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Top of Year 2020

1. YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
   (23 Oct 2020 | 4240 points | Comments)

2. Bye, Amazon
   (4 May 2020 | 3816 points | Comments)

3. Every Google result now looks like an ad
   (21 Jan 2020 | 3592 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
   (19 Apr 2020 | 3270 points | Comments)

5. Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
   (7 Nov 2020 | 3089 points | Comments)

6. Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
   (12 May 2020 | 2953 points | Comments)

7. No Cookie for You
   (17 Dec 2020 | 2941 points | Comments)

8. SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
   (30 May 2020 | 2856 points | Comments)

9. Gears
   (12 Feb 2020 | 2760 points | Comments)

10. Social Cooling (2017)
    (29 Sep 2020 | 2692 points | Comments)

11. YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
    (16 Nov 2020 | 2636 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
    (31 May 2020 | 2634 points | Comments)

13. macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
    (12 Nov 2020 | 2603 points | Comments)

14. Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
    (15 Jul 2020 | 2595 points | Comments)

15. Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
    (2 Nov 2020 | 2594 points | Comments)

16. GitHub is now free for teams
    (14 Apr 2020 | 2589 points | Comments)

17. I Am Deleting the Blog
    (23 Jun 2020 | 2450 points | Comments)

18. Thank HN: You helped me get a new job
    (15 Jan 2020 | 2425 points | Comments)

19. Tell HN: Thank You Dang
    (27 Nov 2020 | 2363 points | Comments)

20. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
    (16 Sep 2020 | 2326 points | Comments)

21. Google outage – resolved
    (14 Dec 2020 | 2316 points | Comments)

22. John Conway has died
    (11 Apr 2020 | 2305 points | Comments)

23. Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
    (4 Feb 2020 | 2292 points | Comments)

24. The End of the Redis Adventure
    (30 Jun 2020 | 2282 points | Comments)

25. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
    (21 Jan 2020 | 2272 points | Comments)

26. Oppose the Earn IT Act
    (1 Jul 2020 | 2229 points | Comments)

27. Cameras and Lenses
    (9 Dec 2020 | 2132 points | Comments)

28. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
    (13 Sep 2020 | 2122 points | Comments)

29. Deno 1.0
    (13 May 2020 | 2081 points | Comments)

30. MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
    (22 May 2020 | 2031 points | Comments)

31. Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
    (10 Jun 2020 | 2003 points | Comments)

32. Grant Imahara Has Died
    (14 Jul 2020 | 1963 points | Comments)

33. The Day AppGet Died
    (27 May 2020 | 1930 points | Comments)

34. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
    (31 Mar 2020 | 1922 points | Comments)

35. Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
    (13 May 2020 | 1915 points | Comments)

36. Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
    (9 Nov 2020 | 1887 points | Comments)

37. Zoom Acquires Keybase
    (7 May 2020 | 1879 points | Comments)

38. Factorio 1.0
    (14 Aug 2020 | 1878 points | Comments)

39. Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
    (22 Jun 2020 | 1869 points | Comments)

40. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
    (18 Aug 2020 | 1858 points | Comments)

41. iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
    (24 Jun 2020 | 1847 points | Comments)

42. NPM Is Joining GitHub
    (16 Mar 2020 | 1829 points | Comments)

43. It’s Time to Build
    (18 Apr 2020 | 1820 points | Comments)

44. Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
    (18 May 2020 | 1783 points | Comments)

45. Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
    (15 Jul 2020 | 1782 points | Comments)

46. GitHub Codespaces
    (6 May 2020 | 1769 points | Comments)

47. FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
    (9 Dec 2020 | 1752 points | Comments)

48. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
    (18 Sep 2020 | 1738 points | Comments)

49. A first look at Unreal Engine 5
    (13 May 2020 | 1734 points | Comments)

50. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
    (2 Sep 2020 | 1722 points | Comments)

51. Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
    (13 Aug 2020 | 1704 points | Comments)

52. Goodbye, Clean Code
    (11 Jan 2020 | 1678 points | Comments)

53. Shirt Without Stripes
    (20 Apr 2020 | 1676 points | Comments)

54. AWS services explained in one line each
    (26 May 2020 | 1668 points | Comments)

55. This electrical transmission tower has a problem
    (17 Sep 2020 | 1666 points | Comments)

56. Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
    (17 Sep 2020 | 1656 points | Comments)

57. How journalists use youtube-dl
    (26 Oct 2020 | 1651 points | Comments)

58. Del.icio.us
    (29 Jul 2020 | 1649 points | Comments)

59. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
    (21 Jan 2020 | 1636 points | Comments)

60. Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
    (23 Sep 2020 | 1624 points | Comments)

61. Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
    (10 Nov 2020 | 1616 points | Comments)

62. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
    (11 Aug 2020 | 1602 points | Comments)

63. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
    (29 Aug 2020 | 1600 points | Comments)

64. Tony Hsieh has died
    (28 Nov 2020 | 1598 points | Comments)

65. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
    (27 Mar 2020 | 1597 points | Comments)

66. Wacom tablets track every app you open
    (5 Feb 2020 | 1594 points | Comments)

67. Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund
    (30 Jul 2020 | 1594 points | Comments)

68. Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
    (6 Oct 2020 | 1589 points | Comments)

69. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
    (4 Feb 2020 | 1582 points | Comments)

70. U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
    (20 Oct 2020 | 1572 points | Comments)

71. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
    (13 Feb 2020 | 1564 points | Comments)

72. Which Emoji Scissors Close?
    (3 Jan 2020 | 1545 points | Comments)

73. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
    (8 Feb 2020 | 1545 points | Comments)

74. Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
    (23 May 2020 | 1543 points | Comments)

75. New iPhone SE
    (15 Apr 2020 | 1539 points | Comments)

76. EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
    (8 Nov 2020 | 1530 points | Comments)

77. Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
    (4 May 2020 | 1527 points | Comments)

78. Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
    (18 May 2020 | 1525 points | Comments)

79. OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
    (1 Apr 2020 | 1518 points | Comments)

80. Mozilla Lifeboat
    (12 Aug 2020 | 1518 points | Comments)

81. Your Computer Isn't Yours
    (13 Nov 2020 | 1514 points | Comments)

82. Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus
    (10 Oct 2020 | 1512 points | Comments)

83. U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
    (9 Jul 2020 | 1489 points | Comments)

84. India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
    (29 Jun 2020 | 1483 points | Comments)

85. AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
    (30 Nov 2020 | 1473 points | Comments)

86. I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
    (23 Jun 2020 | 1469 points | Comments)

87. AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
    (16 Oct 2020 | 1466 points | Comments)

88. ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
    (1 May 2020 | 1464 points | Comments)

89. Facebook Container for Firefox
    (21 Oct 2020 | 1457 points | Comments)

90. We Hacked Apple for 3 Months
    (8 Oct 2020 | 1454 points | Comments)

91. Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
    (9 Jan 2020 | 1448 points | Comments)

92. My Resignation from the Intercept
    (29 Oct 2020 | 1441 points | Comments)

93. Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
    (26 Mar 2020 | 1433 points | Comments)

94. New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
    (8 Apr 2020 | 1429 points | Comments)

95. We Chat, They Watch
    (8 May 2020 | 1417 points | Comments)

96. Google Maps Hacks
    (2 Feb 2020 | 1410 points | Comments)

97. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
    (27 Aug 2020 | 1410 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
    (19 Aug 2020 | 1403 points | Comments)

99. AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
    (30 Nov 2020 | 1398 points | Comments)

100. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
     (18 May 2020 | 1393 points | Comments)