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1.

Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump (blog.twitter.com)

821 points by minimaxir 2021-01-08 | 704 comments

2.

Slack Ongoing Connection Issues (status.slack.com)

402 points by gpmcadam 2021-01-04 | 138 comments

3.

U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests (www.npr.org)

309 points by fortran77 2021-01-06 | 169 comments

4.

Amazon: Not OK – why we had to change Elastic licensing (www.elastic.co)

303 points by buro9 2021-01-19 | 128 comments

5.

Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store (play.google.com)

241 points by jimmy2020 2021-01-09 | 333 comments

6.

Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (www.nature.com)

232 points by aburan28 2021-01-17 | 131 comments

7.

Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store (github.com)

229 points by giuliomagnifico 2021-01-01 | 136 comments

8.

Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump (www.facebook.com)

220 points by jaredwiener 2021-01-07 | 154 comments

9.

After Twitter Ban, Sci Hub Is Now on the Uncensorable Web (www.nasdaq.com)

216 points by rasengan 2021-01-12 | 67 comments

10.

Bitcoin is a disaster (www.metzdowd.com)

215 points by wyldfire 2020-12-31 | 136 comments

11.

DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries (duckduckgo.com)

207 points by Aaronmacaron 2021-01-14 | 72 comments

12.

Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter (www.kgw.com)

206 points by thereare5lights 2021-01-11 | 129 comments

13.

Rust for Windows (github.com)

204 points by dsr12 2021-01-21 | 37 comments

14.

My Experience @ Apple (ex-apple-engineer.medium.com)

192 points by limono 2021-01-01 | 71 comments

15.

Slack Down Completely (status.slack.com)

184 points by oblio 2021-01-04 | 87 comments

16.

Signal is having technical difficulties (status.signal.org)

157 points by tonymet 2021-01-15 | 81 comments

17.

Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client (www.pidgin.im)

148 points by smusamashah 2021-01-22 | 73 comments

18.

Aquafaba (aquafaba.com)

142 points by david-given 2021-01-14 | 71 comments

19.

Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill (polandin.com)

133 points by andrenth 2021-01-11 | 146 comments

20.

The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned (bou.ke)

132 points by bouk 2021-01-10 | 175 comments

21.

U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor (blog.chainalysis.com)

130 points by jeffbee 2021-01-14 | 61 comments

22.

GitHub has recieved a DMCA from MPA for torrent tracker source code (github.com)

130 points by livueta 2021-01-19 | 44 comments

23.

Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time (bugs.xdavidhu.me)

127 points by gbrown_ 2021-01-11 | 13 comments

24.

DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when state secrets involved (www.abajournal.com)

126 points by SQL2219 2021-01-03 | 54 comments

25.

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

122 points by atg_abhishek 2021-01-18 | 41 comments

26.

A new way for Google to kill your SaaS startup (gomox.medium.com)

119 points by gomox 2021-01-16 | 26 comments

27.

We Don't Sell Ads (2012) (blog.whatsapp.com)

108 points by landhar 2021-01-08 | 35 comments

28.

Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores' (www.bbc.co.uk)

108 points by edward 2020-12-30 | 39 comments

29.

Hyundai Buys Boston Dynamics for Nearly $1 Billion (spectrum.ieee.org)

108 points by mg 2021-01-11 | 35 comments

30.

Meow-chine learning for a mouse-free home (github.com)

107 points by gunthen5 2021-01-19 | 1 comments

31.

Apple suspends Parler from the App Store indefinitely (www.nytimes.com)

106 points by jimmy2020 2021-01-10 | 76 comments

32.

AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana (aws.amazon.com)

104 points by ke4qqq 2021-01-21 | 69 comments

33.

Google's Project Loon is shutting down (blog.x.company)

102 points by sarthakjshetty 2021-01-22 | 50 comments

34.

Airbnb to Block and Cancel D.C. Reservations During Inauguration (news.airbnb.com)

101 points by alexrustic 2021-01-13 | 97 comments

35.

SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code (www.reuters.com)

101 points by accountinhn 2020-12-31 | 31 comments

36.

Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project (asahilinux.org)

99 points by jackhalford 2021-01-05 | 37 comments

37.

Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub (www.sciencemag.org)

95 points by amrrs 2021-01-14 | 31 comments

38.

Brad Cox, creator of Objective-C, has passed away (www.legacy.com)

95 points by carlosrg 2021-01-22 | 8 comments

39.

Google workers announce plans to unionize (www.theverge.com)

94 points by virde 2021-01-04 | 25 comments

40.

Joint Chiefs remind U.S. forces that they defend the constitution (www.npr.org)

93 points by kaycebasques 2021-01-13 | 68 comments

41.

Vim³ – Vim rendered on a cube for no reason (github.com)

93 points by capableweb 2020-12-25 | 16 comments

42.

FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests (www.wsj.com)

91 points by wglb 2021-01-09 | 87 comments

43.

Jack Ma Is Missing (nymag.com)

91 points by derangedHorse 2021-01-05 | 27 comments

44.

Apple Has Threatened to Ban Parler from the App Store (www.buzzfeednews.com)

90 points by coloneltcb 2021-01-08 | 90 comments

45.

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

90 points by mortenjorck 2021-01-14 | 14 comments

46.

Ubiquiti Networks Breach (mailchi.mp)

89 points by ShaneCurran 2021-01-11 | 28 comments

47.

Open Letter from Laura Poitras (www.praxisfilms.org)

88 points by jashkenas 2021-01-14 | 21 comments

48.

Linus Torvalds: ECC matters (www.realworldtech.com)

86 points by rajesh-s 2021-01-03 | 31 comments

49.

Deleting Facebook permanently (blog.spacehey.com)

86 points by joshmanders 2021-01-06 | 53 comments

50.

Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran (github.blog)

85 points by todsacerdoti 2021-01-05 | 12 comments

51.

Stripe bans Trump campaign (www.axios.com)

84 points by benguillet 2021-01-11 | 23 comments

52.

Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules (www.reuters.com)

84 points by reddotX 2021-01-09 | 84 comments

53.

They want us to be compliant, not secure (www.go350.com)

83 points by _wldu 2020-12-26 | 56 comments

54.

Ferrum: An actor-based programming language (quizzical-dijkstra-2acb9c.netlify.app)

83 points by coolvision 2021-01-10 | 1 comments

55.

Amazon is cutting off Parler's servers (www.engadget.com)

82 points by wpietri 2021-01-10 | 1 comments

56.

The Lies that can Undermine Democracy (martinfowler.com)

81 points by joeyespo 2021-01-12 | 36 comments

57.

Baltimore police lied about almost every aspect of its spy plane program (www.vice.com)

78 points by jbegley 2020-12-30 | 15 comments

58.

Jack Ma Resurfaces First Time Since October (www.reuters.com)

78 points by late 2021-01-20 | 20 comments

59.

Gab’s Response to Senator Mark Warner (news.gab.com)

78 points by neartheplain 2021-01-10 | 69 comments

60.

Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says (www.reuters.com)

77 points by pseudolus 2021-01-18 | 40 comments

61.

The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours (twitter.com)

77 points by edward 2021-01-07 | 20 comments

62.

Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol (community.teamspeak.com)

77 points by circularfoyers 2021-01-12 | 9 comments

63.

BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards (www.thedrive.com)

76 points by samizdis 2020-12-24 | 85 comments

64.

New Orleans City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other (thelensnola.org)

75 points by yhvstnpst 2020-12-25 | 17 comments

65.

Bill and Melinda Gates revealed as largest private farmland owners in US (landreport.com)

75 points by jelliclesfarm 2021-01-14 | 33 comments

66.

Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online (csgordon.github.io)

75 points by MrXOR 2020-12-29 | 4 comments

67.

Raspberry image recognition on Edge TPU (medium.com)

75 points by rundigg 2021-01-19 | 0 comments

68.

