top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-02

One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama

5 years ago

787 upvotes – 480 comments

What is the best dumb TV?

https://pointerclicker.com/best-dumb-tv/

5 years ago

674 upvotes – 644 comments

Pressing YubiKeys

https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/

5 years ago

505 upvotes – 235 comments

Escaping strings in Bash using !:q

https://til.simonwillison.net/til/til/bash_escaping-a-string.md

5 years ago

482 upvotes – 81 comments

Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste

https://www.troyhunt.com/hacking-grindr-accounts-with-copy-and-paste/

5 years ago

458 upvotes – 188 comments

Privacy is the most important concept of our time

https://inre.me/why-privacy-is-the-most-important-concept-of-our-time/

5 years ago

433 upvotes – 212 comments

Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 373 comments

Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens

https://www.persuasion.community/p/please-stop-imposing-american-views

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 368 comments

Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of Covid-19, research says

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/health/covid-19-symptom-smell-loss-taste-loss-study-wellness/index.html

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 271 comments

Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later

https://www.flatkill.org/2020/

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 351 comments

“Really successful people say no to almost everything”

https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/warren-buffett-says-this-is-1-simple-habit-that-separates-successful-people-from-everyone-else.html

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 213 comments

Logging Everyone Out

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-October/093922.html

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 143 comments

Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (2016)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/30/why-do-we-use-the-linux-kernels-tcp-stack/

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 121 comments

Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-japan-lost-generation/

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 341 comments

Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

https://pulkitsharma07.github.io/2020/10/02/hacktoberfest-india/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 144 comments

How To Be An Anti-Casteist

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/915299467

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 289 comments

Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/google-is-giving-1-billion-to-news-publishers-to-help-convince-governments-not-to-take-a-whole-lot-more-than-that/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 113 comments

Google pub/sub released an ordering feature

https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/ordering

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 108 comments

Swift Atomics

https://swift.org/blog/swift-atomics/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 37 comments

Pelican static site generator 4.5

https://blog.getpelican.com/category/news.html

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 100 comments
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