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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021

    255 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  2. Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

    254 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  3. Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube

    254 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  4. An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”

    253 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  5. Skynet – Build a Free Internet

    252 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  6. Make Your Own Internet Archive with Archive Box

    252 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  7. Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

    252 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  8. St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries (516)

    251 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  9. Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?

    251 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  10. Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014)

    251 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  11. What color was “Apple Beige”?

    250 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  12. Replicating GPT-2 at Home

    249 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  13. The Confusing World of USB

    249 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  14. Beaker Browser – experimental peer to peer web browser

    249 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  15. SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks

    249 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  16. How Huawei controls its employees in Europe

    249 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  17. Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?

    248 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  18. All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits

    248 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  19. Split keyboards and how to build them

    247 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  20. Making our new homepage fast and performant

    246 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  21. SpaceX acquires former oil rigs to serve as floating Starship spaceports

    246 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  22. Reviving Old X Code

    246 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  23. PfSense Is Closed Source

    246 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  24. Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”

    246 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  25. Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet

    246 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  26. Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case

    246 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  27. How to open a file in Emacs: a story about Lisp, technology, and human progress

    245 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  28. Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early'

    245 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  29. Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads

    245 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  30. Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid

    244 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  31. Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite

    243 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  32. Show HN: Collection of deep learning implementations with side-by-side notes

    243 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  33. English as She Is Spoke

    243 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  34. SpaceX sends laser-linked Starlinks to the polar orbit

    242 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  35. Idris 2 version 0.3.0

    242 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  36. Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles

    242 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  37. DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation

    242 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  38. Signal AMA on Reddit

    242 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  39. U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

    241 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  40. I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users

    241 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  41. Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth

    240 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  42. Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite

    240 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  43. Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores

    240 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  44. No one knows how much the government can borrow

    240 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  45. OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

    239 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  46. Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular

    239 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  47. Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password

    238 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  48. How to join a team and learn a codebase (2020)

    238 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  49. The Great Unbundling

    238 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  50. The people the suburbs were built for are gone

    237 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  51. Papercraft Models of Computers

    237 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  52. Review broken products instead of new ones

    236 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  53. JetBrain's TeamCity May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack

    236 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  54. Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc

    235 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  55. An Open-Source FPGA-Optimized Out-of-Order RISC-V Soft Processor (2019) [pdf]

    235 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  56. Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes

    235 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  57. Ruby 3, Concurrency and the Ecosystem

    235 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  58. A bit on scaling chess.com's database

    234 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  59. The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall

    234 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  60. Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews

    234 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  61. Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)

    233 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  62. CVE-2021-3011: Key recovery on Google Titan Key

    233 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  63. Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (2014)

    233 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  64. Have we already been visited by aliens?

    233 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  65. Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years

    233 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  66. Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output

    233 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  67. University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty

    232 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  68. Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal

    231 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  69. New campaign targeting security researchers

    231 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  70. Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp?

    231 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  71. Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]

    231 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  72. MuseScore 3.6

    231 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  73. Graphtoy

    231 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  74. Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Aging

    230 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  75. Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies

    230 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  76. The Left-NIMBY Canon

    230 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  77. OpenWifiPass – Open-Source Implementation of Apple's Wi-Fi Password Sharing

    229 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  78. Two Worlds: So Much Prosperity, So Much Skepticism

    229 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  79. Rqlite: The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite

    229 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  80. How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out

    229 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  81. Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

    229 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  82. Peering agreements between Backblaze and Cloudflare

    228 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  83. Predicting Hard Drive Failure with Machine Learning

    228 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  84. Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data

    228 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  85. New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support

    227 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  86. PSD is not my favourite file format (2009)

    227 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  87. "ERROR: could not open temporary file" after upgrade to Mac OS Big Sur

    227 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  88. Java 1.0 Turns 25

    227 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  89. 5G Advocates Renew Attempts to Poach Wi-Fi’s 6GHz Spectrum

    227 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  90. How to leave Google and why

    226 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  91. 2020 Game

    226 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  92. Show HN: Reddit Wallstreetbets Top Leaderboard

    225 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  93. Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect

    225 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  94. Cory Doctorow: IP (2020)

    225 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  95. We’re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union

    225 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  96. 2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices

    225 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  97. NixOS Linux

    224 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  98. Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants

    223 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  99. Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page requests just 21 5xx errors

    223 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  100. Rust Design Patterns as a Book

    223 points • comment • jan 03, 2021