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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. What Merpeople Say About Us

    16 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  2. Worried about Earth’s future? The outlook is worse than scientists can grasp

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  3. Audio: Trump’s full Jan. 2 call with Ga. secretary of state

    16 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  4. SpaceX wins UK regulator Ofcom's approval for Starlink broadband base stations

    16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  5. Colombians try castrating Pablo Escobar’s Hippos

    16 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  6. GameStop to Offer Stock Trade-In Program [Parody]

    16 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  7. Signal downloads soar 4,200% after WhatsApp data changes

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  8. Stoicism Is Not a Philosophy

    16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  9. Fornax a Galaxy Investigated with AstroSat

    16 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  10. After big hack of U.S. government, Biden enlists world class cybersecurity team

    16 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  11. Every Deleted Parler Post, Many with Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived

    16 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  12. San Francisco School District’s renaming debacle has been a historic travesty

    16 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  13. Show HN: Hacn – a React “monad” implemented using F#/Fable

    16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  14. CIA releases UFO ‘Black Vault’ documents early: How to see them online

    16 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  15. The Monumental and Human Poetry of Paul Valéry (2020)

    16 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  16. Critical Tech Reading List

    16 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  17. Amazon needs a Competitor and WalMart ain't it

    16 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  18. Seeed launches BeagleV, a $150 RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

    16 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  19. Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon

    16 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  20. Coinbase Freezes USD Purchases

    16 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  21. Family Moves from Shed to Apartment, Thanks to 8 Year Old's Plant Business

    16 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  22. Facebook and Twitter largely 'culpable for all the harm': former Obama adviser

    16 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  23. More than 1000 XR activists taken to court in the UK

    16 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  24. Twitter locks Trump out of his account for at least 12 hours

    16 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  25. The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc

    16 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  26. Steve Bannon’s WarRoom Banned from YouTube

    16 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  27. We don’t use Python native enums

    16 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  28. Google says it’s closing the Fitbit acquisition–uh, without DOJ approval?

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  29. Ask HN: What's the lowest churn web stack?

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  30. Your Success Is Not a Story

    16 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  31. Apple Adds 'BlastDoor' to Secure iOS from Zero-Click Attacks

    16 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  32. Idaho company to block Facebook and Twitter for censorship

    16 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  33. Choosing Haskell isn’t a stand-in for good software design

    16 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  34. TastyWorks explains in three lines what took Robinhood an entire article

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  35. In China’s New Age Communes, Burned-Out Millennials Go Back to Nature

    15 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  36. Apple has given Parler a 24-hour ultimatum to implement a “moderation plan”

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  37. Tell HN: Roblox going public via Direct Listing

    15 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  38. Universal basic income doesn’t impact worker productivity

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  39. Musk: A lot of people are going to be unhappy with tech as the arbiter of speech

    15 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  40. AAA wants us to stop calling car crashes “accidents”

    15 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  41. Eleven Years Ago Today Al Gore Predicted the Pole Completely ICE Free in 5 Years

    15 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  42. The Whale Who Will Come Soon

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  43. CNN: Don't ignore this: Covid19 is getting worse. What happens next is up to you

    15 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  44. Robin Williams suffered with undiagnosed Lewy body dementia before suicide

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  45. Ye olde Substack: publishing’s hot new business model has 17th-century origins

    15 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  46. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  47. Tell HN: Signal Is Down Again

    15 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  48. SymQEMU: Compilation-based symbolic execution for binaries

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  49. Ask HN: Communities for Staff+ Engineers?

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  50. DarkMarket, the Web's Biggest Darknet, Just Got Taken Down

    15 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  51. We Will Soon Have Sentient Sex Robots. Will They Be Able to Consent?

    15 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  52. Tilt Brush is now open source

    15 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  53. Contra Weyl on Technocracy

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  54. Authoritarianism Through Coding: Signal

    15 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  55. Men Accuse Lincoln Project Co-Founder of Online Harassment

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  56. AWS in space: A mesh network with microservers that no earth entity can block

    15 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  57. Chinese billionaires and CEOs keep disappearing in state-sanctioned abductions

    15 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  58. The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  59. The Bleak Future of Positive Thinking

    15 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  60. Incremental Perturbation: How to Know Whether You've Got a Plot or Not (1999) [pdf]

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  61. Mothers of children with autism have ‘significantly different’ metabolite levels

    15 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  62. Hydroxychloroquine-mediated inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 entry attenuated by TMPRSS2

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  63. Covid-19: 'Major Incident' Declared by London Mayor Sadiq Khan

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  64. Alan Kay responds

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  65. Video Shows Blue UFO Falling into Ocean in Hawaii

    15 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  66. Parler helped the FBI identify at least one person charged with the Capitol riot

    15 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  67. Malwarebytes said it was hacked by the same group who breached SolarWinds

    15 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  68. Ask HN: What are you planning to unlearn in 2021?

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  69. Use Streamdeck on Linux

    15 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  70. Multipole Radiation Shielding – First Generation Star Trek Shield

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  71. The Lost History of an American Coup D’État

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  72. Ask HN: Should I switch from Chargebee to Paddle for my SaaS?

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  73. Tim Cook Implies Facebook's Business Model Leads to Polarization and Violence

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  74. What Happened When Henry James and Oscar Wilde Met (2015)

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  75. I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  76. My 2020 Apple Report Card

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  77. Fascist America, in 10 easy steps Naomi Wolf (2007)

    15 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  78. Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband–so he built his own fiber ISP

    15 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  79. Amazon Pantry is being discontinued as Amazon consolidates delivery services

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  80. OpenAI Multimodal Research

    15 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  81. Pharmacist Arrested, Accused of Destroying More Than 500 Moderna Vaccine Doses

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  82. Microcode-Level Calculator Simulation (2004) [pdf]

    15 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  83. The Schmidt insect sting pain index

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  84. According to lawsuit, Subway’s tuna sandwiches contain “no scintilla of tuna”

    15 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  85. Building Clusters with Serf.io (and Fly.io)

    15 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  86. Apple dropping Lightning port would create 'unprecedented amount of e-waste'

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  87. Does expensive wine taste better?

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  88. Hammers and Nails, and Operator Overloads

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  89. Users Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook

    15 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  90. Huygens, senior and junior

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  91. GitHub Director of engineering openly encourages racism

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  92. A faster file programming language detector

    15 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  93. Robinhood auto sold people's positions

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  94. Robinhood is now limiting users to 1 share of GameStop, has restricted trading

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  95. Ask HN: Is there a quick summary of how much tax various corporations pay?

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  96. Time to Walk: An inspiring audio walking experience comes to Apple Fitness+

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  97. CDC scientists were “diminished” and “muzzled” under Trump, new director says

    15 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  98. I think the Dakotas are already at herd immunity

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  99. RSS Bandwidth Fixes

    15 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  100. Measurements of sky's blackness show only hundreds of billions of galaxies

    15 points • comment • jan 14, 2021