top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-01

New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1

https://youtube-dl.org/

5 years ago

922 upvotes – 303 comments

Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA

https://www.electrospaces.net/2020/10/danish-military-intelligence-uses.html

5 years ago

674 upvotes – 227 comments

7GUIs

https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/tasks/

5 years ago

507 upvotes – 56 comments

Toronto-area lawyer had to flee Canada after taking on the tow truck industry

https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/this-toronto-area-lawyer-had-to-flee-the-country-after-taking-on-the-tow-truck-industry-1.5167869

5 years ago

431 upvotes – 241 comments

WordPerfect for DOS Updated

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 236 comments

An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V

https://gist.github.com/erincandescent/8a10eeeea1918ee4f9d9982f7618ef68

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 249 comments

7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?&sort=-downloads&page=1

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 82 comments

Winamp for Windows 10

http://www.mywinamp.com/winamp-for-windows-10-download/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 175 comments

Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-android-and-ios-studio-apps-kotlin-multiplatform-d6d4d8d25d23

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 110 comments

Fast Inverse Square Root

https://timmmm.github.io/fast-inverse-square-root/

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 96 comments

Visualizing Git Concepts with D3

https://onlywei.github.io/explain-git-with-d3/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 27 comments

Public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR = 1;

https://twitter.com/q3k/status/1322943395497680897

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: How do custom software dev firms make money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24959238

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 106 comments

Piipcam – 1080P IP Camera on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

https://github.com/sepfy/piipcam

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 84 comments

Pine64 Smarphone Spare Parts

https://pine64.com/product-category/smarphone-spare-parts/?v=0446c16e2e66

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 134 comments

Mitmproxy 5.3

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/releases/tag/v5.3.0

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 42 comments

Using TLA+ in the Real World to Understand a Glibc Bug

https://probablydance.com/2020/10/31/using-tla-in-the-real-world-to-understand-a-glibc-bug/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 76 comments

Collision

https://fiftytwo.in/story/collision/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 25 comments

Is it better to plant trees or let forests regrow naturally?

https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-better-to-plant-trees-or-let-forests-regrow-naturally

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 212 comments

Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 128 comments

Chrome unlikely to support XPath 3.1

https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/903#issuecomment-707748069

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 110 comments

Selling Data to Hedge Funds (2017)

https://alternativedata.org/the-ultimate-guide-to-selling-data-to-hedge-funds/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 57 comments

Algebraic Effects for React Developers

https://reesew.io/posts/react-algebraic-effects

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 96 comments

macOS 11 boot volume layout

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/09/16/boot-volume-layout/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 25 comments

Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

https://www.cato.org/publications/survey-reports/poll-62-americans-say-they-have-political-views-theyre-afraid-share

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 268 comments

No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia yesterday

https://www.covid19data.com.au/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 268 comments

Simple Image Vectorization

https://wordsandbuttons.online/simple_image_vectorization.html

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 15 comments

Millions of animals missing from scientific studies

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/millions-animals-may-be-missing-scientific-studies

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 61 comments

Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design

https://hugotunius.se/2020/10/31/flutter-web-a-fractal-of-bad-design.html

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 81 comments

Building Containers Without Docker

https://blog.alexellis.io/building-containers-without-docker/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 23 comments

Bunnie's Precursor Crowdfunding Begins

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates/crowdfunding-begins

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter

https://madrox.substack.com/p/yet-another-quitting-twitter

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 123 comments

Single-Celled Organism Appears to Make Decisions (2019)

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/single-celled-organism-appears-to-make-decisions-66818

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 61 comments

Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking over Time

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-gains-shrinking/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 70 comments

C/C++ vs. Rust Performance

http://tempesta-tech.com/blog/fast-programming-languages-c-c++-rust-assembly

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 150 comments

D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) sunsetting DC/OS and focusing on Kubernetes

https://d2iq.com/blog/d2iq-takes-the-next-step-forward

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

I made a database of TL;DR business strategies/case studies

http://growthunt.com

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

Goodbye, Twitter

https://sneak.berlin/20201031/goodbye-twitter/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 85 comments

First beta release of Alire, the package manager for Ada/SPARK

https://blog.adacore.com/first-beta-release-of-alire-the-package-manager-for-ada-spark

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Microsoft and the NSA

http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments
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