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Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs
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4 years ago
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Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/the-most-counterintuitive-facts-in
717
110
Phrack Issue 70
http://phrack.org/issues/70/1.html
621
318
Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111
555
605
Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
https://www.forwardparty.com
543
257
Open Source Tax Software
http://ctskennerton.github.io/2021/08/30/open-source-tax-software/
525
688
Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043207218/whistleblower-to-congress-facebook-products-harm-children-and-weaken-democracy
506
89
Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves
https://chrisbutner.github.io/ChessCoach/
474
186
Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021
https://asahilinux.org/2021/10/progress-report-september-2021/
473
286
More details about the October 4 outage
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
448
214
It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1445424833181925376
402
275
Tab Unloading in Firefox 93
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/tab-unloading-in-firefox-93/
386
153
My Logging Best Practices (2020)
https://tuhrig.de/my-logging-best-practices/
357
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Stripe Press
https://press.stripe.com/
337
243
PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees
314
123
Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou
https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1445118812659933187
305
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Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
https://www.reuters.com/technology/telegram-founder-says-over-70-mln-new-users-joined-during-facebook-outage-2021-10-05/
300
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New York Public Library ends all late fees
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043412502/library-fees-eliminated-new-york
298
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Is 40 the New 60?
https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/10/03/is-40-the-new-60.html
283
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Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud
https://www.rowy.io
279
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Firefox 93
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/
274
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Update about the October 4th outage
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/
255
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Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22711182/facebook-whistleblower-smear-pr-response
207
Facebook whistleblower hearing: Frances Haugen testifies in Washington – live
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2021/oct/05/facebook-hearing-whistleblower-frances-haugen-testifies-us-senate-latest-news
239
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/press-release/
223
49
Show HN: Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust
https://hurl.dev/index.html
107
Startup Ideas
https://www.gwern.net/Startup-ideas
219
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Nios V – Intel's RISC-V Processor
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/fpga/nios-processor/v.html
205
25
PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/kubegres-is-available-as-open-source-2197/
194
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Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks
https://pcengines.ch/leadtime.htm
193
40
Running BGP in large-scale data centers
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/05/13/data-center-engineering/bgp/
304
We need to take CO2 out of the sky
https://www.orbuch.com/carbon-removal/
348
Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated
https://blog.dshr.org/2021/10/cryptocurrencys-carbon-footprint.html
185
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.NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions its role
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/05/microsoft_net_foundation_under_fire/
168
26
Tools to Explore BGP
https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/10/05/tools-to-look-at-bgp-routes/
161
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Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux
68
A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux
https://blog.ktz.me/a-usb-fan-controller-that-now-works-under-linux/
152
18
Under the Hood of Macros in Elixir
https://blog.appsignal.com/2021/10/05/under-the-hood-of-macros-in-elixir.html
73
LLVM 13.0
https://lwn.net/Articles/871960/
148
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Seattle Votes to Decriminalize Psilocybin and Similar Substances
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/seattle-votes-to-decriminalize-psylocybin-and-similar-substances
206
After a decade as Apple’s assistant, Siri still hasn’t figured out the job
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133
YubiKey Bio Series
https://www.yubico.com/blog/put-your-finger-on-the-pulse-of-whats-new-with-the-yubikey-bio-series/
138
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Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-ex-worker-over-hostile-work-environment-racism.html
134
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Tox: Decentralized and Encrypted Instant Messaging
https://tox.chat/
128
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Open Tax Solver
http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/
125
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A new public beta of GitHub Releases
https://github.blog/2021-10-04-beta-github-releases-improving-release-experience/
23
Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-battleships
106
Udemy S-1 IPO
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1607939/000119312521291460/d163445ds1.htm
Ask HN: How should I back up data on devices if I'm not smart?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28758415
120
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TaleSpire is a beautiful way to play pen and paper RPGs online
https://talespire.com/
119
54
Timescale Announces New Database Cloud
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/announcing-the-new-timescale-cloud-and-a-new-vision-for-the-future-of-database-services-in-the-cloud/
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Break into this CEO’s laptop to steal company secrets and plant malware
https://twitter.com/SecurityJon/status/1445020885472235524
109
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MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me
102
28
Advice from YC founders and partners
https://quest.audio/t/8nzavsX7VY/inside-y-combinator
101
36
Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users
https://www.pcgamer.com/hackers-drain-cryptocurrency-accounts-of-thousands-of-coinbase-users/
99
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A quick note on airships (2020)
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/a-quick-note-on-airships/
93
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Long Covid is overblown and often something else, says Oxford professor
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/long-covid-is-overblown-and-often-something-else-says-oxford-professor-x62ghkt3c
19
JavaScript Restrictor
https://polcak.github.io/jsrestrictor/
83
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Facebook misled investors about its reach, whistleblower tells SEC
https://www.ft.com/content/41b657c8-d716-436b-a06d-19859f0f6ce4?shareType=nongift
79
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GitHub Having Issues
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bdbzpz7qxmbx
78
21
Direct detection of dark energy: the XENON1T excess and future prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15834
77
7
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/company-that-routes-sms-for-all-major-us-carriers-was-hacked-for-five-years/
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