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The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2021

We track 1,487 stories from January 2021, averaging 281 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 79 stories. Together they drew 256,925 comments, 173 per story on average.

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Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop twitter.com · Miner49er · 28 Jan 2021
2.7k pts 1.6k comments
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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app arstechnica.com · erwinmatijsen · 6 Jan 2021
2.3k pts 1.1k comments
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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle musclewiki.com · punkspider · 21 Jan 2021
2k pts 329 comments
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Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store twitter.com · redsolver · 29 Jan 2021
2k pts 940 comments
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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests npr.org · fortran77 · 6 Jan 2021
2k pts 2.4k comments
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Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump blog.twitter.com · minimaxir · 8 Jan 2021
2k pts 2k comments
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Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend twitter.com · rbanffy · 3 Jan 2021
1.8k pts 891 comments
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GitHub is fully available in Iran github.blog · todsacerdoti · 5 Jan 2021
1.7k pts 483 comments
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Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup gomox.medium.com · gomox · 16 Jan 2021
1.7k pts 543 comments
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A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize theverge.com · virde · 4 Jan 2021
1.6k pts 1.3k comments
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My Experience at Apple ex-apple-engineer.medium.com · limono · 1 Jan 2021
1.6k pts 778 comments
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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies blog.mozilla.org · todsacerdoti · 26 Jan 2021
1.6k pts 760 comments
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GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked jayfax.neocities.org · jfax · 10 Jan 2021
1.5k pts 724 comments
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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing elastic.co · buro9 · 19 Jan 2021
1.5k pts 681 comments
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A half-hour to learn Rust fasterthanli.me · selvan · 2 Jan 2021
1.4k pts 330 comments
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The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company costplusdrugs.com · yawnxyz · 27 Jan 2021
1.4k pts 807 comments
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TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem omar.website · thesephist · 1 Jan 2021
1.4k pts 235 comments
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Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living callmevlad · 15 Jan 2021
1.4k pts 182 comments
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No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees sahillavingia.com · sahillavingia · 7 Jan 2021
1.3k pts 517 comments
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California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement leginfo.legislature.ca.gov · supernova87a · 1 Jan 2021
1.3k pts 620 comments
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AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana aws.amazon.com · ke4qqq · 21 Jan 2021
1.3k pts 935 comments
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Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering surma.dev · todsacerdoti · 4 Jan 2021
1.3k pts 200 comments
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What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry bti360.com · FauxDemure · 6 Jan 2021
1.3k pts 354 comments
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DALL·E: Creating Images from Text openai.com · todsacerdoti · 5 Jan 2021
1.3k pts 267 comments
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Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time bugs.xdavidhu.me · g0xA52A2A · 11 Jan 2021
1.2k pts 194 comments
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Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store play.google.com · sschueller · 28 Jan 2021
1.2k pts 523 comments
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IPFS Support in Brave brave.com · alexrustic · 19 Jan 2021
1.2k pts 433 comments
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CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs technologyreview.com · donsupreme · 31 Jan 2021
1.2k pts 654 comments
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Software engineering topics I changed my mind on chriskiehl.com · goostavos · 24 Jan 2021
1.2k pts 686 comments
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Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice community.signalusers.org · decrypt · 13 Jan 2021
1.1k pts 431 comments
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GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine bloomberg.com · tempsy · 27 Jan 2021
1.1k pts 1.1k comments
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML shkspr.mobi · edent · 26 Jan 2021
1.1k pts 378 comments
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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler greenwald.substack.com · amadeuspagel · 12 Jan 2021
1.1k pts 1.8k comments
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Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler nytimes.com · jimmy2020 · 10 Jan 2021
1.1k pts 3.7k comments
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Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while theverge.com · icpmacdo · 27 Jan 2021
1.1k pts 1.2k comments
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ECC matters realworldtech.com · rajesh-s · 3 Jan 2021
1.1k pts 550 comments
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Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair reasonstobecheerful.world · janvdberg · 11 Jan 2021
1k pts 356 comments
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Slack is down status.slack.com · gpmcadam · 4 Jan 2021
989 pts 803 comments
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We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood old.reddit.com · f430 · 28 Jan 2021
982 pts 443 comments
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Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App beeperhq.com · erohead · 20 Jan 2021
962 pts 486 comments
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Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump facebook.com · jaredwiener · 7 Jan 2021
953 pts 1.3k comments
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IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed goodnewsnetwork.org · Beggers1960 · 27 Jan 2021
949 pts 603 comments
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Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store github.com · giuliomagnifico · 1 Jan 2021
946 pts 648 comments
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Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago ignoramous · 11 Jan 2021
945 pts 184 comments
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Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles read.cv · _andychung · 4 Jan 2021
938 pts 358 comments
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Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app” lists.zx2c4.com · motiejus · 13 Jan 2021
926 pts 376 comments
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Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019) nationalgeographic.com · smusamashah · 25 Jan 2021
911 pts 292 comments
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Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy reuters.com · ttt0 · 29 Jan 2021
909 pts 498 comments
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Signal is having technical difficulties status.signal.org · tonymet · 15 Jan 2021
907 pts 720 comments
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Still alive astralcodexten.substack.com · Lewton · 21 Jan 2021
898 pts 342 comments
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I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com · ivank · 27 Jan 2021
895 pts 352 comments
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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers cybernews.com · joiguru · 11 Jan 2021
892 pts 951 comments
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I no longer trust The Great Suspender dafoster.net · davidfstr · 20 Jan 2021
889 pts 371 comments
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Brad Cox has died legacy.com · carlosrg · 22 Jan 2021
884 pts 190 comments
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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea tjcx.me · swyx · 18 Jan 2021
851 pts 385 comments
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Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ nasdaq.com · rasengan · 12 Jan 2021
842 pts 397 comments
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USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment judiciary.uk · yuriko · 4 Jan 2021
814 pts 606 comments
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GitHub Should Start an App Store ankshilp.com · quaintdev · 31 Jan 2021
814 pts 291 comments
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What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not blog.pragmaticengineer.com · gregdoesit · 10 Jan 2021
805 pts 324 comments
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Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2 twitter.com · mortenjorck · 14 Jan 2021
804 pts 347 comments
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