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Top of Month - Sep 2020

1. Social Cooling (2017)
   (29 Sep 2020 | 2692 points | Comments)

2. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
   (16 Sep 2020 | 2326 points | Comments)

3. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
   (13 Sep 2020 | 2122 points | Comments)

4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
   (18 Sep 2020 | 1738 points | Comments)

5. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
   (2 Sep 2020 | 1722 points | Comments)

6. This electrical transmission tower has a problem
   (17 Sep 2020 | 1666 points | Comments)

7. Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
   (17 Sep 2020 | 1656 points | Comments)

8. Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
   (23 Sep 2020 | 1624 points | Comments)

9. Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
   (15 Sep 2020 | 1336 points | Comments)

10. I no longer build software
    (21 Sep 2020 | 1287 points | Comments)

11. On the Use of a Life
    (20 Sep 2020 | 1275 points | Comments)

12. Most-favorited Hacker News posts
    (2 Sep 2020 | 1266 points | Comments)

13. BitTorrent v2
    (7 Sep 2020 | 1227 points | Comments)

14. Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
    (21 Sep 2020 | 1185 points | Comments)

15. CRDTs are the future
    (28 Sep 2020 | 1181 points | Comments)

16. We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode
    (15 Sep 2020 | 1129 points | Comments)

17. Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
    (22 Sep 2020 | 1093 points | Comments)

18. Nova by Panic
    (16 Sep 2020 | 1051 points | Comments)

19. Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
    (29 Sep 2020 | 996 points | Comments)

20. They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]
    (23 Sep 2020 | 987 points | Comments)

21. Someone has stolen my Instagram account
    (27 Sep 2020 | 976 points | Comments)

22. Security by obscurity is underrated
    (11 Sep 2020 | 939 points | Comments)

23. Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
    (24 Sep 2020 | 913 points | Comments)

24. Amnesia is now open source
    (23 Sep 2020 | 902 points | Comments)

25. Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
    (1 Sep 2020 | 900 points | Comments)

26. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
    (9 Sep 2020 | 896 points | Comments)

27. The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)
    (18 Sep 2020 | 874 points | Comments)

28. Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
    (25 Sep 2020 | 865 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: How to learn sales?
    (26 Sep 2020 | 865 points | Comments)

30. Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
    (1 Sep 2020 | 856 points | Comments)

31. [email protected]
    (27 Sep 2020 | 852 points | Comments)

32. Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
    (6 Sep 2020 | 844 points | Comments)

33. Relativty – An open-source VR headset
    (10 Sep 2020 | 819 points | Comments)

34. DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
    (30 Sep 2020 | 816 points | Comments)

35. DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features
    (20 Sep 2020 | 801 points | Comments)

36. How to Get Promoted
    (28 Sep 2020 | 788 points | Comments)

37. Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
    (5 Sep 2020 | 780 points | Comments)

38. Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
    (14 Sep 2020 | 775 points | Comments)

39. Vue.js 3
    (18 Sep 2020 | 768 points | Comments)

40. David Graeber has died
    (3 Sep 2020 | 749 points | Comments)

41. Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
    (22 Sep 2020 | 741 points | Comments)

42. Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak
    (30 Sep 2020 | 741 points | Comments)

43. Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?
    (21 Sep 2020 | 716 points | Comments)

44. Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web
    (17 Sep 2020 | 711 points | Comments)

45. Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
    (4 Sep 2020 | 710 points | Comments)

46. Linux Journal Is Back
    (22 Sep 2020 | 706 points | Comments)

47. Teacher's low-tech laptop hack to display handwritten notes for online class
    (13 Sep 2020 | 704 points | Comments)

48. Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
    (2 Sep 2020 | 703 points | Comments)

49. Gitter is joining Matrix
    (30 Sep 2020 | 701 points | Comments)

50. Winamp Skin Museum
    (4 Sep 2020 | 694 points | Comments)

51. 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird
    (17 Sep 2020 | 690 points | Comments)

52. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
    (11 Sep 2020 | 687 points | Comments)

53. Say goodbye to hold music
    (30 Sep 2020 | 682 points | Comments)

54. Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
    (30 Sep 2020 | 681 points | Comments)

55. Remembering my father
    (15 Sep 2020 | 679 points | Comments)

56. Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
    (24 Sep 2020 | 679 points | Comments)

57. Attention is your scarcest resource
    (6 Sep 2020 | 674 points | Comments)

58. Calibre 5.0
    (25 Sep 2020 | 674 points | Comments)

59. Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
    (18 Sep 2020 | 672 points | Comments)

60. GitHub CLI 1.0
    (17 Sep 2020 | 663 points | Comments)

61. Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
    (29 Sep 2020 | 653 points | Comments)

62. Wikipedia is getting a new look
    (23 Sep 2020 | 649 points | Comments)

63. The Era of Visual Studio Code
    (22 Sep 2020 | 647 points | Comments)

64. Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
    (23 Sep 2020 | 647 points | Comments)

65. Six Figures in 6 days
    (30 Sep 2020 | 643 points | Comments)

66. Writing a book: is it worth it?
    (29 Sep 2020 | 642 points | Comments)

67. Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME
    (16 Sep 2020 | 641 points | Comments)

68. Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]
    (12 Sep 2020 | 633 points | Comments)

69. $1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss
    (24 Sep 2020 | 633 points | Comments)

70. uMatrix has been archived
    (20 Sep 2020 | 631 points | Comments)

71. Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
    (6 Sep 2020 | 628 points | Comments)

72. Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
    (9 Sep 2020 | 625 points | Comments)

73. Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
    (25 Sep 2020 | 622 points | Comments)

74. Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest
    (29 Sep 2020 | 622 points | Comments)

75. FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
    (18 Sep 2020 | 619 points | Comments)

76. I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
    (14 Sep 2020 | 614 points | Comments)

77. Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
    (2 Sep 2020 | 608 points | Comments)

78. Htop 3.0
    (1 Sep 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

79. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
    (5 Sep 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

80. Firefox 81.0
    (22 Sep 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

81. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere
    (13 Sep 2020 | 591 points | Comments)

82. The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents
    (16 Sep 2020 | 591 points | Comments)

83. Mathematics for Programmers [pdf]
    (24 Sep 2020 | 589 points | Comments)

84. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
    (4 Sep 2020 | 583 points | Comments)

85. Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content
    (8 Sep 2020 | 578 points | Comments)

86. The Social Dilemma
    (20 Sep 2020 | 577 points | Comments)

87. Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
    (16 Sep 2020 | 569 points | Comments)

88. Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
    (7 Sep 2020 | 568 points | Comments)

89. How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes
    (23 Sep 2020 | 565 points | Comments)

90. PostgreSQL 13
    (24 Sep 2020 | 563 points | Comments)

91. PG and Jessica
    (25 Sep 2020 | 555 points | Comments)

92. The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19
    (3 Sep 2020 | 552 points | Comments)

93. UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors
    (22 Sep 2020 | 551 points | Comments)

94. 'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
    (11 Sep 2020 | 543 points | Comments)

95. BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
    (25 Sep 2020 | 541 points | Comments)

96. FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks
    (20 Sep 2020 | 539 points | Comments)

97. California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035
    (23 Sep 2020 | 528 points | Comments)

98. Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
    (28 Sep 2020 | 528 points | Comments)

99. Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics
    (29 Sep 2020 | 519 points | Comments)

100. Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
     (1 Sep 2020 | 518 points | Comments)