The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2023
We track 1,471 stories from September 2023, averaging 243 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 105 stories. Together they drew 217,683 comments, 148 per story on average.
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Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
SimingtonFCC · 5 Sep 2023
3.4k pts
925 comments
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WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
jamesbvaughan.com · jamesbvaughan · 28 Sep 2023
1.8k pts
652 comments
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3
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
blog.kagi.com · darthShadow · 21 Sep 2023
1.7k pts
942 comments
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5
Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
cs.cmu.edu · isomorph · 20 Sep 2023
1.7k pts
506 comments
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The Tyranny of the Marginal User
nothinghuman.substack.com · ivee · 14 Sep 2023
1.6k pts
815 comments
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NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
citizenlab.ca · ericzawo · 7 Sep 2023
1.4k pts
832 comments
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10
Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?
puzzling.stackexchange.com · robin_reala · 6 Sep 2023
1.4k pts
237 comments
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Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
audio-video.gnu.org · fury999io · 29 Sep 2023
1.4k pts
788 comments
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12
Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
jenson.org · kaftan-permans · 24 Sep 2023
1.3k pts
681 comments
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13
Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
twitter.com · moyix · 19 Sep 2023
1.2k pts
591 comments
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14
Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
web.mit.edu · dvrp · 19 Sep 2023
1.2k pts
198 comments
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15
We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
openai.com · ladino · 25 Sep 2023
1.1k pts
877 comments
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FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
ftc.gov · marcopolis · 26 Sep 2023
1.1k pts
899 comments
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18
Draggable objects
redblobgames.com · stefankuehnel · 29 Sep 2023
1.1k pts
141 comments
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19
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
tylervigen.com · graypegg · 2 Sep 2023
1k pts
264 comments
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My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
csvbase.com · qsantos · 15 Sep 2023
1k pts
265 comments
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21
Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working
mullvad.net · eptcyka · 13 Sep 2023
1k pts
246 comments
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22
A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
cambridgeblog.org · rossant · 25 Sep 2023
1k pts
600 comments
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23
Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
arstechnica.com · edvinbesic · 7 Sep 2023
974 pts
557 comments
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24
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
rachelbythebay.com · picture · 26 Sep 2023
963 pts
707 comments
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25
Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
kcorbitt · 12 Sep 2023
955 pts
181 comments
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26
UK air traffic control meltdown
jameshaydon.github.io · jameshh · 11 Sep 2023
932 pts
436 comments
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Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
phoronix.com · WithinReason · 22 Sep 2023
929 pts
362 comments
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Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
devblogs.microsoft.com · mycall · 13 Sep 2023
887 pts
510 comments
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31
My solopreneur story
news.tonydinh.com · alexzeitler · 23 Sep 2023
852 pts
623 comments
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A hacker's guide to language models [video]
youtube.com · rrampage · 24 Sep 2023
821 pts
35 comments
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
adayinthelifeof.nl · jaytaph · 22 Sep 2023
819 pts
477 comments
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35
Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
wavacity.com · _Microft · 1 Sep 2023
814 pts
142 comments
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36
Credit card debt collection
bitsaboutmoney.com · got-any-grapes · 12 Sep 2023
778 pts
542 comments
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37
Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted
graz.social · ColinWright · 29 Sep 2023
772 pts
370 comments
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38
Choose Postgres queue technology
adriano.fyi · bo0tzz · 24 Sep 2023
762 pts
362 comments
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39
I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
basta.substack.com · robdimarco · 15 Sep 2023
753 pts
535 comments
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41
Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
ctrl.blog · extr0pian · 11 Sep 2023
744 pts
449 comments
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42
UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
ft.com · alwillis · 6 Sep 2023
743 pts
302 comments
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43
Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions
benchmarks.llmonitor.com · vincelt · 9 Sep 2023
740 pts
339 comments
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44
Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source
ramatak.com · TMM2K · 15 Sep 2023
736 pts
700 comments
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45
Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
billwillingham.substack.com · Tomte · 15 Sep 2023
733 pts
268 comments
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46
Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative
github.com · mikeshi42 · 18 Sep 2023
722 pts
163 comments
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47
Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
wiz.io · deepersprout · 18 Sep 2023
721 pts
226 comments
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Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
chemistryworld.com · jseliger · 9 Sep 2023
706 pts
323 comments
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49
Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software
bitbashing.io · mrkline · 8 Sep 2023
704 pts
613 comments
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51
I got robbed of my first kernel contribution
ariel-miculas.github.io · kkapelon · 27 Sep 2023
702 pts
692 comments
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53
Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
blog.google · twapi · 14 Sep 2023
699 pts
411 comments
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54
The boiling frog of digital freedom
gazoche.xyz · Gazoche · 3 Sep 2023
686 pts
453 comments
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55
Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes
gamerbraves.com · agluszak · 15 Sep 2023
682 pts
176 comments
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56
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
posthog.com · fmerian · 29 Sep 2023
679 pts
273 comments
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57
Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
github.com · promiseofbeans · 10 Sep 2023
679 pts
188 comments
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58
UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
eff.org · judiisis · 21 Sep 2023
672 pts
403 comments
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Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
farewell.bostonunitygroup.com · Morizero · 25 Sep 2023
666 pts
445 comments
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