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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Social Cooling (2017)

    2657 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  2. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

    2307 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  3. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

    2118 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  4. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

    1716 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

    1674 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  6. This electrical transmission tower has a problem

    1654 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  7. Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

    1625 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  8. Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

    1575 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  9. Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

    1328 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  10. On the Use of a Life

    1265 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  11. I no longer build software

    1252 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  12. Most-favorited Hacker News posts

    1249 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  13. BitTorrent v2

    1224 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  14. Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B

    1176 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  15. CRDTs are the future

    1164 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  16. We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode

    1118 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  17. Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

    1088 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  18. Nova by Panic

    1042 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  19. Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

    983 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  20. They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

    965 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  21. Someone has stolen my Instagram account

    942 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  22. Security by obscurity is underrated

    916 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  23. Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes

    898 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  24. Amnesia is now open source

    898 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  25. Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

    896 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  26. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

    891 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  27. The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)

    871 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  28. Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

    861 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  29. Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

    852 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  30. Ask HN: How to learn sales?

    852 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  31. foo@bar.com

    841 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  32. Common color mistakes and how to avoid them

    824 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  33. Relativty – An open-source VR headset

    809 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  34. DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features

    791 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  35. DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

    784 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  36. Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

    771 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  37. Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on

    765 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  38. Vue.js 3

    750 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  39. David Graeber has died

    732 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  40. Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak

    731 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  41. Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

    727 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  42. How to Get Promoted

    726 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  43. Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web

    702 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  44. Teacher's low-tech laptop hack to display handwritten notes for online class

    700 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  45. Gitter is joining Matrix

    698 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  46. Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval

    696 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  47. Linux Journal Is Back

    694 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  48. Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?

    693 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  49. 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

    684 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  50. Winamp Skin Museum

    681 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  51. Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute

    679 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  52. Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

    675 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  53. Remembering my father

    673 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  54. Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

    671 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  55. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

    670 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  56. Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB

    666 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  57. Attention is your scarcest resource

    658 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  58. GitHub CLI 1.0

    656 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  59. Say goodbye to hold music

    654 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  60. Calibre 5.0

    650 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  61. Wikipedia is getting a new look

    644 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  62. Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

    634 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  63. Writing a book: is it worth it?

    632 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  64. Six Figures in 6 days

    631 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  65. Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo

    630 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  66. $1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss

    624 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  67. uMatrix has been archived

    622 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  68. Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

    622 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  69. Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

    622 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  70. Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images

    616 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  71. Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]

    614 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  72. Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest

    613 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  73. Ruby 3.0 Preview 1

    612 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  74. The Era of Visual Studio Code

    612 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  75. FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler

    610 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  76. I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

    598 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  77. Htop 3.0

    591 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  78. Firefox 81.0

    588 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  79. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

    587 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  80. Mathematics for Programmers [pdf]

    582 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  81. Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions

    576 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  82. Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

    574 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  83. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

    572 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  84. The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents

    571 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  85. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

    566 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  86. The Social Dilemma

    561 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  87. How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes

    557 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  88. Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

    552 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  89. PG and Jessica

    546 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  90. PostgreSQL 13

    543 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  91. The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19

    539 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  92. BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

    532 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  93. UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors

    528 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  94. 'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task

    522 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  95. FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks

    520 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  96. Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology

    514 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  97. Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics

    512 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  98. California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035

    509 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  99. Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

    504 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  100. Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’

    497 points • comment • sep 01, 2020