816
386
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/
5 years ago
741
380
Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak
https://reportcybercrime.com/hackers-jailbreak-apples-t2-security-chip-powered-by-bridgeos/
701
116
Gitter is joining Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/09/30/welcoming-gitter-to-matrix
682
385
Say goodbye to hold music
https://blog.google/products/pixel/hold-for-me/
681
1258
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
643
285
Six Figures in 6 days
https://tr.af/6
415
254
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/
393
208
How Normal Am I?
https://www.hownormalami.eu/
195
Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
367
229
The Failed Promise of Web Components
https://lea.verou.me/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-components/
332
44
From zero to main(): How to write a bootloader from scratch
https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/how-to-write-a-bootloader-from-scratch
328
438
Google TV
https://tv.google/
325
151
Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers
https://voxeu.org/article/googlefitbit-will-monetise-health-data-and-harm-consumers
314
183
Linux under WSL2 can be leaking
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2020/9/30/linux-under-wsl2-can-be-leaking/
282
216
OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker
https://teenage.engineering/products/ob-4
281
152
The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/blacklight-tracking-advertisers-digital-privacy-sensitive-websites
264
139
Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24638756
257
126
Several Apple Services Down
https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
256
132
It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is
http://r6.ca/blog/20200929T023701Z.html
250
109
Fossil
https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
247
163
Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
https://www.freshpaint.io/blog/why-is-snowflake-so-valuable
242
97
A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir
https://serokell.io/blog/elixir-otp-guide
226
90
Cloudflare Radar
https://radar.cloudflare.com/
222
124
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/
213
41
Quino, creator of Mafalda comic character, dies aged 88
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54362413
51
Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore
https://firetable.io/
62
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/
193
Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24634939
192
158
Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf]
https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sleFinal.pdf
191
36
Show HN: Ruby One-Liners Cookbook
https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_ruby_oneliners/one-liner-introduction.html
189
137
Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/30/trello_pryor/
186
248
Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers
https://www.cnet.com/news/seattle-approves-minimum-wage-for-uber-and-lyft-drivers/
177
27
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
http://aosabook.org
169
60
Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated
https://digitalbunker.dev/2020/09/30/understanding-how-uuids-are-generated/
162
228
Pixel 5
https://store.google.com/product/pixel_5
53
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
150
426
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
143
59
Launch HN: Narrator (YC S19) – a data modeling platform built on a single table
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24640540
142
29
Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3
https://github.com/bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial
133
38
An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry [pdf]
https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/entropy/entropy-22-01100/article_deploy/entropy-22-01100.pdf
131
88
On Old Age
https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-on-old-age
128
77
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
122
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
68
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/
Haskell GHC 9.0.1-alpha
https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2020-September/019286.html
103
Chromecast with Google TV
https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_google_tv
101
65
Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985)
https://archive.org/details/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5/page/n29/mode/2up
98
80
Tracking Mixed Bitcoins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14007
93
57
Jack Sharp works of amateur photographer circa 1950-1970
https://www.jacksharp.co.uk/
91
39
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/
86
Show HN: Growing Wine Grapes in My Parents' Basement
https://www.hefvin.com/
84
19
Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to keep drug prices high
https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/30/investigation-celgene-teva-drug-prices/
Quino, creator of Mafalda comic character, dies aged 88