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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. American Apathy: Our Declining Interest in Covid-19 Cases and Deaths

    44 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  2. How to select best UPS and Solar to be off-grid 24 hour for 2kw

    44 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  3. Should the Web Expose Hardware Capabilities?

    44 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  4. The Most Popular College Books

    44 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  5. The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS

    44 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  6. Google looks at pulling all or part of its search engine from Australia

    44 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  7. India plans to introduce law to ban Bitcoin, other private cryptocurrencies

    44 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  8. Google is silently censoring search results

    44 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  9. Microsoft same-day reversal on Xbox Live Gold price doubling

    44 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  10. The Art of Pixar

    44 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  11. Ask HN: What if Stack Overflow suddenly decides to shut down?

    43 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  12. Tesla fire kills man because door handles wouldn’t open, lawsuit alleges

    43 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  13. SpaceX violated its launch license in Starship test, triggering FAA probe

    43 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  14. mRNA: How a once-dismissed idea became a leading Covid vaccine

    43 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  15. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Price List

    43 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  16. Qt commercial-only LTS phase starts

    43 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  17. How to Train a Scaled-YOLOv4 Object Detection Model

    43 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  18. Apple sued by group insisting it curb Telegram

    43 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  19. Janet Yellen Got $810k to Give Speeches at Citadel

    43 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  20. Platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far

    43 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  21. Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy

    43 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  22. Show HN: Pdoc, a lightweight Python API documentation generator

    43 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  23. Dubai Lamp

    43 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  24. Controlling GPT-3 with Logit Bias

    43 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  25. Twitter thread – What was learnt from deplatforming ISIS

    43 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  26. HDMI Forum Closing Public Specification Access Is Hurting Open Source Drivers

    43 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  27. Revelio: A MimbleWimble Proof of Reserves Protocol

    43 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  28. A new newsletter on database engines, streaming systems, query planning

    43 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  29. A lost paradise of purity: the late masterpieces of Schubert

    43 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  30. Earth Has Lost 28 Trillion Tons of Ice Since the Mid-1990s

    43 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  31. Single anonymous donor gives $40M to fund 50 civil rights lawyers

    42 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  32. Making VoIP Calls with Antique Rotary Phones

    42 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  33. Another French Study Looks Into The Use of Nicotine Against Covid-19

    42 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  34. Capitol Police, a department shrouded in secrecy: not subject to FOIA requests

    42 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  35. Is light fundamentally a wave or a particle?

    42 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  36. Turning desalination waste into a useful resource

    42 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  37. Why is signal servers using Java and not Erlang

    42 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  38. Fun with conversion-operator name lookup

    42 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  39. Beyond Identity Offers Free Version of Its Passwordless Technology

    42 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  40. Australia’s Proposed “Fox News Tax”

    42 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  41. Liner Transatlantic Crossing Times, 1833 – 1952 (in days)

    42 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  42. We compress Pub/Sub messages and more, saving a load of money

    42 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  43. Show HN: Cmap – interactive visualization library for concept map

    42 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  44. Stash is a Go app which organizes and serves your porn

    42 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  45. My child has two parents. Why does day care call only me? (2018)

    42 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  46. Former Google CEO and others call for U.S.-China tech “bifurcation”

    42 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  47. Science and Technology of the Casimir Effect

    42 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  48. A Recursive Model learned index structure

    42 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  49. My Apple IIE: Nearly 30 Years Later (2012)

    42 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  50. Mira Furlan has died

    42 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  51. How to reform the attention economy business model of Big Tech

    42 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  52. Google reinstates Element after an appeal

    42 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  53. Will your PR get merged?

    42 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  54. Symbols the Microsoft Way (2013)

    42 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  55. Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India

    42 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  56. Russian Software Company [JetBrains] May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack

    41 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  57. FBI, NYPD told Capitol Police about possibility of violence before riot

    41 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  58. Magnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer

    41 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  59. Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store

    41 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  60. White House YouTube Dislike Manipulation

    41 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  61. Satran Satellite Tracking Antenna

    41 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  62. Amazon warned Parler for months about “more than 100” violent threats

    41 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  63. Economic Failures of the IPCC Process

    41 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  64. Programming in Five Easy Pieces

    41 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  65. An amendment to the Constitution of the USA to abolish the electoral college

    41 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  66. React Creator Leaves Facebook

    41 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  67. The Eruption of Krakatoa in 1883

    41 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  68. Identifying Authorship Style in Malicious Binaries: Techniques, Challenges

    41 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  69. What it's like to be a nonprofit programmer

    41 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  70. Show HN: Waver – Messaging Through Sound

    41 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  71. Facebook Tells Employees to Avoid Wearing Facebook-Branded Apparel

    40 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  72. 'Big Short' investor predicts Tesla stock will collapse like the housing bubble

    40 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  73. Apple Car: For Real This Time?

    40 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  74. Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

    40 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  75. Cracks in US nuclear command and control

    40 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  76. Order on Protecting Americans from Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform

    40 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  77. Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love

    40 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  78. Show HN: Bufferi.ng: fake a bad connection on zoom

    40 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  79. Teaching and Assessing Property-Based Testing

    40 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  80. San Francisco's school board in name only

    40 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  81. California reports 585 coronavirus deaths, new single-day record in state

    40 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  82. Ask HN: Who has started a successful side business while having a full time job?

    40 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  83. Is Bitcoin a Scam?

    40 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  84. Tell HN: Someone seems to be trying to make people more fearful through YouTube

    40 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  85. Zoom and the American Family

    40 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  86. Why scientists are worried about the coronavirus variant from Brazil

    40 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  87. Bitwarden Extension disabled due to new permissions

    40 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  88. FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: US Military's GPS Tests

    40 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  89. Why 'Cousin Jack'? The origins of the nickname of the Cornish overseas

    40 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  90. High Voltage “Lifter”

    40 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  91. Show HN: Create Chrome Extensions for internal use

    40 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  92. The Multitude of Books

    40 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  93. The Problem with Writing-Style Advice

    40 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  94. Show HN: Micro – A platform for cloud native development in Go

    40 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  95. G.M.’S Electric Car Goal Blindsides Rivals and Shakes Up an Industry

    40 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  96. Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs (2012)

    40 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  97. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China

    40 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  98. Restricted DMA

    40 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  99. Nuon, a gaming chip that nearly changed the world, but didn’t (2015)

    39 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  100. Crush: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data [pdf]

    39 points • comment • jan 04, 2021