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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. J. M. Keynes and the Visible Hands

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  2. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: We Set a ‘Dangerous’ Precedent by Banning Trump

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  3. Quit Your Job: Live Abroad 2021: 9 Places So Cheap You Might Not Need to Work

    7 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  4. Accelerating JPEG Coding with Multiple Threads

    7 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  5. Elon Musk blasts Bezos’ Amazon, alleging effort to hamstring SpaceX’s Starlink

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  6. Avian Visual Behavior and the Organization of the Telencephalon

    7 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  7. Pasted all the “text” from JPG with Notepad to a new file but it no longer opens

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  8. Merck to stop developing its two Covid-19 vaccines

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  9. See how trackers view the browser

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

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

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  11. In remote U.P., ham radio helps Michiganders connect amid isolation

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  12. Facebook Escalates Attack on Socialist Left

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  13. Ask HN: What technology has mass adoption ruined?

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  14. History will not remember us fondly

    7 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  15. Monitoring your home lab devices in the cloud for free

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  16. Elections Have Tax Consequences [pdf]

    7 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  17. Pelosi consults with Pentagon about preventing Trump from using nuclear codes

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  18. Law enforcement gets around your phone’s encryption

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  19. Analysing your home network with NMAP (2019)

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  20. Webpack Internals and Plugin Architecture

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  21. Federally Chartered Banks May Use Stablecoins

    7 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  22. SpaceX Launches Starlink Satellites to Polar Orbit to Provide Internet in Alaska

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  23. Keeping Watch over Seabirds at the World’s Edge

    7 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  24. Tim Cook calls out Facebook's business model, says it leads to violence

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  25. On its 20th birthday, Wikipedia might be safest place online

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  26. California suspends pollution-control limits to deal with backlog in cremations

    7 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  27. Facebook Forced Its Employees to Stop Discussing Trump's Coup Attempt

    7 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  28. The Reddit Crowd Targets the Hedge Funds

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  29. Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  30. Hacker News

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  31. Twitter Bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon Account Purge

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  32. GameStop Frenzy Puts Spotlight on Trading Giant Citadel Securities

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  33. Single-primitive authenticated encryption for fun

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  34. Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  35. Automated Driving: An overview of legislation, regulations, and standards

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  36. Attempting (and Failing) to Escape Google (2020)

    6 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  37. Covid-19 can reduce men's ability to reproduce

    6 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  38. Linux distributors frustrated by Google's new Chromium web browser restrictions

    6 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  39. The FBI Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement (2017)

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  40. Report suggests a critical flaw in Bitcoin called 'double spend'

    6 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  41. Trump Pardons Embattled Self-Driving Engineer Anthony Levandowski

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  42. Twitter does not take down Death Threats from Iran

    6 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  43. Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  44. The Spectator Fact Checking The New York Times

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  45. Show HN: Pollen, utility-first CSS for the future

    6 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  46. Zone of Death (Yellowstone)

    6 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  47. The Great Unraveling

    6 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  48. The 9.9 Percent is the New American Aristocracy (2018)

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  49. Swiss SIX Exchange lists BTCetc Bitcoin ETP, a new crypto ETP product

    6 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  50. Show HN: Easily build Rasa assistant UIs in React

    6 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  51. Reddit frenzy pumps up Dogecoin

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  52. Biden could curb right-wing extremism with one trick: Ending US' forever war

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  53. Bitcoin tops $34,000 as record-breaking rally resumes

    6 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  54. Breakthrough Allows Inexpensive Electric Vehicle Battery to Charge in 10 Mnts

    6 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  55. Show HN: Version tracker for graphic designers and artists

    6 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  56. Purity and Security: Towards a Cultural History of Plexiglass (2020)

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  57. Misinformation Comes from the Top

    6 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  58. Chinese gang of pangolin smugglers jailed over US$17.6M haul of scales

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  59. The Tweets That Got Trump Banned Were Far from His Worst

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  60. TSMC to Produce Next-Gen Entry, Mid and High-End Intel Core CPUs on 5nm

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  61. Net Neutrality and Big Tech’s Speech Hypocrisy

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  62. Parkinson’s meds are hard to grab, so TikTok users crowdsourced a solution

    6 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  63. Harvard Letter to revoke select graduates connected to President Trump

    6 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  64. Sci-fi writers on how they build their worlds

    6 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  65. Chrome extension great suspended now tracking you

    6 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  66. Ask HN: Which startups treat non-working hours/days with respect?

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  67. Google cutting off API access to Chromium-based browsers

    6 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  68. Building at the Early Stage

    6 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  69. French bean plants show signs of intent, say scientists

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  70. Julian Assange could be freed today as judge blocks extradition to US

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  71. DoH makes it harder for your employer to spy on you

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  72. FDA blindsided as Trump Admin cripples agency on its way out

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  73. Nobody Reads

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  74. Defunctland VR: Experience a Classic Disney Ride 25 Years After It Was Closed

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  75. Covid-19 immunity likely lasts for years

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  76. Twitter condemns censorship caused by Ugandan election results

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  77. Pompeo lifts US-Taiwan restrictions

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  78. The Kamala Harris Article WaPo Tried to Memoryhole

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  79. Elon Musk becomes richest person as wealth tops $185bn

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  80. A public archive of media from or about the Capitol Hill Riot on Jan 6

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  81. Norway Raises Concern over Vaccine Jabs for the Elderly

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  82. Running Scheme on Bare Metal (Experience Report)

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  83. Veblen Goods

    6 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  84. Show HN: Hill Runner – First Game

    6 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  85. WhatsApp delays privacy changes that led to user exodus

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  86. Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration – UT News

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  87. As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  88. A Game Designer’s Analysis of QAnon

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  89. Google workers across globe announce union alliance to hold Alphabet accountable

    6 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  90. AWS down again, Slack, Zoom and Notion affected. Why sink with it?

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  91. Turkey bans advertising on Twitter and Pinterest under social media law

    6 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  92. The Duplication Process

    6 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  93. For Wars of the Future, Pentagon Looks to the Distant Past: The B-52

    6 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  94. A Parser for SQLite Create Table Statements

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  95. Effect of protein supplementation on resistance training-induced gains in muscle

    6 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  96. Robinhood Restricts Trading

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  97. A Day in the Life of Your Data [pdf]

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  98. General Motors plans to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  99. First preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  100. Fresh from Ganymede (2020)

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2021