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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Who Are the Biggest Political Donors?

    6 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  2. Everyone Should Be Concerned About Parler Being Booted from the Internet

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  3. Florida state rep requests gov divest from Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Google and FB

    6 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  4. Clearview AI facial id usage spiked as police seeks to identify Capitol mob

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  5. Jim Simons Proved the Textbooks Wrong – Almost

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  6. Windows 10 Bug That Can Corrupt Hard Drives

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  7. Open source is stifling progress

    6 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  8. US declares Xiaomi a “Communist Chinese military company,” bans investments

    6 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  9. Night of the Long Knives

    6 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  10. So-Called “Consent Searches” Harm Our Digital Rights

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  11. “Baby-making machines”: Chinese tweet on Uygurs not against Twitter rules

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  12. AMD Smashes Earnings Records, Chip Shortages to Last Until Second Half of 2021

    6 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  13. Assange will not be extradited, rules judge

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  14. The Line Between Choosing Your Own Customers and Censorship

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  15. US Declares China Is Commiting Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang

    6 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  16. The $1T dollar ML model (transcript)

    6 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  17. No, it’s not proof of “bias” when social media companies enforce their rules

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  18. SSB Drive – a decentralized file system over Secure Scuttlebutt

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  19. A piece of California's Highway 1 near Big Sur collapsed into the ocean

    6 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  20. All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  21. Location broker X-Mode continues to track users despite app store bans

    6 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  22. You Need More Lumens

    6 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  23. North Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  24. US Army PsyOps Officer Under Investigation for Involvement in Capitol Riots

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  25. Apple blocks users from sideloading iOS apps on M1 Macs

    6 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  26. Ask HN: What are the best podcast episodes on software engineering?

    6 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  27. DOSBox Pure for RetroArch aims to simplify classic MS-DOS gaming

    6 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  28. French self-esteem hit after Pasteur Institute abandons Covid vaccine

    6 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  29. The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next)

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  30. PBS NEWS Counsel calls for re-education camps for children of opposition

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  31. End-to-End Arguments in System Design (1984) [pdf]

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  32. Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media

    6 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  33. Show HN: Reddit Meets Twitter for Finance

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  34. Not Easy, Not Unreasonable, Not Censorship

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  35. Ask HN: Our client is abusive, What can we do?

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  36. Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook

    6 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  37. Tesla delivers nearly 500k vehicles in 2020

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  38. Is it time to reopen technology’s cold cases?

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  39. Ask HN: How do you manage and budget your monthly income

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  40. Ask HN: Elm, PureScript, or ReasonML for a FP course?

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  41. A Look at iMessage in iOS 14

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  42. Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to Covid-19

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

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

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  44. A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  45. Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce to develop Covid-19 vaccination digital passport

    6 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  46. A Story in 3 Parts

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  47. Robinhood now limiting trading in 50 stocks, incl. GM, Beyond Meat, Starbucks

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  48. Down Detector showing large number of Google and AWS services are down

    6 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  49. Ask HN: How many of you have “repost” on HN?

    6 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  50. Lease: Use time bound leases for cluster nodes to coordinate their activities

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  51. Tell HN: Thank You Tech Workers for a “More Perfect” Union

    6 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  52. Constant Folding in Python

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  53. SSH Is the New GPG. Not Really. But Kind Of? – By Dan Lorenc

    6 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  54. Joern – Open-Source Code Querying Engine for C/C++

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  55. Show HN: I made a specialized calculator to help with my gameboy emulator

    5 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  56. Der Spiegel's June Cover

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  57. Facebook and YouTube remove Trump video

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  58. A Rare Menu That Tells the Truth: The Pork? Greasy. The Beef? Meh

    5 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Antivirus for Linux?

    5 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  60. The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists

    5 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  61. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Feynman?

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  62. For mRNA vaccines, we should stick to the schedule

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  63. Trump says he will look at creating his own platform after Twitter ban

    5 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  64. Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes

    5 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  65. U.K. Regulator Warns Crypto Investors Risk Losing ‘All Their Money’

    5 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  66. Building a Stereoscopic Camera with the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module

    5 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  67. DARPA to use nucleic acid sequences to stop pandemics in

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  68. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  69. Why Negotiating Is Just Like Doing Squats

    5 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  70. An alien machine already visited us, Harvard astrophysicist still contends

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  71. As Donald Trump exits, QAnon takes hold in Germany

    5 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  72. Google 'throwing its weight around' by burying links to some news sites

    5 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  73. Why Is Big Tech Policing Free Speech? Because the Government Isn’t

    5 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  74. Bitcoin vs. Nano

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  75. New Tel Aviv University study reveals 'Achilles' heel of cancer cells

    5 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  76. FounderZ – Free app to manage your investor courting process

    5 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  77. Amazon Launches $2bn Housing Equity Fund to Make 20k Homes

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  78. Singapore police may access Covid-19 contact tracing data for other purposes

    5 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  79. Twitter Insider Secretly Records Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  80. Singapore Covid tracing data available to police

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  81. Ask HN: PWA Push Notifications for iOS?

    5 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  82. Chess Boxing

    5 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  83. The GameStop surge is just another Ponzi scheme

    5 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  84. Mathias Rust

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  85. Ask HN: Beginner Guide to IRC?

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  86. Ask HN: What do you think of my strategy to change my field of work?

    5 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  87. Parler transfers domain name to Epik

    5 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  88. First vegan michelin star in France

    5 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  89. Nvidia's VXGI zip file most likely has a virus in it

    5 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  90. A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  91. Third of rivers in US found to be changing from blue to green and yellow

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  92. A healthy microbiome builds a strong immune system that could help defeat Covid

    5 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  93. Apple to Roll Out Privacy Measures Despite Facebook Objections

    5 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  94. Readable Bash Scripts

    5 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  95. Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump

    5 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  96. NMAP project latest victim of Google’s ‘wrongful blocking’ of cybersec resources

    5 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  97. How to stop another 'Day Zero'

    5 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  98. What Is the Next Big Risk?

    5 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  99. McConnell, Pelosi homes vandalized after $2k relief fails

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  100. My Biggest Regret in Life: Going to College

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2021