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Hacker News (Jan 2021)
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Who Are the Biggest Political Donors?
6 points • comment • jan 23, 2021
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Everyone Should Be Concerned About Parler Being Booted from the Internet
6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Florida state rep requests gov divest from Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Google and FB
6 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Clearview AI facial id usage spiked as police seeks to identify Capitol mob
6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Jim Simons Proved the Textbooks Wrong – Almost
6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Windows 10 Bug That Can Corrupt Hard Drives
6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Open source is stifling progress
6 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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US declares Xiaomi a “Communist Chinese military company,” bans investments
6 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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Night of the Long Knives
6 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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So-Called “Consent Searches” Harm Our Digital Rights
6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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“Baby-making machines”: Chinese tweet on Uygurs not against Twitter rules
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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AMD Smashes Earnings Records, Chip Shortages to Last Until Second Half of 2021
6 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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Assange will not be extradited, rules judge
6 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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The Line Between Choosing Your Own Customers and Censorship
6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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US Declares China Is Commiting Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang
6 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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The $1T dollar ML model (transcript)
6 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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No, it’s not proof of “bias” when social media companies enforce their rules
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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SSB Drive – a decentralized file system over Secure Scuttlebutt
6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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A piece of California's Highway 1 near Big Sur collapsed into the ocean
6 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court
6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Location broker X-Mode continues to track users despite app store bans
6 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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You Need More Lumens
6 points • comment • jan 24, 2021
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North Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter
6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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US Army PsyOps Officer Under Investigation for Involvement in Capitol Riots
6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Apple blocks users from sideloading iOS apps on M1 Macs
6 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Ask HN: What are the best podcast episodes on software engineering?
6 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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DOSBox Pure for RetroArch aims to simplify classic MS-DOS gaming
6 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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French self-esteem hit after Pasteur Institute abandons Covid vaccine
6 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next)
6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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PBS NEWS Counsel calls for re-education camps for children of opposition
6 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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End-to-End Arguments in System Design (1984) [pdf]
6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media
6 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Show HN: Reddit Meets Twitter for Finance
6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Not Easy, Not Unreasonable, Not Censorship
6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Ask HN: Our client is abusive, What can we do?
6 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook
6 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Tesla delivers nearly 500k vehicles in 2020
6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Is it time to reopen technology’s cold cases?
6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you manage and budget your monthly income
6 points • comment • jan 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Elm, PureScript, or ReasonML for a FP course?
6 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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A Look at iMessage in iOS 14
6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to Covid-19
6 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week
6 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry
6 points • comment • jan 01, 2021
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Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce to develop Covid-19 vaccination digital passport
6 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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A Story in 3 Parts
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Robinhood now limiting trading in 50 stocks, incl. GM, Beyond Meat, Starbucks
6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Down Detector showing large number of Google and AWS services are down
6 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Ask HN: How many of you have “repost” on HN?
6 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Lease: Use time bound leases for cluster nodes to coordinate their activities
6 points • comment • jan 18, 2021
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Tell HN: Thank You Tech Workers for a “More Perfect” Union
6 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Constant Folding in Python
6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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SSH Is the New GPG. Not Really. But Kind Of? – By Dan Lorenc
6 points • comment • jan 25, 2021
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Joern – Open-Source Code Querying Engine for C/C++
6 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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Show HN: I made a specialized calculator to help with my gameboy emulator
5 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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Der Spiegel's June Cover
5 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Facebook and YouTube remove Trump video
5 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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A Rare Menu That Tells the Truth: The Pork? Greasy. The Beef? Meh
5 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Ask HN: Antivirus for Linux?
5 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists
5 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Feynman?
5 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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For mRNA vaccines, we should stick to the schedule
5 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Trump says he will look at creating his own platform after Twitter ban
5 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes
5 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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U.K. Regulator Warns Crypto Investors Risk Losing ‘All Their Money’
5 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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Building a Stereoscopic Camera with the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module
5 points • comment • jan 22, 2021
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DARPA to use nucleic acid sequences to stop pandemics in
5 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult
5 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Why Negotiating Is Just Like Doing Squats
5 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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An alien machine already visited us, Harvard astrophysicist still contends
5 points • comment • jan 08, 2021
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As Donald Trump exits, QAnon takes hold in Germany
5 points • comment • jan 20, 2021
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Google 'throwing its weight around' by burying links to some news sites
5 points • comment • jan 15, 2021
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Why Is Big Tech Policing Free Speech? Because the Government Isn’t
5 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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Bitcoin vs. Nano
5 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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New Tel Aviv University study reveals 'Achilles' heel of cancer cells
5 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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FounderZ – Free app to manage your investor courting process
5 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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Amazon Launches $2bn Housing Equity Fund to Make 20k Homes
5 points • comment • jan 06, 2021
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Singapore police may access Covid-19 contact tracing data for other purposes
5 points • comment • jan 04, 2021
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Twitter Insider Secretly Records Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
5 points • comment • jan 14, 2021
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Singapore Covid tracing data available to police
5 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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Ask HN: PWA Push Notifications for iOS?
5 points • comment • jan 13, 2021
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Chess Boxing
5 points • comment • jan 29, 2021
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The GameStop surge is just another Ponzi scheme
5 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Mathias Rust
5 points • comment • jan 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Beginner Guide to IRC?
5 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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Ask HN: What do you think of my strategy to change my field of work?
5 points • comment • jan 12, 2021
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Parler transfers domain name to Epik
5 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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First vegan michelin star in France
5 points • comment • jan 21, 2021
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Nvidia's VXGI zip file most likely has a virus in it
5 points • comment • jan 11, 2021
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A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling
5 points • comment • jan 17, 2021
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Third of rivers in US found to be changing from blue to green and yellow
5 points • comment • jan 05, 2021
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A healthy microbiome builds a strong immune system that could help defeat Covid
5 points • comment • jan 30, 2021
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Apple to Roll Out Privacy Measures Despite Facebook Objections
5 points • comment • jan 28, 2021
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Readable Bash Scripts
5 points • comment • jan 09, 2021
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Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump
5 points • comment • jan 19, 2021
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NMAP project latest victim of Google’s ‘wrongful blocking’ of cybersec resources
5 points • comment • jan 27, 2021
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How to stop another 'Day Zero'
5 points • comment • jan 26, 2021
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What Is the Next Big Risk?
5 points • comment • jan 16, 2021
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McConnell, Pelosi homes vandalized after $2k relief fails
5 points • comment • jan 03, 2021
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My Biggest Regret in Life: Going to College
5 points • comment • jan 02, 2021