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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

  1. Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look

    604 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  2. Free and liberated e-books, carefully produced for the true book lover

    600 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  3. Gimp is 25 years old today

    598 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  4. Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine

    593 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  5. Airbnb S-1

    592 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  6. AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices

    590 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  7. Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic

    582 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  8. Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys

    575 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  9. Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs

    571 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  10. Chess tactics explained

    569 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  11. The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off

    566 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  12. Standing on our own two feet

    562 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  13. Graphics for JVM

    561 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  14. Amazon Review Scam

    558 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  15. Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders

    558 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  16. I Miss Working from the Office

    557 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  17. Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

    550 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  18. Origins of the youtube-dl project

    547 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  19. HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”

    545 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  20. The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection

    542 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  21. On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years

    542 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  22. I now have an Oculus paperweight

    541 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  23. We can do better than DuckDuckGo

    538 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  24. Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

    531 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  25. Git is too hard

    529 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  26. How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub

    525 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  27. Pimp My Microwave

    517 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  28. Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health

    514 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  29. Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

    512 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  30. The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

    503 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  31. Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad

    502 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  32. 7GUIs

    502 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  33. PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database

    500 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  34. Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping

    499 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  35. Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security

    496 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  36. Moving from Macbook to Linux

    494 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  37. Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution

    492 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  38. Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]

    491 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  39. Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

    488 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  40. AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

    484 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  41. Why do printers still suck?

    477 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  42. Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data

    473 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  43. ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

    470 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  44. The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS

    466 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  45. Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help

    466 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  46. One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study

    465 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  47. Linux on iPad

    460 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  48. McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu

    457 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  49. As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever

    456 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  50. DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev

    454 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  51. Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?

    453 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  52. Full text search on 400M US court cases

    452 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  53. Why not use GraphQL?

    452 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  54. The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer

    451 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  55. Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?

    450 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  56. Growl in Retirement

    450 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  57. Transitioning from Docker to Podman

    450 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  58. Due to a problem with AWS, many "smart" vacuums or doorbells will stop working

    444 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  59. No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19

    443 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  60. An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools

    443 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  61. SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client

    443 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  62. PHP 8

    443 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?

    442 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  64. eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”

    441 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  65. Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004)

    438 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  66. My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone

    438 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  67. Hemingway Editor

    437 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  68. Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs

    434 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  69. San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses

    431 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  70. Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

    430 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  71. Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

    429 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  72. Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression

    428 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  73. Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data

    426 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  74. How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People

    424 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  75. AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review

    424 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  76. You might not need machine learning

    420 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  77. Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

    419 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  78. Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users

    417 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  79. Toronto-area lawyer had to flee Canada after taking on the tow truck industry

    416 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  80. Diego Maradona has died

    415 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  81. An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

    414 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  82. Postgres Observability

    414 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  83. Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python

    413 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  84. Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

    413 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  85. Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular programming language

    412 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  86. Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal

    411 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  87. What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?

    410 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  88. How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges

    409 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  89. Openstreetmap is having a moment

    407 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  90. “You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation

    407 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  91. Watercooling a Canon R5 to enable unlimited 8K recording

    406 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  92. Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

    405 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  93. Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s

    404 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  94. Rust 1.48

    403 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  95. RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos

    402 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  96. Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

    401 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  97. YouTube Down

    400 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  98. Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved

    395 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  99. Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms

    394 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  100. Ask HN: Are you depressed?

    393 points • comment • nov 15, 2020