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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Stripe bans Trump campaign

    642 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  2. Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon

    642 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  3. Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

    640 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  4. WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard

    639 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  5. Ubiquiti Networks Breach

    639 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  6. Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)

    639 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  7. Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants

    638 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  8. Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

    630 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  9. Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

    616 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  10. BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

    613 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  11. WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

    607 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  12. Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block

    604 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  13. Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content

    603 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  14. Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'

    601 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  15. Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

    599 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  16. Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

    588 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  17. Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

    582 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  18. GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

    581 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  19. Aquafaba

    578 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  20. Context switching costs more than we give it credit for

    578 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  21. Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

    573 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  22. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II

    572 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  23. Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019)

    571 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  24. Anthony Levandowski Pardoned

    570 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  25. GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

    570 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  26. Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

    570 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  27. PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space

    569 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  28. BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass

    564 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  29. Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility

    562 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  30. Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

    550 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  31. Slack is down

    550 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  32. Intel Problems

    548 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  33. Losing faith in UX

    546 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  34. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I

    546 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  35. Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land

    540 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  36. Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner

    539 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  37. US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies

    538 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  38. Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)

    536 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  39. Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol

    535 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  40. Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

    534 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  41. Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)

    530 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  42. Traffic Simulator

    529 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  43. The database servers powering Let's Encrypt

    525 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  44. Be My Eyes

    525 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  45. We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college

    519 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  46. A Look at iMessage in iOS 14

    518 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  47. My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television

    516 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  48. Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders

    515 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  49. Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain

    512 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  50. Retiring Tucows Downloads

    512 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  51. Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hacker News

    511 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  52. Steam's login method is kinda interesting

    509 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  53. Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub

    509 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  54. Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL

    509 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  55. Simple Bank Is Closing

    507 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  56. Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable

    502 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  57. Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

    498 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  58. Ask HN: What are you working on?

    498 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  59. Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process

    494 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  60. URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

    490 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  61. When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux

    489 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  62. Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation

    487 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  63. Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account

    484 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  64. Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data

    484 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  65. Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

    483 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  66. Firefox 85

    481 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  67. 'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude

    481 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  68. Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible

    481 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  69. Horrifying PDF Experiments

    478 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  70. Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)

    476 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  71. Telegram publishes users' locations online

    476 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  72. Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video]

    473 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  73. Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out

    472 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  74. New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

    472 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  75. Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store

    472 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  76. Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

    471 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  77. Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation

    471 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  78. u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania

    470 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  79. I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019)

    469 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  80. Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

    468 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  81. My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

    467 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  82. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

    466 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  83. Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Microcontroller

    465 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  84. Plain Text Accounting

    464 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  85. I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them

    461 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  86. Automating my job with GPT-3

    460 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  87. WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys

    459 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  88. Factorio 1.1 stable

    451 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  89. iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet

    450 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  90. China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report

    446 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  91. Donate to Signal

    443 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  92. DeLorean considering all-electric reboot

    442 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  93. Coinbase announces proposed direct listing

    441 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  94. ‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years

    440 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  95. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood

    440 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  96. Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell orders on users' behalf

    438 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  97. Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

    438 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  98. Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation

    436 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  99. Over 700k paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free

    433 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  100. Businesses should try to be the best, not the biggest

    432 points • comment • jan 29, 2021