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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.

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

3.

The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity (www.economist.com)

191 points by vincvinc 2020-10-15 | 44 comments

4.

A Facebook employee has stolen my Instagram account (twitter.com)

181 points by testloop 2020-09-27 | 23 comments

5.

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source (blog.domenic.me)

169 points by domenicd 2020-09-30 | 89 comments

6.

Eddie Van Halen has died (www.npr.org)

162 points by psim1 2020-10-06 | 34 comments

7.

Google Services Experiencing Disruptions (www.google.com)

151 points by coderintherye 2020-09-25 | 64 comments

8.

AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service (twitter.com)

141 points by tnolet 2020-10-16 | 81 comments

9.

AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] (www.youtube.com)

140 points by thg 2020-10-08 | 102 comments

10.

Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)

135 points by arm 2020-10-18 | 32 comments

11.

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

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

12.

Apple Tells Messaging App Telegram to Take Down Protestor Channels in Belarus (www.iphoneincanada.ca)

132 points by tomekw 2020-10-10 | 35 comments

13.

Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo (spreadprivacy.com)

130 points by y2bd 2020-09-29 | 19 comments

14.

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

130 points by f00zz 2020-10-05 | 47 comments

15.

Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on Us (www.persuasion.community)

130 points by dgellow 2020-10-02 | 32 comments

16.

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

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

17.

Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in admissions (www.justice.gov)

127 points by hhs 2020-10-08 | 64 comments

18.

Facebook Container for Firefox (www.mozilla.org)

123 points by sushicalculus 2020-10-21 | 33 comments

19.

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

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

20.

Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect (twitter.com)

110 points by sneak 2020-10-18 | 22 comments

21.

IBM to break up 109-year old company to focus on cloud growth (www.reuters.com)

107 points by dredmorbius 2020-10-08 | 61 comments

22.

When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home (twitter.com)

106 points by compsciphd 2020-10-12 | 36 comments

23.

Swift System Is Now Open Source (swift.org)

103 points by NobodyNada 2020-09-25 | 10 comments

24.

35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent (www.reddit.com)

101 points by dnlbtlr 2020-10-09 | 52 comments

25.

America's True Unemployment Rate (www.axios.com)

99 points by jbegley 2020-10-20 | 65 comments

26.

Quibi is shutting down (www.theinformation.com)

99 points by jmsflknr 2020-10-21 | 56 comments

27.

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

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

28.

Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global anti-lockdown movement (www.mercurynews.com)

97 points by rllearneratwork 2020-10-12 | 89 comments

29.

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

30.

Introducing DigitalOcean App Platform (pages.news.digitalocean.com)

95 points by digianarchist 2020-10-06 | 31 comments

31.

First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws (www.fincen.gov)

94 points by propter_hoc 2020-10-19 | 55 comments

32.

Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes (www.economist.com)

93 points by CPAhem 2020-09-26 | 9 comments

33.

James Randi Has Died (web.randi.org)

93 points by omnibrain 2020-10-21 | 12 comments

34.

Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court (www.reuters.com)

92 points by chmaynard 2020-10-16 | 25 comments

35.

French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs (www.cozyit.com)

91 points by seigando 2020-10-04 | 17 comments

36.

Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says (www.cbc.ca)

90 points by vivekd 2020-10-08 | 21 comments

37.

White Women Need Not Apply (arcdigital.media)

89 points by exolymph 2020-10-19 | 35 comments

38.

Compiler for the M language of the French DGFiP (gitlab.inria.fr)

87 points by testcross 2020-10-09 | 23 comments

39.

iPhone 12 (www.apple.com)

85 points by jarenstein 2020-10-13 | 4 comments

40.

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

41.

Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez (www.nobelprize.org)

84 points by yesbabyyes 2020-10-06 | 17 comments

42.

Krita 4.4.0 (krita.org)

83 points by dragonsh 2020-10-14 | 14 comments

43.

Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses (www.greaterwrong.com)

83 points by onemind 2020-10-15 | 38 comments

44.

Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur (twitter.com)

82 points by robenkleene 2020-10-20 | 20 comments

45.

Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008) (www.researchgate.net)

80 points by leoh 2020-10-06 | 19 comments

46.

'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due to lockdown (www.rnz.co.nz)

80 points by sxp 2020-10-17 | 51 comments

47.

Removing Holocaust Denial Content (about.fb.com)

80 points by coloneltcb 2020-10-12 | 104 comments

48.

Unofficial ballot drop boxes worry California elections officials (www.ocregister.com)

79 points by prostoalex 2020-10-12 | 41 comments

49.

Fossil (www.fossil-scm.org)

78 points by tosh 2020-09-30 | 10 comments

50.

Wikipedia: Logging Everyone Out (lists.wikimedia.org)

78 points by edward 2020-10-02 | 14 comments

51.

U.S. to Accuse Google of Protecting Illegal Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)

77 points by 1915cb1f 2020-10-20 | 14 comments

52.

Several Apple Services Down (www.apple.com)

76 points by jader201 2020-09-30 | 42 comments

53.

Rust 2021: GUI (raphlinus.github.io)

74 points by clarkmoody 2020-09-29 | 34 comments

54.

22% of all US Dollars were created in 2020 (www.reddit.com)

73 points by zuhayeer 2020-10-13 | 91 comments

55.

