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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update
345 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion
345 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
343 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
343 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England
341 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)
340 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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The high price of mistrust
340 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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What Is Social Cooling?
340 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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How to increase your luck surface area (2010)
340 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
339 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Theranos destroyed subpoenaed SQL blood test database, prosecutors say
339 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading
337 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
336 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Wasmer 1.0
336 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic
336 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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How to Stop Endless Discussions
335 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
334 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Show HN: I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs.
334 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Firefox Relay
332 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union
332 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
331 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine
329 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy
329 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Why cancer cells waste so much energy
329 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos
328 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Do we need a Google Customers Union? Could it work?
328 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)
327 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Malware on My Android Phone
327 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper
327 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
327 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years
327 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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The Yale Manual for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy of Depression
327 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS mesh communicator
326 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products
326 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Everything you need to know to design your own CNC router
325 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
325 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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State machines are wonderful tools
324 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available
323 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate targets, study finds
323 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly
322 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency
321 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP
321 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Introducing Open Web Docs
319 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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This Anime Does Not Exist
319 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore
319 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming
319 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020
318 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Computer System Engineering
318 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu
318 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Study: All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug offence should be released
317 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet
315 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Scipy Lecture Notes
314 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Escaping VirtualBox 6.1: Part 1
313 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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How hard should I push myself?
313 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Signal gaining popularity in India after WhatsApp policy changes
313 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts
312 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings time permanent
312 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc
311 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for Capitol IT
310 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Signal Is Back
310 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught
310 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust
309 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
308 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states
308 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model
308 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
308 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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That's not how 2FA works
307 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
306 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Build Your Own Text Editor
306 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE
306 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Dungeon Magazine
306 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)
305 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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LZ4 – Extremely fast compression
305 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own safety
305 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020
305 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide
304 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Can't uninstall Adobe apps without an account (2018)
303 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2
303 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Free Math Books
303 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week
302 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter
301 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy
300 points • comment • jan 07, 2021
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Parisian Accent in 1912
299 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds
299 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Philly scientist behind COVID vaccine tech was demoted by UPenn
299 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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We need a new media system
298 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Rust is a hard way to make a web API
298 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans
298 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA
298 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’
296 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
295 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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I made Deskreen, open source app to make any device a second screen for computer
295 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?
295 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees
295 points • comment • jan 10, 2021
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How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?
294 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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McDonald’s Theory on How Best to Rescue Conversations
293 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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The Battle of GameStop
293 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)
293 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models
293 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack
292 points • comment • jan 25, 2021