hackerNews

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Bongo Cat (https://bongo.cat)

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“I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal API” (twitter.com)

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You can no longer reinstall Adobe CS 2 or 3 even with original install disks (helpx.adobe.com)

537 points first seen 2020102315 last seen 2020102406 385 comments

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Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists (twitter.com)

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An Indian startup is abusing DMCA to curb online dissent against their products (www.forbesindia.com)

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The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human (breathe.ersjournals.com)

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California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees (www.reuters.com)

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Russia gives whistleblower Edward Snowden permanent residency rights (www.reuters.com)

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Being prolific leads to higher quality work (www.chrismytton.com)

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Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea (fair.org)

311 points first seen 2020102306 last seen 2020102306 389 comments

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PHP 8: Before and After (stitcher.io)

308 points first seen 2020102318 last seen 2020102506 319 comments

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A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication (betterexplained.com)

293 points first seen 2020102306 last seen 2020102418 89 comments

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Willingness to be low status is a predictor of success (twitter.com)

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Uber Drivers Sue Company over Pressure to Support Prop 22 (news.bloomberglaw.com)

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Faculty Job Openings at US Colleges Down 70% (sci-hub.st)

248 points first seen 2020102312 last seen 2020102403 240 comments

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First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English (about.fb.com)

244 points first seen 2020102312 last seen 2020102421 88 comments

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Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF (www.bbc.com)

243 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102403 166 comments

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iSH Shell (apps.apple.com)

237 points first seen 2020102306 last seen 2020102403 123 comments

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Whose Computer Is It? (tinyapps.org)

229 points first seen 2020102306 last seen 2020102403 150 comments

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Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police (www.nytimes.com)

226 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102318 231 comments

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Building replacement proprietary battery packs (www.hallaminventions.com)

220 points first seen 2020102300 last seen 2020102403 116 comments

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iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money (www.indiatoday.in)

214 points first seen 2020102300 last seen 2020102306 207 comments

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The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon (krebsonsecurity.com)

211 points first seen 2020102321 last seen 2020102512 239 comments

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Rust-GPU (github.com)

209 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102403 50 comments

10

Think in Log Probabilities (moultano.wordpress.com)

209 points first seen 2020102309 last seen 2020102406 56 comments

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I finished filming 12 hours of a coding tutorial: crossword puzzle construction (www.youtube.com)

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Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises (backreaction.blogspot.com)

180 points first seen 2020102321 last seen 2020102421 192 comments

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$30 Wind Turbine (opensourcelowtech.org)

178 points first seen 2020102318 last seen 2020102500 86 comments

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FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos (ottverse.com)

175 points first seen 2020102315 last seen 2020102421 78 comments

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A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal (github.com)

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Mood and cognition after low LSD doses: A placebo controlled dose-effect study (www.sciencedirect.com)

166 points first seen 2020102300 last seen 2020102403 123 comments

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Emacs Survey (https://emacssurvey.org)

163 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102315 119 comments

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An Exam Surveillance Company Is Trying to Silence Critics with Lawsuits (www.vice.com)

160 points first seen 2020102300 last seen 2020102318 43 comments

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Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity (www.reuters.com)

158 points first seen 2020102315 last seen 2020102421 118 comments

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Writing Is Thinking (alistapart.com)

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Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram (masaar.net)

153 points first seen 2020102318 last seen 2020102421 73 comments

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'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West (www.fastcompany.com)

152 points first seen 2020102312 last seen 2020102406 188 comments

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Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors (aws.amazon.com)

150 points first seen 2020102306 last seen 2020102403 85 comments

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Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs (blog.trailofbits.com)

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Logs Seized from F-Secure’s VPN Must Be Destroyed, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com)

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Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver for Intel CPU Undervolting (www.phoronix.com)

139 points first seen 2020102315 last seen 2020102418 76 comments

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Halide Mark II (halide.cam)

135 points first seen 2020102306 last seen 2020102321 91 comments

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Rust core team promotes Linux on 64-bit Arm to Tier-1 supported platform status (github.com)

129 points first seen 2020102312 last seen 2020102400 15 comments

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Chefs Are Adapting Their Menus for Chilly Outdoor Dining (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Story Behind Markdown (capiche.com)

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GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production (www.reuters.com)

116 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102400 250 comments

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My life countdown – Kevin Kelly's death clock (kk.org)

116 points first seen 2020102312 last seen 2020102403 47 comments

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76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space (fortune.com)

