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  74. Old Compilers and Old Bugs

    71 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  75. Ensuring a transparent, thorough investigation of Covid-19’s origin

    71 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  76. Ask HN: Is low level progarmming job more satisfying?

    71 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  77. Moonstruck Sleep: Synchronization of Human Sleep with the Moon Cycle [pdf]

    71 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  78. One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day

    71 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  79. French news sites prevail in negotiations with Google over "neighboring rights”

    70 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  80. Show HN: I made a free documentation tool

    70 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  81. Show HN: I wrote a rust program to translate images into textual line art

    70 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  82. Mikhail Devyatayev

    70 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  83. Old Compilers and Old Bugs

    70 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  84. JavaScript Rising Stars 2020

    70 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  85. TLB and Pagewalk Coherence in x86 Processors (2015)

    70 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  86. Signal AppImage for Linux

    70 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  87. Stylebot for Firefox – Apply custom CSS on webpages

    70 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  88. The end arrives as Adobe starts blocking Flash content

    70 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  89. Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted against election results

    70 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  90. An Update on Market Volatility

    70 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  91. PE Anatomist – Explore data structures in portable executable files

    70 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  92. Interview with Christine Darden – NASA engineer who’s a mathematician at heart

    70 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  93. I am closing down the Cordless project

    70 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  94. Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation

    70 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  95. Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows

    69 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  96. I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years

    69 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  97. How Prosody developers spent 2020

    69 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  98. When You Know

    69 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  99. Kraken Is Down

    69 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  100. Todo List for Vim

    69 points • comment • jan 26, 2021