The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2020

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Social Cooling (2017) socialcooling.com · rapnie · 29 Sep 2020

2.7k pts 1.1k comments

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When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number mango.pdf.zone · michael_fine · 16 Sep 2020

2.3k pts 340 comments

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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B nvidianews.nvidia.com · czr · 13 Sep 2020

2.1k pts 752 comments

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died npr.org · _zhqs · 18 Sep 2020

1.7k pts 1.5k comments

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Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal politico.com · AndrewBissell · 2 Sep 2020

1.7k pts 472 comments

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This electrical transmission tower has a problem twitter.com · danso · 17 Sep 2020

1.7k pts 460 comments

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Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com wasteme · 17 Sep 2020

1.7k pts 729 comments

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Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up calpaterson.com · todsacerdoti · 23 Sep 2020

1.6k pts 1.3k comments

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Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke forbes.com · pseudolus · 15 Sep 2020

1.3k pts 836 comments

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I no longer build software github.com · tagawa · 21 Sep 2020

1.3k pts 856 comments

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On the Use of a Life daemonology.net · cperciva · 20 Sep 2020

1.3k pts 265 comments

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Most-favorited Hacker News posts observablehq.com · tlarkworthy · 2 Sep 2020

1.3k pts 259 comments

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BitTorrent v2 blog.libtorrent.org · jakobdabo · 7 Sep 2020

1.2k pts 560 comments

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Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B bethesda.net · MaximumMadness · 21 Sep 2020

1.2k pts 779 comments

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CRDTs are the future josephg.com · lewisjoe · 28 Sep 2020

1.2k pts 312 comments

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We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode momentjs.com · maple3142 · 15 Sep 2020

1.1k pts 257 comments

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Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms support.mozilla.org · muxator · 22 Sep 2020

1.1k pts 375 comments

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Nova by Panic nova.app · 0x0 · 16 Sep 2020

1.1k pts 542 comments

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Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads flatpanelshd.com · Shihan · 29 Sep 2020

996 pts 935 comments

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They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video] youtube.com · notRobot · 23 Sep 2020

987 pts 761 comments

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Someone has stolen my Instagram account twitter.com · testloop · 27 Sep 2020

976 pts 333 comments

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Security by obscurity is underrated utkusen.com · goranmoomin · 11 Sep 2020

939 pts 510 comments

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Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes appfairness.org · poorman · 24 Sep 2020

913 pts 1k comments

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Amnesia is now open source frictionalgames.com · jsheard · 23 Sep 2020

902 pts 205 comments

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Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them thedrive.com · x43b · 1 Sep 2020

900 pts 473 comments

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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business blog.ltse.com · ummonk · 9 Sep 2020

896 pts 535 comments

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The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017) journals.uchicago.edu · wtracy · 18 Sep 2020

874 pts 369 comments

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Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster groups.google.com · frankjr · 25 Sep 2020

865 pts 271 comments

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Ask HN: How to learn sales? northpoleescape · 26 Sep 2020

865 pts 231 comments

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Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs blogs.nvidia.com · mkaic · 1 Sep 2020

856 pts 927 comments

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foo@bar.com bar.com · diggan · 27 Sep 2020

852 pts 281 comments

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Common color mistakes and how to avoid them blog.datawrapper.de · hunvreus · 6 Sep 2020

844 pts 118 comments

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Relativty – An open-source VR headset relativty.com · karanganesan · 10 Sep 2020

819 pts 222 comments

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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source blog.domenic.me · domenicd · 30 Sep 2020

816 pts 386 comments

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DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features duckdb.org · goranmoomin · 20 Sep 2020

801 pts 160 comments

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How to Get Promoted defmacro.substack.com · thatonewhere · 28 Sep 2020

788 pts 317 comments

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Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on snori74 · 5 Sep 2020

780 pts 83 comments

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Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years bbc.co.uk · Qworg · 14 Sep 2020

775 pts 373 comments

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Vue.js 3 github.com · simulo · 18 Sep 2020

768 pts 305 comments

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David Graeber has died theguardian.com · frabbit · 3 Sep 2020

749 pts 263 comments

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Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians zdnet.com · afrcnc · 22 Sep 2020

741 pts 613 comments

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Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak reportcybercrime.com · Yeri · 30 Sep 2020

741 pts 380 comments

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Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing? amnesty.org · mlthoughts2018 · 21 Sep 2020

716 pts 405 comments

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Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web blog.archive.org · jgrahamc · 17 Sep 2020

711 pts 147 comments

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Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable androidpolice.com · alborzb · 4 Sep 2020

710 pts 609 comments

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Linux Journal Is Back linuxjournal.com · jlpcsl · 22 Sep 2020

706 pts 93 comments

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Teacher's low-tech laptop hack to display handwritten notes for online class mothership.sg · miles · 13 Sep 2020

704 pts 267 comments

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Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval popularmechanics.com · natcombs · 2 Sep 2020

703 pts 541 comments

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Gitter is joining Matrix matrix.org · BubuIIC · 30 Sep 2020

701 pts 116 comments

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Winamp Skin Museum skins.webamp.org · 0-_-0 · 4 Sep 2020

694 pts 264 comments

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21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird bugzilla.mozilla.org · janvdberg · 17 Sep 2020

690 pts 269 comments

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How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled npr.org · everybodyknows · 11 Sep 2020

687 pts 313 comments

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Say goodbye to hold music blog.google · caution · 30 Sep 2020

682 pts 385 comments

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Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission theblockcrypto.com · crones · 30 Sep 2020

681 pts 1.3k comments

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Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute statnews.com · felixbraun · 24 Sep 2020

679 pts 377 comments

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Remembering my father gatesnotes.com · janvdberg · 15 Sep 2020

679 pts 183 comments

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Calibre 5.0 calibre-ebook.com · Alekhine · 25 Sep 2020

674 pts 268 comments

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Attention is your scarcest resource benkuhn.net · adambyrtek · 6 Sep 2020

674 pts 172 comments

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Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB github.com · ethanpil · 18 Sep 2020

672 pts 261 comments

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GitHub CLI 1.0 github.blog · todsacerdoti · 17 Sep 2020

663 pts 212 comments