top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-23

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

5 years ago

4240 upvotes – 1443 comments

Bongo Cat

https://bongo.cat

5 years ago

1348 upvotes – 190 comments

You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite.html

5 years ago

578 upvotes – 402 comments

Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists

https://twitter.com/songshift/status/1318916343819882501

5 years ago

546 upvotes – 128 comments

The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/10/21/the-world-needs-nuclear-power-and-we-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-it/#59d658b56576

5 years ago

493 upvotes – 466 comments

A small but complete JavaScript engine

https://bellard.org/quickjs/

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 146 comments

The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)

https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 210 comments

How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/10/22/how-satya-nadella-turned-microsoft-around

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 471 comments

The Right to Read (1997)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 100 comments

Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/cryo-electron-microscopy-breaks-atomic-resolution-barrier-last

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 91 comments

California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-california-drivers/california-appeals-court-rules-uber-lyft-must-reclassify-drivers-as-employees-idUSKBN27805F

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 396 comments

Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/62843644?hl=en

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 348 comments

Be prolific

https://www.chrismytton.com/be-prolific/?

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 131 comments

Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-seeks-shutdown-of-nyu-research-project-into-political-ad-targeting-11603488533

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 105 comments

GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

https://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 56 comments

PHP 8: Before and After

https://stitcher.io/blog/php-8-before-and-after

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 335 comments

Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-status

https://twitter.com/whrobbins/status/1311380201314504704

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 265 comments

Electoral College Decision Tree

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/electoral-college-decision-tree

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 358 comments

Show HN: Built a timeline component for React with multiple layout modes

https://github.com/prabhuignoto/react-chrono

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 56 comments

U.S. faculty job market tanks

https://sci-hub.st/10.1126/science.370.6514.272

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 262 comments
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