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Ground Effect Vehicle - The 'Caspian Sea Monster' rises from the grave (www.cnn.com)

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Sacklers–who made $11B off opioid crisis–to pay $225M in damages (arstechnica.com)

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Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers (docs.google.com)

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The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (1993) (groups.google.com)

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The Citroën Ami and the future of urban transportation (www.theturnsignalblog.com)

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Mary Somerville: The Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined (2016) (www.brainpickings.org)

94 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102400 34 comments

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IMF report on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) (www.imf.org)

94 points first seen 2020102318 last seen 2020102409 69 comments

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KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released (keepassxc.org)

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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] (www.nber.org)

91 points first seen 2020102300 last seen 2020102306 126 comments

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Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh (blog.hartwork.org)

89 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102400 54 comments

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Nginx Service Mesh (www.nginx.com)

88 points first seen 2020102309 last seen 2020102403 22 comments

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Using Lidar to Add Autofocus to a Manual Focus Lens (sonyaddict.com)

84 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102403 13 comments

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Show HN: Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries (github.com)

80 points first seen 2020102318 last seen 2020102406 35 comments

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Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions? (item?id=24867241)

78 points first seen 2020102321 last seen 2020102406 57 comments

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What can a pipe wrench teach us about software engineering? (mokacoding.com)

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Rediscovering Lotus Agenda (MS-DOS, 1989) (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

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XMHell: Handling 38GB of UTF-16 XML with Rust (usethe.computer)

71 points first seen 2020102312 last seen 2020102400 54 comments

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Step-by-Step: Programming Incrementally (ourmachinery.com)

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Custom domains now available on Substack (blog.substack.com)

69 points first seen 2020102306 last seen 2020102400 26 comments

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Ban All Ransomware Payments, in Bitcoin or Otherwise (www.coindesk.com)

63 points first seen 2020102300 last seen 2020102300 69 comments

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Former Google CEO Calls Social Networks ‘Amplifiers for Idiots’ (www.bloomberg.com)

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Nickel: Better Configuration for Less (www.tweag.io)

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Seamlessly Swapping the API back end of the Netflix Android app (netflixtechblog.com)

54 points first seen 2020102312 last seen 2020102400 5 comments

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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation (hbr.org)

50 points first seen 2020102306 last seen 2020102715 55 comments

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Wisconsin report confirms Foxconn’s so-called LCD factory isn’t real (www.theverge.com)

47 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102312 6 comments

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Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020? (item?id=24859111)

47 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102303 49 comments

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Print These Electronic Circuits Directly onto Skin (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Pytest-austin: performance regression testing with no instrumentation (github.com)

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I finished filming 12 hours of a coding tutorial: crossword puzzle construction (bit.ly)

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Ubuntu 20.10 Released (discourse.ubuntu.com)

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Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers (bostonreview.net)

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uBlock Origin Suggested Settings (12bytes.org)

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Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do with Theology (medium.com)

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Ask HN: How does WhatsApp make money? (item?id=24859062)

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To Eleventy and Beyond (hacks.mozilla.org)

29 points first seen 2020102312 last seen 2020102403 6 comments

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The Data of Long-Lived Institutions (blog.longnow.org)

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Do Masks on Plane Flights Really Cut Your Risk of Catching Covid-19? (www.npr.org)

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The Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented (2017) (www.nationalgeographic.com)

28 points first seen 2020102303 last seen 2020102403 5 comments

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The persistence of COBOL: why a 60-year old language is still in demand (www.idgconnect.com)

27 points first seen 2020102300 last seen 2020102300 35 comments

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The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life (publicdomainreview.org)

27 points first seen 2020102309 last seen 2020102403 5 comments

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Important Open Source projects should not use GitHub (unixsheikh.com)

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Tambora Erupts in 1815 and Changes World History (2013) (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Centurylink to begin imposing 1TB cap on gigabit fiber service (www.reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Were you in the early 2000s HTPC scene? (item?id=24856897)

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iSH now available on the App Store (apps.apple.com)

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Good Law Project Forces HMRC to Collect £1.5bn in VAT from Uber (goodlawproject.org)

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Why Laugh at Quibi's Failure? (keenen.xyz)

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The Legend of Abraham Wald – The Missing Bullet Holes (www.ams.org)

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Hacker says he correctly guessed Trump’s Twitter password–it was “maga2020 ” (arstechnica.com)