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

56.

Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground (old.reddit.com)

69 points by a5withtrrs 2020-10-12 | 15 comments

57.

Twilio Set to Acquire Cloud Customer Data Startup Segment for $3.2B (www.forbes.com)

68 points by harryzhang 2020-10-09 | 9 comments

58.

Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim (github.com)

66 points by stchacademy 2020-10-20 | 2 comments

59.

foo@bar.com (www.bar.com)

66 points by diggan 2020-09-27 | 15 comments

60.

Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India (pulkitsharma07.github.io)

66 points by pulkitsh1234 2020-10-02 | 10 comments

61.

Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready (bill.harding.blog)

65 points by wbharding 2020-10-06 | 6 comments

62.

PG and Jessica (blog.samaltman.com)

65 points by janvdberg 2020-09-25 | 32 comments

63.

1Password Linux Beta Is Out (blog.1password.com)

64 points by FinnLeSueur 2020-10-21 | 17 comments

64.

Microsoft 365 Widespread Outage (status.office365.com)

63 points by psim1 2020-09-28 | 22 comments

65.

US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations (www.eurekalert.org)

63 points by rustoo 2020-10-06 | 24 comments

66.

Doctors Group Sues California for Failing to Add Processed Meat to Cancer List (www.pcrm.org)

62 points by whereistimbo 2020-09-30 | 58 comments

67.

Fortunately, I don't squash my commits (blog.ploeh.dk)

61 points by lelf 2020-10-05 | 37 comments

68.

YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions (arstechnica.com)

60 points by anonymfus 2020-09-28 | 9 comments

69.

Trump: “Tonight, FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19.” (twitter.com)

60 points by bmcn2020 2020-10-02 | 17 comments

70.

Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH (www.businessinsider.com)

60 points by jeffbee 2020-10-15 | 49 comments

71.

Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H1B Visa Program Requiring Higher Pay (www.wsj.com)

60 points by grej 2020-10-06 | 26 comments

72.

.NET Orleans (dotnet.github.io)

59 points by swyx 2020-10-05 | 15 comments

73.

Scientists Just Discovered a Mysterious Organ Lurking in the Centre of the Head (www.sciencealert.com)

59 points by smitty1e 2020-10-21 | 12 comments

74.

Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid (www.team-bhp.com)

58 points by boruto 2020-10-10 | 23 comments

75.

If doctors were interviewed like software developers (www.reddit.com)

58 points by Sohcahtoa82 2020-10-07 | 52 comments

76.

AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out (reddit.com)

58 points by giuliomagnifico 2020-10-12 | 8 comments

77.

Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime (timhutton.github.io)

58 points by tim_hutton 2020-10-18 | 33 comments

78.

Show HN: Elsa is a minimal, fast and secure runtime for JavaScript written in Go (github.com)

57 points by qu4k 2020-09-29 | 18 comments

79.

Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account (www.reddit.com)

57 points by warp 2020-10-14 | 13 comments

80.

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

81.

Calibre 5.0 Released (calibre-ebook.com)

56 points by Alekhine 2020-09-25 | 12 comments

82.

The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician (www.bloomberg.com)

56 points by hhs 2020-10-17 | 25 comments

83.

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

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

84.

Dr.Mario 64's gzip implementation is taken almost verbatim from gzip source code (twitter.com)

55 points by blacktulip 2020-10-19 | 36 comments

85.

Rust 1.47 (blog.rust-lang.org)

55 points by jsheard 2020-10-08 | 1 comments

86.

What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)

54 points by IA21 2020-10-21 | 26 comments

87.

Radar.cloudflare.com (radar.cloudflare.com)

53 points by manigandham 2020-09-30 | 13 comments

88.

Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors (www.matrix.org)

53 points by jeltz 2020-10-20 | 5 comments

89.

No Microsoft is not rebasing windows to Linux (boxofcables.dev)

53 points by sunbum 2020-10-12 | 30 comments

90.

Principles of Data Oriented Programming (blog.klipse.tech)

52 points by viebel 2020-10-05 | 12 comments

91.

How Microsoft Went from “Linux Is a Cancer.” To “Microsoft Loves Linux.” (www.idginsiderpro.com)

52 points by CrankyBear 2020-10-12 | 62 comments

92.

Thank you, uBlock Origin (twitter.com)

52 points by dkthehuman 2020-10-19 | 6 comments

93.

Car Seats as Contraception (privpapers.ssrn.com)

51 points by longdefeat 2020-10-01 | 26 comments

94.

Windows XP and Server 2003 compiled from leaked source code (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

51 points by headalgorithm 2020-09-30 | 12 comments

95.

Apple T2 Chip Jailbreak (reportcybercrime.com)

50 points by Yeri 2020-09-30 | 4 comments

96.

PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack (tutanota.com)

50 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 2020-10-14 | 15 comments

97.

Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home (twitter.com)

50 points by leothekim 2020-10-01 | 51 comments

98.

Windows XP source code leaked (www.gizmodo.com.au)

50 points by a5withtrrs 2020-09-25 | 8 comments

99.

New Features in the Fish Shell (lwn.net)

49 points by chmaynard 2020-09-29 | 10 comments

100.

San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. (www.bloomberg.com)

49 points by pondsider 2020-10-13 | 24 comments

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