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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

Facebook Container for Firefox

1457

4

1348

5

I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

1242

6

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

1098

7

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

942

8

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

879

9

I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

845

10

Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

813

Top Ask HN

1

Good C++ code bases to read?

336

2

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

275

3

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

192

4

Is there a website specialized in mathematics courses?

176

5

What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?

122

6

How do I improve my command of mathematical language?

122

7

What is your passive income 2020?

98

8

How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?

96

9

How to Think Clearly?

71

10

The state of Firebase alternatives in 2020?

69

Top Show HN

1

Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

313

2

Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

283

3

Built a timeline component for React with multiple layout modes

269

4

Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost

256

5

My book, The Common Lisp Condition System

177

6

Personal CRM: Note taking, the way it should be

175

7

Perfect Pitch Ear Training

172

8

Build your own isometric city

127

9

TidalWaves API – live, tokenized news metadata from around the world

124

10

Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages

106

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How It Is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant

318

2

Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition

243

3

Sacklers–who made $11B off opioid crisis–to pay $225M in damages

198

4

The No-Code Generation is arriving

184

5

Deep geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout

175

6

An Exam Surveillance Company Is Trying to Silence Critics with Lawsuits

169

7

'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West

165

8

30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator

153

9

John McAfee Developed One of the First Social Networks

115

10

Pay attention to the Indian startup scene

103

News [?]

1

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

942

2

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

879

3

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

528

4

Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”

505

5

The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it

493

6

Quibi Is Shutting Down

479

7

‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study

465

8

How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

382

9

California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees

357

10

Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

353

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

216

2

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

214

3

No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain

176

4

Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply

134

5

Print These Electronic Circuits Directly onto Skin

50

6

Is it time to stop counselling patients to “finish the course of antibiotics”?

48

7

Einstein's theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars

44

8

Gravimetric Radar: Gravity-Based Detection of a Point-Mass Moving in Static Back

39

9

Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: From Ugaritic to Linear B

30

10

Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply

27

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?

429

2

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

414

3

Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google

232

4

The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon

217

5

Rethinking Attention with Performers

212

6

FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues

200

7

Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver for Intel CPU Undervolting

144

8

Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off

104

9

Ban All Ransomware Payments, in Bitcoin or Otherwise

71

10

NAPI Polling in Kernel Threads

62

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

425

2

Google Meddling with URLs in Emails, Causing Security Concerns

32

3

Ubuntu 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Swings onto Raspberry Pi

19

4

Tesla Begins “Full Self Driving” Public Beta as Waymo and Cruise Go Unattended

14

5

MagSafe 15W fast charging restricted to Apple 20W adapter

11

6

5G Drains iPhone 12 Battery 20% Faster Than 4G in Benchmark

10

7

Amazon Inexplicably Removes Apple Card from Payment Options

10

8

Ubuntu 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Swings onto Raspberry Pi

7

9

EU vs. Big Tech: Leaked Enforcement Plans and the Dutch-French Counterproposal

6

10

MagSafe only charges at full speed with 20W charger

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors

152

2

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

34

3

Mind Management, Not Time Management (Design for Hackers Author)

10

4

We just launched Amazon SNS FIFO topics

10

5

Amazon Prime Day 2020 – Powered by AWS

6

6

Open source instrumentation – AWS announces OpenTelemetry Distro

5

7

4

8

Cyberattacks against machine learning systems are more common than you think

3

9

Apple offers new ways to shop for iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPad Air

3

10

Making my book on product marketing free

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

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

772

2

United States vs. Google

404

3

Logs Seized from F-Secure’s VPN Must Be Destroyed, Court Rules

145

4

The Need for Touch

134

5

Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

103

6

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

69

7

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

34

8

Tesla Starts Full Self-Driving Beta Rollout

33

9

Illuminated Mercedes-Benz badge can cause power steering failure

31

10

The Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented (2017)

29

Science News [?]

1

Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier

377

2

Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head

339

3

A New Map of All the Particles and Forces

266

4

Mood and cognition after low LSD doses: A placebo controlled dose-effect study

172

5

Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests

131

6

Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light

128

7

Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?

106

8

2,000-Year-Old Nazca Line Featuring Lounging Cat Found in Peru

70

9

Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space

64

10

A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane

54

Social [?]

1

I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

845

2

Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists

546

3

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

535

4

YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images

325

5

Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-status

298

6

Yann LeCun on GPT-3

277

7

Books in .txt format for AI training purposes

232

8

I finished filming 12 hours of a coding tutorial: crossword puzzle construction

213

9

Andy Kelley (of Zig) intimidated into vacating apartment for Hulu filming

186

10

Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

67

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

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

311

4

Using const/let instead of var can make JavaScript code run 10× slower in Webkit

237

5

231

6

Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code

197

7

Youtube-dl GitHub Template

197

8

Prologue: A web framework written in Nim

188

9

imgcat: higher resolution

178

10

A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal

177

Wikipedia [?]

1

230

2

167

3

Lloyd's Coffee House

114

4

1593 Transported Soldier Legend

67

5

54

6

London Pneumatic Despatch Company

45

7

List of Lists of Lists

16

8

Great Woman of Mathematics: Marie-Sophie Germain, 1776-1831

12

9

1876 United States presidential election

12

10

Barbie's Careers

11

Blogs [?]

1

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

462

2

We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application

296

3

Ninja: A simple way to do builds

122

4

Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do with Theology

42

5

Apple started hiding the traffic of its own Mac apps

22

6

Never Compete on Price

13

7

How to Use Docker Images, Containers, and Dockerfiles

12

8

How I Made $350k in Machine Learning Tournaments

10

9

The Only Four Books Bill Gates Has Rated Five Stars

10

10

When Too Much Concurrency Slows You Down (Golang)

10

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Disable Chrome Autocomplete

3

2

A Contrarian View of Immutability (for Javascript)

2

3

Gitlab Authenticating with T-Mobile SSO?

2

4

Using port number in Windows host file – Stack Overflow

1

5

Daylight saving time and time zone best practices

1

Substack [?]

1

Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story

471

2

Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future

182

3

Use “pseudo-sets” to control how many actions people take

97

4

Custom domains now available on Substack

71

5

Fasting 3 days each quarter

36

6

How to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence

29

7

Ceiling Height Matters

26

8

Towards a Solarpunk Future

11

9

How to Think Strategically

6

10

Habits Maketh the Man (and Un-Maketh Him, Too)

6