hackerNews

1

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA (github.com)

4203 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102700 1425 comments

12

The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it (www.forbes.com)

466 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102509 434 comments

2

Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition (www.gresearch.co.uk)

386 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102618 234 comments

3

The Right to Read (1997) (www.gnu.org)

373 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102606 98 comments

2

Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last (www.sciencemag.org)

370 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102521 91 comments

10

Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around (www.economist.com)

364 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102421 451 comments

5

2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete (petapixel.com)

364 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102612 58 comments

5

Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager Are Going Away (support.google.com)

314 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102600 340 comments

13

Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting (www.wsj.com)

298 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102503 85 comments

18

YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images (twitter.com)

295 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102512 93 comments

1

Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser (hubs.mozilla.com)

292 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2022030218 155 comments

14

Electoral College Decision Tree (observablehq.com)

274 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102509 319 comments

5

Show HN: Built a timeline component for React with multiple layout modes (github.com)

260 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102512 53 comments

8

A New Map of All the Particles and Forces (www.quantamagazine.org)

251 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102603 38 comments

4

Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption (stingle.org)

248 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102600 156 comments

6

Four Features That Justify a New Unix Shell (www.oilshell.org)

236 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102518 175 comments

20

Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools? (item?id=24877408)

236 points first seen 2020102418 last seen 2020102512 229 comments

9

Gitlab: Tech Stack (about.gitlab.com)

217 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102503 80 comments

11

Node.js v15.0.0 Is Here (nodejs.medium.com)

211 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102503 127 comments

4

Six Lessons from Six Months at Shopify (alexdanco.com)

210 points first seen 2020102415 last seen 2020102521 96 comments

3

BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point (www.cnx-software.com)

207 points first seen 2020102418 last seen 2020102606 53 comments

28

Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software (labcodes.com.br)

200 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102518 148 comments

7

Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code (github.com)

193 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102518 68 comments

49

Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping (www.latimes.com)

166 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102406 167 comments

14

Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System (www.amazon.com)

165 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102506 53 comments

7

Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training (sergeykish.com)

165 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102521 141 comments

42

Andy Kelley (of Zig) intimidated into vacating apartment for Hulu filming (twitter.com)

154 points first seen 2020102412 last seen 2020102421 24 comments

7

My own C compiler on my own compiler infrastructure (github.com)

152 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102506 16 comments

32

I Hired 7 Freelancers to Exploit This Weird Vulnerability (sophron.github.io)

142 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102409 66 comments

7

Deprecating SHA1 (mailarchive.ietf.org)

140 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102509 97 comments

6

How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers (www.moritz.systems)

134 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102500 12 comments

4

LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019) (andregarzia.com)

134 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102509 65 comments

16

Master of Magic (www.filfre.net)

132 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102503 24 comments

6

Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply (spectrum.ieee.org)

129 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102703 115 comments

9

War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019) (acoup.blog)

128 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102500 49 comments

26

Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests (www.livescience.com)

126 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102421 210 comments

8

Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light (www.quantamagazine.org)

124 points first seen 2020102415 last seen 2020102518 82 comments

54

Better Than JSON? (wiki.alopex.li)

119 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102415 125 comments

3

A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016) (blog.ycombinator.com)

113 points first seen 2020102415 last seen 2020102512 63 comments

11

Use “pseudo-sets” to control how many actions people take (ariyh.substack.com)

95 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102421 14 comments

27

Scientists Discover Unmarked Coffins in Search for 1921 Tulsa Massacre Victims (www.npr.org)

95 points first seen 2020102412 last seen 2020102500 41 comments

23

Senior member of NXIVM told FBI about blackmail and branding, got no response (www.timesunion.com)

87 points first seen 2020102415 last seen 2020102506 17 comments

19

Old Laptops as Secondary Monitors (rgoswami.me)

81 points first seen 2020102415 last seen 2020102509 39 comments

8

Palo Alto Tiny Basic in the Browser (troypress.com)

80 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102503 2 comments

0

On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox (ruzkuku.com)

73 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102403 80 comments

35

Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN (wzrd.ai)

71 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102509 45 comments

22

Show HN: A faster way to prototype your APIs using OpenAPI 3 and Swagger UI (github.com)

