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Hacker News (Oct 2020)
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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
4211 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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How journalists use youtube-dl
1634 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
1572 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
1568 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus
1484 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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We Hacked Apple for 3 Months
1446 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Facebook Container for Firefox
1446 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
1422 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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My Resignation from the Intercept
1416 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
1377 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Bongo Cat
1308 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
1263 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
1256 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption
1247 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
1232 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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A warning about Glassdoor
1205 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps
1166 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
1165 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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I Violated a Code of Conduct
1125 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
1063 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
1037 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
1035 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
952 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says
944 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network
942 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
939 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab
887 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young
865 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
865 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
853 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
850 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API
837 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
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Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
798 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime
789 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
776 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
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Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
772 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
754 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
746 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
745 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Pandoc – A universal document converter
737 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
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Google disabled my husband's account
734 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
732 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?
713 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
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The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel
703 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
701 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Google's new logos are bad
692 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
685 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs
683 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Congress should invest in open-source software
681 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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What is the best dumb TV?
665 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
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ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'
648 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
640 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
639 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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DigitalOcean App Platform
637 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
635 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
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Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
634 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
622 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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Sean Connery has died
621 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
619 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
613 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
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How Discord Won
612 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux
610 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine
603 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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Android In a Box – Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system
602 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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Eddie Van Halen has died
602 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler
600 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
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Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
597 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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From McDonald's to Google
590 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
590 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Rust After the Honeymoon
589 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
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James Randi Has Died
586 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
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AMD to Acquire Xilinx
583 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React
575 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess
572 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
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HashiCorp Boundary
568 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
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No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981
563 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
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Early Work
559 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
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I built a lay-down desk
557 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
550 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
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Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
548 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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NAT Slipstreaming
541 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
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You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
540 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform
538 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
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How to deal with extreme physical pain
538 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists
534 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
531 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
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Leaving Mozilla
530 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
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Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
529 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
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How I remember what I learn
528 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
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Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B
526 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
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Python 3.9
525 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
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The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement
524 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
522 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
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Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
522 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
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Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
521 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
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A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
521 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
521 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
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Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
521 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
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Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers
520 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
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Hum to Search Song
517 points • comment • oct 15, 2020