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Top of Month - Sep 2021

1. A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
   (16 Sep 2021 | 3441 points | Comments)

2. The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
   (21 Sep 2021 | 2666 points | Comments)

3. Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities
   (24 Sep 2021 | 2049 points | Comments)

4. Sir Clive Sinclair has died
   (16 Sep 2021 | 1746 points | Comments)

5. O.mg Cable
   (2 Sep 2021 | 1690 points | Comments)

6. Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
   (22 Sep 2021 | 1595 points | Comments)

7. Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
   (16 Sep 2021 | 1426 points | Comments)

8. Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
   (10 Sep 2021 | 1420 points | Comments)

9. YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
   (29 Sep 2021 | 1408 points | Comments)

10. Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features
    (3 Sep 2021 | 1401 points | Comments)

11. Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
    (20 Sep 2021 | 1359 points | Comments)

12. Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
    (9 Sep 2021 | 1314 points | Comments)

13. Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
    (5 Sep 2021 | 1285 points | Comments)

14. Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
    (4 Sep 2021 | 1236 points | Comments)

15. I refuse to let Amazon define Rust
    (13 Sep 2021 | 1193 points | Comments)

16. Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
    (5 Sep 2021 | 1154 points | Comments)

17. Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag
    (24 Sep 2021 | 1080 points | Comments)

18. Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly
    (7 Sep 2021 | 1070 points | Comments)

19. Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
    (14 Sep 2021 | 1069 points | Comments)

20. Windy.com
    (10 Sep 2021 | 1052 points | Comments)

21. What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
    (28 Sep 2021 | 1040 points | Comments)

22. Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules
    (13 Sep 2021 | 1021 points | Comments)

23. Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
    (15 Sep 2021 | 1003 points | Comments)

24. Moiré No More
    (26 Sep 2021 | 1002 points | Comments)

25. Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
    (16 Sep 2021 | 996 points | Comments)

26. Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls
    (3 Sep 2021 | 962 points | Comments)

27. Htmlq: like jq, but for html
    (7 Sep 2021 | 961 points | Comments)

28. PostgreSQL 14
    (30 Sep 2021 | 950 points | Comments)

29. Gitlab S-1
    (17 Sep 2021 | 942 points | Comments)

30. NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
    (13 Sep 2021 | 940 points | Comments)

31. Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever
    (26 Sep 2021 | 938 points | Comments)

32. MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
    (8 Sep 2021 | 915 points | Comments)

33. Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
    (17 Sep 2021 | 911 points | Comments)

34. Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum
    (9 Sep 2021 | 860 points | Comments)

35. Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
    (13 Sep 2021 | 840 points | Comments)

36. You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
    (28 Sep 2021 | 837 points | Comments)

37. Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
    (14 Sep 2021 | 804 points | Comments)

38. How we got to LiveView
    (22 Sep 2021 | 802 points | Comments)

39. Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind
    (26 Sep 2021 | 792 points | Comments)

40. September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time
    (11 Sep 2021 | 788 points | Comments)

41. Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
    (22 Sep 2021 | 787 points | Comments)

42. My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
    (7 Sep 2021 | 781 points | Comments)

43. The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning
    (22 Sep 2021 | 765 points | Comments)

44. Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
    (7 Sep 2021 | 763 points | Comments)

45. Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules
    (9 Sep 2021 | 763 points | Comments)

46. Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer
    (14 Sep 2021 | 745 points | Comments)

47. Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt
    (23 Sep 2021 | 744 points | Comments)

48. Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE
    (15 Sep 2021 | 743 points | Comments)

49. Something weird is happening on Facebook
    (27 Sep 2021 | 741 points | Comments)

50. Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research
    (24 Sep 2021 | 725 points | Comments)

51. uBlock Origin review
    (4 Sep 2021 | 722 points | Comments)

52. Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates
    (6 Sep 2021 | 718 points | Comments)

53. My Room in 3D
    (11 Sep 2021 | 716 points | Comments)

54. Making bracket pair colorization faster
    (29 Sep 2021 | 715 points | Comments)

55. Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]
    (19 Sep 2021 | 707 points | Comments)

56. Norm Macdonald has died
    (14 Sep 2021 | 701 points | Comments)

57. I just don’t want to be busy anymore
    (26 Sep 2021 | 700 points | Comments)

58. No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)
    (11 Sep 2021 | 694 points | Comments)

59. Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
    (14 Sep 2021 | 693 points | Comments)

60. US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing
    (6 Sep 2021 | 692 points | Comments)

61. How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages
    (14 Sep 2021 | 687 points | Comments)

62. Submarine cable map rendered onto a globe
    (24 Sep 2021 | 686 points | Comments)

63. Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
    (22 Sep 2021 | 684 points | Comments)

64. I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
    (21 Sep 2021 | 682 points | Comments)

65. ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested
    (7 Sep 2021 | 681 points | Comments)

66. Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
    (15 Sep 2021 | 681 points | Comments)

67. Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree
    (12 Sep 2021 | 668 points | Comments)

68. Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
    (28 Sep 2021 | 667 points | Comments)

69. Minus
    (6 Sep 2021 | 659 points | Comments)

70. A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley
    (21 Sep 2021 | 653 points | Comments)

71. The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
    (16 Sep 2021 | 650 points | Comments)

72. Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
    (6 Sep 2021 | 642 points | Comments)

73. Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
    (11 Sep 2021 | 638 points | Comments)

74. OpenRA: Red Alert, Command and Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era
    (13 Sep 2021 | 625 points | Comments)

75. Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
    (10 Sep 2021 | 618 points | Comments)

76. Understanding Awk
    (30 Sep 2021 | 616 points | Comments)

77. If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
    (20 Sep 2021 | 613 points | Comments)

78. Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American
    (15 Sep 2021 | 612 points | Comments)

79. Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
    (12 Sep 2021 | 611 points | Comments)

80. Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege
    (23 Sep 2021 | 611 points | Comments)

81. Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
    (5 Sep 2021 | 606 points | Comments)

82. Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater
    (16 Sep 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

83. Nginx Playground
    (24 Sep 2021 | 603 points | Comments)

84. Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
    (30 Sep 2021 | 603 points | Comments)

85. Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China
    (7 Sep 2021 | 590 points | Comments)

86. How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
    (27 Sep 2021 | 589 points | Comments)

87. When users never use the features they asked for
    (29 Sep 2021 | 583 points | Comments)

88. Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B
    (13 Sep 2021 | 582 points | Comments)

89. Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run by Foreign Troll Farms
    (29 Sep 2021 | 582 points | Comments)

90. Linux on the Framework Laptop
    (1 Sep 2021 | 579 points | Comments)

91. Cloudflare's Disruption
    (30 Sep 2021 | 578 points | Comments)

92. Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers
    (10 Sep 2021 | 576 points | Comments)

93. Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox
    (27 Sep 2021 | 576 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
    (23 Sep 2021 | 575 points | Comments)

95. California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
    (9 Sep 2021 | 574 points | Comments)

96. DIY RGB Icosahedron
    (22 Sep 2021 | 573 points | Comments)

97. Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications
    (1 Sep 2021 | 570 points | Comments)

98. Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
    (29 Sep 2021 | 570 points | Comments)

99. MangaDex infrastructure overview
    (7 Sep 2021 | 567 points | Comments)

100. The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
     (23 Sep 2021 | 566 points | Comments)