The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2020
We track 1,261 stories from September 2020, averaging 260 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 81 stories. Together they drew 202,539 comments, 161 per story on average.
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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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3
Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
nvidianews.nvidia.com · czr · 13 Sep 2020
2.1k pts
752 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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6
This electrical transmission tower has a problem
twitter.com · danso · 17 Sep 2020
1.7k pts
460 comments
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7
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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9
Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
forbes.com · pseudolus · 15 Sep 2020
1.3k pts
836 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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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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16
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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19
Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
flatpanelshd.com · Shihan · 29 Sep 2020
996 pts
935 comments
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20
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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21
Someone has stolen my Instagram account
twitter.com · testloop · 27 Sep 2020
976 pts
333 comments
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22
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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24
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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28
Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
groups.google.com · frankjr · 25 Sep 2020
865 pts
271 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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32
Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
blog.datawrapper.de · hunvreus · 6 Sep 2020
844 pts
118 comments
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33
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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36
How to Get Promoted
defmacro.substack.com · thatonewhere · 28 Sep 2020
788 pts
317 comments
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37
Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
snori74 · 5 Sep 2020
780 pts
83 comments
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38
Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
bbc.co.uk · Qworg · 14 Sep 2020
775 pts
373 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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42
Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak
reportcybercrime.com · Yeri · 30 Sep 2020
741 pts
380 comments
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43
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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44
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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45
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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47
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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48
Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
popularmechanics.com · natcombs · 2 Sep 2020
703 pts
541 comments
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51
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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52
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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54
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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55
Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
statnews.com · felixbraun · 24 Sep 2020
679 pts
377 comments
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Attention is your scarcest resource
benkuhn.net · adambyrtek · 6 Sep 2020
674 pts
172 comments
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59
Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
github.com · ethanpil · 18 Sep 2020
672 pts
261 comments
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