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1.

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA (github.com)

673 points by phantop 2020-10-23 | 245 comments

2.

Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back (github.blog)

308 points by todsacerdoti 2020-11-16 | 37 comments

3.

Alex Trebeck, host of Jeopardy, has passed away (twitter.com)

260 points by slater 2020-11-08 | 36 comments

4.

YouTube-dl's repository has been restored (github.com)

226 points by fusl 2020-11-16 | 35 comments

5.

Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft (twitter.com)

214 points by 0xmohit 2020-11-12 | 62 comments

6.

My Resignation from the Intercept (greenwald.substack.com)

213 points by yasp 2020-10-29 | 147 comments

7.

Sean Connery has died (www.bbc.co.uk)

208 points by bitshifta 2020-10-31 | 42 comments

8.

Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea (fair.org)

194 points by ideals 2020-10-22 | 143 comments

9.

Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points (chadscira.com)

173 points by ic4l 2020-11-04 | 17 comments

10.

Google will end preferential treatment for AMP content (themarkup.org)

165 points by CPLX 2020-11-19 | 26 comments

11.

Airbnb S-1 (www.sec.gov)

164 points by xoxoy 2020-11-16 | 74 comments

12.

Introducing the next generation of Mac (www.apple.com)

160 points by redm 2020-11-10 | 152 comments

13.

Servo’s New Home (blog.servo.org)

157 points by gbrown_ 2020-11-17 | 26 comments

14.

U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord (www.scientificamerican.com)

153 points by rbanffy 2020-11-04 | 111 comments

15.

Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump (www.nytimes.com)

151 points by soupdiver 2020-11-07 | 67 comments

16.

Covid vaccine: First vaccine offers 90% protection (www.bbc.co.uk)

146 points by isp 2020-11-09 | 51 comments

17.

Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand (sfconservancy.org)

145 points by pabs3 2020-10-26 | 23 comments

18.

About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store (ish.app)

144 points by tbodt 2020-11-08 | 53 comments

19.

Biden Defeats Trump to Become Next President (www.nbcnews.com)

137 points by mmm_grayons 2020-11-07 | 50 comments

20.

Famed Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled (www.sciencemag.org)

137 points by LUmBULtERA 2020-11-19 | 64 comments

21.

I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps (www.varsity.co.uk)

134 points by yk42bb 2020-10-24 | 20 comments

22.

CDC advises Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving (www.axios.com)

130 points by hhs 2020-11-19 | 70 comments

23.

Trump's Twitter account hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password (www.theguardian.com)

129 points by tantalor 2020-10-22 | 49 comments

24.

Russia gives whistleblower Edward Snowden permanent residency rights (www.reuters.com)

116 points by theBashShell 2020-10-22 | 23 comments

25.

Stripe Climate (stripe.com)

113 points by constantinum 2020-10-28 | 22 comments

26.

San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses (www.latimes.com)

108 points by Circumnavigate 2020-11-05 | 51 comments

27.

Apple M1 (www.apple.com)

102 points by madmax108 2020-11-10 | 2 comments

28.

Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program (www.apple.com)

102 points by todsacerdoti 2020-11-18 | 66 comments

29.

Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms (www.oregonlive.com)

101 points by toomuchtodo 2020-11-04 | 21 comments

30.

Uber Drivers Sue Company over Pressure to Support Prop 22 (news.bloomberglaw.com)

98 points by ra7 2020-10-22 | 25 comments

31.

You can no longer reinstall Adobe CS 2 or 3 even with original install disks (helpx.adobe.com)

97 points by interestica 2020-10-23 | 81 comments

32.

Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share (www.cato.org)

96 points by akvadrako 2020-11-01 | 105 comments

33.

Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit (karl-voit.at)

95 points by todsacerdoti 2020-10-29 | 79 comments

34.

Andrew Gelman finds issues with the FiveThirtyEight model (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

92 points by buddhiajuke 2020-10-25 | 71 comments

35.

Google users locked out after 15 years' use (www.businessinsider.com)

92 points by eitland 2020-11-02 | 44 comments

36.

