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Security by obscurity is underrated
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687
313
How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
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543
135
'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
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416
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Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive
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391
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Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn
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373
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Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content
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353
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Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
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338
468
Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
308
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275
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267
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242
106
Redox: Unix-Like Operating System in Rust
https://www.redox-os.org/
241
58
Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query
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82
In-App Purchase Rules
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233
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Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP
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216
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Apple is starting to use Rust for low-level programming
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213
125
How to stream audio from your phone to your laptop with PulseAudio
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203
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Raccoon Attack
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198
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Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'
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186
If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion
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249
Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444705
174
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Vinyl LPs Sell More Than CDs for the First Time in 3 Decades
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48
BEHEMOTH – Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy
https://microship.com/behemoth/
172
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171
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The technical interview is an ego trip
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169
74
Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup
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168
8
Noise.sh – a digital signal processing spreadsheet for sound design
https://noise.sh
166
452
Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911658041/fortnite-maker-tim-sweeney-on-apple-and-google-these-monopolies-need-to-be-stopp
162
Update on My Situation
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation/
160
EWW: Emacs Web Wowser
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html
152
117
Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers
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103
Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/203853/imperial-mathematician-scoops-3m-breakthrough-prize/
142
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What's wrong with social science and how to fix it
https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
140
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IBAHRI condemned UK treatment of Julian Assange in US extradition trial
https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=c05c57ee-1fee-47dc-99f9-26824208a750
128
92
Ask HN: How are online communities established?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24442569
123
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Ex-Theranos CEO Holmes puts mental state at issue
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-theranos-holmes/ex-theranos-ceo-holmes-puts-mental-state-at-issue-to-be-examined-by-u-s-experts-idUSKBN2612Q3
121
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Family instability fuels rising nihilism among young men
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234
I don’t have time for coding challenges
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102
Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/10/dji_local_data_mode_us_potential_ban/
114
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Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)
http://literatejava.com/exceptions/checked-exceptions-javas-biggest-mistake/
112
15
How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?
https://ahelwer.ca/post/2020-04-15-probabilistic-distsys/
108
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The lack of namespaces on crates.io is a feature
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99
64
A controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02545-5
17
Show HN: Bit Serial CPU
https://github.com/howerj/bit-serial
91
81
New Hubble data suggests an ingredient missing from current dark matter theories
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-hubble-ingredient-current-dark-theories.html
90
To manage wildfire, California looks to what tribes have known all along
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along
85
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Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with Types
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Peter Thiel Met with the Racist Fringe as He Went All in on Trump
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support
79
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C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story
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https://umij.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/the-sad-state-of-pdf-accessibility-of-latex-documents/
77
39
USB Mass Storage and USB-Attached SCSI Are Both SCSI
https://www.devever.net/~hl/usbuas
30
DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations (2020): $750k to Organizations Worldwide
https://spreadprivacy.com/2020-duckduckgo-donations/
24
New species of “supergiant” isopod uncovered
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