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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

    291 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  2. Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust

    291 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  3. DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when state secrets involved

    290 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  4. Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill

    290 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  5. Moral Competence

    290 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  6. How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state

    290 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  7. BladeRF-wiphy: Open-source, software defined radio modem

    289 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  8. Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

    287 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  9. Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

    287 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  10. Fitbit is now officially part of Google

    287 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  11. Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing

    287 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  12. GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy

    285 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  13. Management by metrics leads us astray

    285 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  14. Tether price manipulation

    285 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  15. Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps

    284 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  16. User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy

    283 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  17. East Coast Internet Outage

    283 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  18. Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App

    283 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  19. Solarwind, Fireeye, Microsoft and Cisco leaks are offered for sale

    282 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  20. Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS

    282 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  21. A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown

    281 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  22. CVE Stuffing

    281 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  23. 5nm in the USA: TSMC's Board Approves $3.5B Fab in Arizona

    280 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  24. Show HN: Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor

    280 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  25. “Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”

    280 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  26. Loon’s final flight

    280 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  27. Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

    280 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  28. Ray Tracing in pure CMake

    279 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  29. Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program

    279 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  30. What I Use Instead of Google

    279 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  31. A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

    279 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  32. We Built a Facebook Inspector

    279 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  33. Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water

    279 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  34. Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup

    278 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  35. Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters

    278 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  36. AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech

    277 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  37. Zig in 30 Minutes

    277 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  38. Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations

    277 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  39. NASA's Curiosity rover: 3k days on Mars

    276 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  40. Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard

    275 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  41. Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

    275 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  42. Why I still Lisp

    274 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  43. Working Off-Grid Efficiently

    273 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  44. Show HN: Unclack – a macOS app that mutes your microphone while you type

    273 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  45. Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

    273 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  46. The U.S. Is Building a Bike Trail That Runs Coast-to-Coast Across 12 States

    272 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  47. Indian Government proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals

    271 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  48. Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW

    271 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  49. FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS toolchain

    271 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  50. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

    270 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  51. Getting Started in Robotics

    270 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  52. EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone

    270 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  53. The unsettling truth about the ‘Mostly Harmless’ hiker

    269 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  54. Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040

    268 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  55. Open Letter from Laura Poitras

    267 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  56. US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients

    267 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  57. Getting Started with Signal

    267 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  58. System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021

    267 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  59. The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine

    266 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  60. Build a salary with GitHub Sponsors

    266 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  61. Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B

    265 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  62. Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

    264 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  63. College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too

    264 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  64. The Problem with Gradle

    264 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  65. Julia adoption keeps climbing

    264 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  66. German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance

    264 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  67. Zoom improvements requested by music schools

    264 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  68. Show HN: Amplication – Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API

    263 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  69. Show HN: I made an alarm clock

    263 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  70. New Defaults

    263 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  71. Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'

    263 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  72. Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet

    262 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  73. Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

    262 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  74. Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C

    262 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  75. Europe’s telcos want ‘open’ 5G networks

    262 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  76. TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England

    262 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  77. Epic acquires RAD Game Tools

    262 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  78. Container networking is simple (2020)

    262 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  79. The Great Software Stagnation

    261 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  80. Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?

    261 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  81. Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems

    261 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  82. Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple

    260 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  83. Google Images Restored

    260 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  84. GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report

    260 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  85. Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent

    259 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  86. The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching

    258 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  87. Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter

    258 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  88. Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps

    258 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  89. Otokichi

    257 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  90. London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing

    256 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  91. JupyterLab 3.0

    256 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  92. The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

    256 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  93. When Big Brands Stopped Spending on Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?

    256 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  94. REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library

    255 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  95. Why Learn Prolog in 2021?

    255 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  96. How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021

    255 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  97. Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration

    255 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  98. New six-film series from Adam Curtis

    255 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  99. A Polar Vortex collapse sequence has begun

    255 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  100. Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, a Boeing 737, has disappeared from radar

    255 points • comment • jan 09, 2021