top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-09-01

Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36096/airline-pilots-landing-at-lax-report-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on

5 years ago

900 upvotes – 473 comments

Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/09/01/nvidia-ceo-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus/

5 years ago

856 upvotes – 927 comments

Htop 3.0

https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/blob/master/ChangeLog

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 103 comments

Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4aqw/amazon-hiring-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats

5 years ago

518 upvotes – 440 comments

Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

https://lunar.fyi

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 137 comments

Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993

https://medium.com/@andrewghobrial/why-has-college-gotten-so-expensive-in-the-last-30-years-3505af9aded8

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 562 comments

Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 241 comments

Applebot

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 304 comments

The database I wish I had

https://euandre.org/2020/08/31/the-database-i-wish-i-had.html

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 228 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342498

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 697 comments

Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/announcing-the-general-availability-of-bottlerocket-an-open-source-linux-distribution-purpose-built-to-run-containers/

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 129 comments

GitHub Container Registry

https://github.blog/2020-09-01-introducing-github-container-registry/

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 88 comments

A Saudi prince's attempt to silence critics on Twitter

https://www.wired.com/story/mohammed-bin-salman-twitter-investigation/

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 96 comments

Why we are suing the Administration

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-files-lawsuit

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 462 comments

Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code

https://github.com/connorferster/handcalcs

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 51 comments

Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow

https://masterwiki.how/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 81 comments

Why Privacy Matters

https://thistooshallgrow.com/blog/privacy-security-roundup

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 91 comments

Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to identify users

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-research-browsing-histories-are-unique-enough-to-reliably-identify-users/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 125 comments

Nessie – Lightweight Web Browser

https://www.radsix.com/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 90 comments

Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations

https://blog.ardy.io/2020/8/geraet-32620/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 66 comments
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