EU proposal to ban encryption for chat apps (fm4.orf.at)

88 points by Daniel_sk 2020-11-08 | 26 comments

37.

Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to (www.tomsguide.com)

85 points by yvoschaap 2020-10-22 | 17 comments

38.

South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real' (thehill.com)

84 points by belltaco 2020-11-17 | 58 comments

39.

Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F (socketsite.com)

82 points by kyleblarson 2020-10-25 | 65 comments

40.

Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access (ahmadhaghighi.com)

82 points by pabs3 2020-10-25 | 63 comments

41.

TailwindCSS v2.0 Released (blog.tailwindcss.com)

82 points by sarathyweb 2020-11-18 | 31 comments

42.

A divorce in Italy destroyed my researcher career (interessesuperioredelminore.wordpress.com)

81 points by etergri 2020-11-03 | 29 comments

43.

AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th (www.anandtech.com)

80 points by jsheard 2020-10-28 | 53 comments

44.

Gitlab compensation calculator is not open to everyone anymore (gitlab.com)

79 points by why-not 2020-10-26 | 37 comments

45.

A US Visa in 937 Days (daniel.haxx.se)

79 points by caution 2020-11-09 | 10 comments

46.

Helsinki free 90-day relocation package: City as a Service (www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi)

77 points by mannylopez 2020-11-06 | 17 comments

47.

HP replaces free ink for life plan with '99 cents/month or your printer stops' (hardware.slashdot.org)

75 points by MilnerRoute 2020-11-09 | 23 comments

48.

Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence (techcrunch.com)

75 points by davidbarker 2020-11-06 | 20 comments

49.

Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks (lists.webkit.org)

74 points by dredmorbius 2020-11-19 | 36 comments

50.

Factorio 1.1 is getting close (www.factorio.com)

74 points by parsecs 2020-11-13 | 18 comments

51.

iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money (www.indiatoday.in)

73 points by notRobot 2020-10-22 | 54 comments

52.

Apple is experiencing an outage taking down Macs (www.apple.com)

72 points by bognition 2020-11-12 | 2 comments

53.

2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way (www.zdnet.com)

71 points by mg 2020-10-31 | 51 comments

54.

In photos: Washington state crews destroy first murder hornets nest in U.S. (www.axios.com)

71 points by cwwc 2020-10-25 | 17 comments

55.

How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories (www.bbc.co.uk)

71 points by ColinWright 2020-11-02 | 28 comments

56.

Oregon becomes first U.S. state to decriminalize possession of all drugs (twitter.com)

71 points by jeremylevy 2020-11-04 | 39 comments

57.

Origins of the youtube-dl project (rg3.name)

70 points by rg3 2020-11-10 | 2 comments

58.

On Abandoning the X Server (ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com)

70 points by cheshire_cat 2020-10-28 | 28 comments

59.

The blockchain/cryptocurrency space is mostly fraudulent (davidgolumbia.medium.com)

70 points by hudon 2020-11-09 | 39 comments

60.

macOS Big Sur is here (www.apple.com)

69 points by todsacerdoti 2020-11-12 | 60 comments

61.

After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can't do it anymore. I quit. (www.indiehackers.com)

69 points by ChanningAllen 2020-11-15 | 26 comments

62.

“Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following” (twitter.com)

68 points by luu 2020-11-02 | 10 comments

63.

The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape (discourseblog.com)

68 points by xdze2 2020-11-13 | 49 comments

64.

GitHub Source Code Leaked Online (resynth1943.net)

67 points by resynth1943 2020-11-05 | 16 comments

65.

Suppression Is a Bigger Scandal Than the Actual Story (taibbi.substack.com)

65 points by eyeball 2020-10-25 | 42 comments

66.

Uber bought – a law. – that's dangerous for struggling drivers (www.theguardian.com)

65 points by werber 2020-11-13 | 61 comments

67.

Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings (abc.xyz)

65 points by jhatax 2020-10-29 | 57 comments

68.

