The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2023

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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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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month blog.kagi.com · darthShadow · 21 Sep 2023

1.7k pts 942 comments

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Raspberry Pi 5 raspberrypi.com · chabes · 28 Sep 2023

1.7k pts 1k comments

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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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The worst programmer I know dannorth.net · zdw · 2 Sep 2023

1.5k pts 628 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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Organic Maps organicmaps.app · LeoPanthera · 1 Sep 2023

1.4k pts 485 comments

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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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Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem jenson.org · kaftan-permans · 24 Sep 2023

1.3k pts 681 comments

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Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor twitter.com · moyix · 19 Sep 2023

1.2k pts 591 comments

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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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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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Bun v1.0.0 bun.sh · tuananh · 8 Sep 2023

1.1k pts 367 comments

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Draggable objects redblobgames.com · stefankuehnel · 29 Sep 2023

1.1k pts 141 comments

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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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Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working mullvad.net · eptcyka · 13 Sep 2023

1k pts 246 comments

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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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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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The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing rachelbythebay.com · picture · 26 Sep 2023

963 pts 707 comments

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Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4 kcorbitt · 12 Sep 2023

955 pts 181 comments

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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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Cisco Acquires Splunk splunk.com · siddharthb_ · 21 Sep 2023

923 pts 502 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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Mistral 7B mistral.ai · jasondavies · 27 Sep 2023

884 pts 618 comments

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My solopreneur story news.tonydinh.com · alexzeitler · 23 Sep 2023

852 pts 623 comments

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Touch Pianist touchpianist.com · thunderbong · 8 Sep 2023

837 pts 228 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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Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web wavacity.com · _Microft · 1 Sep 2023

814 pts 142 comments

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Credit card debt collection bitsaboutmoney.com · got-any-grapes · 12 Sep 2023

778 pts 542 comments

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Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted graz.social · ColinWright · 29 Sep 2023

772 pts 370 comments

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Choose Postgres queue technology adriano.fyi · bo0tzz · 24 Sep 2023

762 pts 362 comments

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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it basta.substack.com · robdimarco · 15 Sep 2023

753 pts 535 comments

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iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus apple.com · mikece · 12 Sep 2023

749 pts 2k comments

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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users ctrl.blog · extr0pian · 11 Sep 2023

744 pts 449 comments

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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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Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions benchmarks.llmonitor.com · vincelt · 9 Sep 2023

740 pts 339 comments

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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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Willingham sends Fables into the public domain billwillingham.substack.com · Tomte · 15 Sep 2023

733 pts 268 comments

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Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative github.com · mikeshi42 · 18 Sep 2023

722 pts 163 comments

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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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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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DALL·E 3 openai.com · davidbarker · 20 Sep 2023

704 pts 505 comments

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I got robbed of my first kernel contribution ariel-miculas.github.io · kkapelon · 27 Sep 2023

702 pts 692 comments

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Animated Knots animatedknots.com · zingerlio · 1 Sep 2023

702 pts 104 comments

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Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates blog.google · twapi · 14 Sep 2023

699 pts 411 comments

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The boiling frog of digital freedom gazoche.xyz · Gazoche · 3 Sep 2023

686 pts 453 comments

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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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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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Nginx Unit – Universal web app server github.com · promiseofbeans · 10 Sep 2023

679 pts 188 comments

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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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Kagi Small Web blog.kagi.com · u2077 · 7 Sep 2023

668 pts 185 comments

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Unity's oldest community announces dissolution farewell.bostonunitygroup.com · Morizero · 25 Sep 2023

666 pts 445 comments