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Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
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5 years ago
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Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
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633
246
Writing tools I learned from The Economist
https://builtbywords.substack.com/p/writing-tools-i-learned-from-the
620
683
LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
https://www.axios.com/lg-is-getting-out-of-the-mobile-phone-business-a1398158-51e4-428b-a649-47e080884fee.html
585
367
Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
https://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN35642.html
484
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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (2019)
https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-unparalleled-genius-of-john-von-neumann-791bb9f42a2d
429
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Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
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425
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Show HN: My personal website is a shell
https://aava.sh
384
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Have I Been Facebooked?
https://haveibeenfacebooked.com/
378
172
Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/leaked-phone-number-of-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-he-is-on-signal-1787396-2021-04-05
345
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Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959
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Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent
https://itep.org/pandemic-profits-netflix-made-record-profits-in-2020-paid-a-tax-rate-of-less-than-1-percent/
311
85
Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JZZENevaLzLLeC3zn/predictive-coding-has-been-unified-with-backpropagation
273
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Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56583428
118
Things I learned while developing a billing system
https://arnon.dk/5-things-i-learned-developing-billing-system/
269
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Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (2019)
https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-prison-reform-morality-unconstitutional-20190101-story.html
264
111
Elixir and Phoenix after two years
https://nts.strzibny.name/elixir-phoenix-after-two-year/
254
46
Cesium for Unreal Now Available
https://cesium.com/blog/2021/03/30/cesium-for-unreal-now-available/
244
79
Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats
https://github.blog/2021-04-05-behind-githubs-new-authentication-token-formats/
225
42
Fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries
https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect
220
97
Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years
168
What defines a great company culture?
https://twitter.com/danrose999/status/1378393523213373440
217
340
Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision
https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/03/31/how-netflix-is-creating-a-common-european-culture
216
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Tesla owners asking what happens if 'full self driving' isn't real
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-owners-take-to-reddit-asking-what-happens-if-full-1846553907
211
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One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped sexual assault
https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/i-will-always-be-someone-s-porn-one-woman-s-struggle-to-remove-all-traces-of-her-videotaped-sexual-assault-1.5371804
209
Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019)
https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2019/03/14/are-deep-neural-networks-dramatically-overfitted.html
204
84
When Feynman met Dirac (2020)
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181
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
180
227
Clubhouse Payments
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/introducing-payments
We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap-water-samples-forever-chemicals
110
Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software
https://kilianvalkhof.com/2021/web/prescriptive-software-is-better-than-descriptive-software/
150
77
NASA's helicopter survives first freezing night on Mars
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/05/world/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-nasa-rotorcraft-scn-trnd/index.html
144
25
Petition to LG to open source their phones
https://www.change.org/p/lg-electronics-lg-to-open-source-their-phones-as-they-are-shutting-down-production-for-good/
143
Yellen calls for a global minimum corporate tax rate
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/business/yellen-global-minimum-corporate-tax-rate.html
135
Git as a NoSql Database (2016)
https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/
140
17
Animation of Electric Machines
http://people.ece.umn.edu/users/riaz/animations/listanimations.html
137
87
First C compiler ported to GCC
https://github.com/vegesm/first-cc-gcc
122
How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me
https://betterprogramming.pub/how-going-back-to-coding-after-10-years-almost-crushed-me-88c85ceb5376
33
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127
50
8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)
https://imgur.com/a/tVB9xOx
123
91
When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-did-life-first-emerge-in-the-universe/
116
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FDA approves new ADHD drug for children
https://www.axios.com/fda-approves-new-adhd-drug-for-children-d7bb24d4-7bf2-4a5e-a505-833ed57dee7a.html
112
8
Coinbase Independent Directors Have Close Company Ties
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coinbase-independent-directors-have-close-company-ties-11617620400
Let's Get Right to Repair Passed – Louis Rossmann
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lets-get-right-to-repair-passed
102
Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03/a-little-closer-to-finding-what-became-of-moses-schonfinkel-inventor-of-combinators/
101
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Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-test
114
Archive Team: A Smattering of Tweets
https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_twitter?tab=about
138
For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-2-million-years-humans-ate-meat-and-little-else-study/