Rust 1.48 (blog.rust-lang.org)

64 points by pietroalbini 2020-11-19 | 5 comments

69.

Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed (edition.cnn.com)

63 points by vinnyglennon 2020-11-07 | 18 comments

70.

The Reasons I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System (robdobson.com)

62 points by iamflimflam1 2020-11-15 | 58 comments

71.

Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server (funkwhale.audio)

62 points by peterstensmyr 2020-11-12 | 41 comments

72.

No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This (github.com)

61 points by ingve 2020-11-09 | 15 comments

73.

Toronto-area lawyer had to flee Canada after taking on the tow truck industry (www.ctvnews.ca)

61 points by walterbell 2020-11-01 | 11 comments

74.

Why Dark didn't choose Rust (blog.darklang.com)

61 points by pimterry 2020-11-04 | 20 comments

75.

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results (www.apple.com)

60 points by todsacerdoti 2020-10-29 | 72 comments

76.

Marketers are addicted to bad data (www.jacquescorbytuech.com)

59 points by iamacyborg 2020-11-07 | 20 comments

77.

Next.js 10 (nextjs.org)

59 points by ihuman 2020-10-27 | 2 comments

78.

Disaster ‘prepping’ was once an American pastime. Today, it’s mainstream again (www.nationalgeographic.com)

59 points by CapitalistCartr 2020-11-11 | 35 comments

79.

New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 (youtube-dl.org)

59 points by geophertz 2020-11-01 | 6 comments

80.

The Gods on Hacker News (www.riknieu.com)

58 points by ivm 2020-11-10 | 12 comments

81.

Cairo Is Dead (lists.cairographics.org)

58 points by p4bl0 2020-11-12 | 34 comments

82.

Apple Building Search Engine to Take on Google, Report Claims (www.forbes.com)

57 points by winterismute 2020-10-28 | 58 comments

83.

MacBook Pros unable to open any non-Apple application (twitter.com)

57 points by mattsolle 2020-11-12 | 18 comments

84.

On learning chess as an adult: From 650 to 1750 in two years (jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)

57 points by tibbar 2020-11-16 | 8 comments

85.

Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains (www.ctrl.blog)

57 points by weinzierl 2020-10-27 | 31 comments

86.

Joe Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election (edition.cnn.com)

56 points by bubblehack3r 2020-11-07 | 7 comments

87.

MacBook Pro 13-inch with M1 (www.apple.com)

56 points by axg 2020-11-10 | 40 comments

88.

Evolving Reddit’s Workforce (redditblog.com)

56 points by NearAP 2020-10-27 | 35 comments

89.

The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it (www.forbes.com)

56 points by bra-ket 2020-10-23 | 41 comments

90.

“I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal API” (twitter.com)

56 points by swyx 2020-10-22 | 25 comments

91.

A few kilograms weight loss nearly halves the risk of diabetes? (www.uea.ac.uk)

56 points by rustoo 2020-11-13 | 22 comments

92.

Public Apology to Jeremy Howard (numfocus.org)

56 points by boxy_brown 2020-10-30 | 31 comments

93.

Remove auto renew from my account (community.teamviewer.com)

56 points by nsoonhui 2020-11-03 | 17 comments

94.

Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux (platform.uno)

55 points by octopoc 2020-11-05 | 26 comments

95.

Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring at Silicon Valley Tech Firms [pdf] (poseidon01.ssrn.com)

54 points by elsewhen 2020-11-12 | 31 comments

96.

Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill (www.sciencedirect.com)

54 points by ptbello 2020-11-07 | 18 comments

97.

Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab (www.mediawiki.org)

54 points by input_sh 2020-10-28 | 8 comments

98.

Show HN: Podcast API (www.listennotes.com)

54 points by wenbin 2020-11-18 | 7 comments

99.

YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video] (www.youtube.com)

53 points by FiberBundle 2020-11-06 | 9 comments

100.

Rolls Royce plans UK class of mini-nuclear plants (www.bbc.com)

52 points by EwanToo 2020-11-11 | 35 comments

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