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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

4240

2

How journalists use youtube-dl

1651

3

U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

1572

4

Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

1512

5

AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

1466

6

Facebook Container for Firefox

1457

7

We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

1454

8

My Resignation from the Intercept

1441

9

1348

10

Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings

1320

Top Ask HN

1

Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

556

2

Who is hiring? (October 2020)

426

3

Good C++ code bases to read?

336

4

Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?

327

5

Why are there no open source 2d printers?

288

6

Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?

275

7

What are good resources to learn system design?

246

8

How to Become a Consultant?

227

9

How do you deal with chronic illness?

218

10

Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?

192

Top Show HN

1

I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

1589

2

I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

1392

3

What would mechanical programming look like?

719

4

I made earrings that work like earphones

462

5

Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course

419

6

Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code

405

7

I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes

382

8

I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR

357

9

Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

351

10

Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim

324

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

777

2

Google's new logos are bad

776

3

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

681

4

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

643

5

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

614

6

From McDonald's to Google

603

7

Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently

525

8

Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

515

9

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

421

10

I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call

376

News [?]

1

U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

1572

2

Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

1256

3

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

1041

4

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

1008

5

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

942

6

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

879

7

Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH

855

8

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

780

9

Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

650

10

IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

645

Scientific publications [?]

1

Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)

324

2

Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron

260

3

The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)

256

4

Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity

235

5

NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

216

6

Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010)

214

7

A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher

210

8

Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (2014)

203

9

An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way

198

10

No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain

176

Dev Blogs [?]

1

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

707

2

The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

575

3

Hum to Search Song

524

4

FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

475

5

The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?

429

6

The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

414

7

384

8

366

9

The Accelerating Adoption of Julia

316

10

Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available

298

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th

462

2

New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars

425

3

A legislative path to an interoperable internet

304

4

DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix

271

5

Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain

217

6

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries

199

7

Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better

157

8

AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU

154

9

M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols

138

10

Apple is warning Mac users that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware

102

FAANG+ [?]

1

iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

485

2

301

3

Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

299

4

Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support

185

5

Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors

152

6

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

124

7

86

8

Amazon SNS FIFO – First-in-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging

34

9

iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max

30

10

Microsoft earnings: Revenue up 12% YoY. Net Income up 30% YoY

19

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

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

772

2

United States vs. Google

404

3

From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit

393

4

RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites

271

5

Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

265

6

The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018)

246

7

There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts

239

8

Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough

223

9

Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy

204

10

We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot

195

Science News [?]

1

Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

1235

2

We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make

496

3

Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time

432

4

Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier

377

5

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

353

6

Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head

339

7

US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations

313

8

Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

269

9

A New Map of All the Particles and Forces

266

10

For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (1986)

248

Social [?]

1

AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

1466

2

A warning about Glassdoor

1262

3

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

1183

4

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

1040

5

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

959

6

Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account

895

7

I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

845

8

Google disabled my husband's account

763

9

AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]

761

10

Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists

546

Github repos and gists [?]

1

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

4240

2

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

1098

3

ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable

497

4

Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code

332

5

Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development

311

6

Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network

287

7

Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash

283

8

Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

283

9

Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

278

10

Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go

274

Wikipedia [?]

1

315

2

230

3

Project Cybersyn

212

4

170

5

167

6

123

7

Lloyd's Coffee House

114

8

1593 Transported Soldier Legend

67

9

Tobler's First Law of Geography

63

10

Alcoa 50k ton forging press

57

Blogs [?]

1

577

2

A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%

462

3

How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer

324

4

When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

311

5

We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application

296

6

Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (2016)

287

7

Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer

284

8

Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer

259

9

How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)

249

10

You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

202

Stackoverflow [?]

1

ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name

406

2

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

77

3

Stackoverflow Under Maintenance

3

4

Disable Chrome Autocomplete

3

5

JavaScript setTimeout and changes to system time cause problems (2011)

2

6

Oracle vs. Google: list of the Java API's

2

7

A Contrarian View of Immutability (for Javascript)

2

8

Gitlab Authenticating with T-Mobile SSO?

2

9

Multiple glibc libraries on a single host

1

10

Is Eigen slow at multiplying small matrices?

1

Substack [?]

1

My Resignation from the Intercept

1441

2

Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story

471

3

How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time

356

4

What if we had Local-First Software?

291

5

Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

235

6

Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future

182

7

It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth

159

8

How to Interview Engineers

156

9

Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media

150

10

Product-market fit for a B2B company

138