top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-26

How journalists use youtube-dl

https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/

5 years ago

1651 upvotes – 328 comments

Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccin/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-prompts-immune-response-among-adults-old-and-young-astrazeneca-says-idUSKBN27B0IV

5 years ago

879 upvotes – 674 comments

Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/1-year-update#the-lucet-and-wasmtime-teams-join-forces

5 years ago

813 upvotes – 135 comments

Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

https://www.melovedata.com/twitter-still-hasnt-unlocked-the-new-york-posts-account/

5 years ago

632 upvotes – 705 comments

An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

https://stopa.io/post/265

5 years ago

551 upvotes – 197 comments

‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/24/culture-wars-are-fought-by-tiny-minority-uk-study

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 637 comments

Parsing Algorithms

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/courses/parsing-algorithms/

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 86 comments

Free Linear Algebra textbook

https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 75 comments

Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/oct/26/microsoft-github-riaa-youtube-dl/

5 years ago

367 upvotes – 74 comments

L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground, but no one could see it until now

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dumping-ground/

5 years ago

341 upvotes – 215 comments

Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24901244

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 253 comments

CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How It Is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vwex/cbp-dhs-venntel-location-data-no-warrant

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

https://dendron.so

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 168 comments

Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development

https://github.com/morris/vanilla-todo

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 153 comments

Surviving Disillusionment

https://www.spakhm.com/p/surviving-disillusionment

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 170 comments

Apache Helix – Near-Realtime Rsync Replicated File System

https://helix.apache.org/0.6.8-docs/recipes/rsync_replicated_file_store.html

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 191 comments

We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application

https://medium.com/@jadsarmo/why-we-chose-java-for-our-high-frequency-trading-application-600f7c04da94

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 272 comments

25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer

https://matthewkaras.medium.com/25-years-in-speech-technology-d5f9dfd98429

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 293 comments

The Chaos Engineering Book

https://www.verica.io/the-chaos-engineering-book/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 32 comments

NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-sofia-discovers-water-on-sunlit-surface-of-moon

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 32 comments

PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab

https://mashable.com/article/epik-domain-names-paypal-proud-boys/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 214 comments

Choosing the Management Track

https://blog.danielna.com/choosing-the-management-track/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 117 comments

Web Scraping with JavaScript

https://qoob.cc/web-scraping/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 88 comments

No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/deep-brain-control-without-implants

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 134 comments

Ask HN: Is there a website specialized in mathematics courses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24893771

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Personal CRM: Note taking, the way it should be

https://nat.app/calendar

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 119 comments

Why I'm Tcl-Ish

https://colin-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/why-im-tcl-ish.html

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 122 comments

iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-12-pro-camera-review-glacier

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 140 comments

ReactOS (Free and Open Source Windows): Jérôme Gardou hired to work full-time

https://reactos.org/project-news/jerome-gardou-hired-full-time/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 46 comments

Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/get-15000-move-michigan-and-work-remotely

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 276 comments

The Most Surveilled Cities in the World

https://www.statista.com/chart/19256/the-most-surveilled-cities-in-the-world/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 116 comments

Putting Raspberry Pi Online with Caddy and SSH Tunnel

https://gist.github.com/nileshtrivedi/4c615e8d3c1bf053b0d31176b9e69e42

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 155 comments

Eslisp – An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like macros

https://github.com/anko/eslisp

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 67 comments

Unexpected, Useless, and Urgent, or What RSS Gets Right

https://www.charlieharrington.com/unexpected-useless-and-urgent

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 62 comments

Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui

https://markjames.dev/2020-10-25-developing-a-cli-music-player-csharp/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 33 comments

Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp

https://transcend.io/blog/restrict-access-to-internal-websites-with-beyondcorp

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 56 comments

Gitlab compensation calculator is not open to everyone anymore

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/4293020d789359ad8134a054225127f3e0b32a58

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 89 comments

The Need for Touch

https://aeon.co/essays/touch-is-a-language-we-cannot-afford-to-forget

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 89 comments

Arctic Sea Ice not freezing In October – first time since measurements began

https://www.severe-weather.eu/news/arctic-ocean-sea-ice-2020-jet-stream-effect-winter-fa/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Build your own isometric city

https://victorribeiro.com/tileEditor/?example=01

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

NYC taxi meter and options pricing

https://questdb.io/blog/2020/10/16/taxi-drivers-are-options-traders

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 56 comments

The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019)

https://culturacolectiva.com/history/cobalt-60-ciudad-juarez-mexico-nuclear-accident

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 91 comments

Single_file_libs: List of single-file C/C++ libraries

https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 109 comments

Homotopy Type Theory (2012) [pdf]

https://hottheory.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/hott2.pdf

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft

https://apnews.com/article/us-news-asteroids-ea18a03d0b19227403a5b1677021d3fa

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 68 comments

Pay attention to the Indian startup scene

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/24/why-you-have-to-pay-attention-to-the-indian-startup-scene/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 76 comments

A tale from the trenches fixing an NES

https://debugger.medium.com/what-restoring-a-30-year-old-nintendo-taught-me-about-right-to-repair-3bffdf548f6d

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 53 comments

The pandemic turned my parents into day traders

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pandemic-turned-my-parents-into-day-traders-11603488582

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 110 comments

Otvdm/winevdm: run old Windows software in 64-bit Windows

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/otvdm.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

What to Say When You're Asked for Your Salary History

http://cushychicken.github.io/what-to-say-when-asked-salary-history/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 127 comments
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