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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?

    492 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  2. Swift System Is Now Open Source

    490 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  3. The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers

    490 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  4. MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating

    489 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  5. AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag

    486 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  6. Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

    485 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  7. Your Phone Is Your Castle

    485 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  8. Windows XP source code has leaked

    481 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  9. Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated

    480 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  10. Precursor – A mobile, open source electronics platform

    479 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  11. Work on What Matters

    475 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  12. Universal Split Screen

    475 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  13. Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok

    471 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  14. I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm

    470 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  15. Emacs is special regarding UIs

    469 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  16. Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%

    469 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  17. Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

    463 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  18. Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet

    463 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  19. Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.

    461 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  20. Use long flags when scripting (2013)

    459 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  21. How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors

    455 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  22. We Don’t Like Our Underground House

    454 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  23. FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

    451 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  24. How HTTPS Works

    451 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  25. The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday

    447 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  26. Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM

    447 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  27. At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on

    446 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  28. Makani source code released

    445 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  29. Bardcore

    443 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  30. Why do so many people want us back in the office?

    443 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  31. Annoying website features I face as a blind person

    442 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  32. Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates

    442 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  33. X-COM

    440 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  34. Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews

    439 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  35. Zig's New Relationship with LLVM

    436 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  36. Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova 'snatched from street' in Minsk

    435 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  37. We need physical audio kill switches

    435 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  38. PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence

    435 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  39. Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

    434 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  40. Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory

    432 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  41. Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work

    430 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  42. People expect technology to suck because it sucks

    429 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  43. Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)

    428 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  44. Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity

    428 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  45. Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993

    427 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  46. Pregnancy Test Doom: Doom running on a pregnancy test

    427 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  47. Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention

    424 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  48. An update to the Timescale license

    424 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  49. Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations

    424 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  50. An Introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust

    421 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  51. React is becoming a black box

    420 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  52. What happened to Firefox Send?

    417 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  53. 91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)

    415 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  54. Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive

    414 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  55. China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

    414 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  56. YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions

    408 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  57. Check if your IP is exposing any ports. If you see 404 page, nothing is exposed

    407 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  58. All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

    407 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  59. Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014)

    406 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  60. I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS

    406 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  61. Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS

    405 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  62. Applebot

    405 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  63. Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)

    402 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  64. Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

    401 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  65. Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII

    400 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  66. New Zealand is about to test long-range wireless power transmission

    397 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  67. What's so hard about PDF text extraction?

    396 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  68. Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)

    396 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  69. A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation

    396 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  70. DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation

    394 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  71. Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby

    394 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  72. PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”

    394 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  73. Modern C

    393 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  74. rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor

    392 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  75. Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic

    391 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  76. Assange Trial Day 18

    391 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  77. How Do Routers Work, Really?

    390 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  78. Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy

    389 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  79. Lesser-known Web APIs

    387 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  80. A Short Story for Engineers

    385 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  81. Laid Off, Now What?

    384 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  82. Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn

    382 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  83. How Normal Am I?

    381 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  84. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)

    380 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  85. Non-Posix File Systems

    380 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  86. The SaaS website content you need to close sales

    379 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  87. Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven

    377 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  88. I Want to Fix Goodreads

    376 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  89. Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

    376 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  90. OBS Studio 26.0

    374 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  91. U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal

    373 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  92. Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

    373 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  93. My least favorite Rust type

    371 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  94. Things we learned running Postgres 13

    369 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  95. How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku

    369 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  96. Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language

    369 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  97. Data Broker Opt-Out List

    369 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  98. Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months

    368 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  99. Firebug

    367 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  100. Is Plastic Recycling a Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic

    366 points • comment • sep 12, 2020