How journalists use youtube-dl — RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO — and AMD to Acquire Xilinx

Issue #204 — October 28, 2020

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How journalists use youtube-dl freedom.press \| points: 1619 \| comments: 322

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RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO torrentfreak.com \| points: 500 \| comments: 190

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AMD to Acquire Xilinx amd.com \| points: 487 \| comments: 203

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Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups framablog.org \| points: 420 \| comments: 87

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Org Mode’s new site orgmode.org \| points: 411 \| comments: 193

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Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers twitter.com \| points: 380 \| comments: 108

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Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand sfconservancy.org \| points: 353 \| comments: 69

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Next.js 10 nextjs.org \| points: 314 \| comments: 149

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Type in the exact number of machines to proceed rachelbythebay.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 197

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Yann LeCun on GPT-3 facebook.com \| points: 244 \| comments: 214

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Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition theverge.com \| points: 232 \| comments: 161

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Abusing Teams client protocol to bypass Teams security policies o365blog.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 105

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Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost github.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 33

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Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains ctrl.blog \| points: 201 \| comments: 133

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Jack Ma’s Ant Group set for record $34B market debut bbc.co.uk \| points: 186 \| comments: 219

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How you could have come up with Paxos yourself explain.yshui.dev \| points: 181 \| comments: 50

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Research team discovers breakthrough with potential to reverse Alzheimer’s news.ucalgary.ca \| points: 171 \| comments: 39

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Type in the exact number of machines to proceed rachelbythebay.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 1

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Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely chicagobusiness.com \| points: 149 \| comments: 265

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Taikyoku Shogi en.wikipedia.org \| points: 146 \| comments: 68

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