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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2

    432 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  2. Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be real and functional

    432 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  3. Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies

    431 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  4. Facebook Incubated the Insurrection

    430 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  5. JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

    429 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  6. Please don't say just hello in chat

    429 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  7. You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA

    425 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  8. Robinhood Hit with Class Action Lawsuit After Halting GameStop Stock

    423 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  9. Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function

    422 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  10. Wine 6.0

    422 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  11. Running a fake power plant on the internet for a month

    421 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  12. DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

    420 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  13. 10 years-ish of Elixir

    418 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  14. WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash

    417 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  15. Parents' income, not smarts, key to entrepreneurship

    415 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  16. GNU Units

    415 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  17. Maximizing Developer Effectiveness

    415 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  18. Nq – A simple Unix job queue system

    414 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  19. Julian Assange extradition to US blocked by UK court

    413 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  20. The State of State Machines

    412 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  21. The Buy Nothing Project

    412 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  22. That XOR Trick (2020)

    410 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  23. Facebook senior software engineer interview

    409 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  24. Update: YouTube-dl reinstantiated thanks to EFF (2020)

    408 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  25. Larry King has died

    407 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  26. JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

    407 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  27. Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers

    407 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  28. YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

    403 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  29. How to Turn an IKEA Coffee Table into a DIY Server Rack

    402 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  30. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)

    401 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  31. High Short Interest Stocks

    401 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  32. The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla

    399 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  33. I received my first donation on my open-source side project

    399 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  34. Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues

    398 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  35. Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)

    398 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  36. Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium

    398 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  37. Show HN: Virtual breadboard in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502

    397 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  38. Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020

    396 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  39. Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation

    395 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  40. Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B

    393 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  41. On Repl-Driven Programming

    392 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  42. Serverless SQLite

    392 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  43. Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

    390 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  44. Postgres scaling advice

    389 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  45. My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions

    389 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  46. Foam: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

    389 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  47. Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later

    387 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  48. Toxic positivity does more harm than good

    386 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  49. One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected

    386 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  50. After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off

    386 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  51. How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus

    385 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  52. Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access

    384 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  53. Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts

    384 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  54. Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

    384 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  55. Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

    383 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  56. Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?

    380 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  57. Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians

    380 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  58. Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

    379 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  59. Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)

    379 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  60. Pixar's Render Farm

    378 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  61. Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform

    378 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  62. Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)

    378 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  63. Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

    376 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  64. Theseus: A modern experimental OS written from scratch in Rust

    374 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  65. U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers

    373 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  66. Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

    372 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  67. Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World

    370 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  68. Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo

    370 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  69. Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy

    369 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  70. Linux Running on Apple M1

    367 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  71. Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again

    366 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  72. How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance

    365 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  73. FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

    365 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  74. Memory access on the Apple M1 processor

    364 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  75. AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86

    364 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  76. Tech companies are profiling us from before birth

    364 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  77. NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels

    363 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  78. Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]

    363 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  79. The MIT License, Line by Line

    363 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  80. Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design

    361 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  81. Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections

    361 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  82. Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second

    360 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  83. OO in Python is mostly pointless

    360 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  84. Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

    360 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  85. Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring

    357 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  86. Best of show – abuse of libc

    357 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  87. How We Ported Linux to the M1

    356 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  88. FDA approves first monthly injectable to treat HIV infection

    356 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  89. Termux no longer updated on Google Play

    356 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  90. Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

    354 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  91. Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (2005)

    354 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  92. My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network

    354 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  93. Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?

    353 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  94. The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious

    353 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  95. Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs

    352 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  96. An Unlikely Database Migration

    352 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  97. The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine

    350 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  98. SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world

    347 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  99. FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks

    347 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  100. Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets

    347 points • comment • jan 08, 2021