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New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 youtube-dl.org \| points: 709 \| comments: 219

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Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React winxp.now.sh \| points: 550 \| comments: 143

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NAT Slipstreaming samy.pl \| points: 494 \| comments: 153

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Toronto-area lawyer had to flee Canada after taking on the tow truck industry ctvnews.ca \| points: 410 \| comments: 224

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Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA electrospaces.net \| points: 384 \| comments: 116

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7GUIs eugenkiss.github.io \| points: 379 \| comments: 34

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AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee’s Bald Head for Ball iflscience.com \| points: 343 \| comments: 165

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WordPerfect for DOS Updated columbia.edu \| points: 305 \| comments: 188

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An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V gist.github.com \| points: 302 \| comments: 210

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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform netflixtechblog.com \| points: 244 \| comments: 90

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Visualizing Git Concepts with D3 onlywei.github.io \| points: 227 \| comments: 25

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Public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR = 1; twitter.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 23

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Pine64 Smarphone Spare Parts pine64.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 118

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Ask HN: How do custom software dev firms make money? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 181 \| comments: 80

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Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID’d as man behind spam-email empire cbc.ca \| points: 159 \| comments: 90

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Piipcam – 1080P IP Camera on a Raspberry Pi Zero W github.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 63

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Mitmproxy 5.3 github.com \| points: 149 \| comments: 40

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Using TLA+ in the Real World to Understand a Glibc Bug probablydance.com \| points: 141 \| comments: 47

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Chrome unlikely to support XPath 3.1 github.com \| points: 136 \| comments: 90

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis scottaaronson.com \| points: 132 \| comments: 52

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