top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-09-30

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

5 years ago

816 upvotes – 386 comments

Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak

https://reportcybercrime.com/hackers-jailbreak-apples-t2-security-chip-powered-by-bridgeos/

5 years ago

741 upvotes – 380 comments

Gitter is joining Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/09/30/welcoming-gitter-to-matrix

5 years ago

701 upvotes – 116 comments

Say goodbye to hold music

https://blog.google/products/pixel/hold-for-me/

5 years ago

682 upvotes – 385 comments

Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/79247/coinbase-offers-exit-package-for-employees-not-comfortable-with-its-mission

5 years ago

681 upvotes – 1258 comments

Six Figures in 6 days

https://tr.af/6

5 years ago

643 upvotes – 285 comments

Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-xp-leak-confirmed-after-user-compiles-the-leaked-code-into-a-working-os/

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 254 comments

How Normal Am I?

https://www.hownormalami.eu/

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 208 comments

Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 195 comments

The Failed Promise of Web Components

https://lea.verou.me/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-components/

5 years ago

367 upvotes – 229 comments

From zero to main(): How to write a bootloader from scratch

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/how-to-write-a-bootloader-from-scratch

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 44 comments

Google TV

https://tv.google/

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 438 comments

Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers

https://voxeu.org/article/googlefitbit-will-monetise-health-data-and-harm-consumers

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 151 comments

Linux under WSL2 can be leaking

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2020/9/30/linux-under-wsl2-can-be-leaking/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 183 comments

OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker

https://teenage.engineering/products/ob-4

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 216 comments

The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website

https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/blacklight-tracking-advertisers-digital-privacy-sensitive-websites

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 152 comments

Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24638756

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 139 comments

Several Apple Services Down

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 126 comments

It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is

http://r6.ca/blog/20200929T023701Z.html

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 132 comments

Fossil

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 109 comments
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