top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-11-10

Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/zoom-lied-to-users-about-end-to-end-encryption-for-years-ftc-says/

5 years ago

1616 upvotes – 425 comments

Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers

https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/10/apple-unveils-m1-its-first-system-on-a-chip-for-portable-mac-computers/

5 years ago

1365 upvotes – 1346 comments

On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation

https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-documentation

5 years ago

1180 upvotes – 335 comments

How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home

https://securitylab.github.com/research/Ubuntu-gdm3-accountsservice-LPE

5 years ago

876 upvotes – 278 comments

I sold Baremetrics

https://baremetrics.com/blog/i-sold-baremetrics

5 years ago

818 upvotes – 497 comments

.NET 5.0

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-5-0/

5 years ago

791 upvotes – 455 comments

Introducing the next generation of Mac

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/introducing-the-next-generation-of-mac/

5 years ago

642 upvotes – 974 comments

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news

5 years ago

615 upvotes – 291 comments

Origins of the youtube-dl project

https://rg3.name/202011071352.html

5 years ago

559 upvotes – 64 comments

One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-mental-illness-int-idUSKBN27P35N

5 years ago

488 upvotes – 360 comments

Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004)

https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-2.html

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 201 comments

How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges

https://kevin.deldycke.com/2020/11/revert-hp-printer-ban-on-third-party-ink-cartridges/

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 255 comments

My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

https://portal.drewdevault.com/2020/11/10/2020-Election-worker.gmi

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 332 comments

Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor

5 years ago

374 upvotes – 304 comments

Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should

http://blog.spencermounta.in/2020/should-we-stop/index.html

5 years ago

363 upvotes – 272 comments

Eleven Years of Go

https://blog.golang.org/11years

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 162 comments

The Gods on Hacker News

https://www.riknieu.com/the-gods-on-hackernews/

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 169 comments

Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019)

https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users-c6f19fc029d3

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 67 comments

Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

https://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/12451_ENG_HTML.php

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 207 comments

Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/peasant-knight-battle/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 311 comments
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