top 50% 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

Why is Snowflake so Valuable?

https://www.freshpaint.io/blog/why-is-snowflake-so-valuable

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 163 comments

A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir

https://serokell.io/blog/elixir-otp-guide

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 97 comments

Cloudflare Radar

https://radar.cloudflare.com/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 90 comments

Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers online amid wildfires

https://www.zdnet.com/article/spacexs-starlink-in-action-internet-satellites-keep-emergency-workers-online-amid-wildfires/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 124 comments

Quino, creator of Mafalda comic character, dies aged 88

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54362413

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 41 comments

Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore

https://firetable.io/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 51 comments

Commodore 64 Program Discovered on 35-Year Old Vinyl Album (2019)

https://popcultureretrorama.com/2019/11/25/35-years-later-a-commodore-64-program-was-found-on-this-1984-album/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24634939

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 97 comments

Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf]

https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sleFinal.pdf

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: Ruby One-Liners Cookbook

https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_ruby_oneliners/one-liner-introduction.html

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 36 comments

Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/30/trello_pryor/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 137 comments

Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers

https://www.cnet.com/news/seattle-approves-minimum-wage-for-uber-and-lyft-drivers/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 248 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

http://aosabook.org

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 27 comments

Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated

https://digitalbunker.dev/2020/09/30/understanding-how-uuids-are-generated/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 60 comments

Pixel 5

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_5

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 228 comments

U.S. expected to sue Google next week as DOJ seeks support from states

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust-google/u-s-expected-to-sue-google-next-week-as-doj-seeks-support-from-states-idUSKBN26K3SR

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 53 comments

Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/vilified-early-over-lax-coronavirus-strategy-sweden-seems-to-have-scourge-controlled

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 426 comments

Launch HN: Narrator (YC S19) – a data modeling platform built on a single table

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24640540

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 59 comments

Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3

https://github.com/bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 29 comments

An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry [pdf]

https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/entropy/entropy-22-01100/article_deploy/entropy-22-01100.pdf

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 38 comments

On Old Age

https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-on-old-age

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 88 comments

D-Wave announces general availability of first quantum computer for business

https://www.dwavesys.com/press-releases/d-wave-announces-general-availability-first-quantum-computer-built-business

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 77 comments

Developers Try Again to Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support in LLVM

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Motorola-6800-Series-2020

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 122 comments

Golden raises $14.5M Series A led by a16z and Marc Andreessen joins board

https://golden.com/blog/golden-raises-14-5m-series-a-led-by-a16z/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 68 comments

Haskell GHC 9.0.1-alpha

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2020-September/019286.html

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 68 comments

Chromecast with Google TV

https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_google_tv

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 163 comments

Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985)

https://archive.org/details/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5/page/n29/mode/2up

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 65 comments

Tracking Mixed Bitcoins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14007

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 80 comments

Jack Sharp works of amateur photographer circa 1950-1970

https://www.jacksharp.co.uk/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 57 comments

Amazon Timestream is generally available

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/store-and-access-time-series-data-at-any-scale-with-amazon-timestream-now-generally-available/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Growing Wine Grapes in My Parents' Basement

https://www.hefvin.com/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 86 comments

Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to keep drug prices high

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/30/investigation-celgene-teva-drug-prices/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments
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