Entire Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos (laconicml.com)

75 points by nixass 2021-01-12 | 18 comments

69.

After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off without explanation (jordan-shared.medium.com)

74 points by CPLX 2021-01-04 | 30 comments

70.

Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020) (blog.shitiomatic.tech)

71 points by fpoling 2021-01-09 | 38 comments

71.

“Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows” (twitter.com)

70 points by DyslexicAtheist 2021-01-17 | 4 comments

72.

Julian Assange extradition to US blocked by UK court (www.bbc.com)

69 points by layer8 2021-01-04 | 12 comments

73.

CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate targets (www.cbc.ca)

68 points by colinprince 2021-01-08 | 27 comments

74.

Dropbox – A Message from Our CEO (blog.dropbox.com)

67 points by ArmandGrillet 2021-01-13 | 66 comments

75.

The Environmental Cost of Bitcoin (twitter.com)

66 points by merlinscholz 2021-01-17 | 30 comments

76.

China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report (www.ibtimes.sg)

65 points by masonhensley 2021-01-11 | 18 comments

77.

London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing (www.hsj.co.uk)

65 points by biomene 2021-01-06 | 16 comments

78.

Adobe Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 (www.windowslatest.com)

65 points by muhahue 2020-12-30 | 50 comments

79.

Retiring Tucows Downloads (tucows.com)

64 points by andrewdutton 2021-01-21 | 24 comments

80.

Elon Musk becomes world’s richest person as wealth tops $185B (www.bbc.com)

63 points by headalgorithm 2021-01-07 | 61 comments

81.

Steam's login method is kinda interesting (owlspace.xyz)

63 points by zertrin 2021-01-11 | 10 comments

82.

I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts (ethanblake4.medium.com)

63 points by ethanblake4 2021-01-10 | 12 comments

83.

I reverse engineered Google docs (features.jsomers.net)

62 points by flurly 2020-12-26 | 2 comments

84.

YouTube announcement on content policies (twitter.com)

62 points by edward 2021-01-07 | 74 comments

85.

Parler Databases Disclosed (twitter.com)

61 points by lox 2021-01-11 | 29 comments

86.

I am closing down the Cordless project (github.com)

61 points by sim_card_map 2021-01-08 | 34 comments

87.

Moral Competence (evanjconrad.com)

61 points by flaque 2021-01-05 | 22 comments

88.

Apple Removes Parler from App Store (www.cnn.com)

61 points by ffwang2 2021-01-10 | 25 comments

89.

Pence and Lawmakers Evacuate as Protesters Storm Capitol, Halting Count of Votes (www.nytimes.com)

60 points by fortran77 2021-01-06 | 10 comments

90.

Twitter appears to have removed the president's last two tweets (twitter.com)

59 points by sndean 2021-01-06 | 63 comments

91.

YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel (www.bbc.com)

59 points by jnord 2021-01-13 | 102 comments

92.

Facebook shuts down major left wing group in Britain (swp.org.uk)

59 points by jimmy2020 2021-01-22 | 23 comments

93.

novelWriter 1.0 (github.com)

59 points by app4soft 2021-01-19 | 19 comments

94.

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

59 points by tosh 2021-01-08 | 39 comments

95.

Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of $100M – or 2/3 of their ad spend (twitter.com)

59 points by rbanffy 2021-01-03 | 16 comments

96.

My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero (www.goodcheapandfast.com)

58 points by josephjrobison 2021-01-05 | 12 comments

97.

Major Incident at Fastly (status.fastly.com)

58 points by afrcnc 2021-01-12 | 18 comments

98.

Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores (newatlas.com)

58 points by tolbish 2021-01-20 | 39 comments

99.

Nancy Pelosi spokesman confirms laptop was stolen from the speaker’s office (www.theguardian.com)

58 points by spzb 2021-01-08 | 8 comments

100.

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) (peertube2.cpy.re)

58 points by tslocum 2021-01-11 | 7 comments

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