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Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission (www.aanda.org)

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There are many reasons why everyone should grow a plant, but you need just one (permapeople.org)

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Photoshop's New Neural Filters Are Hilarious (www.youtube.com)

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Plaid Parses Transaction Data (blog.plaid.com)

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Minecraft will require a Microsoft account to play in 2021 (www.theverge.com)

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FCC Set to Take Away Another Ham Radio Band in 2021 (k0lwc.com)

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Apple started hiding the traffic of its own Mac apps (medium.com)

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Elm vs. PureScript (gist.github.com)

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Forget Antitrust Laws. To Limit Tech, Some Say a New Regulator Is Needed (www.nytimes.com)

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Boring Startup Stuff (boringstartupstuff.com)

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Ask HN: What is your favorite ergonomic chair/desk (item?id=24856077)

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Ubuntu 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Swings onto Raspberry Pi (www.tomshardware.com)

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Uber drivers sue over employment rights violations with aggressive in-app msgs (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Psychotherapy centre's database hacked, patient info held ransom (yle.fi)

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TPC-H performance since PostgreSQL 8.3 (www.2ndquadrant.com)

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The Police Can Probably Break into Your Phone (www.nytimes.com)

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Nokia blocks Lenovo from selling any laptops, PCs or tablets in Germany (www.notebookcheck.net)

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Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News open links in a new tab? (item?id=24862743)

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx grabs rocks from asteroid in historic mission (www.aljazeera.com)

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5G Drains iPhone 12 Battery 20% Faster Than 4G in Benchmark (www.macrumors.com)

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Nokia Escalates Patent Wars by Taking on German Lenovo Sales (www.bloomberg.com)

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We just launched Amazon SNS FIFO topics (aws.amazon.com)

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Jeffrey Epstein Update: The Deposition That Ghislaine Maxwell Fought to Hide (www.npr.org)

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Show HN: A Book Club About the Social, Ethical, Historical Aspects of Technology (launchpass.com)

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President Trump’s Twitter accessed by security expert who guessed password (techcrunch.com)

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First Look at Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta and it looks just insane (electrek.co)

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Ecological resource variability during a critical transition hominin evolution (advances.sciencemag.org)

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Cambridge game ‘pre-bunks’ Covid-19 conspiracies in fight against fake news (www.cam.ac.uk)

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Kernel 5.9: Onwards and Upwards (www.collabora.com)

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Email cannot be encrypted at rest and this cannot be fixed (www.migadu.com)

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How to Prevent Customer Cancellations (philippmuens.com)

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Dutch researcher 0xDUDE hacked Twitter realDonaldTrump password 'maga2020 ' (twitter.com)

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The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark (www.vice.com)

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Show HN: Multiplex – View parallel console processes, with an interactive TUI (github.com)

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iPad 12.9“ 2020 review (A PC user’s perspective) (mbrooksuk.medium.com)

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What if everyone in the world went vegan? [video] (www.youtube.com)

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UK Companies House warns customers of company name with possible XSS-injection (twitter.com)

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Get alerted to COVID-19 exposure (www.google.com)

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Japanese craft breweries are turning unsold beer into gin (www.cnn.com)

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Economics for the People (aeon.co)

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Why MyWorld Switched from Cassandra to CockroachDB (www.cockroachlabs.com)

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Securely tunnel smart phone traffic with WireGuard and OpenBSD (thomasward.com)

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PayPal is looking to acquire crypto companies, BitGo named as potential target (www.theblockcrypto.com)

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The Most Popular Operating System in the World (linuxinsider.com)

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AR Copy and Paste – photograph something physical and paste it into a document (twitter.com)

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The Hide That Binds (www.nybooks.com)

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Firefox finally supports pull-to-refresh, now in the Nightly release (www.androidpolice.com)

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Ten Years of OpenStack (www.theregister.com)

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STM32 Clones: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (hackaday.com)

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Study on twins suggests our political beliefs may be hard-wired (www.pewresearch.org)

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Robot’s parents proud of her for finally passing CAPTCHA test (www.thebeaverton.com)

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Microsoft Research presents PIVOT, placing VR objects into your hand (www.vrfinal.com)

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Ask HN: Fighting (YouTube) Music Addiction? (item?id=24864207)

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Plone conference 2020 – December 5 – 13 2020 – Early Bird Registration Open (plone.org)

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Cortex (YC W20) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (angel.co)

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