787
480
One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama
5 years ago
674
644
What is the best dumb TV?
https://pointerclicker.com/best-dumb-tv/
505
235
Pressing YubiKeys
https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/
482
81
Escaping strings in Bash using !:q
https://til.simonwillison.net/til/til/bash_escaping-a-string.md
458
188
Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste
https://www.troyhunt.com/hacking-grindr-accounts-with-copy-and-paste/
433
212
Privacy is the most important concept of our time
https://inre.me/why-privacy-is-the-most-important-concept-of-our-time/
410
373
Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/
408
368
Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens
https://www.persuasion.community/p/please-stop-imposing-american-views
393
271
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
377
351
Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
https://www.flatkill.org/2020/
350
213
“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
313
143
Logging Everyone Out
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-October/093922.html
287
121
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/
286
341
Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-japan-lost-generation/
261
144
Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India
https://pulkitsharma07.github.io/2020/10/02/hacktoberfest-india/
226
289
How To Be An Anti-Casteist
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/915299467
222
113
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/
214
108
Google pub/sub released an ordering feature
https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/ordering
209
37
Swift Atomics
https://swift.org/blog/swift-atomics/
193
100
Pelican static site generator 4.5
https://blog.getpelican.com/category/news.html
175
23
Iron, How Did They Make It, Part III: Hammer-Time
https://acoup.blog/2020/10/02/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-iii-hammer-time/
171
61
“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World”
https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/mushroom-expert-merlin-sheldrake-fungi-can-teach-us-a-new-way-of-looking-at-the-world-a-a3dd9530-dc15-4aa9-bb03-b23e1adc7e2f
169
101
Trump: “Tonight, FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849
164
114
Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-sues-two-chrome-extension-makers-for-scraping-user-data/
158
Tokyo Stock Exchange Blackout: One Piece of Hardware Took Down a Market
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-02/how-one-piece-of-hardware-took-down-a-6-trillion-stock-market
153
75
Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-einstein-description-gravity-harder.html
146
128
Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada
https://npe.fb.com/2020/10/01/forecast-update-making-forecast-available-to-everyone/
124
When we lose weight, where does it go?
https://theconversation.com/when-we-lose-weight-where-does-it-go-91594
141
172
Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog
https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/82847
140
103
Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reasons-revealed-for-the-brains-elastic-sense-of-time-20200924/
137
259
Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424
129
22
Startup Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide
https://www.notion.so/Startup-Hiring-101-A-Founder-s-Guide-946dad6dd9fd433abdd12338a83e931f
126
49
Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped laser pulse
https://www.quantamagazine.org/alchemy-arrives-in-a-burst-of-laser-light-20200930/
125
48
RaspberryPi 4 home lab with LXD cluster
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-cluster-on-raspberry-pi-4/9076
40
The Deep Anthropocene
https://aeon.co/essays/revolutionary-archaeology-reveals-the-deepest-possible-anthropocene
118
105
Two members of videogame piracy group “Team Xecuter” in custody
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-members-notorious-videogame-piracy-group-team-xecuter-custody
21
C Programming on System 6 – Intro [video]
https://jcs.org/2020/10/01/system_6_c
111
64
Transparent wood could be the window of the future
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/10/01/transparent-wood-could-be-window-future
10
Hetty: An HTTP toolkit for security research
https://github.com/dstotijn/hetty
39
Transport Tycoon a.k.a. the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer
https://lifeandtimes.games/episodes/files/28
104
133
An opinionated history of programming languages
https://artagnon.com/articles/pl
117
Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/10/faster-than-light-in-our-model-of-physics-some-preliminary-thoughts/
99
41
Bead Sort
https://karthikkaranth.me/blog/bead-sort/
25
A Fistful of States: More State Machine Patterns in Rust
https://deislabs.io/posts/a-fistful-of-states/
96
87
Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday
https://twitter.com/msexcel/status/1311433151235883011
94
33
BMW fined $18M for providing inaccurate retail sales information to investors
https://yourautoadvocate.com/guides/bmw-fraud/
88
Linux’s History (1992)
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html
63
Paying ransomware demands could land you in hot water with the feds
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/paying-ransomware-demands-could-land-you-in-hot-water-with-the-feds/
83
79
“This tool works best on Google Chrome and mobile.”
https://19andme.covid19.mathematica.org/
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates
https://engineering.kablamo.com.au/posts/2020/falsehoods-about-map-coordinates
139
Big O, Little N
https://adamzerner.bearblog.dev/big-o-little-n/
80
66
For reliable excess returns, VC funds need 500 investments
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1nlj1gb3g3bbd/The-Pervasive-Head-Scratching-Risk-Exploding-Problem-With-Venture-Capital
29
Boa: an experimental Javascript lexer, parser and compiler written in Rust
https://boa-dev.github.io/2020/10/02/boa-release-10.html
17
The Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You
https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service-reps-for-disney-and-airbnb-who-have-to-pay-to-talk-to-you
Ask HN: What is an acceptable latency for a web load balancer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24661903
78
95
Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/01/apple-catches-electronics-recycler-illegally-reselling-over-100000-iphones-ipads-apple-watches/
31
Hacked hospital chain says all 250 US facilities affected
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uhs-hospitals-hit-by-reported-country-wide-ryuk-ransomware-attack/