70 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102418 33 comments

31

Row scrolling for parallax effects in Street Fighters 2 (sf2platinum.wordpress.com)

64 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102512 7 comments

19

Gitlab Is Down (status.gitlab.com)

64 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102509 30 comments

17

Boswell's Life of Johnson (fantasticanachronism.com)

62 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102506 25 comments

67

Don't Use VPN Services (2016) (gist.github.com)

57 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102500 53 comments

21

Efficient smart contract security audits with machine learning and slither-simil (blog.trailofbits.com)

55 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102512 26 comments

46

Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones (www.zainrizvi.io)

51 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102509 16 comments

35

TwitGrid – A simple, broadsheet layout for reading Twitter feeds (github.com)

50 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102503 9 comments

50

Create React App 4.0 (github.com)

48 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102503 16 comments

0

Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1T in one year (cointelegraph.com)

46 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102403 42 comments

53

Six Tips to Ace a SQL Interview (product.hubspot.com)

46 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102421 2 comments

17

Einstein's theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars (phys.org)

43 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102509 11 comments

30

Show HN: LaunchSong – A platform for artists to promote their music (http://www.launchsong.com)

41 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102506 24 comments

0

The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; it is a moral crisis (www.pairagraph.com)

40 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102406 7 comments

24

Understanding static single assignment forms (blog.yossarian.net)

38 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102512 0 comments

13

Gravimetric Radar: Gravity-Based Detection of a Point-Mass Moving in Static Back (arxiv.org)

38 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102509 19 comments

15

A Brief History of Surgeons (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

38 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102700 9 comments

33

Time Gun – Maps (www.edinphoto.org.uk)

35 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102503 14 comments

42

The Age of Scurvy (2017) (www.sciencehistory.org)

33 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102500 16 comments

71

SEC just paid a record $114M to a whistleblower (www.cnn.com)

33 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102418 2 comments

44

Rejuvenating Autoconf (lwn.net)

32 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102500 7 comments

26

Utubster downloads YTB playlists, MP4 videos and MP3s from almost any website (www.utubster.com)

32 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102500 8 comments

40

Illuminated Mercedes-Benz badge can cause power steering failure (www.thedrive.com)

30 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102503 16 comments

57

Religious data platform [Cambridge Analytica] 'targets vulnerable people' (www.dw.com)

28 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102503 6 comments

78

An ed-tech specialist spoke out about proctoring software. Now he’s being sued (www.theverge.com)

27 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102412 5 comments

29

EM Information Theory of Consciousness (academic.oup.com)

27 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102518 13 comments

54

Harmful language in the RIAA's DMCA against YouTube-dl (datahorde.org)

26 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102418 2 comments

61

It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History (www.popularmechanics.com)

25 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102403 0 comments

15

The Children of the Opera (newcriterion.com)

25 points first seen 2020102412 last seen 2020102509 0 comments

53

SEC Issues Record $114M Whistleblower Award (www.sec.gov)

25 points first seen 2020102415 last seen 2020102503 0 comments

60

Gig Workers' Only Chance to Pee Is Apparently an App (www.vice.com)

24 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102412 9 comments

30

What If There _Is_ Life on Venus? (www.sapiens.org)

21 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102512 31 comments

37

Debugging async generator errors in Rust (meltware.com)

20 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102500 0 comments

56

Ask HN: How do you cope with mental illness as a founder and/or employee? (item?id=24874395)

20 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102418 16 comments

55

Show HN: Landmark Papers in Machine Learning (github.com)

20 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102500 0 comments

56

Twitter early release v2 API conversation tree example (github.com)

19 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102412 11 comments

81

Windows 10 Forced Restarts (www.extremetech.com)

16 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102409 4 comments

42

In Love with the Louvre (www.newyorker.com)

16 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102500 6 comments

47

Researchers provide most complete record yet of Earth's last magnetic reversal (phys.org)

15 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102403 0 comments

87

6 Enormous Hot-Dog-Shaped Vehicles Travel America Spreading Brand Awareness& Joy (www.nytimes.com)

15 points first seen 2020102400 last seen 2020102403 11 comments

0

Ad-blocker extension caught stealing user data and-accessing accounts (arstechnica.com)

15 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102406 6 comments

83

How the Bankruptcy Code Protects Lenders and Harms Student Debtors (abovethelaw.com)

