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Hacker News (Nov 2020)
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Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look
604 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Free and liberated e-books, carefully produced for the true book lover
600 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Gimp is 25 years old today
598 points • comment • nov 22, 2020
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Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
593 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Airbnb S-1
592 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
590 points • comment • nov 08, 2020
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Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic
582 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
575 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs
571 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Chess tactics explained
569 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off
566 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Standing on our own two feet
562 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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Graphics for JVM
561 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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Amazon Review Scam
558 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders
558 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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I Miss Working from the Office
557 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
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Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
550 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Origins of the youtube-dl project
547 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”
545 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection
542 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
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On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
542 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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I now have an Oculus paperweight
541 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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We can do better than DuckDuckGo
538 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
531 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Git is too hard
529 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub
525 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Pimp My Microwave
517 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
514 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence
512 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code
503 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad
502 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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7GUIs
502 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
500 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping
499 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
496 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
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Moving from Macbook to Linux
494 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution
492 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
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Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]
491 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance
488 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
484 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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Why do printers still suck?
477 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data
473 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
470 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
466 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
466 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
465 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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Linux on iPad
460 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
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McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
457 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
456 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev
454 points • comment • nov 23, 2020
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Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
453 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Full text search on 400M US court cases
452 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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Why not use GraphQL?
452 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
451 points • comment • nov 09, 2020
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Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
450 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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Growl in Retirement
450 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
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Transitioning from Docker to Podman
450 points • comment • nov 20, 2020
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Due to a problem with AWS, many "smart" vacuums or doorbells will stop working
444 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19
443 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
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An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
443 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client
443 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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PHP 8
443 points • comment • nov 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?
442 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”
441 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004)
438 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
438 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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Hemingway Editor
437 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs
434 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses
431 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
430 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
429 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression
428 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
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Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
426 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People
424 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review
424 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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You might not need machine learning
420 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
419 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
417 points • comment • nov 02, 2020
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Toronto-area lawyer had to flee Canada after taking on the tow truck industry
416 points • comment • nov 01, 2020
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Diego Maradona has died
415 points • comment • nov 25, 2020
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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
414 points • comment • nov 14, 2020
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Postgres Observability
414 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python
413 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
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Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
413 points • comment • nov 15, 2020
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Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular programming language
412 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
411 points • comment • nov 03, 2020
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What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
410 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
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How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges
409 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
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Openstreetmap is having a moment
407 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
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“You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation
407 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
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Watercooling a Canon R5 to enable unlimited 8K recording
406 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites
405 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
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Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s
404 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
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Rust 1.48
403 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
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RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos
402 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
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Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework
401 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
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YouTube Down
400 points • comment • nov 12, 2020
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Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved
395 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
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Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms
394 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
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Ask HN: Are you depressed?
393 points • comment • nov 15, 2020