The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2020
We track 1,223 stories from November 2020, averaging 281 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 87 stories. Together they drew 196,726 comments, 161 per story on average.
1
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
apnews.com · granzymes · 7 Nov 2020
3.1k pts
4.6k comments
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YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
github.blog · fusl · 16 Nov 2020
2.6k pts
658 comments
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3
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
twitter.com · mattsolle · 12 Nov 2020
2.6k pts
1.3k comments
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4
Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
raspberrypi.org · schappim · 2 Nov 2020
2.6k pts
754 comments
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6
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
bbc.co.uk · isp · 9 Nov 2020
1.9k pts
1.1k comments
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Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
arstechnica.com · eddieoz · 10 Nov 2020
1.6k pts
425 comments
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EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
statewatch.org · Daniel_sk · 8 Nov 2020
1.5k pts
752 comments
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AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
deepmind.com · felixr · 30 Nov 2020
1.5k pts
1 comments
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AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
deepmind.com · momeara · 30 Nov 2020
1.4k pts
660 comments
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13
Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
9to5mac.com · runesoerensen · 10 Nov 2020
1.4k pts
1.3k comments
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14
Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
twitter.com · 0xmohit · 12 Nov 2020
1.3k pts
799 comments
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15
Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back
github.blog · todsacerdoti · 16 Nov 2020
1.3k pts
1 comments
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16
Beirut Port Explosion
forensic-architecture.org · AliCollins · 19 Nov 2020
1.2k pts
199 comments
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17
Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
chadscira.com · ic4l · 4 Nov 2020
1.2k pts
252 comments
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18
On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
caseyliss.com · ingve · 10 Nov 2020
1.2k pts
335 comments
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19
How to Think for Yourself
paulgraham.com · neilkakkar · 27 Nov 2020
1.1k pts
816 comments
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20
Google users locked out after 15 years' use
businessinsider.com · eitland · 2 Nov 2020
1.1k pts
694 comments
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21
Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
macrumors.com · antipaul · 12 Nov 2020
1.1k pts
1.1k comments
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22
I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track
delu.medium.com · todsacerdoti · 26 Nov 2020
1.1k pts
149 comments
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23
No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
github.com · ingve · 9 Nov 2020
1.1k pts
938 comments
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25
Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
singhkays.com · singhkays · 24 Nov 2020
1k pts
1.1k comments
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27
Building Your Color Palette
refactoringui.com · clessg · 22 Nov 2020
1k pts
189 comments
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28
GitHub Source Code Leak
resynth1943.net · resynth1943 · 5 Nov 2020
1k pts
403 comments
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30
DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
sfwa.org · healsdata · 18 Nov 2020
993 pts
279 comments
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31
Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
twitter.com · ColinWright · 24 Nov 2020
981 pts
436 comments
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YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
forbes.com · patrickaljord · 19 Nov 2020
974 pts
758 comments
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35
Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
blog.mozilla.org · tomwas54 · 17 Nov 2020
950 pts
508 comments
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36
‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
news.umich.edu · rbanffy · 18 Nov 2020
942 pts
607 comments
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37
TailwindCSS v2.0
blog.tailwindcss.com · sarathyweb · 18 Nov 2020
927 pts
463 comments
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38
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)
vice.com · elorant · 16 Nov 2020
924 pts
291 comments
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39
New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
youtube-dl.org · geophertz · 1 Nov 2020
922 pts
303 comments
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41
Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
bbc.co.uk · m1 · 24 Nov 2020
906 pts
493 comments
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42
Intel's disruption is now complete
jamesallworth.medium.com · davnicwil · 14 Nov 2020
894 pts
627 comments
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44
How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
securitylab.github.com · generalizations · 10 Nov 2020
876 pts
278 comments
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45
Six Months of Tiny Projects
tinyprojects.dev · tinyprojects · 18 Nov 2020
872 pts
143 comments
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46
So you've made a mistake and it's public
meta.wikimedia.org · abbe98 · 13 Nov 2020
851 pts
377 comments
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47
Don't use third party auth to sign in
gurjeet.singh.im · gurjeet · 14 Nov 2020
842 pts
527 comments
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48
Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
apple.com · todsacerdoti · 18 Nov 2020
830 pts
646 comments
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49
Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
sciencemag.org · LUmBULtERA · 19 Nov 2020
830 pts
301 comments
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51
South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes
theregister.com · LaSombra · 2 Nov 2020
813 pts
302 comments
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52
WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
wtfhappenedin1971.com · dgudkov · 23 Nov 2020
808 pts
454 comments
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53
I should have loved biology
jsomers.net · jsomers · 18 Nov 2020
800 pts
298 comments
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55
A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
microg.org · doener · 30 Nov 2020
790 pts
187 comments
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56
Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
blog.archive.org · tosh · 19 Nov 2020
788 pts
254 comments
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57
An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall
alexanderklopping.medium.com · knes · 11 Nov 2020
783 pts
256 comments
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58
Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
theguardian.com · m1 · 16 Nov 2020
780 pts
1.3k comments
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59
Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
erik-engheim.medium.com · socialdemocrat · 30 Nov 2020
768 pts
629 comments
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60
Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur
twitter.com · polyrand · 14 Nov 2020
754 pts
235 comments
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