The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2021

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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