top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-09-03

David Graeber has died

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/03/david-graeber-anthropologist-and-author-of-bullshit-jobs-dies-aged-59

5 years ago

749 upvotes – 263 comments

The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764

5 years ago

552 upvotes – 390 comments

React is becoming a black box

https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 370 comments

Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

https://grumpygamer.com/thirty_years_ago

5 years ago

435 upvotes – 165 comments

U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying/u-s-court-mass-surveillance-program-exposed-by-snowden-was-illegal-idUSKBN25T3CK

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 99 comments

Modern C

https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 165 comments

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)

https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs29.html

5 years ago

387 upvotes – 332 comments

Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days

https://daniel.haxx.se/us-visa.html

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 192 comments

Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202008/what-if-certain-mental-disorders-are-not-disorders-all

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 259 comments

The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/09/the-joys-of-owning-an-og-email-account/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 276 comments

Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN25U2JU

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 236 comments

Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

https://github.com/armancodes/laravel-download-link/pull/9#issuecomment-683417436

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 224 comments

Pasco, Florida’s predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents

https://www.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 116 comments

Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/09/01/ci-minutes-update-free-users/

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 170 comments

Justice Dept. plans to file antitrust charges against Google in coming weeks

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/politics/google-antitrust-justice-department.html

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 168 comments

EMule 0.60a

https://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic=165281

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 183 comments

Study suggests that fresh asphalt is a significant source of air pollution

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/it-s-not-just-cars-make-pollution-it-s-roads-they-drive-too

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 177 comments

Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24364811

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 68 comments

Using Vim for C++ Development

https://gist.github.com/p1v0t/42a34744b5e4f5980e5f4e1c980ec859

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: ORM for TypeScript with no query-builder, supporting full SQL queries

https://github.com/Seb-C/kiss-orm

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 119 comments
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