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1. Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump (blog.twitter.com)
1961 points by minimaxir on Jan 8, 2021 | 1950 comments
2. Signal WhatsApp Chats Import (github.com/signalapp)
796 points by janisz on Jan 8, 2021 | 271 comments
3. Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data (techradar.com)
489 points by ColinWright on Jan 8, 2021 | 243 comments
4. Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’ (privacyinternational.org)
298 points by mpweiher on Jan 8, 2021 | 106 comments
5. Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content (torrentfreak.com)
615 points by prvc on Jan 8, 2021 | 269 comments
6. Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite (smithsonianmag.com)
244 points by gmays on Jan 8, 2021 | 49 comments
7. Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide (reuters.com)
561 points by spzb on Jan 8, 2021 | 696 comments
8. Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
389 points by picture on Jan 7, 2021 | 151 comments
9. Show HN: I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs. (synergyjs.org)
343 points by defx on Jan 7, 2021 | 162 comments
10. How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance (ieee.org)
368 points by samizdis on Jan 7, 2021 | 200 comments
11. Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage (ft.com)
168 points by kjhughes on Jan 8, 2021 | 118 comments
12. Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020 (github.com/norvig)
306 points by ff7f00 on Jan 6, 2021 | 89 comments
13. College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too (strongtowns.org)
274 points by jseliger on Jan 8, 2021 | 145 comments
14. Scipy Lecture Notes (scipy-lectures.org)
320 points by vyuh on Jan 8, 2021 | 45 comments
15. Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (2012) (0fps.net)
145 points by fanf2 on Jan 8, 2021 | 19 comments
16. WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys (twitter.com/shiftreduce)
491 points by Aissen on Jan 8, 2021 | 105 comments
17. 2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition (ams.org)
157 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 8, 2021 | 31 comments
18. How Tail Call Optimization Works (eklitzke.org)
220 points by g42gregory on Jan 8, 2021 | 208 comments
19. Show HN: Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking” (eccox.io)
185 points by jalammar on Jan 8, 2021 | 34 comments
20. Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets (twitter.com/marcan42)
354 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 8, 2021 | 121 comments
21. WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update (forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman)
353 points by Tomte on Jan 8, 2021 | 191 comments
22. USV Climate Fund (usv.com)
132 points by tosh on Jan 8, 2021 | 37 comments
23. Session Protocol: Technical implementation details (getsession.org)
76 points by johnchristopher on Jan 8, 2021 | 24 comments
24. Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store (buzzfeednews.com)
484 points by coloneltcb on Jan 8, 2021 | 1095 comments
25. CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate targets, study finds (cbc.ca)
342 points by colinprince on Jan 8, 2021 | 250 comments
26. Avoiding instruction cache misses (2019) (paweldziepak.dev)
69 points by nkurz on Jan 8, 2021 | 18 comments
27. Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation (psyche.co)
91 points by diodorus on Jan 7, 2021 | 19 comments
28. Apache Beam for Search: Getting Started by Hacking Time (shopify.engineering)
87 points by clandry94 on Jan 8, 2021 | 8 comments
29. Metaballs and Marching Squares (jamie-wong.com)
124 points by bobbiechen on Jan 7, 2021 | 27 comments
30. Is my vintage equipment trying to send me a message? [video] (youtube.com)
106 points by CaliforniaKarl on Jan 8, 2021 | 12 comments

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