top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-09-23

Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt

https://mastodon.social/@gerowen/106978308085702358

4 years ago

744 upvotes – 367 comments

Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/facebook-paid-billions-extra-to-the-ftc-to-spare-zuckerberg-in-data-suit-shareholders-allege-513456

4 years ago

611 upvotes – 345 comments

Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28635313

4 years ago

575 upvotes – 282 comments

The NSA and CIA use ad blockers

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-ad-blockers-because-online-advertising-is-so-dangerous

4 years ago

566 upvotes – 330 comments

Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Working

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/completely-running-blind-apples-power

4 years ago

560 upvotes – 400 comments

Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)

https://github.com/will/slacktyping

4 years ago

519 upvotes – 139 comments

Reactive Clojure: A web language

https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/hyperfiddle/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc

4 years ago

467 upvotes – 176 comments

Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account

https://daringfireball.net/2021/09/epic_apple_developer_accounts

4 years ago

428 upvotes – 440 comments

Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-removes-dst.html

4 years ago

414 upvotes – 278 comments

No, we won’t have a video call for that

https://xahteiwi.eu/resources/presentations/no-we-wont-have-a-video-call-for-that/

4 years ago

369 upvotes – 238 comments

Using two keyboards at once for pain relief

https://symboliclogic.io/years-of-pain-solved-by-really-obvious-keyboard-tweak/

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 291 comments

Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux

http://0pointer.net/blog/authenticated-boot-and-disk-encryption-on-linux.html

4 years ago

343 upvotes – 206 comments

Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 316 comments

Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

4 years ago

316 upvotes – 65 comments

EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones

https://www.xda-developers.com/eu-plans-common-phone-charger/

4 years ago

308 upvotes – 726 comments

TSA’s “See cash, seize cash” policy

https://twitter.com/jodybarr/status/1440856486280785922

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 185 comments

Mozilla says Chrome’s latest feature enables surveillance

https://www.howtogeek.com/756338/mozilla-says-chromes-latest-feature-enables-surveillance/

4 years ago

296 upvotes – 112 comments

Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023

https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9357439/spain-will-ban-selling-fruit-and-vegetables-in-plastic-containers-starting-2023/

4 years ago

294 upvotes – 196 comments

2006: Dwarf Fortress

https://if50.substack.com/p/2006-dwarf-fortress

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 95 comments

Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing

https://benjamindlee.com/posts/2021/why-i-use-nim-instead-of-python-for-data-processing/

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 179 comments
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