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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. France's anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo (2010)

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  2. Dave Barry's Year in Review: 2020

    13 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  3. How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  4. Putin’s Disinformation Campaign Claims Stunning Victory with Capitol Hill ‘Coup’

    13 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  5. Google’s iOS apps haven’t been updated in weeks, as of December 8

    13 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

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

    13 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  7. GitHub fired a Jewish employee who suggested 'Nazis are about' on day of siege

    13 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  8. Former Canadian prime minister names Bitcoin as possible reserve currency

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  9. Ask HN: Why isn't email spam solved using Proof of Work yet?

    13 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  10. Counter-Histories of the Internet (2019)

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  11. Why DataStax chose Pulsar over Kafka for their streaming platform

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  12. Show HN: Extension.dev – quickly build custom internal Chrome extensions

    13 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  13. Google takes action against another outspoken A.I. ethics researcher

    13 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  14. IPv4 Flag Day

    13 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  15. New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  16. Third of recovered Covid patients return to hospital in 5 months and 1 in 8 die

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  17. Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?

    13 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  18. Lycurgus Cup

    13 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  19. California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin

    13 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  20. Apple will let Amphetamine app stay in the App Store

    13 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  21. Lenovo Introduces the ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses

    13 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  22. The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt

    13 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

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

    13 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  24. Bitcoin value surges past $30k

    13 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  25. Covid: The effect of treatment with ivermectin on viral load and symptoms

    13 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  26. Off-the-Record Messaging Protocol version 4 draft

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  27. Congresswoman faces calls for arrest for live-tweeting Pelosi's location to riot

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  28. Big Tech’s assault on Parler proves it’s gone full cartel

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  29. Show HN: I built a supportive community for early-stage founders from Europe

    13 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  30. Hthsm: A hierarchical finite state machine framework for keeping C apps tidy

    13 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  31. Cryptography Dispatches: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  32. Sorry Java, Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) Is Now JavaScript

    13 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  33. Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight Covid-19

    13 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  34. Why Haven Healthcare Failed

    13 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  35. People mistakenly invest in SIGL stock amid Signal App popularity increase

    13 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  36. Ketogenic Diet as a Metabolic Treatment for Mental Illness

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  37. Ask HN: Why did YC stop it's podcast/interviews?

    13 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  38. Node.js/V8 dynamic code injection from outside of the process

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  39. Cyberpunk 2077 – Our Commitment to Quality (Apology and Retrospective)

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  40. Y Combinator’s First Batch: Where are they now?

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  41. The Whole Messy, Ridiculous GameStop Saga in One Sentence

    13 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  42. Planned Harvard balloon test in Sweden stirs solar geoengineering unease

    13 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  43. Clarity Smart Contract Language

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  44. Logseq – The Open-Source Note Taking App

    13 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  45. Ask HN: What to Read on Decentralised Networking?

    13 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  46. Lilium to build out infra for flying taxis with 10 vertiports across Florida

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  47. CDC director: federal government does not know how much Covid vaccine the US has

    13 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  48. On Repl-Driven Programming

    13 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  49. Iran government is blaming Bitcoin mining for the blackouts

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  50. Show HN: Ephemere – End-to-end encrypted and ephemeral messaging

    13 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  51. Wikipedia 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future?

    13 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  52. Ask HN: Is it worth to move to another country for 1mil$?

    13 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  53. Unbiquiti FrontRow

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  54. Central Spain records temperatures of -25C after snowstorm

    13 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  55. Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny detained as he returns to Moscow

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  56. Julian Assange Extradition Hearing Live

    13 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  57. How long it would have taken to fuzz recent buffer overflow in sudo?

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  58. SMS Phishing Is Getting Out of Control

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  59. Twitter on social media shutdown, ‘We strongly condemn internet shutdowns’

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  60. Ask HN: Was the housing bubble as ridiculous as we are led to believe?

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  61. The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction

    13 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  62. The Cultural Purge Is Now in Overdrive

    13 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  63. U.S. agencies' trust in untested software opened the door to hackers

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  64. WhatsApp Now Requires Biometric Authentication for Desktop, Web Access

    13 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  65. MGM up for sale for $5B after 'preliminary talks' with Apple failed

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  66. The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle may finally be solved

    13 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  67. Ethics can increase revenue in tech businesses

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  68. Linux Mint fixes screensaver bypass discovered by two kids

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  69. Russian opposition leader Navalny arrested on arrival to Moscow

    13 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  70. Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  71. Baleen Analytics: Large-scale filtering of data provides serendipitous surprises

    13 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  72. MetaRules for Ordinary Meaning

    13 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  73. First They Came

    13 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  74. Bitcoin, GameStop, and the Price of Taking on Wall Street

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  75. Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

    13 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  76. Show HN: TopStonks – The most popular stocks on /r/Wallstreetbets

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  77. European Commission Fines Valve, Publishers for Regional Pricing and GeoBlocking

    13 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  78. Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski

    13 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  79. AWS Machine Learning Manager Is Rooting Out Bias in AI Programs

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  80. Ubuntu 21.04 Will Use Wayland by Default

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  81. WhatsApp Now Requires Biometric Authentication

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  82. Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  83. Sheryl Sandberg, Resign

    13 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  84. GameStop Gains for One Redditor

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  85. Norway warns of fatal side effects of Covid-19 vaccine after elderly deaths

    12 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  86. 'Threat to democracy is real': MPs call for social media code of conduct

    12 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  87. Today is Saturday, September 10000, 1993

    12 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  88. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir (2016)

    12 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  89. How Hominins adapted to a changing world 2M years ago

    12 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  90. Twitch Removes the PogChamp Emote

    12 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  91. Picmunge: An Image-Processing Pipeline

    12 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  92. Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked certain Twitter users

    12 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  93. Starting a Print-on-Demand Business as a Software Engineer

    12 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  94. Ask HN: How many % of Machine Learning projects “fail”?

    12 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  95. Handpose is a palm detector and a hand-skeleton finger tracker

    12 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  96. SimulIDE 0.4.14

    12 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  97. Show HN: Jel, the Video Game for Collaboration

    12 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  98. Bitcoin advocates revolt against administration’s frantic crypto regulations

    12 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  99. 20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decisions

    12 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  100. An Air Purifier May Be the Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Health

    12 points • comment • jan 22, 2021