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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. What do I do when they simply refuse to do what I am asking them to do? (2015)

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  2. Why 1920s L.A. Went Wild for an 18th-Century Scottish Novelist

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  3. Magnetically Assisted Gears

    15 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  4. Don't Rely on Motivation

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  5. Right Forge

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  6. Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  7. Top Ranked Tweets on Hacker News 2020

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  8. The GameStop Short Squeeze

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  9. The White House Launches the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative

    15 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  10. DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

    15 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  11. Former Sen. Barbara Boxer is now working for a Chinese surveillance firm

    15 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  12. Paris approves plan to turn Champs-Élysées into 'extraordinary garden'

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  13. Twitter Locks Out Chinese Embassy in U.S. over Post on Uighurs

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  14. The Outsiders (1987)

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  15. Front-End Development Roadmap for 2021

    15 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  16. So, You’ve OK’d Shrooms and Defunded the Police. Now What?

    15 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  17. Independent Audit: Insights into the Source Code of Boxcryptor

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  18. Rep. Nunes Calls for Racketeering Investigation into Big Tech Companies

    14 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  19. .NET's defective browser detection causing DoS

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  20. The Risk Makers: The nuclear, auto, and food industries

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  21. James Murdoch says US media 'lies' unleashed 'insidious forces'

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  22. Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  23. Twitter Bans over 70k QAnon Accounts in Conspiracy Crackdown

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  24. Autumn Covid-19 surge dates in Europe point to Vitamin D as contributing factor

    14 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  25. US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters

    14 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  26. A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  27. Cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline and Alberta's oil dependent economy

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  28. American woman who ‘unsettled the public’ with Twitter thread will be deported

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  29. Royalty-Free Music and SFX

    14 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  30. Ask HN: How to find a new role as a very senior software engineer?

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  31. Reflections on 2020 as an Independent Researcher

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  32. Reminder: iMessage Not Meaningfully E2E

    14 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  33. Monthlong denial-of-service against PyPI

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  34. Slack Is Down?

    14 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  35. Ban.ai Public Access Multics

    14 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  36. The new mosquito bringing disease to North America

    14 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  37. Pulumi vs. Terraform – Hypergrowth in the Valley

    14 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  38. National Guard activated as mobs breach U.S. Capitol; D.C. mayor imposes curfew

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  39. Texas DPS mistakenly sends out Amber Alert for Chucky doll

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  40. Xiaomi shares fall 10% as U.S. adds smartphone-maker to ‘blacklist’

    14 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  41. DisCO is an organisational model for cooperative groups

    14 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  42. Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus Torvalds

    14 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  43. The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  44. Creating iOS Application Icons with SwiftUI

    14 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  45. Linux Struck by Exploitable Root Access Sudo Vulnerability, Patch ASAP

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  46. New battery chemistry results in first rechargeable zinc-air battery

    14 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  47. Ask HN: How do I make technical contributions to a meaningful cause

    14 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  48. Evidence supports SARS-CoV-2 was in Italy as early as Nov 2019

    14 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  49. The first Locha Mesh's Turpial dev-kits in the wild

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  50. Richard Liebowitz Benchslapped and Sanctioned After Lying Under Oath

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  51. Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  52. Reddit Announces Partnership with Ethereum

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  53. Merkel finds Twitter suspension of Trump account 'problematic'

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  54. DuckDuckGo Advertising for Signal on Twitter

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  55. Why Google needs to build an open chat client like Elemen

    14 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  56. Making Pandemic-proof live Theatre

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Why is desktop computing still so slow?

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  58. App makers explore desperate measures to dodge Apple privacy rules

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  59. Google Union Condemns YouTube for Not Suspending Donald Trump

    14 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  60. The nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  61. xkcd Color Survey Results (2010)

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  62. GameStop stock up 92.7% today

    14 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  63. RIAA Defeats False DMCA Takedown Notice Claims in Court

    14 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  64. Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble

    14 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  65. HODL

    14 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  66. Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski

    14 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  67. Telegram, Pro-Democracy Tool, Struggles over New Fans from Far Right

    14 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  68. China will nationalize Alibaba after Jack Ma criticized the party

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  69. Server-side code is doing too much

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  70. Tesla Model Y Achieves 5-Star Overall Safety Rating from NHTSA

    14 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  71. We Already Experienced an Era of Fake News 100 Years Ago – and Solved It

    14 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  72. The Armenian Alphabet

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  73. Why markets boomed in a year of human misery

    14 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  74. Ask HN: Tell me why wallstreebets is wrong

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  75. Syntropy Stack – The Future of Programmable Networking

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  76. Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre (2009) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  77. Apple Mac Mini (M1): One More Thing

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  78. $5k electric motorcycle is a cast aluminum frame

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  79. Representing and Editing JSON with Spreadsheets (2018)

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  80. Apple Warns on Danger of iPhone 12 Handset to Some Users

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  81. How to Care for Aging Parents When You Can’t Be There

    14 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  82. Happy Birthday, Wikipedia

    14 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  83. Mouse-free home with an AI powered cat flap

    14 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  84. EU sets out plans to curb reliance on dollar in post-Trump era

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  85. Double setup for encrypted email on iOS/macOS: via S/MIME and PGP

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  86. Carver Silver Seven Mono Vacuum Tube Power Amplifier Reviewed (1990)

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  87. American Who Spied on U.S. Moves to Israel

    14 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  88. Parler is back up using DDoS-Guard. All its data now flows through Russia

    14 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  89. TSMC to Spend Record $28 Billion on Advanced Chips / Capacity

    14 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  90. Pilot Report: My 737 Max Simulator Ride

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  91. Google enforces 3rd-party cookies on Drive

    14 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  92. Track Biden

    14 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  93. The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine

    14 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  94. Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier

    14 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  95. Pro-Trump Mob Livestreamed Its Rampage, and Made Money Doing It

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  96. A new WSJ op-ed on how Big Tech is threatening the Constitution

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  97. Samsung Internet blows Chrome out of the water

    14 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  98. Notes on Technology in the 2020s

    14 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  99. Blue Check Homes

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  100. Show HN: Check if a GitHub repo is open to contributions

    14 points • comment • jan 02, 2021