Top 20 Hacker News Stories for 2021-01-08

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Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html

5 years ago

1961 upvotes – 1950 comments

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Signal WhatsApp Chats Import

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1014

5 years ago

796 upvotes – 271 comments

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Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-founder-criticises-sudden-twitter-ban-over-over-counterfeit-content-210108/

5 years ago

615 upvotes – 269 comments

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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN29D2HA

5 years ago

561 upvotes – 696 comments

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WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys

https://twitter.com/Shiftreduce/status/1347546599384346624

5 years ago

491 upvotes – 105 comments

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Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data

https://www.techradar.com/news/apples-privacy-labels-reveals-whatsapp-and-facebook-messengers-hunger-for-user-data

5 years ago

489 upvotes – 243 comments

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Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/apple-threatens-ban-parler

5 years ago

484 upvotes – 1095 comments

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Best of show – abuse of libc

https://www.ioccc.org/2020/carlini/index.html

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 77 comments

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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN29D2HA

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 9 comments

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Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”

https://www.axios.com/reddit-bans-rdonaldtrump-subreddit-ff1da2de-37ab-49cf-afbd-2012f806959e.html

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 1035 comments

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Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1347403996332376065

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 121 comments

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WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/01/03/whatsapp-beaten-by-apples-new-imessage-update-for-iphone-users/

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 191 comments

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CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate targets, study finds

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-targets-1.5861537

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 250 comments

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Scipy Lecture Notes

http://www.scipy-lectures.org/index.html

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 45 comments

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Tether price manipulation

https://twitter.com/JacobOracle/status/1346133062204198917

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 475 comments

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Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’

https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/4358/victory-high-court-against-governments-use-general-warrants

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 106 comments

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College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/1/6/college-campuses-as-a-model-for-urban-planning

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 145 comments

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Signal AMA on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_private_messenger_team_here_we_support_an/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 79 comments

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Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2500-year-old-temple-aphrodite-found-turkey-180976694/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 49 comments

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Ruby 3, Concurrency and the Ecosystem

https://kirshatrov.com/2021/01/06/ruby-concurrency-and-ecosystem/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 59 comments