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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Stripe bans Trump campaign
642 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
642 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
640 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
639 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Ubiquiti Networks Breach
639 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)
639 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants
638 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
630 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
616 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
613 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history
607 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block
604 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content
603 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'
601 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
599 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
588 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
582 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
581 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Aquafaba
578 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
578 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
573 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II
572 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019)
571 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
570 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
570 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him
570 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space
569 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass
564 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility
562 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
550 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Slack is down
550 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Intel Problems
548 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Losing faith in UX
546 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I
546 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land
540 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
539 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies
538 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)
536 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol
535 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
534 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)
530 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Traffic Simulator
529 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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The database servers powering Let's Encrypt
525 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Be My Eyes
525 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
519 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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A Look at iMessage in iOS 14
518 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television
516 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
515 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
512 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Retiring Tucows Downloads
512 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hacker News
511 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Steam's login method is kinda interesting
509 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
509 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
509 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Simple Bank Is Closing
507 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable
502 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani
498 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Ask HN: What are you working on?
498 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process
494 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies
490 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
489 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation
487 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account
484 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data
484 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
483 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Firefox 85
481 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude
481 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible
481 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Horrifying PDF Experiments
478 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)
476 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Telegram publishes users' locations online
476 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video]
473 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
472 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
472 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
472 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
471 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
471 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania
470 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019)
469 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
468 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
467 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS
466 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Microcontroller
465 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Plain Text Accounting
464 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them
461 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Automating my job with GPT-3
460 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys
459 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Factorio 1.1 stable
451 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet
450 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report
446 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Donate to Signal
443 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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DeLorean considering all-electric reboot
442 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Coinbase announces proposed direct listing
441 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years
440 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood
440 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell orders on users' behalf
438 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
438 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation
436 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Over 700k paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free
433 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Businesses should try to be the best, not the biggest
432 points • comment • jan 29, 2021