top 50% 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

Four features that justify a new Unix shell

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/10/osh-features.html

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 180 comments

OldVersion.com software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers & games

http://www.oldversion.com/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 53 comments

Business Operations – Tech Stack

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/tech-stack/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 84 comments

The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10/the-now-defunct-firms-behind-8chan-qanon/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 258 comments

Node.js 15.0

https://nodejs.medium.com/node-js-v15-0-0-is-here-deb00750f278

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 132 comments

MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS

https://mudita.com/products/pure/muditaos/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 94 comments

Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software

https://labcodes.com.br/blog/articles/tech-debt.html

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 157 comments

Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code

https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 70 comments

Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/10/particle-physicists-continue-to-make.html

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 199 comments

Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-22/china-xi-jinping-mao-zedong-communist-party

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 240 comments

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

https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1319772541964054530

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 27 comments

$30 DIY Kilowatt Wind Turbine (2017)

http://opensourcelowtech.org/wind_turbine.html

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 91 comments

FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos

https://ottverse.com/ffmpeg-drawtext-filter-dynamic-overlays-timecode-scrolling-text-credits/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Lisp-Condition-System-Mechanisms/dp/148426133X

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training

http://sergeykish.com/perfect-pitch-ear-training

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 151 comments

Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-technology-idUSKBN2772P0

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 124 comments

Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram

https://masaar.net/en/the-egyptian-authorities-block-telegram/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 78 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science (2017) [pdf]

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 29 comments

My own C compiler on my own compiler infrastructure

https://github.com/maekawatoshiki/cilk/tree/master/cilkcc

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 19 comments

Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by FFmpeg

https://github.com/yuanqing/vdx

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 51 comments

Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing

https://sophron.github.io/lowcost-freelancing-pentest/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 71 comments

Deprecating SHA1

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/openpgp/Rp-inhYKT8A9H5E34iLTrc9I0gc/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 109 comments

Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser

https://hubs.mozilla.com/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 103 comments

Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System

https://thefuntastic.com/blog/fighting-rusts-type-system

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 80 comments

How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers

https://www.moritz.systems/blog/how-debuggers-work-getting-and-setting-x86-registers-part-1/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 12 comments

LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)

https://andregarzia.com/2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hypercard.html

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 68 comments

Master of Magic

https://www.filfre.net/2020/10/master-of-magic/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 24 comments

Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests

https://www.livescience.com/aliens-spot-earth-exoplanets.html

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 223 comments

War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019)

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/02/collections-war-elephants-part-ii-elephants-against-wolves/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 49 comments

Better Than JSON?

https://wiki.alopex.li/BetterThanJson

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 148 comments

My Life Countdown (2007)

https://kk.org/ct2/my-life-countdown-1/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: How do I improve my command of mathematical language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866734

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 46 comments

An Indian startup is abusing DMCA to curb online dissent against their products

https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-the-day/whitehat-jr-and-the-curious-case-of-disappearing-dissent/63627/1

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (1993)

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written/c/vc1Bk-O4j14/m/j0-mYVykVnoJ

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 108 comments

Use “pseudo-sets” to control how many actions people take

https://ariyh.substack.com/p/influence-how-many-actions-people

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 15 comments

Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Policy-Papers/Issues/2020/10/17/Digital-Money-Across-Borders-Macro-Financial-Implications-49823

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867241

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 67 comments

Senior member of NXIVM told FBI about blackmail and branding, got no response

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Former-slave-Sarah-Edmondson-told-Albany-FBI-15665977.php

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments
show: top 10 top 20 top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: date score comments