top 50% 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

Get started with 2-minute rule

https://hoanhan.co/2-minute-rule

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 67 comments

Jack Ma's Ant Group set for record $34B market debut

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54692537

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 255 comments

The No-Code Generation is arriving

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/26/the-no-code-generation-is-arriving/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 273 comments

GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago

https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063717035?

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 146 comments

Blender Conference 2020

https://conference.blender.org/2020/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 32 comments

A Youtube video downloader written in Go

https://github.com/kkdai/youtube

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 52 comments

Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

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

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 1 comments

Launch HN: Decentro (YC S20) – APIs for Banking Integrations in India

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24905977

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 44 comments

Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks

https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-and-daimler-trucks-partner-on.html?m=1

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 163 comments

Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation

https://raphlinus.github.io/text/2020/10/26/text-layout.html

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 9 comments

OpenMPTCProuter

https://www.openmptcprouter.com

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/25/john-gray-what-can-we-learn-from-cats-dont-live-in-an-imagined-future

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 145 comments

Ninja: A simple way to do builds

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/10/26/ninja--a-simple-way-to-do-builds/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 90 comments

Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?

https://techdows.com/2020/10/shopping-ads-on-chrome-new-tab-page.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 101 comments

Next.js Commerce – Starter kit for high-performance ecommerce sites

https://nextjs.org/commerce

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Graphics in Qt 6.0: QRhi, Qt Quick, Qt Quick 3D

https://www.qt.io/blog/graphics-in-qt-6.0-qrhi-qt-quick-qt-quick-3d

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments

Tabletop Simulator

https://tabletopsimulator.com/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 69 comments

Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions

https://somehowmanage.com/2020/10/27/4-hiring-myths-common-in-hackernews-discussions/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 161 comments

John McAfee Developed One of the First Social Networks

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bpjm/that-time-john-mcafee-developed-one-of-the-first-social-networks

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages

https://getpolarized.io/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 41 comments

Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?

http://nautil.us/blog/are-the-brains-electromagnetic-fields-the-seat-of-consciousness

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 162 comments

Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off

https://github.blog/2020-10-27-github-game-off-2020/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 61 comments

OnlyFans Faces Allegations of Fraud, Theft

https://forensicnews.net/2020/08/13/onlyfans-faces-allegations-of-fraud-theft/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 42 comments

Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/spain-police-veripol/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 38 comments

The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/27/charlie-brown-halloween-special-great-pumpkin-streaming-apple-tv/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 148 comments

Amiga 1000 Phoenix Project

https://retrohax.net/amiga-1000-project-phoenix-motherborad/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

How Did Things Ever Get This Good? (2009)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/51.html

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

Deno 1.5

https://deno.land/posts/v1.5

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Create a 3D book cover and embed it on your website

https://3dbook.xyz/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for

https://www.polygon.com/2020/10/27/21536142/deleting-your-facebook-oculus-games-deleted

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovation

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 69 comments

Next.js Analytics

https://nextjs.org/analytics

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1321128432370176002

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 74 comments

1593 Transported Soldier Legend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1593_transported_soldier_legend

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Online Activities for Remote Teams

https://onsite.fun/

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-introducing-us-election-twitter-network-graph-tool/

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

ClipDrop AR Copy Paste

https://clipdrop.co/

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments
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