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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. World-first home hydrogen battery stores 3x the energy of a Powerwall 2

    39 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  2. Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

    39 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  3. Intro to securing communication protocols with Noise

    39 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  4. Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline

    39 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  5. Academics Are Worried About Cancel Culture

    39 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  6. 7: Jim Cramer Exposes Illegal Hedge Fund Tactics

    39 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  7. No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987)

    39 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  8. WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data to Be Shared with Facebook

    39 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  9. Linux Ported to the M1

    39 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  10. Guarded Horn Clauses: A Parallel Logic PL with the Concept of a Guard (1987)

    39 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  11. The “Uncanny Valley” and How Artists Have Explored It

    39 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  12. Ask HN: How to Prepare for National Instability?

    39 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  13. Harpoon V

    39 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  14. George W. Bush is smarter than you (2013)

    39 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  15. Graph Algorithms for Data Science

    39 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  16. Working Oneself to Death in China

    39 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  17. Haven, Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt healthcare, is disbanding

    39 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  18. IRS offered $625,000 bounty to anyone who could “crack” Monero; no one succeeded

    39 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  19. Feds say charges over stolen Pelosi computer being prepared

    39 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  20. Maintainers Truth and Fiction

    39 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  21. Conway's Multiplayer Game of Life

    39 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  22. Denmark offers homeowners 20-year loans at a fixed interest rate of zero

    39 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  23. A pure Bash Clojure-ish CI pipeline

    39 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

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

    39 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  25. The story of Thunder Bay’s socialist Finnish restaurant (2018)

    38 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  26. CDPR pays its junior developers $700/month

    38 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  27. RISC-V Vector Instructions vs. ARM and x86 SIMD

    38 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  28. Distcc – distribute builds across multiple machines simultaneously (2006)

    38 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  29. The Greatest Books of All Time

    38 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  30. Has the Squeeze Been Squoze Yet?

    38 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  31. Ask HN: How do you build your audience?

    38 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  32. Miraculous Mozart

    38 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  33. Dogecoin GitHub issue #1674: Reintroduce the cap

    38 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  34. Ask HN: How have your recent job application experiences been?

    38 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  35. People that think you’re an asshole

    38 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  36. SpaceX Starship SN9 High Altitude Test – Live [video]

    38 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  37. The Killer SF DA

    38 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  38. Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments

    38 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  39. Big Tech is the new deep state

    38 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  40. Clubhouse for X – The emerging trend of audio-only applications

    38 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  41. Ordered Key-Value Stores

    38 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  42. Should You Write a Wayland Compositor?

    38 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  43. Bay Area hospitals slammed by Covid-19 surge: ‘The E.R. is full’

    38 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  44. WhatsApp fights back as users flee to Signal and Telegram

    38 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  45. Trump Supporters Storm Capitol

    38 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  46. Accidental Nuclear War: A Timeline of Close Calls

    38 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  47. Only ~5% of California's long-term care facility residents have been vaccinated

    38 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  48. Facebook is moderating posts about Signal

    37 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  49. On Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines

    37 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  50. Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Crackdown on Ant, Alibaba

    37 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  51. Human Rights Violations by the CIA

    37 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  52. Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women

    37 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  53. Facebook Q4 2020 earnings [pdf]

    37 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  54. Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like staying off HN for a bit?

    37 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  55. Inequality Killed the Roman Republic

    37 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  56. Show HN: OpenFaaS template for headless Chrome and Puppeteer

    37 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  57. Dogecoin Surges as Reddit Traders Push to Make It the Crypto GameStop

    37 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  58. Facebook Preps Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple

    37 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  59. Time Series Density Plot

    37 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  60. Big Tech's De-Platforming Binge Highlights the Need for Web 3.0

    37 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  61. A Visual History of Interpretation for Image Recognition

    37 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  62. Fixing User Personas

    37 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  63. Artificial Intelligence – Insanely Complicated, Hopelessly Inadequate

    37 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  64. New Drug Therapy Approvals 2020

    37 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  65. Donald Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached for a second time

    37 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  66. Google Fi support goes silent after admitting coverage is “nonexistent” in area

    37 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  67. A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry

    37 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  68. Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton?

    37 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  69. Swedish bankers face identity crisis over digital currency plans

    37 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  70. Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwanted Items

    37 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  71. Oneness via gurus, psychedelics and the hidden code in Jordan Mechner's Karateka

    37 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  72. Vitalik Buterin on De-platforming and the way forward

    37 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  73. “Qanon” is Propaganda, and we know who’s responsible

    37 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  74. An Engineering Argument for Basic Income

    37 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  75. Higher coffee intake may be linked to lower prostate cancer risk

    37 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  76. Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

    37 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  77. 'Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions' (2008)

    37 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  78. Over 73% of U.S. Adults Overweight or Obese

    37 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  79. Hacker News sentiment towards Big Tech companies

    37 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  80. Army investigates psyops officer for role in Washington on day of Capitol riot

    37 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  81. New York City Renters Owe More Than $1B in Unpaid Rent

    36 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  82. Pico-8: Cab Ride

    36 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  83. Show HN: Asymmetric stackful cross-platform Coroutines in pure C

    36 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  84. Parlor does not scrub exif data

    36 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  85. Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing

    36 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  86. Ask HN: Is there anywhere to get help with employment contracts?

    36 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  87. A list of microgrant programs for your good ideas

    36 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  88. Pivotal discovery in quantum and classical information processing

    36 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  89. Is Mathematics Real? (2020)

    36 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  90. Why are Hart Taxis more expensive?

    36 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  91. Why Roman concrete is stronger than it ever was, while modern concrete decays

    36 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  92. Ask HN: Are you preparing for a market crash? How?

    36 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  93. Reversing the Aging Clock with Epigenetic Reprogramming

    36 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  94. Ask HN: How do you vary couple life during lock-down?

    36 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  95. Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast for Humans to Fight, U.S. General Warns

    36 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  96. CDC now says valved N95 has better source control than cloth/surgical masks [pdf]

    36 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  97. Baldur's Gate 2 reincarnated in the browser using WebAssembly

    36 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  98. Interview with Morris Chang, founder of TSMC (2014) [video]

    36 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  99. From microops to abstract resources: constructing simpler CPU performance models

    36 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  100. Pompeo lifts 'self-imposed restrictions' on U.S.-Taiwan relationship

    36 points • comment • jan 09, 2021