The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2021
We track 1,388 stories from September 2021, averaging 259 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 93 stories. Together they drew 213,435 comments, 154 per story on average.
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A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
search.marginalia.nu · Funes- · 16 Sep 2021
3.4k pts
717 comments
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The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
pluralistic.net · samizdis · 21 Sep 2021
2.7k pts
1.4k comments
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3
Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities
habr.com · jayhoon · 24 Sep 2021
2k pts
456 comments
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4
Sir Clive Sinclair has died
theguardian.com · haasted · 16 Sep 2021
1.7k pts
438 comments
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Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
support.google.com · knaik94 · 22 Sep 2021
1.6k pts
494 comments
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Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
shitlassian.com · mparnisari · 16 Sep 2021
1.4k pts
733 comments
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Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
theverge.com · freddier · 10 Sep 2021
1.4k pts
926 comments
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YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
washingtonpost.com · danso · 29 Sep 2021
1.4k pts
2.9k comments
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Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features
macrumors.com · nycdatasci · 3 Sep 2021
1.4k pts
838 comments
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Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app · tracyhenry · 20 Sep 2021
1.4k pts
273 comments
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12
Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
dang · 9 Sep 2021
1.3k pts
78 comments
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13
Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
twitter.com · kdunglas · 5 Sep 2021
1.3k pts
584 comments
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14
Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
eff.org · miles · 4 Sep 2021
1.2k pts
335 comments
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15
I refuse to let Amazon define Rust
twitter.com · formalsystem · 13 Sep 2021
1.2k pts
339 comments
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Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
twitter.com · DominikPeters · 5 Sep 2021
1.2k pts
160 comments
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17
Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag
dell.com · bestouff · 24 Sep 2021
1.1k pts
879 comments
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18
Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly
bonsaibrowser.com · hyferg · 7 Sep 2021
1.1k pts
226 comments
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Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
wsj.com · jmsflknr · 14 Sep 2021
1.1k pts
638 comments
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21
What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
blog.immersed.team · eflowers · 28 Sep 2021
1k pts
448 comments
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22
Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules
wsj.com · tysone · 13 Sep 2021
1k pts
514 comments
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23
Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
inputmag.com · kilotaras · 15 Sep 2021
1k pts
291 comments
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25
Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
kotaku.com · ClawsOnPaws · 16 Sep 2021
996 pts
538 comments
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Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls
lapcatsoftware.com · giuliomagnifico · 3 Sep 2021
962 pts
345 comments
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NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
citizenlab.ca · jbegley · 13 Sep 2021
940 pts
326 comments
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Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever
jalopnik.com · colinprince · 26 Sep 2021
938 pts
440 comments
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32
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
news.mit.edu · klintcho · 8 Sep 2021
915 pts
422 comments
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Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
reuters.com · exizt88 · 17 Sep 2021
911 pts
641 comments
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34
Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum
bbc.co.uk · FridayoLeary · 9 Sep 2021
860 pts
501 comments
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35
Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
theverge.com · hadrien01 · 13 Sep 2021
840 pts
384 comments
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36
You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
mux.com · mmcclure · 28 Sep 2021
837 pts
407 comments
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Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
independent.co.uk · notRobot · 14 Sep 2021
804 pts
250 comments
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39
Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind
applevis.com · latexr · 26 Sep 2021
792 pts
210 comments
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40
September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time
911realtime.org · smohnot · 11 Sep 2021
788 pts
445 comments
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Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
reuters.com · ChemSpider · 22 Sep 2021
787 pts
404 comments
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42
My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
mark.mcnally.je · mark_mcnally_je · 7 Sep 2021
781 pts
452 comments
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43
The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning
eugeneyan.com · 7d7n · 22 Sep 2021
765 pts
172 comments
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44
Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
digitalrightswatch.org.au · soylentbeige · 7 Sep 2021
763 pts
861 comments
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45
Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules
reuters.com · DocFeind · 9 Sep 2021
763 pts
173 comments
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46
Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer
bespokesynth.com · paulshen · 14 Sep 2021
745 pts
242 comments
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47
Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt
mastodon.social · decrypt · 23 Sep 2021
744 pts
367 comments
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48
Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE
justice.gov · andrewnicolalde · 15 Sep 2021
743 pts
237 comments
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49
Something weird is happening on Facebook
politicalorphans.com · incomplete · 27 Sep 2021
741 pts
262 comments
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Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research
theintercept.com · BellLabradors · 24 Sep 2021
725 pts
461 comments
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Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates
xda-developers.com · underscore_ku · 6 Sep 2021
718 pts
351 comments
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54
Making bracket pair colorization faster
code.visualstudio.com · feross · 29 Sep 2021
715 pts
265 comments
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55
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]
people.freebsd.org · drewg123 · 19 Sep 2021
707 pts
293 comments
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56
Norm Macdonald has died
deadline.com · coloneltcb · 14 Sep 2021
701 pts
165 comments
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57
I just don’t want to be busy anymore
elenasalaks.medium.com · PretzelFisch · 26 Sep 2021
700 pts
444 comments
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58
No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)
nomedium.dev · mooreds · 11 Sep 2021
694 pts
242 comments
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59
Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
justuseapp.com · hienyimba · 14 Sep 2021
693 pts
285 comments
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US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing
zdnet.com · daniaal · 6 Sep 2021
692 pts
336 comments
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