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1. YouTube-dl's repository has been restored (github.blog)
2636 points by fusl on Nov 16, 2020 | 658 comments
2. Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys (cryptographyengineering.com)
583 points by Reventlov on Nov 16, 2020 | 466 comments
3. What Gödel Discovered (stopa.io)
1000 points by stopachka on Nov 16, 2020 | 259 comments
4. [dupe] Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back (github.blog)
1275 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 16, 2020 | 1 comment
5. Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019) (vice.com)
924 points by elorant on Nov 16, 2020 | 291 comments
6. Airbnb S-1 (sec.gov)
595 points by xoxoy on Nov 16, 2020 | 457 comments
7. Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show (theguardian.com)
780 points by m1 on Nov 16, 2020 | 1328 comments
8. Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security (reuters.com)
498 points by longdefeat on Nov 16, 2020 | 172 comments
9. Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs (thenextweb.com)
593 points by esolyt on Nov 16, 2020 | 263 comments
10. On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years (jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
556 points by tibbar on Nov 16, 2020 | 333 comments
11. Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) (github.com/nbeaver)
423 points by random_walker on Nov 15, 2020 | 614 comments
12. Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 2: Term Rewriting (stephendiehl.com)
226 points by azhenley on Nov 16, 2020 | 55 comments
13. [dupe] Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection (bbc.com)
671 points by n_parks on Nov 16, 2020 | 5 comments
14. Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages (github.com/nelsontky)
355 points by nelsontky on Nov 16, 2020 | 176 comments
15. Psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet (tomcam.github.io)
328 points by tomcam on Nov 16, 2020 | 44 comments
16. Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethical, survey says (2019) (forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier)
315 points by mgh2 on Nov 16, 2020 | 193 comments
17. Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses (nytimes.com)
227 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Nov 15, 2020 | 198 comments
18. How and when to acquire SaaS users (themvpsprint.com)
236 points by timjones on Nov 16, 2020 | 97 comments
19. Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree (caltech.edu)
220 points by 0xedb on Nov 16, 2020 | 135 comments
20. I failed to make LinkedIn fix their broken international domain URL parser (helmstedt.dk)
222 points by helstegt on Nov 16, 2020 | 89 comments
21. A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension (forbes.com/sites/startswithabang)
271 points by chris_overseas on Nov 16, 2020 | 173 comments
22. What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf] (washington.edu)
305 points by 7d7n on Nov 16, 2020 | 164 comments
23. Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
169 points by scarybeast on Nov 16, 2020 | 39 comments
24. Researchers’ AI aligns sheet music with MIDI audio (venturebeat.com)
97 points by Bud on Nov 16, 2020 | 64 comments
25. Stolen irreplaceable books found under floor of Romanian house (bbc.com)
171 points by xenocratus on Nov 15, 2020 | 111 comments
26. Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake (wsj.com)
217 points by gscott on Nov 15, 2020 | 445 comments
27. Tools and Services I Use to Run My SaaS (jake.nyc)
188 points by jakelazaroff on Nov 16, 2020 | 47 comments
28. Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next 50 years [pdf] (pdx.edu)
102 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2020 | 99 comments
29. Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml (ocaml.org)
113 points by mseri on Nov 15, 2020 | 41 comments
30. Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac (macrumors.com)
337 points by syrusakbary on Nov 15, 2020 | 290 comments

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