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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update

    345 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  2. Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion

    345 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  3. Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them

    343 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  4. Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

    343 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  5. Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England

    341 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  6. Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)

    340 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  7. The high price of mistrust

    340 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  8. What Is Social Cooling?

    340 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  9. How to increase your luck surface area (2010)

    340 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  10. A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes

    339 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  11. Theranos destroyed subpoenaed SQL blood test database, prosecutors say

    339 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  12. Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading

    337 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  13. Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store

    336 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  14. Wasmer 1.0

    336 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  15. Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic

    336 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  16. How to Stop Endless Discussions

    335 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  17. Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”

    334 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  18. Show HN: I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs.

    334 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  19. Firefox Relay

    332 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  20. Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union

    332 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  21. Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform

    331 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  22. Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine

    329 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  23. 20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy

    329 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  24. Why cancer cells waste so much energy

    329 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  25. Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos

    328 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  26. Ask HN: Do we need a Google Customers Union? Could it work?

    328 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  27. Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)

    327 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  28. Malware on My Android Phone

    327 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  29. E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper

    327 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  30. Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t

    327 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  31. U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years

    327 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  32. The Yale Manual for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy of Depression

    327 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  33. Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS mesh communicator

    326 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  34. How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products

    326 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  35. Everything you need to know to design your own CNC router

    325 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  36. Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down

    325 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  37. State machines are wonderful tools

    324 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  38. The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available

    323 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  39. CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate targets, study finds

    323 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  40. Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly

    322 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  41. New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency

    321 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  42. Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP

    321 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  43. Introducing Open Web Docs

    319 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  44. This Anime Does Not Exist

    319 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  45. WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore

    319 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  46. Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming

    319 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  47. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020

    318 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  48. Computer System Engineering

    318 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  49. Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu

    318 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  50. Study: All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug offence should be released

    317 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  51. Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet

    315 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  52. Scipy Lecture Notes

    314 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  53. Escaping VirtualBox 6.1: Part 1

    313 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  54. How hard should I push myself?

    313 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  55. Signal gaining popularity in India after WhatsApp policy changes

    313 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  56. Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts

    312 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  57. U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings time permanent

    312 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  58. Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

    311 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  59. A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for Capitol IT

    310 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  60. Signal Is Back

    310 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  61. Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught

    310 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  62. GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust

    309 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  63. An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)

    308 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  64. Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states

    308 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  65. Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

    308 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  66. The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance

    308 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  67. That's not how 2FA works

    307 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  68. Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption

    306 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  69. Build Your Own Text Editor

    306 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  70. Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE

    306 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  71. Dungeon Magazine

    306 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  72. Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)

    305 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  73. LZ4 – Extremely fast compression

    305 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  74. Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own safety

    305 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  75. Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020

    305 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  76. Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide

    304 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  77. Can't uninstall Adobe apps without an account (2018)

    303 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  78. A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2

    303 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  79. Free Math Books

    303 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  80. FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week

    302 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  81. PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter

    301 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  82. DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy

    300 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  83. Parisian Accent in 1912

    299 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  84. Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds

    299 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  85. Philly scientist behind COVID vaccine tech was demoted by UPenn

    299 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  86. We need a new media system

    298 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  87. Rust is a hard way to make a web API

    298 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  88. Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans

    298 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  89. Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

    298 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  90. Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’

    296 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  91. Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint

    295 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  92. I made Deskreen, open source app to make any device a second screen for computer

    295 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  93. Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?

    295 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  94. Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees

    295 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  95. How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?

    294 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  96. McDonald’s Theory on How Best to Rescue Conversations

    293 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  97. The Battle of GameStop

    293 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  98. Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)

    293 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  99. Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models

    293 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  100. Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack

    292 points • comment • jan 25, 2021