The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2021

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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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Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities habr.com · jayhoon · 24 Sep 2021

2k pts 456 comments

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Sir Clive Sinclair has died theguardian.com · haasted · 16 Sep 2021

1.7k pts 438 comments

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O.mg Cable shop.hak5.org · fredley · 2 Sep 2021

1.7k pts 538 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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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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Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address twitter.com · kdunglas · 5 Sep 2021

1.3k pts 584 comments

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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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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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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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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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Windy.com windy.com · kaycebasques · 10 Sep 2021

1.1k pts 212 comments

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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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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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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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Moiré No More getrevue.co · stock_toaster · 26 Sep 2021

1k pts 112 comments

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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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Htmlq: like jq, but for html github.com · jabo · 7 Sep 2021

961 pts 166 comments

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PostgreSQL 14 postgresql.org · jkatz05 · 30 Sep 2021

950 pts 286 comments

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Gitlab S-1 sec.gov · laminarflow · 17 Sep 2021

942 pts 285 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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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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Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum bbc.co.uk · FridayoLeary · 9 Sep 2021

860 pts 501 comments

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Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows theverge.com · hadrien01 · 13 Sep 2021

840 pts 384 comments

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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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How we got to LiveView fly.io · klohto · 22 Sep 2021

802 pts 283 comments

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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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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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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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The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning eugeneyan.com · 7d7n · 22 Sep 2021

765 pts 172 comments

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Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate digitalrightswatch.org.au · soylentbeige · 7 Sep 2021

763 pts 861 comments

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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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Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer bespokesynth.com · paulshen · 14 Sep 2021

745 pts 242 comments

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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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Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE justice.gov · andrewnicolalde · 15 Sep 2021

743 pts 237 comments

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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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uBlock Origin review addons.mozilla.org · miles · 4 Sep 2021

722 pts 245 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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My Room in 3D my-room-in-3d.vercel.app · namuorg · 11 Sep 2021

716 pts 131 comments

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Making bracket pair colorization faster code.visualstudio.com · feross · 29 Sep 2021

715 pts 265 comments

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Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] people.freebsd.org · drewg123 · 19 Sep 2021

707 pts 293 comments

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Norm Macdonald has died deadline.com · coloneltcb · 14 Sep 2021

701 pts 165 comments

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I just don’t want to be busy anymore elenasalaks.medium.com · PretzelFisch · 26 Sep 2021

700 pts 444 comments

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No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019) nomedium.dev · mooreds · 11 Sep 2021

694 pts 242 comments

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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