HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA (github.com)

4240 points by phantop on Oct 23, 2020 | 1443 comments

2.

How journalists use youtube-dl (freedom.press)

1651 points by thisisparker on Oct 26, 2020 | 328 comments

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Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels (typelit.io)

1589 points by Octouroboros on Oct 6, 2020 | 378 comments

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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly (nytimes.com)

1572 points by 1915cb1f on Oct 20, 2020 | 824 comments

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Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus (iphoneincanada.ca)

1512 points by tomekw on Oct 10, 2020 | 607 comments

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AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service (twitter.com)

1466 points by tnolet on Oct 16, 2020 | 637 comments

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Facebook Container for Firefox (mozilla.org)

1457 points by sushicalculus on Oct 21, 2020 | 425 comments

8.

We Hacked Apple for 3 Months (samcurry.net)

1454 points by samwcyo on Oct 8, 2020 | 308 comments

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My Resignation from the Intercept (greenwald.substack.com)

1441 points by yasp on Oct 29, 2020 | 1604 comments

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Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products (buyforlifeproducts.com)

1392 points by hubraumhugo on Oct 7, 2020 | 398 comments

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Bongo Cat (bongo.cat)

1348 points by mrpadie on Oct 23, 2020 | 190 comments

12.

Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)

1320 points by arm on Oct 18, 2020 | 492 comments

13.

A warning about Glassdoor (reddit.com)

1262 points by nosmokewhereiam on Oct 15, 2020 | 329 comments

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Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay (wsj.com)

1256 points by grej on Oct 6, 2020 | 1363 comments

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Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption (act.eff.org)

1252 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 6, 2020 | 342 comments

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I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps (varsity.co.uk)

1242 points by yk42bb on Oct 24, 2020 | 536 comments

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Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time (quantamagazine.org)

1235 points by theafh on Oct 14, 2020 | 354 comments

18.

I Violated a Code of Conduct (fast.ai)

1214 points by tosh on Oct 29, 2020 | 912 comments

19.

Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur (twitter.com)

1183 points by robenkleene on Oct 20, 2020 | 616 comments

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YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git (github.com)

1098 points by madars on Oct 25, 2020 | 315 comments

21.

Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel (bbc.com)

1041 points by cjlm on Oct 5, 2020 | 801 comments

22.

My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison (twitter.com)

1040 points by danso on Oct 1, 2020 | 622 comments

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Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says (cbc.ca)

1008 points by vivekd on Oct 8, 2020 | 415 comments

24.

Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video] (youtube.com)

959 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 16, 2020 | 238 comments

25.

This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (secretgeek.github.io)

952 points by Symmetry on Oct 19, 2020 | 179 comments

26.

PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network (reuters.com)

942 points by epaga on Oct 21, 2020 | 372 comments

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Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account (reddit.com)

895 points by warp on Oct 14, 2020 | 425 comments

28.

Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab (mediawiki.org)

889 points by input_sh on Oct 28, 2020 | 390 comments

29.

Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting (nationalreview.com)

883 points by henriquez on Oct 14, 2020 | 1058 comments

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Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young (reuters.com)

879 points by pseudolus on Oct 26, 2020 | 674 comments