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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. The “Nonplussed” Problem (2011)

    30 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  2. Google Play bans open-source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content”

    30 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  3. AMD Threadripper Pro Retail Pricing Listed: $6k for 64 Cores, $3k for 32 Cores

    30 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  4. Why Move from Gradle to Maven

    30 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  5. Instacart is firing every employee who voted to unionize

    30 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  6. Show HN: A low-code alternative for Stripe/Twilio Integrations

    30 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  7. The Crooked Geometry of Round Trips

    30 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  8. Sonic Pi 3.3.0 (Beam)

    30 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  9. YouTube reverses TalkRadio ban for allegedly breaching content policy

    30 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  10. Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in a Hacker News for biology?

    30 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  11. Maersk Ship Loses 750 Containers Overboard in Pacific Ocean

    30 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  12. Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis

    30 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  13. High-Low Frequency Detectors

    30 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  14. The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare

    30 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  15. Apple Car expected to shake up auto industry in Asia and world

    30 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  16. OpenWRT forum user data stolen in weekend data breach

    30 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  17. Machine Learning Models Are Missing Contracts

    30 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  18. Gen Z is using Slack, TikTok, Clubhouse to break into venture capital

    30 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  19. Doctor Who HiFive – Inventor Coding Kit

    30 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  20. Low Cost Metal 3D Printing by Electrochemistry

    30 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  21. Now It Can Be Told: How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers

    30 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  22. The CIA Rebrands with a New Website

    30 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  23. Software Distributions and Their Roles Today

    30 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  24. MIT professor facing federal charges for failing to disclose his work for China

    30 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  25. Gateway Foundation Gives a Detailed Update on Its Voyager Station Concept

    30 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  26. YouTube and TikTok Put Human Rights in Jeopardy in Turkey

    30 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  27. Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder charged with willful neglect for Flint water crisis

    29 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  28. Reddit Forum Sparks Physical Silver Shortage on Major Dealers’ Websites

    29 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  29. Signal verification codes delayed after spike in sign-ups

    29 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  30. Show HN: ThermOS – A DIY multi-zone homekit compatible thermostat

    29 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  31. The Internet Country

    29 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  32. Show HN: JavaScript Program Synthesis

    29 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  33. Why the KLF Burned One Million Pounds in 1994 (2017)

    29 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  34. Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web

    29 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  35. Why Trying to Be Perfect Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals (and What Will)

    29 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  36. We Spoke to a Guy Who Got His Dick Locked in a Cage by a Hacker

    29 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  37. CockroachDB vs. Scylla Benchmark

    29 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  38. The CBM 900 (2020)

    29 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  39. The Progressive Purge Begins: Tech’s stampede will lead to more populist anger

    29 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  40. Star Wars PDP-11/45

    29 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  41. Virgin Orbit launches 10 satellites to orbit in landmark test flight

    29 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  42. Machine Learning for Developers weekly newsletter (ML4Devs, Issue 1)

    29 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  43. Workism Is Making Americans Miserable (2019)

    29 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  44. Natively visualize NetworkX graphs using D3.js and pywebview (without electron)

    29 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  45. Nocoiner predictions: 2021 will be year of comedy gold

    29 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  46. Signal outage is keeping messages from sending

    29 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  47. Whales Are Finally Returning to Our Planet's Polar Regions After 40 Years

    29 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  48. Code Age vs. Time to Recall

    29 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  49. All stories are wrong but some are useful

    29 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  50. Twitter and YouTube Banned Steve Bannon. Apple Gives Him Millions of Listeners

    29 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  51. Brad Rukstales, CEO of Cognesia, Arrested at U.S. Capitol Riot

    29 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  52. Apple’s self-driving electric car is at least half a decade away

    29 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  53. Prop 22 Is Here, and It’s Already Worse Than Expected

    29 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  54. 'Parler Has a Right to Exist,' Says Vitalik Buterin. Can Ethereum Help?

    29 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  55. Vaccinate CA

    29 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  56. Genetic correlation of various human qualities

    29 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  57. Rust in Production: 1Password

    29 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  58. 20% of LAPD officers, civilian employees say they won’t take Covid-19 vaccine

    29 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  59. Being fat linked with worse heart health even in people who exercise

    29 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  60. Hex Diagram Labels

    29 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  61. Jessica Rosenworcel replaces Ajit Pai, is now acting FCC chairwoman

    29 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  62. Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement Tested Poisons

    29 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  63. Google says it will disable Search in Australia if it's forced to pay for news

    29 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  64. Ask HN: Who is hiring for open-source projects?

    29 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  65. You can’t lurk on Instagram anymore unless you’re logged in (2019)

    29 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  66. In Praise of Lectures (2004) [pdf]

    29 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  67. France planning new aircraft carrier

    29 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  68. Rolling Stone seeks 'thought leaders' willing to pay $2k to write for them

    29 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  69. Text Encryption Based on Glider in the Game of Life (2016)

    28 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  70. Ask HN: Coming back to Python after a 5 year hiatus–-what do I need to know?

    28 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  71. Facebook’s settlement on Cambridge Analytica gags UK data watchdog

    28 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  72. N.Y.P.D. Concludes Anti-Harassment Official Wrote Racist Online Rants

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  73. Turn off that camera during virtual meetings, environmental study says

    28 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  74. Show HN: Wallstreetbets Sentiment Past 24 Hours

    28 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  75. Pence and Lawmakers Evacuate as Protesters Storm Capitol, Halting Count of Votes

    28 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  76. AirPods Max teardown makes Sony and Bose headphones look ‘like toys’

    28 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  77. Varlink: Interface description format and protocol for humans and machines

    28 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  78. Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law

    28 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  79. How to Use White-Labeling to Create Profitable Apps

    28 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  80. Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance

    28 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  81. US military sonar linked to whale beachings in Pacific, say scientists

    28 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  82. Notes on Technology in the 2020s

    28 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  83. One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

    28 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  84. Pueue – a beautiful Unix job queue system

    28 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  85. We need to throw out a mindblowing amount of science and start again

    28 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  86. Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Consider That Free Speech’

    28 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  87. The acquisition of handwriting in the UK (1994)

    28 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  88. We didn't collude with Twitter to drop Parler, says AWS in court filing

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  89. Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses

    28 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  90. Google Play bans open source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content”

    28 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  91. CVE-2021-3156: Sudo privilege escalation

    28 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  92. Fan Death

    28 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  93. Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  94. Two Year Work Retrospective

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  95. Twitter loses $5B, shares down 12% since Trump ban

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  96. Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization [pdf]

    27 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  97. Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law

    27 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  98. The Parler Bans Open a New Front in the 'Free Speech' Wars

    27 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  99. Sony’s 2021 TV lineup runs Google TV and fully embraces HDMI 2.1

    27 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  100. Extreme poverty is history in China, officials say

    27 points • comment • jan 02, 2021