The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2020

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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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macOS unable to open any non-Apple application twitter.com · mattsolle · 12 Nov 2020

2.6k pts 1.3k comments

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Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC raspberrypi.org · schappim · 2 Nov 2020

2.6k pts 754 comments

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Tell HN: Thank You Dang sinak · 27 Nov 2020

2.4k pts 249 comments

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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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Tony Hsieh has died yahoo.com · MrMcDowall · 28 Nov 2020

1.6k pts 298 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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Your Computer Isn't Yours sneak.berlin · sneak · 13 Nov 2020

1.5k pts 741 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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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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Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft twitter.com · 0xmohit · 12 Nov 2020

1.3k pts 799 comments

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Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back github.blog · todsacerdoti · 16 Nov 2020

1.3k pts 1 comments

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Beirut Port Explosion forensic-architecture.org · AliCollins · 19 Nov 2020

1.2k pts 199 comments

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Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points chadscira.com · ic4l · 4 Nov 2020

1.2k pts 252 comments

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On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation caseyliss.com · ingve · 10 Nov 2020

1.2k pts 335 comments

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How to Think for Yourself paulgraham.com · neilkakkar · 27 Nov 2020

1.1k pts 816 comments

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Google users locked out after 15 years' use businessinsider.com · eitland · 2 Nov 2020

1.1k pts 694 comments

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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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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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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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Email a Dumpster Fire hey.science · bschne · 24 Nov 2020

1k pts 326 comments

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Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery singhkays.com · singhkays · 24 Nov 2020

1k pts 1.1k comments

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Servo’s new home blog.servo.org · g0xA52A2A · 17 Nov 2020

1k pts 309 comments

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Building Your Color Palette refactoringui.com · clessg · 22 Nov 2020

1k pts 189 comments

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GitHub Source Code Leak resynth1943.net · resynth1943 · 5 Nov 2020

1k pts 403 comments

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What Gödel Discovered stopa.io · stopachka · 16 Nov 2020

1k pts 259 comments

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DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster sfwa.org · healsdata · 18 Nov 2020

993 pts 279 comments

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Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in twitter.com · ColinWright · 24 Nov 2020

981 pts 436 comments

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Booting from a vinyl record boginjr.com · ruik · 22 Nov 2020

979 pts 157 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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1MB Club 1mb.club · bradley_taunt · 19 Nov 2020

965 pts 375 comments

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Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode blog.mozilla.org · tomwas54 · 17 Nov 2020

950 pts 508 comments

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‘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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TailwindCSS v2.0 blog.tailwindcss.com · sarathyweb · 18 Nov 2020

927 pts 463 comments

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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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New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 youtube-dl.org · geophertz · 1 Nov 2020

922 pts 303 comments

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Alex Trebek has died twitter.com · slater · 8 Nov 2020

911 pts 149 comments

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Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert bbc.co.uk · m1 · 24 Nov 2020

906 pts 493 comments

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Intel's disruption is now complete jamesallworth.medium.com · davnicwil · 14 Nov 2020

894 pts 627 comments

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Zoomquilt (2004) zoomquilt.org · xingyzt · 23 Nov 2020

878 pts 132 comments

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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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Six Months of Tiny Projects tinyprojects.dev · tinyprojects · 18 Nov 2020

872 pts 143 comments

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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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Don't use third party auth to sign in gurjeet.singh.im · gurjeet · 14 Nov 2020

842 pts 527 comments

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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program apple.com · todsacerdoti · 18 Nov 2020

830 pts 646 comments

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Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled sciencemag.org · LUmBULtERA · 19 Nov 2020

830 pts 301 comments

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I sold Baremetrics baremetrics.com · anttiai · 10 Nov 2020

818 pts 497 comments

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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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WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) wtfhappenedin1971.com · dgudkov · 23 Nov 2020

808 pts 454 comments

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I should have loved biology jsomers.net · jsomers · 18 Nov 2020

800 pts 298 comments

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.NET 5.0 devblogs.microsoft.com · benaadams · 10 Nov 2020

791 pts 455 comments

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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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Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive blog.archive.org · tosh · 19 Nov 2020

788 pts 254 comments

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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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Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show theguardian.com · m1 · 16 Nov 2020

780 pts 1.3k comments

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Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? erik-engheim.medium.com · socialdemocrat · 30 Nov 2020

768 pts 629 comments

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Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur twitter.com · polyrand · 14 Nov 2020

754 pts 235 comments