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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China

    365 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  2. Happy 1600M epoch second

    364 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  3. The Failed Promise of Web Components

    363 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  4. The database I wish I had

    363 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  5. Project Oberon

    363 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  6. Hotel guest in Thailand jailed for defamation after posting bad online reviews

    362 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  7. How to properly manage SSH keys for server access

    361 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  8. Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content

    360 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  9. Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max crashes

    359 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)

    357 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  11. Adequate Vitamin D Levels Cuts Risk of Dying from Covid-19 in Half, Study Finds

    356 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  12. Rust 2021: GUI

    355 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  13. Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS

    355 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  14. The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life

    354 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  15. Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer

    353 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  16. Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro

    352 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  17. Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

    352 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  18. Assange Hearing Day 6

    352 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  19. Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)

    352 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  20. Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from side effects: study

    350 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  21. Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test

    349 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  22. Assange Hearing Day 16

    348 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  23. New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released

    347 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  24. We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it

    345 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  25. Oculus Quest 2

    345 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  26. Assange Hearing Day 17

    345 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  27. Traits of good remote leaders

    345 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  28. Won’t Subscribe

    344 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  29. Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11

    342 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  30. Domains for the Rest of Us

    340 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  31. Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS

    339 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  32. GitHub Container Registry

    339 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  33. Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it

    337 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  34. Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video

    337 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  35. AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a Cost

    337 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  36. Things I Was Wrong About: Types

    337 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  37. Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores

    337 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  38. Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

    335 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  39. Programming with Categories

    334 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  40. Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase

    333 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  41. Visual and interactive way to learn Git

    331 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  42. Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?

    331 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  43. Controllable Video Sprites That Appear Like Professional Tennis Players

    330 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  44. Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation

    329 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  45. A Saudi prince's attempt to silence critics on Twitter

    328 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  46. Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound

    328 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  47. SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

    328 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  48. From zero to main(): How to write a bootloader from scratch

    327 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  49. Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

    327 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  50. Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study

    326 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  51. After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories

    326 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  52. The amazing $1 microcontroller (2017)

    325 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  53. iOS 14 is available today

    324 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  54. Google TV

    322 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  55. Introduction to Computational Thinking

    322 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  56. Show HN: Mono Icons – A simple, consistent open-source icon set

    321 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  57. Bubble barriers: a smart solution to plastic pollution in rivers

    321 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  58. French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave

    320 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  59. The benefits of note-taking by hand

    319 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  60. DOS Subsystem for Linux

    318 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  61. To All the Jobs I Had Before

    318 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  62. China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

    318 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  63. Bullfrog After Populous

    318 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  64. Escaping the Dark Forest

    318 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  65. Swift on Windows

    317 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  66. Snake in a QR Code

    317 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  67. GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

    316 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  68. It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI

    314 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  69. Ultra Safe Nuclear

    314 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  70. Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras

    313 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  71. Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”

    313 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  72. Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

    312 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  73. DuckDuckGo is growing fast

    312 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  74. Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers

    311 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  75. Linux under WSL2 can be leaking

    311 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  76. New Features in the Fish Shell

    310 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  77. Google Services Experiencing Disruptions

    309 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  78. Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

    309 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  79. Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists

    309 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  80. Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity

    308 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  81. R U OK?

    308 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  82. Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement

    306 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  83. Scientists say a mind-bending rhythm in the brain can act like ketamine

    306 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  84. Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market

    306 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  85. The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike

    305 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  86. How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time

    305 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  87. Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing

    305 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  88. Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life

    305 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  89. I'm a Coffin Confessor

    305 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  90. Repl.it Database

    305 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  91. The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s

    305 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  92. Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup

    304 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  93. Tables: Tracking work for teams

    304 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  94. Google says its carbon footprint is now zero

    304 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  95. Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days

    304 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  96. I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)

    303 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  97. The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

    303 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  98. Scaling Erlang Developer Experience at WhatsApp [pdf]

    302 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  99. Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith

    302 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  100. Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?

    300 points • comment • sep 14, 2020