top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-09-19

Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1703959863796158678

3 years ago

1205 upvotes – 591 comments

Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

3 years ago

1164 upvotes – 198 comments

Fixing for loops in Go 1.22

https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview

3 years ago

598 upvotes – 455 comments

We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score

https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropping-the-iphones-repairability-score-en

3 years ago

555 upvotes – 352 comments

I digitalized Berlin's registration form

https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/anmeldung-form-filler

3 years ago

555 upvotes – 310 comments

YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/arts/russell-brand-youtube.html

3 years ago

425 upvotes – 983 comments

Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers

https://lichess.org/ads

3 years ago

358 upvotes – 203 comments

The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-230919/

3 years ago

339 upvotes – 122 comments

Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

https://pressprogress.ca/facebook-is-blocking-canadians-posts-about-the-assassination-of-a-bc-sikh-leader-their-posts-were-targeted-by-indias-government/

3 years ago

309 upvotes – 262 comments

Forty years of GNU and the free software movement

https://www.fsf.org/news/forty-years-of-gnu-and-the-free-software-movement

3 years ago

305 upvotes – 160 comments

Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol

https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

3 years ago

292 upvotes – 131 comments

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)

https://eranstiller.com/rabbitmq-vs-kafka-an-architects-dilemma-part-1

3 years ago

292 upvotes – 166 comments

How many medical studies are faked or flawed?

https://web.archive.org/web/20230718112821/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w

3 years ago

274 upvotes – 247 comments

VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III

https://vcmi.eu

3 years ago

270 upvotes – 86 comments

OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps

https://twitter.com/OSSInsight/status/1703087927763542305

3 years ago

269 upvotes – 206 comments

Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer

https://fx.wtf/

3 years ago

254 upvotes – 78 comments

JDK 21 Release Notes

https://jdk.java.net/21/release-notes

3 years ago

246 upvotes – 327 comments

64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-09-19-64-bit-bank-balances-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody/

3 years ago

245 upvotes – 362 comments

Circles do not exist

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/09/circles-do-not-exist.html

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 207 comments

GraalVM for JDK 21

https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-for-jdk-21-is-here-ee01177dd12d

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 76 comments
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