top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-20

U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/technology/google-antitrust.html

5 years ago

1572 upvotes – 824 comments

Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082

5 years ago

1183 upvotes – 616 comments

Early Work

http://paulgraham.com/early.html

5 years ago

577 upvotes – 151 comments

Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

5 years ago

486 upvotes – 132 comments

Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos

https://orca.security/cybersecurity-community-transparency/

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 132 comments

Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon

https://www.reuters.com/article/nokia-nasa-moon-idUSKBN2741JR

5 years ago

441 upvotes – 208 comments

I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/i-miss-microsoft-encarta/

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 192 comments

America's True Unemployment Rate

https://www.axios.com/americas-true-unemployment-rate-6e34decb-c274-4feb-a4af-ffac8cf5840d.html

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 349 comments

My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes

https://mtlynch.io/digitizing-1/#

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 194 comments

Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/why-deep-learning-works-even-though-it-shouldnt/

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 142 comments

Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/expanding-ais-impact-with-organizational-learning

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 174 comments

Firefox 82

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/82.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 230 comments

Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust/

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 296 comments

Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-to-acquire-intel-nand-memory-business/

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 181 comments

Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim

https://github.com/arturo-lang

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 57 comments

Discipline Doesn’t Scale

https://www.sicpers.info/2020/10/discipline-doesnt-scale/

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 169 comments

The Accelerating Adoption of Julia

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834571/e8d7adc0d9b669bc/

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 252 comments

Just Write the Parser

https://tiarkrompf.github.io/notes/?/just-write-the-parser/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 82 comments

Fast UTF-8 validation

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/10/20/ridiculously-fast-unicode-utf-8-validation/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 84 comments

Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia

https://retool.com/blog/retool-raises-50-million-led-by-sequoia/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 96 comments
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