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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

    57 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  2. Why am I wasting time on EndBASIC?

    57 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  3. The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand

    57 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  4. Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground

    57 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  5. Azlo Is Closing Down

    57 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  6. The Alan Turing Cryptography Competition

    57 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  7. Facebook deactivated account after it advocated decentralized social networks

    57 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  8. US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters

    57 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  9. An Immoral, DIY Rape Kit Startup

    57 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  10. The Dream Job That Wasn’t

    57 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  11. Create Terraform files using Python scripts

    57 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  12. Shopify pulls Donald Trump stores off its platform

    57 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  13. Impact of travel and circadian disruption on athletic performance

    56 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  14. U.S. jobless numbers surge as worsening Covid-19 pandemic hurts businesses

    56 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  15. Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

    56 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  16. Looking for More Debugger

    56 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  17. Murder map of medieval London (2019)

    56 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  18. Thou shalt not run a database inside a container

    56 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  19. An introduction to Morphic: Self's UI toolkit

    56 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  20. Robinhood closing user positions in $GME against their will

    56 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  21. How far does sound travel in the ocean?

    56 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  22. Show HN: SharePad.io – A collaborative code editor and compiler

    56 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  23. Irma: Open-source, attribute based credentials

    56 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  24. New online tool reveals Raphael's Sistine Chapel cartoons in stunning detail

    56 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  25. M5Paper – a 4.7“ 940x540 multitouch e-ink ESP32 dev kit for $70

    56 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  26. Show HN: JPEG.rocks – Privacy-aware JPEG optimizer built with WebAssembly

    56 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  27. I work on code search at GitHub – what needs to improve?

    56 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  28. WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian uncles and aunties

    56 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  29. Categories of Nets

    56 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  30. WhatsApp European users do not have to share data with Facebook

    56 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  31. The Engineering Manager's Booklist

    55 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  32. Conspiracy theorists mistake guitar pedal diagram for “5G Chip”

    55 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  33. Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle

    55 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  34. How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon

    55 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  35. Always-On Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up

    55 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  36. macOS beta adds custom kernel support, closer to installing other OSS on M1 Macs

    55 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  37. Ask HN: AWS account expires in 2 weeks. Can't login, but they keep asking me to

    55 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  38. libsignal-client – a Signal protocol implementation in Rust

    55 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  39. Show HN: Dexter, a Voice Controlled Assistant

    55 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  40. North Dakota Bill Would Let Censored Citizens Sue Facebook, Twitter

    55 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  41. CSS Turing Machine

    55 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  42. Proposal for C23: Improve type generic programming [pdf]

    55 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  43. MouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers

    55 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  44. Physics Without Probability (2015) [video]

    55 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  45. Show HN: Organizedly – Linked notes, todo's, calendar and queries

    55 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  46. AXPbox Alpha Emulator

    55 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  47. Crash: Sriwijaya B735 at Jakarta, lost height and impacted Java Sea

    55 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  48. Mexico president slams social media censorship

    54 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  49. IBM Palm Top PC110 [video]

    54 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  50. 2021: what’s coming in free/libre software

    54 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  51. Revue Is Joining Twitter

    54 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  52. Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished

    54 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  53. Finding the Words to Say: Hidden State Visualizations for Language Models

    54 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  54. Venice combats overtourism by tracking visitors

    54 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  55. Reviving the 1973 Unix text to voice translator

    54 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  56. Energy Vault – Gravitational Batteries

    54 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  57. A Brief History of Peanut Butter

    54 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  58. Plex Arcade

    54 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  59. Show HN: Supernotes – Embeddable Markdown note-cards

    54 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  60. Parler removed from Google Play store

    54 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  61. NRA Declares Bankruptcy

    54 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  62. Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos

    54 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  63. Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems

    54 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  64. India could get nasal vaccine against Covid-19 soon

    54 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  65. Bill to make Daylight Savings permanent

    54 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  66. The modern clock; a study of time keeping mechanism (1905)

    54 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  67. Launch HN: Axle Health (YC W21) – In-Home Healthcare as a Service

    54 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  68. When the Text and HTML Disagree

    54 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  69. Yes, I did drop 90GB of my work to Public Domain

    53 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  70. Alphabet shutting Loon, which used balloon alternative to cell towers

    53 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  71. Tracing and visualizing the Python GIL with perf and VizTracer

    53 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  72. Filesystem Error Handling (2017)

    53 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  73. Siegfried Fischbacher from 'Siegfried and Roy' magician duo has died

    53 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  74. ShenScript – An Implementation of the Shen Language for JavaScript

    53 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  75. Tim Cook warns of adtech fuelling a “social catastrophe”

    53 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  76. FBI ‘honors’ Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after plotting to ‘neutralize’ him

    53 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  77. The Ultimate MacBook+PC Monitor Showdown

    53 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  78. Predictions Scorecard, 2021 January 01

    53 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  79. Protocol for a U.S. Nuclear Strike

    53 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  80. Programming Fonts

    53 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  81. Airwindows – Free VST Plugins for Mac, Windows and Linux

    53 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  82. The harmful assumptions we make about tasks

    53 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  83. Teleguard: Swiss Made Safe Messaging

    53 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  84. IKEA using AR to let users decide which furniture fits where (2020)

    53 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  85. Custom Properties as State

    53 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  86. The Nashville bombing and threats to critical infrastructure

    53 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  87. Show HN: SleekDB – A NoSQL Database made using PHP

    53 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  88. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools

    53 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  89. Most surgeries are ineffective

    53 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  90. Parler Hosting Requirements

    53 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  91. Cory Doctorow – Understanding /r/wallstreetbets

    53 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  92. Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (But Finnish People Can)

    52 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  93. A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone (2018)

    52 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  94. Google Cloud SQL Incident

    52 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  95. Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00

    52 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  96. Fungi’s Lessons for Adapting to Life on a Damaged Planet (2020)

    52 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  97. Anger Management

    52 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  98. Human-Learn: Draw Machine Learning Models

    52 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  99. Certbot deprecates operating system packages, “standardizes” on snaps

    52 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  100. The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try

    52 points • comment • jan 28, 2021