HackerNews most popular stories from Aug 30, 2020 to Sep 06, 2020. In one blog post.
[0] Ninth Circuit rules NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ call records was illegal
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727
[1] Most-favorited Hacker News posts
https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-analysis
[2] Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
[3] Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/09/01/nvidia-ceo-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus/
[4] David Graeber has died
[5] Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33896110/tiny-nuclear-reactor-government-approval/
[6] Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380969
[7] Winamp Skin Museum
[8] Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/829858/281103f9c6fd0dc2/
[9] Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs
https://webrtcforthecurious.com/
[10] Htop 3.0
https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/blob/master/ChangeLog
[11] Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
https://personal.jatan.space/2020/09/05/ubuntu-snap-obsession-has-snapped-me-off-of-it/
[12] Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads
[13] Police-issued “courtesy cards” help friends and family out of minor infractions
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-courtesy-cards
[14] SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
https://www.ft.com/content/75587aa6-1f1f-4e9d-b334-3ff866753fa2
[15] The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764
[16] App Review process updates
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=84w3e5bm
[17] After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform
[18] Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
[19] Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
[20] How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors
https://haim.dev/posts/2020-07-28-dual-monitor-kvm/
[21] Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1300137812872765440
[22] Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
https://grumpygamer.com/thirty_years_ago
[23] Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993
[24] React is becoming a black box
https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box
[25] Bardcore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardcore
[26] Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880
[27] Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
[28] Applebot
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683
[29] Lesser-known Web APIs
https://blog.greenroots.info/10-lesser-known-web-apis-you-may-want-to-use-ckejv75cr012y70s158n85yhn