top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-27

RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/

5 years ago

772 upvotes – 276 comments

Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency

https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/study-finds-over-80-percent-of-covid19-patients-have-vitamin-d-deficiency

5 years ago

654 upvotes – 363 comments

AMD to Acquire Xilinx

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/xilinx-acquisition

5 years ago

593 upvotes – 252 comments

A Guy Walks into an Apple Store

https://birchtree.me/blog/a-guy-walks-into-an-apple-store/

5 years ago

569 upvotes – 373 comments

Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/26/num/

5 years ago

554 upvotes – 332 comments

Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers

https://twitter.com/AlexanderAbdo/status/1319761452832534531

5 years ago

535 upvotes – 195 comments

Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/mobilizon-your-events-your-groups-your-data/

5 years ago

498 upvotes – 98 comments

Org Mode's new site

https://orgmode.org

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 198 comments

Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

https://www.sketch.com/blog/2020/10/26/part-of-your-world-why-we-re-proud-to-build-a-truly-native-mac-app/?hn

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 346 comments

Next.js 10

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 198 comments

Apple’s A14 Packs 134M Transistors/mm²

https://semianalysis.com/apples-a14-packs-134-million-transistors-mm2-but-falls-far-short-of-tsmcs-density-claims/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 175 comments

Yann LeCun on GPT-3

https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10157253205637143?notif_id=1603803722095314&notif_t=story_reshare&ref=notif

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 241 comments

Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost

https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin-tui

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 36 comments

Evolving Reddit’s Workforce

https://redditblog.com/2020/10/27/evolving-reddits-workforce/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 292 comments

Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/26/21535089/surveillance-company-verkada-harassed-female-employees

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 172 comments

Abusing Teams client protocol to bypass Teams security policies

https://o365blog.com/post/teams-policies/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 109 comments

Research team discovers breakthrough with potential to reverse Alzheimer's

https://news.ucalgary.ca/news/research-team-discovers-breakthrough-potential-prevent-reverse-alzheimers

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 59 comments

Taikyoku Shogi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 116 comments

How you could have come up with Paxos yourself

https://explain.yshui.dev/distributed%20system/2020/09/20/paxos.html

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 53 comments

Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/twitter-preconnects.html

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 149 comments
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