14 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102409 0 comments

82

Fukushima reactor water could damage human DNA if released, says Greenpeace (www.theguardian.com)

14 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102412 3 comments

0

Charges: Boogaloo Bois fired on Minneapolis precinct in Floyd protests (www.startribune.com)

13 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102406 0 comments

28

Fixing the D3-zoom API for my use-case (blog.scottlogic.com)

13 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102500 4 comments

54

Greeks rejected heliocentricity due to conflict with lack of stellar parallax (www.lesswrong.com)

13 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102500 0 comments

73

A Ring of Content-Marketers Submitting Disguised Paid Posts to HN/Reddit (twitter.com)

12 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102409 0 comments

64

Daycares in Finland Built a 'Forest Floor'; It Changed Children's Immune Systems (www.sciencealert.com)

12 points first seen 2020102412 last seen 2020102415 0 comments

67

A Surreal New Bookstore Has Just Opened in China (www.architecturaldigest.com)

12 points first seen 2020102412 last seen 2020102418 0 comments

80

Building your app cross-platform can be dangerous, especially for startups (adebayoiji.medium.com)

11 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102412 2 comments

0

Harvard/Stanford/MIT Researchers Find Secret to Success, and It's Not Talent (www.inc.com)

10 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102403 4 comments

86

Amazon Inexplicably Removes Apple Card from Payment Options (www.macrumors.com)

10 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102409 0 comments

0

Tesla Begins “Full Self Driving” Public Beta as Waymo and Cruise Go Unattended (hackaday.com)

10 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102406 0 comments

0

Happy Endings Could Mess Up Your Brain's Decision-Making, Study Says (www.sciencetimes.com)

10 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102406 0 comments

0

75 Minutes of Cruise's Autonomous Driving with Kyle Vogt and Sam Altman (www.youtube.com)

10 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102409 0 comments

0

Edward Snowden granted permanent residency in Russia (www.theguardian.com)

8 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102403 0 comments

62

NASA’s Osiris-Rex Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid Bennu (www.asteroidmission.org)

8 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102506 0 comments

0

CSS Spider – fast and easy way to check, copy and edit CSS (cssspider.fresalabs.com)

7 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102403 10 comments

70

Ask HN: What are the best computing resources for children? (item?id=24872672)

7 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102409 2 comments

86

How I Made $350k in Machine Learning Tournaments (medium.com)

7 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102500 5 comments

0

Show HN: Deploy your own algo trader in 5 minutes with 0 code (https://streak.world)

7 points first seen 2020102421 last seen 2020102421 0 comments

68

How to Setup FTP Server with Vsftpd on Raspberry Pi (linuxize.com)

6 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102406 3 comments

0

Monorepo Is a Bad Idea (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102409 4 comments

0

Recording Industry Association of America Gets YouTube-Dl Kicked Off GitHub (linuxreviews.org)

6 points first seen 2020102412 last seen 2020102412 0 comments

0

Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-Pocalyptic Predictions (cei.org)

5 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102403 0 comments

0

Ice Age Farmer Discord has been terminated due to “Spreading Misinformation.” (twitter.com)

5 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102403 3 comments

0

Unicorn Market Cap and Industry Towns, 2020 (blog.eladgil.com)

5 points first seen 2020102406 last seen 2020102406 0 comments

77

1876 United States presidential election (en.wikipedia.org)

5 points first seen 2020102415 last seen 2020111512 2 comments

0

Expensify CEO implores customers to vote for Biden (www.fastcompany.com)

4 points first seen 2020102403 last seen 2020102403 0 comments

0

Skip List (en.wikipedia.org)

4 points first seen 2020102412 last seen 2020102412 0 comments

0

Fossilized Footprints (www.nps.gov)

3 points first seen 2020102409 last seen 2020102409 0 comments

86

Behind prison walls, cats and inmates rehabilitate each other through (www.indystar.com)

3 points first seen 2020102412 last seen 2020102415 0 comments

0

Show HN: Project Archa – Clean Architecture Scanner (https://arc.patico.pro)

3 points first seen 2020102415 last seen 2020102415 0 comments

0

Epidemiologists Stray from the Covid Herd (www.wsj.com)

3 points first seen 2020102418 last seen 2020102418 0 comments