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Top of Month - Oct 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
    (7 Oct 2020 | 1392 points | Comments)

11. Bongo Cat
    (23 Oct 2020 | 1348 points | Comments)

12. Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
    (18 Oct 2020 | 1320 points | Comments)

13. A warning about Glassdoor
    (15 Oct 2020 | 1262 points | Comments)

14. Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
    (6 Oct 2020 | 1256 points | Comments)

15. Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption
    (6 Oct 2020 | 1252 points | Comments)

16. I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps
    (24 Oct 2020 | 1242 points | Comments)

17. Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
    (14 Oct 2020 | 1235 points | Comments)

18. I Violated a Code of Conduct
    (29 Oct 2020 | 1214 points | Comments)

19. Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
    (20 Oct 2020 | 1183 points | Comments)

20. YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
    (25 Oct 2020 | 1098 points | Comments)

21. Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
    (5 Oct 2020 | 1041 points | Comments)

22. My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
    (1 Oct 2020 | 1040 points | Comments)

23. Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says
    (8 Oct 2020 | 1008 points | Comments)

24. Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
    (16 Oct 2020 | 959 points | Comments)

25. This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
    (19 Oct 2020 | 952 points | Comments)

26. PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network
    (21 Oct 2020 | 942 points | Comments)

27. Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
    (14 Oct 2020 | 895 points | Comments)

28. Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab
    (28 Oct 2020 | 889 points | Comments)

29. Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
    (14 Oct 2020 | 883 points | Comments)

30. Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young
    (26 Oct 2020 | 879 points | Comments)

31. Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
    (15 Oct 2020 | 855 points | Comments)

32. I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API
    (22 Oct 2020 | 845 points | Comments)

33. Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
    (26 Oct 2020 | 813 points | Comments)

34. Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime
    (18 Oct 2020 | 801 points | Comments)

35. One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
    (2 Oct 2020 | 787 points | Comments)

36. Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
    (15 Oct 2020 | 780 points | Comments)

37. Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
    (3 Oct 2020 | 777 points | Comments)

38. Google's new logos are bad
    (28 Oct 2020 | 776 points | Comments)

39. RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
    (27 Oct 2020 | 772 points | Comments)

40. Google disabled my husband's account
    (15 Oct 2020 | 763 points | Comments)

41. AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
    (8 Oct 2020 | 761 points | Comments)

42. Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
    (19 Oct 2020 | 757 points | Comments)

43. Pandoc – A universal document converter
    (24 Oct 2020 | 756 points | Comments)

44. Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?
    (29 Oct 2020 | 719 points | Comments)

45. Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
    (5 Oct 2020 | 716 points | Comments)

46. French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs
    (4 Oct 2020 | 714 points | Comments)

47. The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel
    (11 Oct 2020 | 707 points | Comments)

48. They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
    (10 Oct 2020 | 702 points | Comments)

49. Congress should invest in open-source software
    (15 Oct 2020 | 692 points | Comments)

50. ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'
    (9 Oct 2020 | 681 points | Comments)

51. What is the best dumb TV?
    (2 Oct 2020 | 674 points | Comments)

52. Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
    (27 Oct 2020 | 654 points | Comments)

53. Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
    (9 Oct 2020 | 650 points | Comments)

54. DigitalOcean App Platform
    (6 Oct 2020 | 646 points | Comments)

55. IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
    (8 Oct 2020 | 645 points | Comments)

56. Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
    (8 Oct 2020 | 643 points | Comments)

57. Sean Connery has died
    (31 Oct 2020 | 633 points | Comments)

58. How Discord Won
    (19 Oct 2020 | 632 points | Comments)

59. Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
    (26 Oct 2020 | 632 points | Comments)

60. Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
    (11 Oct 2020 | 627 points | Comments)

61. I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
    (25 Oct 2020 | 618 points | Comments)

62. James Randi Has Died
    (21 Oct 2020 | 616 points | Comments)

63. Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux
    (5 Oct 2020 | 614 points | Comments)

64. 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
    (13 Oct 2020 | 614 points | Comments)

65. Eddie Van Halen has died
    (6 Oct 2020 | 612 points | Comments)

66. Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine
    (31 Oct 2020 | 610 points | Comments)

67. Android In a Box – Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system
    (5 Oct 2020 | 609 points | Comments)

68. Rust After the Honeymoon
    (11 Oct 2020 | 609 points | Comments)

69. Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
    (21 Oct 2020 | 608 points | Comments)

70. Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler
    (4 Oct 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

71. From McDonald's to Google
    (30 Oct 2020 | 603 points | Comments)

72. AMD to Acquire Xilinx
    (27 Oct 2020 | 593 points | Comments)

73. USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess
    (1 Oct 2020 | 590 points | Comments)

74. HashiCorp Boundary
    (14 Oct 2020 | 582 points | Comments)

75. Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React
    (31 Oct 2020 | 582 points | Comments)

76. You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
    (23 Oct 2020 | 578 points | Comments)

77. Early Work
    (20 Oct 2020 | 577 points | Comments)

78. The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
    (12 Oct 2020 | 575 points | Comments)

79. No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981
    (19 Oct 2020 | 571 points | Comments)

80. A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
    (27 Oct 2020 | 569 points | Comments)

81. How to deal with extreme physical pain
    (30 Oct 2020 | 568 points | Comments)

82. I built a lay-down desk
    (5 Oct 2020 | 560 points | Comments)

83. Leaving Mozilla
    (7 Oct 2020 | 558 points | Comments)

84. How I remember what I learn
    (6 Oct 2020 | 556 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
    (30 Oct 2020 | 556 points | Comments)

86. NAT Slipstreaming
    (31 Oct 2020 | 555 points | Comments)

87. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
    (27 Oct 2020 | 554 points | Comments)

88. Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
    (30 Oct 2020 | 552 points | Comments)

89. An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
    (26 Oct 2020 | 551 points | Comments)

90. Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform
    (15 Oct 2020 | 549 points | Comments)

91. Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
    (18 Oct 2020 | 548 points | Comments)

92. Python 3.9
    (5 Oct 2020 | 547 points | Comments)

93. Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists
    (23 Oct 2020 | 546 points | Comments)

94. My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
    (1 Oct 2020 | 536 points | Comments)

95. Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
    (10 Oct 2020 | 535 points | Comments)

96. So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
    (16 Oct 2020 | 535 points | Comments)

97. Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers
    (27 Oct 2020 | 535 points | Comments)

98. Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
    (28 Oct 2020 | 534 points | Comments)

99. Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B
    (9 Oct 2020 | 533 points | Comments)

100. The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement
     (25 Oct 2020 | 530 points | Comments)