HackerNews most popular stories from Sep 27, 2020 to Oct 04, 2020. In one blog post.
[0] Social Cooling (2017)
https://www.socialcooling.com/
[1] CRDTs are the future
https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
[2] My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
https://twitter.com/jessicamckellar/status/1311349439479463937
[3] Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1583755244
[4] Someone has stolen my Instagram account
https://twitter.com/dannyjhall/status/1310231730591346689
[5] DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/
[6] Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak
https://reportcybercrime.com/hackers-jailbreak-apples-t2-security-chip-powered-by-bridgeos/
[7] Gitter is joining Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/09/30/welcoming-gitter-to-matrix
[8] How to Get Promoted
https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted
[9] Say goodbye to hold music
https://blog.google/products/pixel/hold-for-me/
[10] What is the best dumb TV?
https://pointerclicker.com/best-dumb-tv/
[11] Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
[12] Writing a book: is it worth it?
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/09/29/is-book-writing-worth-it.html
[13] Six Figures in 6 days
[14] One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama
[15] Compact nuclear fusion reactor is ‘very likely to work,’ studies suggest
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/climate/nuclear-fusion-reactor.html
[16] Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-duckduckgo-elimination/
[17] USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess
[18] Minecraft’s “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PpZqHWXPLjOsXf_T7uyH4rWuxUMxzBlxvv5gm19P_Z8/edit#
[19] My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/j321gz/my_wife_recently_passed_away_i_used_my_time_off/
[20] Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics
https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html
[21] Pressing YubiKeys
https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/
[22] Escaping strings in Bash using !:q
https://til.simonwillison.net/til/til/bash_escaping-a-string.md
[23] We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-learn-faster-when-we-arent-told-what-choices-to-make/
[24] Universal Split Screen
https://universalsplitscreen.github.io/
[25] Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste
https://www.troyhunt.com/hacking-grindr-accounts-with-copy-and-paste/
[26] Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
[27] Zig’s New Relationship with LLVM
https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-relationship-llvm/
[28] Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql
[29] Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651639