top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-07

Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wins-white-house-ap-fd58df73aa677acb74fce2a69adb71f9

5 years ago

3089 upvotes – 4576 comments

Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/voters-rejecting-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-win-for-public-health/

5 years ago

532 upvotes – 283 comments

Why not use GraphQL?

https://wundergraph.com/blog/why_not_use_graphql

5 years ago

460 upvotes – 456 comments

SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client

https://gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism/spotifykeydumper

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 194 comments

Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53693581

5 years ago

417 upvotes – 317 comments

Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/10/31/stopping-some-fishing-would-increase-overall-catches

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 225 comments

Marketers are addicted to bad data

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/marketers-addicted-bad-data

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 113 comments

Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945220303130

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 179 comments

Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler

http://sarabee.github.io/2020/09/13/is-this-mahler/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 35 comments

Mutt 2.0 Release Notes

http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 76 comments

Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions

https://martinpeck.com/blog/2020/11/06/Raspberry-Pi-400/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 144 comments

US Government Continues Encryption War

https://blog.privacytools.io/us-government-continues-encryption-war/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 86 comments

Submarine Cable Map

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

https://please-unsubscribe.com

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 245 comments

Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/biden-election.html

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 179 comments

Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (2018)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/build-your-own-professionalgrade-audio-amp-on-the-sort-of-cheap

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 131 comments

Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

https://laskie.co/playbooks/bootstrapping-b2b-sales

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 44 comments

Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021

https://www.atlassian.com/migration/faqs

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 120 comments

Biden Defeats Trump to Become Next President

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-defeats-trump-win-white-house-nbc-news-projects-n1246912

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 70 comments

Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner

https://www.eetasia.com/look-inside-ipad-pro-11s-lidar-scanner/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 67 comments

DeepMath Conference 2020 – Conference on the Mathematical Theory of DNN's

https://deepmath-conference.com/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 31 comments

What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git repo?

https://twitter.com/andrzejdyjak/status/1324360905237372929

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 64 comments

Learn how to design and defend an embedded Linux device

https://embeddedbits.org/introduction-embedded-linux-security-part-1/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Policy, not tech, spurred Danish dominance in wind energy

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/11/policy-not-tech-spurred-danish-dominance-wind-energy

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 77 comments

Impact of fasting and calorie restriction on cancer cells

https://osher.ucsf.edu/patient-care/integrative-medicine-resources/cancer-and-nutrition/faq/cancer-and-fasting-calorie-restriction

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 105 comments

Quine Relay

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 13 comments

LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Clang-12-Microarch-Levels

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 28 comments

Arch Conf 2020

https://media.ccc.de/c/arch-conf-2020

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 38 comments

UK Codemasters Sold to Take-Two Games

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54840773

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 99 comments

Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-biden-election-results-11-07-20/h_4b7431d7ff5ea6dc0fb40e8247492de8

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees

https://lawofvc.substack.com/p/12-episode-the-un-american-rule

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 58 comments

V8 has optimized new JavaScript language features (2018)

https://github.com/thlorenz/v8-perf/blob/master/language-features.md

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 48 comments

CSVs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

https://alexgaynor.net/2020/sep/24/csv-good-bad-ugly/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 104 comments

Singapore rears moquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria to combat dengue

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-environment-dengue-idUSKBN25O03A

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Interactive, 3D printed Stargate with wormhole effect

https://thestargateproject.com/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Copyright vs. Copyleft (2007)

https://www.gnu.org/gwm/libredocxml/x53.html

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 84 comments

Understanding Statistical Power and Significance Testing

https://rpsychologist.com/d3/nhst/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 37 comments

Advanced Join Patterns for the Actor Model Based on CEP Techniques

https://programming-journal.org/2021/5/10/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

AMD EPYC 7713 'Milan' Zen 3 CPU Benchmarked

https://wccftech.com/amd-3rd-gen-epyc-7713-milan-zen-3-cpu-spotted-64-cores-spotted-benchmarked/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 59 comments
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