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AMD to Acquire Xilinx

Link: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/xilinx-acquisition
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906151

RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

Link: https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24908695

Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

Link: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/1-year-update#the-lucet-and-wasmtime-teams-join-forces
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897641

How journalists use youtube-dl

Link: https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24899863

Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

Link: https://www.melovedata.com/twitter-still-hasnt-unlocked-the-new-york-posts-account/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24899186

Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young

Link: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccin/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-prompts-immune-response-among-adults-old-and-young-astrazeneca-says-idUSKBN27B0IV
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894622

Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest

Link: https://www.axios.com/washington-state-murder-hornets-nest-photos-39e04acb-50da-4c3d-8a8d-4993e1fe2780.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886909

I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers

Link: http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/locked-down-computers.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889488

Pandoc – A universal document converter

Link: https://pandoc.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24882480

YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

Link: https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24882921

I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

Link: https://www.varsity.co.uk/interviews/19990
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24879870

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Link: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911

You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

Link: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865450

Bongo Cat

Link: https://bongo.cat
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866896

“I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal API”

Link: https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861623

Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

Link: https://joshwcomeau.com/accessibility/hands-free-coding/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846887

Facebook Container for Firefox

Link: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24849452

PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

Link: https://www.reuters.com/article/paypal-cryptocurrency/paypal-to-allow-cryptocurrency-buying-selling-and-shopping-on-its-network-idINL1N2HB14U
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846905

Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur

Link: https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816

U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/technology/google-antitrust.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24836520