top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-16

YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/

5 years ago

Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back

https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/

5 years ago

What Gödel Discovered

https://stopa.io/post/269

5 years ago

Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-replacing-restaurants-phone-numbers-so-grubhub-can-take-a-cut

5 years ago

Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/moderna-covid-vaccine-candidate-almost-95-effective-trials-show

5 years ago

Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54902908

5 years ago

Airbnb S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1559720/000119312520294801/d81668ds1.htm

5 years ago

Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs

https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2020/11/16/apple-apps-on-big-sur-bypass-firewalls-vpns-analysis-macos/

5 years ago

Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/11/16/ok-google-please-publish-your-dkim-secret-keys/

5 years ago

On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years

https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/on-learning-chess-as-an-adult-from-650-to-1750-in-two-years/

5 years ago

Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27W2MB

5 years ago

Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages

https://github.com/nelsontky/gh-pages-url-shortener

5 years ago

Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252040614

5 years ago

Psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet

https://tomcam.github.io/postgres/

5 years ago

Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethical, survey says (2019)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/02/09/83-of-consumers-believe-personalized-ads-are-morally-wrong-survey-says/

5 years ago

What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Li2019WhatDistinguishesEngineers.pdf

5 years ago

Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2020/11/16/big-no-big-sur-mullvad-disallows-apple-apps-bypass-firewall/

5 years ago

Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602030296X

5 years ago

A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/08/12/a-spacetime-surprise-time-isnt-just-another-dimension

5 years ago

How and when to acquire SaaS users

https://www.themvpsprint.com/p/how-and-when-to-acquire-saas-users

5 years ago

Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3603ef8cc492488c847cffbe03ad0f1d

5 years ago

Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 2: Term Rewriting

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic02.html

5 years ago

I failed to make LinkedIn fix their broken international domain URL parser

https://helmstedt.dk/2020/11/how-i-failed-to-make-linkedin-fix-their-broken-url-parser-for-international-domain-names/

5 years ago

Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-awards-10000th-phd-degree-during-october-conferral-students-impacted-pandemic

5 years ago

Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/apple-privacy-macos-app-authenticaion/

5 years ago

No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/

5 years ago

Tools and Services I Use to Run My SaaS

https://jake.nyc/words/tools-and-services-i-use-to-run-my-saas/

5 years ago

Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/cloud-sql-database-service-adds-postgresql-13

5 years ago

Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-forgotten-1970s.html

5 years ago

Emacs in odd places

https://www.eigenbahn.com/2020/09/02/emacs-in-odd-places

5 years ago

Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/11/16/pigasus/

5 years ago

The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque–Icelandic_pidgin

5 years ago

Why Italians don't drink a cappuccino after 11am [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mIcIVCnTrY

5 years ago

RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/11/15/the-meaning-of-rcep-the-worlds-biggest-trade-agreement

5 years ago

Safely open apps on your Mac

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

5 years ago

Max Schrems hits Apple with complaints over ad-tracking device

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-16/apple-targeted-by-privacy-campaigner-who-took-on-facebook

5 years ago

K0s – Zero Friction Kubernetes

https://github.com/k0sproject/k0s

5 years ago

DARPA’s 23 Challenge Questions

https://compmath.wordpress.com/about/10-the-big-picture-darpas-23-challenge-questions/

5 years ago

Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425

5 years ago

Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next 50 years [pdf]

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~black/publications/O-JDahl.pdf

5 years ago