HackerNews most popular stories from Sep 13, 2020 to Sep 20, 2020. In one blog post.
[0] When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott’s passport number
[1] Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
[2] Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
[3] This electrical transmission tower has a problem
https://twitter.com/tubetimeus/status/1306359385656946688
[4] Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303
[5] Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
[6] We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode
https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/
[7] Nova by Panic
[8] The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462?journalCode=jacr
[9] Microsoft’s underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54146718
[10] Vue.js 3
https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0
[11] 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687
[12] Remembering my father
[13] Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/28
[14] Teacher’s low-tech laptop hack to display handwritten notes for online class
https://mothership.sg/2020/09/cd-zoom-hack-camera-teacher/
[15] Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web
[16] Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME
[17] FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD
[18] GitHub CLI 1.0
https://github.blog/2020-09-17-github-cli-1-0-is-now-available/
[19] I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
https://github.com/Niek/Niek/blob/master/facebook-scam/README.md
[20] DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features
[21] The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents
https://www.axios.com/working-from-parents-home-82414f13-156f-43c2-aafa-733bd7541146.html
[22] Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/hints-life-venus
[23] Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere
https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1304984620304232448
[24] Use long flags when scripting (2013)
https://changelog.com/posts/use-long-flags-when-scripting
[25] Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-drops-out-of-bidding-for-tiktoks-u-s-operations-11600039821
[26] We Don’t Like Our Underground House
https://dengarden.com/misc/The-Pitfalls-of-an-Underground-House
[27] I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
https://annoying.technology/posts/e82ff3bde8b225e6/
[28] Precursor – A mobile, open source electronics platform
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5921
[29] Your Phone Is Your Castle
https://puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-your-castle/