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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?

    222 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  2. Analyzing the performance of Tensorflow training on M1 Mac Mini and Nvidia V100

    222 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  3. A Week with Plan 9

    221 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  4. Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?

    221 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  5. The Toyota Production System (2013)

    221 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  6. China: The Disappearing Millionaires (2019) [video]

    221 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  7. Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination

    221 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  8. Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules

    221 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  9. Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry

    221 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  10. Twitter acquires Revue

    220 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  11. The Spoon Theory (2003)

    220 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  12. You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner

    220 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  13. Next Gen Static Blogging

    220 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  14. Shorting and Indian capital markets

    219 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  15. A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go

    219 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  16. Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants

    219 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  17. Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games

    219 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  18. Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow

    219 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  19. The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud

    218 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  20. Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps

    218 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  21. The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

    218 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  22. Three reasons fungi are not plants

    218 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  23. A vast web of vengeance

    218 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  24. India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties

    217 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  25. What’s Entering Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby, Music by Duke Ellington

    217 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  26. Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020

    217 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  27. Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months

    216 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  28. My stack is HTML+CSS

    216 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  29. Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur

    215 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  30. A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident

    215 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  31. Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever

    215 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  32. EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts

    215 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  33. The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class

    215 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  34. Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience

    214 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  35. How Tail Call Optimization Works

    214 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  36. js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.

    214 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  37. A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3

    214 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  38. BioNTech CEO applies Covid-19 vaccine's mRNA tech to multiple sclerosis

    213 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  39. Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

    213 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  40. Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship

    213 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  41. We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril

    213 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  42. Deleting Facebook permanently

    213 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  43. The J1 Forth CPU

    212 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  44. Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

    212 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  45. Electric cars are coming fast – is the nation’s grid up to it?

    212 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  46. Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

    212 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  47. Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix

    212 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  48. Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?

    211 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  49. Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)

    211 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  50. India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

    211 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  51. Google Deletes Nearly 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App

    210 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  52. Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left

    210 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  53. Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page

    210 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  54. A rabbit hole full of Lisp

    210 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  55. Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology

    210 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  56. Ask HN: Remote workers in a non-tech city, what's your experience?

    210 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  57. Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)

    209 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  58. Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico

    209 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  59. Our Journey to PostgreSQL 12

    209 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  60. M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports

    209 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  61. Bryan Fogel on why streaming platforms were scared of releasing The Dissident

    209 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  62. Making is show business now (2020)

    209 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  63. Smart contracts on Bitcoin

    209 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  64. PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC

    208 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  65. The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997)

    208 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  66. Danes Get 20-Year 0% Mortgages

    208 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  67. The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned

    208 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  68. Prostate cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with AI

    207 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  69. PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances

    207 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  70. Apple Removes Parler from App Store

    207 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  71. Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

    206 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  72. Flow-Based Programming

    206 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  73. Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties

    206 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  74. F# for fun and profit: Terms and Conditions

    205 points • comment • jan 02, 2021

  75. “Appointment” as professor at Harvard was an elaborate phishing attack

    205 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  76. Signal apps DDoS'ed their own server

    205 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  77. Encrypted Backup Shootout

    204 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  78. Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)

    204 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  79. But how, exactly, do databases use mmap?

    204 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  80. 'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard to Commit to Working Out

    204 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  81. Understanding Connections and Pools

    204 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  82. Qutebrowser 2.0

    204 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  83. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off of Its Web Hosting Service

    203 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  84. Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

    203 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  85. Delta Chat – decentralized chat via email

    203 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  86. Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets

    203 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  87. Vue Native (2018)

    203 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  88. White House wins ruling on disclosing health care prices

    202 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  89. Compilers are hard

    202 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  90. AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to block purchasers of GME

    202 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  91. First atomic clock wristwatch (2003)

    201 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  92. FiOS service disruption in Northeast US

    200 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  93. Native Americans say U.S. does not own land it is about to give to Rio Tinto

    200 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  94. Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit

    200 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  95. A comparison of city building games

    200 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  96. Show HN: 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs

    199 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  97. Show HN: Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)

    199 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  98. Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses

    199 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  99. Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week

    199 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  100. The Platform Is the Enemy

    199 points • comment • jan 10, 2021