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Hacker News (2020)

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
4211 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Bye, Amazon
3733 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Every Google result now looks like an ad
3582 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
3252 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3042 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
2938 points • comment • may 12, 2020
No Cookie for You
2926 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
2851 points • comment • may 30, 2020
Gears
2723 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
Social Cooling (2017)
2657 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
2614 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
2599 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
2583 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
2582 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
GitHub is now free for teams
2572 points • comment • apr 14, 2020
Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
2566 points • comment • may 31, 2020
Thank HN: You helped me get a new job
2392 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
I Am Deleting the Blog
2375 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
2307 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
John Conway has died
2299 points • comment • apr 11, 2020
Google outage – resolved
2293 points • comment • dec 14, 2020
Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
2275 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
The End of the Redis Adventure
2273 points • comment • jun 30, 2020
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
2270 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Tell HN: Thank You Dang
2248 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Oppose the Earn IT Act
2223 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
2118 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Cameras and Lenses
2106 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Deno 1.0
2037 points • comment • may 13, 2020
MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
2015 points • comment • may 22, 2020
Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
1990 points • comment • jun 10, 2020
Grant Imahara Has Died
1959 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
1912 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
1892 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Zoom Acquires Keybase
1879 points • comment • may 07, 2020
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
1876 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
The Day AppGet Died
1876 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Factorio 1.0
1871 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
1865 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
1854 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
1842 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
NPM Is Joining GitHub
1823 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
It’s Time to Build
1798 points • comment • apr 18, 2020
GitHub Codespaces
1760 points • comment • may 06, 2020
Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
1756 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
1742 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
1733 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
1716 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
A first look at Unreal Engine 5
1715 points • comment • may 13, 2020
Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
1688 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
1674 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Shirt Without Stripes
1670 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
This electrical transmission tower has a problem
1654 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Del.icio.us
1644 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Goodbye, Clean Code
1642 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
AWS services explained in one line each
1641 points • comment • may 26, 2020
How journalists use youtube-dl
1634 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
1625 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
1613 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
1605 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
1592 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Wacom tablets track every app you open
1586 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
1585 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Tony Hsieh has died
1583 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund
1582 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
1577 points • comment • mar 27, 2020
Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
1575 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
1572 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
1568 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
1552 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
1538 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
New iPhone SE
1535 points • comment • apr 15, 2020
Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
1520 points • comment • may 23, 2020
EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
1519 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
1516 points • comment • may 18, 2020
Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
1511 points • comment • may 04, 2020
Mozilla Lifeboat
1510 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
1504 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
1502 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
Which Emoji Scissors Close?
1498 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus
1484 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
1481 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
1459 points • comment • may 01, 2020
India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
1457 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
1451 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
We Hacked Apple for 3 Months
1446 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Facebook Container for Firefox
1446 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
1434 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Your Computer Isn't Yours
1432 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
1427 points • comment • mar 26, 2020
AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
1422 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
1422 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
My Resignation from the Intercept
1416 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
1415 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Google Maps Hacks
1399 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
1399 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
1382 points • comment • may 18, 2020
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
1381 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
We Chat, They Watch
1381 points • comment • may 08, 2020
Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
1377 points • comment • oct 07, 2020