Story ranking for the past month

1. WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app | 1146
2. U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests | 2409
3. Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump | 1952
4. Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend | 785
5. GitHub is fully available in Iran | 474
6. Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup | 542
7. A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize | 1344
8. My Experience at Apple | 778
9. GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked | 724
10. A half-hour to learn Rust | 329
11. TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem | 235
12. Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing | 629
13. Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living | 180
14. No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees | 516
15. California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement | 620
16. Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering | 200
17. Tips for a Better Life | 464
18. What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry | 354
19. DALL·E: Creating Images from Text | 267
20. Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time | 192
21. Just Wanted to Say Thanks | 241
22. Do You Love Me? [video] | 453
23. How We Saved Dot Org | 151
24. Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice | 430
25. Hotwire: HTML over the Wire | 545
26. How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler | 1792
27. Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler | 1447
28. ECC matters | 550
29. Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior | 567
30. Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair | 356
31. Slack is down | 481
32. Happy New Year HN | 236
33. How bad is your Spotify? | 607
34. Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump | 1295
35. Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store | 647
36. Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago | 181
37. Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles | 357
38. Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app” | 373
39. Signal is having technical difficulties | 716
40. 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers | 950
41. Bitcoin is a disaster | 959
42. IPFS Support in Brave | 303
43. Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? | 323
44. Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ | 397
45. Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions. | 352
46. USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment | 606
47. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea | 376
48. What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not | 324
49. Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2 | 345
50. Signal WhatsApp Chats Import | 271
51. Why can’t you buy a good webcam? | 772
52. Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned | 248
53. Ruby 3.0 | 281
54. Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust | 402
55. Software effort estimation is mostly fake research | 302
56. Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera | 95
57. EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology | 478
58. If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room | 315
59. How to overcome Phone Addiction | 298
60. Wikipedia is 20 | 370
61. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? | 170
62. Null | 187
63. Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor | 382
64. GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free | 251
65. We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers | 352
66. HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know | 454
67. School or Prison | 475
68. Open Source Smartwatch | 246
69. Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks | 428
70. Algorithms for Decision Making | 85
71. What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting | 201
72. I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year | 308
73. Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results? | 312
74. The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours | 1144
75. WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source | 318
76. PeerTube v3 | 231
77. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code | 384
78. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC | 171
79. Stripe bans Trump campaign | 864
80. Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants | 231
81. Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support | 1260
82. Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project | 404
83. Ubiquiti Networks Breach | 466
84. Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal' | 199
85. No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption” | 239
86. Comic Mono | 216
87. Interview advice that got me offers | 359
88. Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business | 316
89. Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating | 427
90. Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing' | 589
91. BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux | 306
92. Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login | 383
93. Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content | 269
94. WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history | 408
95. Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block | 275
96. California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M | 247
97. Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan | 363
98. GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran | 496
99. Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library | 166
100. Aquafaba | 295