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Hacker News (Jan 2021)

  1. Local rules instead of global censorship

    199 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  2. Europe's Vaccine Disaster

    198 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  3. Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution

    198 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  4. Intel is dying and we can’t save it

    198 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  5. Robinhood Said to Get 40% Revenue from HFT Firms Like Citadel (2018)

    197 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  6. Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content

    197 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  7. IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv

    197 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  8. AstraZeneca/EU contract

    197 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  9. Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

    197 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  10. Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

    197 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  11. Show HN: OpenScan – open-source document scanner app

    197 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  12. TeaVM: Build Fast, Modern Web Apps in Java

    197 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  13. A new release for GNU Octave

    196 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  14. The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)

    196 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  15. .NET GC Internals mini-series

    196 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  16. If you want peace, study war

    196 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  17. Site.js: Small Web construction set

    196 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  18. Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews

    195 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  19. Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016)

    195 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  20. China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub

    195 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  21. Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations

    195 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  22. Vancouver seaplane company to resume test flights with electric plane

    194 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  23. My preferred .NET console stack

    194 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  24. StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails

    194 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  25. Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions?

    194 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  26. German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'

    194 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  27. Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines

    194 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  28. A Map of Mathematics

    193 points • comment • jan 26, 2021

  29. Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers

    193 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  30. What am I running inside my bash? (2014)

    193 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  31. Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images

    193 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  32. My Entire company Gsuite access has been banned

    192 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  33. Is Everything Securities Fraud?

    192 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  34. Feds asks Tesla to recall vehicles over failing touchscreen displays

    192 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  35. Software That Sucks Less

    192 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  36. Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation

    192 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  37. Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)

    191 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  38. Show HN: Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs

    191 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  39. India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’

    191 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  40. AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks

    191 points • comment • jan 15, 2021

  41. TimeTagger: Open-Source Time Tracker

    191 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  42. What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?

    190 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  43. SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others

    190 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  44. Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon?

    190 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  45. React created roadblocks in our enterprise app

    190 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  46. EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance

    190 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  47. Android Ported to RISC-V

    189 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  48. Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC

    189 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  49. George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?

    189 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  50. Learn Go in five minutes

    189 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  51. Show HN: My multiplayer custom-engine game that loads in less than a second

    189 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  52. OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

    189 points • comment • jan 07, 2021

  53. Paint.wtf

    188 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  54. Reddit's GameStop stock surge is a terrifying new Occupy Wall Street

    188 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  55. Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups

    188 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  56. Most of the time, you don’t really need another MOOC

    188 points • comment • jan 27, 2021

  57. Debian discusses vendoring again

    188 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  58. How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis

    188 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  59. ProtonMail, Tutanota urging EU to reconsider encryption rules

    187 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  60. Introduction to Window Functions in SQL

    187 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  61. We Don't Sell Ads (2012)

    187 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  62. Best of HN 2020

    186 points • comment • jan 01, 2021

  63. RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V

    186 points • comment • jan 31, 2021

  64. Show HN: Handel – A procedural programming language for writing songs in browser

    186 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  65. The richer you are, the more likely you’ll social distance, study finds

    186 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  66. Shift to Remote Work Based on 7k HN Who Is Hiring Posts

    186 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  67. Monarch butterfly population in California spirals to another record low

    186 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  68. Ask HN: Which are the best Go repositories to read to learn the language?

    185 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  69. Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)

    185 points • comment • jan 06, 2021

  70. Why webcams aren’t good enough

    185 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  71. Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

    185 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  72. The Lab Leak Hypothesis

    185 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  73. Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

    184 points • comment • jan 10, 2021

  74. Are Experts Real?

    184 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  75. Mysterious helicopters have been circling Los Angeles

    184 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  76. The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life (1999)

    184 points • comment • jan 16, 2021

  77. Electric cars make up 54% of cars sold in Norway in 2020

    184 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  78. Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend?

    184 points • comment • jan 18, 2021

  79. The great bicycle boom of 2020

    183 points • comment • jan 11, 2021

  80. Why Clojure? (2018)

    183 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  81. Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing

    183 points • comment • jan 25, 2021

  82. How to Be Clear

    183 points • comment • jan 28, 2021

  83. Dockerfile Best Practices

    183 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

  84. Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies

    183 points • comment • jan 20, 2021

  85. Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing

    182 points • comment • jan 19, 2021

  86. Show HN: Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking”

    182 points • comment • jan 08, 2021

  87. It’s time for police to stop lying to suspects

    182 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  88. Deep neck flexor exercises – Back and neck

    182 points • comment • jan 09, 2021

  89. Johnson and Johnson single-shot vaccine appears 66% effective in global trial

    182 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  90. CIA Releases UFO Documents

    182 points • comment • jan 13, 2021

  91. Analysis: Robinhood protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress

    182 points • comment • jan 30, 2021

  92. Why cats are crazy for catnip

    181 points • comment • jan 21, 2021

  93. A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines

    181 points • comment • jan 05, 2021

  94. ffscreencast – a screencast CLI-tool with video overlay and multimonitor support

    181 points • comment • jan 24, 2021

  95. Access Control for GitHub Pages

    181 points • comment • jan 22, 2021

  96. CS631: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

    181 points • comment • jan 14, 2021

  97. Quitting a New Job

    181 points • comment • jan 04, 2021

  98. When parties reverse their stance, supporters immediately switch their opinions

    181 points • comment • jan 17, 2021

  99. Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship

    181 points • comment • jan 12, 2021

  100. We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

    180 points • comment • jan 26, 2021