top 50% 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

This is how I git

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/this-is-how-i-git/

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 136 comments

The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki

https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-secret-math-society-known-as-nicolas-bourbaki-20201109/

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 87 comments

Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife “dream team”

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-biontech-ceo-newsmake-idUSKBN27P1O5

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 164 comments

Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/second-cable-breaks-puerto-rico-s-arecibo-telescope

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 55 comments

Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications

https://github.com/netblue30/firejail

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 48 comments

InfluxDB is betting on Rust and Apache Arrow for next-gen data store

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/announcing-influxdb-iox/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 113 comments

EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges over merchant data

https://www.ft.com/content/4908995d-5ba4-4e14-a863-bcb8858e8bd2

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 60 comments

Ableton Live 11

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 266 comments

Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-achieve-crown-jewel-of-cryptography-20201110/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 88 comments

eBPF – The Future of Networking and Security

https://cilium.io/blog/2020/11/10/ebpf-future-of-networking/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 36 comments

Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language

https://github.com/munificent/vigil

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 34 comments

Insights from Adopting TypeScript at Scale

https://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/10-insights-adopting-typescript-at-scale/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 105 comments

One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/11/10/21551766/election-polls-results-wrong-david-shor

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 536 comments

Army wants smaller brigades, stronger divisions and lots of robots

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/11/army-wants-smaller-brigades-stronger-divisions-lots-of-robots/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 266 comments

American Airlines Is Quietly Bringing Back the 737Max

https://www.zdnet.com/article/american-airlines-is-quietly-bringing-back-the-737-max-heres-why-thats-disturbing/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 197 comments

Getting a biometric security key right

https://www.yubico.com/blog/getting-a-biometric-security-key-right/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 76 comments

Spectre.console – Pretty console apps in .NET

https://github.com/spectresystems/spectre.console

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 23 comments

AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2015)

http://michaeljmahon.com/AppleCrateII.html

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 34 comments

Apple Silicon M1 – What to Expect, Based on A14

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 37 comments

Complex text layouts progress report in Godot game engine

https://godotengine.org/article/complex-text-layouts-progress-report-2

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple M1

https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 2 comments

Times Change: Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning With Itself

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-times-heated-reckoning-with-itself.html

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 144 comments

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

https://michaelbach.de/ot/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 20 comments
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