top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-04

Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points

https://chadscira.com/post/5fa269d46142ac544e013d6e/DISCLOSURE-Unlimited-Chase-Ultimate-Rewards-Points

5 years ago

1181 upvotes – 252 comments

Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data

https://www.engadget.com/motor-vehicle-data-question-1-081059455.html

5 years ago

492 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

https://ugliest.app

5 years ago

441 upvotes – 155 comments

Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/11/oregon-becomes-first-state-to-legalize-psychedelic-mushrooms.html

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 164 comments

U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-exits-paris-climate-accord-after-trump-stalls-global-warming-action-for-four-years/

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 355 comments

eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database

https://ebird.org/home

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 85 comments

New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression

https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/new-study-psilocybin-magic-mushrooms-relieves-depression/

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 189 comments

A pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg

https://ffmpegwasm.github.io/

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 125 comments

Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus

https://www.thelocal.dk/20201104/denmark-to-cull-millions-of-minks-over-mutated-coronavirus

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 267 comments

RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub

https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-takedowns-backfire-as-pirated-mp3s-now-surface-on-github-201104/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 185 comments

Oregon becomes first U.S. state to decriminalize possession of all drugs

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1323852852700368899

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 249 comments

Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/04/silk-road-bitcoins-worth-1bn-change-hands-after-seven-years

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 250 comments

750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 147 comments

How to seriously read a scientific paper

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/03/how-seriously-read-scientific-paper

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 90 comments

Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 180 comments

California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-voters-exempt-uber-lyft-doordash-from-having-to-reclassify-drivers-11604476276

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 363 comments

All systems go for UK’s £55M fusion energy experiment

https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/all-systems-go-for-uks-55m-fusion-energy-experiment/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 84 comments

Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup

https://sooraj.io/2020/11/04/stupid-things-i-did-while-building-my-first-startup/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 112 comments

Vimflowy

https://vimflowy.netlify.app/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 87 comments

Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi

https://brianchristner.io/monitor-airplane-traffic-with-a-raspberry-pi/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 113 comments

Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54809226

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 198 comments

Designing Raspberry Pi 400

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/designing-raspberry-pi-400/

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 132 comments

Massachusetts has passed the Vehicle Data Access Requirement Initiative

https://www.ifixit.com/News/46235/massachusetts-just-passed-the-worlds-most-advanced-right-to-repair-law

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 18 comments

Portland, Maine passes referendum banning facial surveillance

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/04/portland-maine-passes-referendum-banning-facial-surveillance/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 32 comments

A First Look at the JIT

https://blog.erlang.org/a-first-look-at-the-jit/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 62 comments

Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver for Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-Hardware-Privacy-Linux

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 88 comments

There was a clear winner on election night: Marijuana

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/524519-there-was-a-clear-winner-on-election-night-marijuana

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 138 comments

Victims of school bullying are at a higher risk of developing violent behavior

https://www.uco.es/ucci/es/noticias-ingles/item/3138-victims-of-school-bullying-are-at-a-higher-risk-of-developing-violent-behavior-in-the-future

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 151 comments

Scala 3.0.0-M1

https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/releases/tag/3.0.0-M1

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 145 comments

Go Type Parameters – Draft Design

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/design/go2draft-type-parameters.md

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 79 comments

Microsoft Fluent UI System Icons

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-system-icons

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 99 comments

An Introduction to Pluto

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/835930/47c363bef07134a4/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 27 comments

Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)

https://memo.barrucadu.co.uk/three-months-of-go.html

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 158 comments

Haskell Foundation

https://haskell.foundation/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 20 comments

Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-mq-update-new-rabbitmq-message-broker-service/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 73 comments

Apple removes then restores DoNotPay app in the App Store

https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1323804586121994241

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 88 comments

Notes on Paxos

https://matklad.github.io/2020/11/01/notes-on-paxos.html

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 22 comments

Chameleons Not Seen by Scientists for Century Found in a Madagascar Hotel Garden

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rare-chameleon-rediscovered-in-hotel-garden/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 37 comments

TeXmacs 1.99.14 released. Take a look at this research paper exported to HTML

https://www.texmacs.org/joris/ffnlogn/ffnlogn.html

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 71 comments

The Economics of Sex Robots

https://dianaverse.com/2020/10/30/uncanny-vulvas/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 92 comments

Why Dark didn't choose Rust

https://blog.darklang.com/why-dark-didnt-choose-rust/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 93 comments

Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to the United States, Subject to Judicial Review

https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-can-be-extradited-to-the-united-states-subject-to-judicial-review-201104/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 28 comments

Treat artificial light like other forms of pollution, say scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/02/treat-artificial-light-form-pollution-environment

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Hey Drew, why is Dropbox becoming so bad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24991820

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

Turning my smartphone into a boring productivity tool

https://maximevaillancourt.com/blog/turning-my-smartphone-into-a-boring-tool

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

Intel enters the laptop discrete GPU market with Xe Max

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/intel-enters-the-laptop-discrete-gpu-market-with-xe-max/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 116 comments

AP reports US election results via Ethereum blockchain

https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/#election-race-calls-on-blockchain

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 24 comments

Launch HN: Sunsama (YC W19) – Daily Planner for Busy People

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990238

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 62 comments
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