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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

    4211 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  2. How journalists use youtube-dl

    1634 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  3. Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

    1572 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  4. U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

    1568 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  5. Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

    1484 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  6. We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

    1446 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  7. Facebook Container for Firefox

    1446 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  8. AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

    1422 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  9. My Resignation from the Intercept

    1416 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  10. Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

    1377 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  11. Bongo Cat

    1308 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  12. Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings

    1263 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  13. Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

    1256 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  14. Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption

    1247 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  15. Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

    1232 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  16. A warning about Glassdoor

    1205 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  17. I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

    1166 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  18. Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur

    1165 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  19. I Violated a Code of Conduct

    1125 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  20. YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

    1063 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  21. My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison

    1037 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  22. Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel

    1035 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  23. Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]

    952 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  24. Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says

    944 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  25. PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

    942 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  26. This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine

    939 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  27. Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

    887 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  28. Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young

    865 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  29. Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account

    865 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  30. Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

    853 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  31. Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH

    850 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  32. I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

    837 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  33. Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

    798 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  34. Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime

    789 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  35. Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

    776 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  36. Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

    772 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  37. AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]

    754 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  38. Face ID and Touch ID for the Web

    746 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  39. RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

    745 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  40. Pandoc – A universal document converter

    737 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  41. Google disabled my husband's account

    734 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  42. One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

    732 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  43. Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

    713 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  44. The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel

    703 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  45. Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

    701 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  46. Google's new logos are bad

    692 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  47. They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

    685 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  48. French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs

    683 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  49. Congress should invest in open-source software

    681 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  50. What is the best dumb TV?

    665 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  51. ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

    648 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  52. Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

    640 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  53. Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

    639 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  54. DigitalOcean App Platform

    637 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  55. IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

    635 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  56. Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency

    634 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  57. Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries

    622 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  58. Sean Connery has died

    621 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  59. Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

    619 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  60. 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read

    613 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  61. How Discord Won

    612 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  62. Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux

    610 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  63. Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine

    603 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  64. Android In a Box – Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system

    602 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  65. Eddie Van Halen has died

    602 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  66. Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler

    600 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  67. Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

    597 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  68. From McDonald's to Google

    590 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  69. I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers

    590 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  70. Rust After the Honeymoon

    589 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  71. James Randi Has Died

    586 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  72. AMD to Acquire Xilinx

    583 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  73. Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

    575 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  74. USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess

    572 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  75. HashiCorp Boundary

    568 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  76. No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981

    563 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  77. Early Work

    559 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  78. I built a lay-down desk

    557 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  79. The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

    550 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  80. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

    548 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  81. NAT Slipstreaming

    541 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  82. You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

    540 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  83. Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform

    538 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  84. How to deal with extreme physical pain

    538 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  85. Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists

    534 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  86. An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

    531 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  87. Leaving Mozilla

    530 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  88. Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

    529 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  89. How I remember what I learn

    528 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  90. Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B

    526 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  91. Python 3.9

    525 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  92. The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement

    524 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  93. So you want to build an embedded Linux system?

    522 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  94. Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest

    522 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  95. Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being

    521 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  96. A Guy Walks into an Apple Store

    521 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  97. Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response

    521 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  98. Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up

    521 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  99. Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers

    520 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  100. Hum to Search Song

    517 points • comment • oct 15, 2020