The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2020

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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA github.com · phantop · 23 Oct 2020

4.2k pts 1.4k comments

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How journalists use youtube-dl freedom.press · thisisparker · 26 Oct 2020

1.7k pts 328 comments

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Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels typelit.io · Octouroboros · 6 Oct 2020

1.6k pts 378 comments

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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly nytimes.com · 1915cb1f · 20 Oct 2020

1.6k pts 824 comments

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Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus iphoneincanada.ca · tomekw · 10 Oct 2020

1.5k pts 607 comments

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AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service twitter.com · tnolet · 16 Oct 2020

1.5k pts 637 comments

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Facebook Container for Firefox mozilla.org · sushicalculus · 21 Oct 2020

1.5k pts 425 comments

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We Hacked Apple for 3 Months samcurry.net · samwcyo · 8 Oct 2020

1.5k pts 308 comments

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My Resignation from the Intercept greenwald.substack.com · yasp · 29 Oct 2020

1.4k pts 1.6k comments

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Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products buyforlifeproducts.com · hubraumhugo · 7 Oct 2020

1.4k pts 398 comments

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Bongo Cat bongo.cat · mrpadie · 23 Oct 2020

1.3k pts 190 comments

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Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings lapcatsoftware.com · arm · 18 Oct 2020

1.3k pts 492 comments

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A warning about Glassdoor reddit.com · nosmokewhereiam · 15 Oct 2020

1.3k pts 329 comments

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Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay wsj.com · grej · 6 Oct 2020

1.3k pts 1.4k comments

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Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption act.eff.org · DyslexicAtheist · 6 Oct 2020

1.3k pts 342 comments

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I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps varsity.co.uk · yk42bb · 24 Oct 2020

1.2k pts 536 comments

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Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time quantamagazine.org · theafh · 14 Oct 2020

1.2k pts 354 comments

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I Violated a Code of Conduct fast.ai · tosh · 29 Oct 2020

1.2k pts 912 comments

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Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur twitter.com · robenkleene · 20 Oct 2020

1.2k pts 616 comments

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YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git github.com · madars · 25 Oct 2020

1.1k pts 315 comments

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Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel bbc.com · cjlm · 5 Oct 2020

1k pts 801 comments

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My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison twitter.com · danso · 1 Oct 2020

1k pts 622 comments

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Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says cbc.ca · vivekd · 8 Oct 2020

1k pts 415 comments

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Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video] youtube.com · BerislavLopac · 16 Oct 2020

959 pts 238 comments

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This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine secretgeek.github.io · Symmetry · 19 Oct 2020

952 pts 179 comments

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PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network reuters.com · epaga · 21 Oct 2020

942 pts 372 comments

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Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account reddit.com · warp · 14 Oct 2020

895 pts 425 comments

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Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab mediawiki.org · input_sh · 28 Oct 2020

889 pts 390 comments

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Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting nationalreview.com · henriquez · 14 Oct 2020

883 pts 1.1k comments

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Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young reuters.com · pseudolus · 26 Oct 2020

879 pts 674 comments

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Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH businessinsider.com · jeffbee · 15 Oct 2020

855 pts 465 comments

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I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API twitter.com · swyx · 22 Oct 2020

845 pts 420 comments

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Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla bytecodealliance.org · swyx · 26 Oct 2020

813 pts 135 comments

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Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime timhutton.github.io · tim_hutton · 18 Oct 2020

801 pts 433 comments

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One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 joel.net · Sandeepg33k · 2 Oct 2020

787 pts 480 comments

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Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims bbc.com · nkurz · 15 Oct 2020

780 pts 1.7k comments

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Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead arstechnica.com · fn1 · 3 Oct 2020

777 pts 389 comments

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Google's new logos are bad techcrunch.com · LopRabbit · 28 Oct 2020

776 pts 333 comments

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RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO torrentfreak.com · ikeboy · 27 Oct 2020

772 pts 276 comments

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Google disabled my husband's account twitter.com · Eyas · 15 Oct 2020

763 pts 483 comments

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AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] youtube.com · thg · 8 Oct 2020

761 pts 674 comments

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Face ID and Touch ID for the Web webkit.org · Austin_Conlon · 19 Oct 2020

757 pts 355 comments

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Pandoc – A universal document converter pandoc.org · johnsonjo · 24 Oct 2020

756 pts 168 comments

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Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like? mockmechanics.com · felipereigosa · 29 Oct 2020

719 pts 149 comments

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Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid joshwcomeau.com · feross · 5 Oct 2020

716 pts 268 comments

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French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs privateinternetaccess.com · seigando · 4 Oct 2020

714 pts 330 comments

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The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel phoronix.com · akvadrako · 11 Oct 2020

707 pts 462 comments

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They're Made Out of Meat (1991) mit.edu · swazzy · 10 Oct 2020

702 pts 292 comments

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Congress should invest in open-source software brookings.edu · gilad · 15 Oct 2020

692 pts 164 comments

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ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion' techspot.com · illuminated · 9 Oct 2020

681 pts 370 comments

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What is the best dumb TV? pointerclicker.com · evo_9 · 2 Oct 2020

674 pts 644 comments

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Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency endocrine.org · walterbell · 27 Oct 2020

654 pts 363 comments

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Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other nytimes.com · piker · 9 Oct 2020

650 pts 191 comments

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DigitalOcean App Platform pages.news.digitalocean.com · digianarchist · 6 Oct 2020

646 pts 346 comments

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IBM is splitting itself into two public companies reuters.com · dredmorbius · 8 Oct 2020

645 pts 426 comments

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Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google arstechnica.com · randtrain34 · 8 Oct 2020

643 pts 748 comments

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Sean Connery has died bbc.co.uk · bitshifta · 31 Oct 2020

633 pts 240 comments

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Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account melovedata.com · dsaavy · 26 Oct 2020

632 pts 705 comments

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How Discord Won ianvanagas.com · ivanagas · 19 Oct 2020

632 pts 588 comments

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Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries shkspr.mobi · edent · 11 Oct 2020

627 pts 347 comments