HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

61.

Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2 (twitter.com)

804 points by mortenjorck on Jan 14, 2021 | 347 comments

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Signal WhatsApp Chats Import (github.com)

796 points by janisz on Jan 8, 2021 | 271 comments

63.

Rust for Windows (github.com)

785 points by dsr12 on Jan 21, 2021 | 293 comments

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Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com)

780 points by walterclifford on Jan 18, 2021 | 308 comments

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Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys (github.com)

778 points by subins2000 on Jan 20, 2021 | 329 comments

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Pip has dropped support for Python 2 (pip.pypa.io)

774 points by groodt on Jan 24, 2021 | 673 comments

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Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents (bbc.com)

774 points by alexrustic on Jan 27, 2021 | 348 comments

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Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera (petapixel.com)

753 points by dheera on Jan 2, 2021 | 95 comments

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EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology (eetimes.eu)

752 points by simonpd on Jan 1, 2021 | 478 comments

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If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room (critter.blog)

751 points by mcrittenden on Jan 12, 2021 | 315 comments

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New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects (anandtech.com)

747 points by rbanffy on Jan 21, 2021 | 532 comments

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How to overcome Phone Addiction (cognitiontoday.com)

742 points by Shred77 on Jan 2, 2021 | 298 comments

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Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

740 points by arthurcolle on Jan 20, 2021 | 852 comments

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Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult (bloomberg.com)

735 points by kypro on Jan 28, 2021 | 465 comments

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What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting (theintercept.com)

735 points by danso on Jan 19, 2021 | 211 comments

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WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update (theguardian.com)

733 points by pseudolus on Jan 25, 2021 | 401 comments

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Wikipedia is 20 (economist.com)

733 points by kylebarron on Jan 10, 2021 | 372 comments

78.

HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know (rachelbythebay.com)

730 points by atg_abhishek on Jan 18, 2021 | 458 comments

79.

Null (popey.com)

726 points by JNRowe on Jan 14, 2021 | 191 comments

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GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free (eleuther.ai)

725 points by sieste on Jan 18, 2021 | 252 comments

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Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen (github.com)

723 points by maydemir on Jan 24, 2021 | 199 comments

82.

We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers (mihaileric.com)

718 points by winkywooster on Jan 14, 2021 | 353 comments

83.

School or Prison (schoolprison.com)

708 points by nickburlett on Jan 1, 2021 | 475 comments

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Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours (play.google.com)

707 points by rvnx on Jan 29, 2021 | 564 comments

85.

Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells (stu2b50.dev)

705 points by stu2b50 on Jan 31, 2021 | 680 comments

86.

NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework (nostalgic-css.github.io)

704 points by dsego on Jan 31, 2021 | 121 comments

87.

Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?

702 points by throwwfh on Jan 19, 2021 | 528 comments

88.

Open Source Smartwatch (pine64.org)

701 points by sytelus on Jan 2, 2021 | 246 comments

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EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals (protonmail.com)

698 points by eddieoz on Jan 28, 2021 | 148 comments

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Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks (benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net)

696 points by wiineeth on Jan 3, 2021 | 428 comments