top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-08

Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

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

5 years ago

1961 upvotes – 1950 comments

Signal WhatsApp Chats Import

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

5 years ago

796 upvotes – 271 comments

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

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

WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys

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

5 years ago

491 upvotes – 105 comments

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

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

Best of show – abuse of libc

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

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 77 comments

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

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

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

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

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

Scipy Lecture Notes

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

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 45 comments

Tether price manipulation

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

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 475 comments

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

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

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

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

Ruby 3, Concurrency and the Ecosystem

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

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 59 comments

How Tail Call Optimization Works

https://eklitzke.org/how-tail-call-optimization-works

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 208 comments

'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard to Commit to Working Out

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953249677/exercised-explains-why-it-can-be-hard-to-commit-to-working-out-and-why-we-should

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 209 comments

Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686678

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 147 comments

We Don't Sell Ads (2012)

https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 89 comments

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

https://www.eccox.io/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 34 comments

Archivists Are Preserving Capitol Hill Riot Livestreams Before They’re Deleted

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an5e3/archivists-are-preserving-capitol-hill-riot-livestreams-before-theyre-deleted

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 116 comments

An Update on SolarWinds

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/07/an-update-on-solarwinds/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 28 comments

Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55219750

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 71 comments

Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage

https://www.ft.com/content/e264fd41-7ee9-4fba-be3c-21446298efd9

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 118 comments

Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/hush-keyboards-with-hushboard/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 97 comments

2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition

http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-imagery/2020-Exhibition

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 31 comments

The Earth has been spinning faster lately

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-earth-faster.html

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 88 comments

Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (2012)

https://0fps.net/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 19 comments

Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dog-domestication-may-have-begun-because-paleo-humans-couldnt-stomach-the-original-paleo-diet/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 165 comments

USV Climate Fund

https://www.usv.com/writing/2021/01/usv-climate-fund/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 37 comments

Doing Symbolic Math with SymPy

https://lwn.net/Articles/840986/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 76 comments

Europe: close to power grid blackout (49,74Hz power line frequency)

https://twitter.com/netz_frequenz/status/1347532305850634243

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 138 comments

How Not to Deal with Murder in Space (2020)

https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/arctic-t3-murder-space.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 67 comments

Clubhouse uploads all your contacts

https://twitter.com/Espen_Antonsen/status/1347546630896160770

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

Over 100 Scientists and Doctors Call for Increased Vitamin D to Combat Covid-19

https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 112 comments

Intel Talks with TSMC, Samsung to Outsource Some Chip Production

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/intel-talks-with-tsmc-samsung-to-outsource-some-chip-production

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 87 comments

World's busiest international and domestic air routes

https://www.oag.com/busiest-routes-right-now

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 92 comments

We need more than deplatforming

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 75 comments

Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, the platform told them to

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-platforms-must-pay-for-their-role-in-the-insurrection/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 49 comments

Is my vintage equipment trying to send me a message? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLuc8khu4Dg

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 12 comments

Research team demonstrates world’s fastest optical neuromorphic processor

https://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/2021/01/swinburne-led-research-team-demonstrates-worlds-fastest-optical-neuromorphic-processor/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

What Writers and Editors Do

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/01/05/what-writers-and-editors-do/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Identical twins are not so identical, study suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/08/identical-twins-are-not-so-identical-study-suggests

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 101 comments

Wikipedia frequently-encountered sources, color-coded by perceived reliability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 79 comments

Crude Oil Flow from Saudi Arabia to U.S. Falls to Zero

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Crude-Oil-Flow-From-Saudi-Arabia-To-US-Falls-To-Zero.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 51 comments

TinyTV DIY Kit

https://tinycircuits.com/collections/all/products/tinytv-diy-kit

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

Hyundai Motor says it is in early talks with Apple

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hyundai-motor-stocks/hyundai-motor-says-it-is-in-early-talks-with-apple-shares-surge-24-idUSKBN29D02E

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 99 comments

Apache Beam for Search: Getting Started by Hacking Time

https://shopify.engineering/apache-beam-for-search-getting-started-by-hacking-time

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/08/the-amiga-1000-still-receiving-new-peripherals-35-years-later/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 65 comments
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