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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
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Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
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409
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Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery
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384
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Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement
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377
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Meow Hash (2018)
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369
475
Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why
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364
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Julian Assange Extradition Appeal: Day 2
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303
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Internet Hay Exchange
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271
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FAA approves hundreds more engines to use unleaded avgas
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268
41
Hexing the Technical Interview (2017)
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259
138
Publish your PWA to the iOS App Store
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258
68
Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography
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242
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Meta
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240
134
How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?
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238
57
How I motivate myself to write
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117
Roblox has been down for over 24 hours
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152
3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective
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219
74
OpenBSD: How it all started
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216
150
Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand
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213
58
DuckDB-Wasm: Efficient analytical SQL in the browser
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198
94
Heroes of Might and Magic V – Hammers of Bait and Switch
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196
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Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues
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184
39
The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world
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174
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The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb
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124
Why is houseplant advice so bad?
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169
13
Explaining Ruby Fibers
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168
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Swift Distributed Actors
https://swift.org/blog/distributed-actors/
157
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Browser Fingerprinting Without JavaScript
https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-fingerprinting/
155
110
Apple’s privacy changes hurt Snap and Facebook but benefited Google
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154
105
Chevron wins case to jail lawyer Steven Donziger
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151
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For a legally blind player, Far Cry 6’s accessibility options are empowering
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42
Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite
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144
Patagonia Is Boycotting Facebook, Urges Other Companies to Do the Same
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133
10
Building an Emacs Lisp VM in Rust
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132
80
Comparing Nginx performance in bare metal and virtual environments
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119
200
Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door [video]
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118
Unusual Locomotives
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71
New Orleans shoeshine man wins legal battle over $30k seized by DEA agents
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84
The M1 Max is the fastest GPU we have ever measured in Affinity Photo benchmark
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116
47
Capacitor: Cross-platform native runtime for web apps
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115
The Bicycle Thief (2019)
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76
An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)
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180
Firefox on Unix is moving away from X11-based remote control
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107
54
colorForth (2009)
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Sex Differences in Adolescents’ Occupational Aspirations
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59
Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data
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99
12
Looking for High Sierra
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97
Turning stem cells into human eggs
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29
Launch HN: Secoda (YC S21) – Searchable Company Data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038087
95
Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/revisiting-the-4-hour-workweek
91
192
Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologist’s Take
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86
What if performance advertising isn't just an analytics scam?
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85
23
Rich Salz to OpenSSL: Please change your mind
https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-project/2021-October/002777.html
49
Hegel Today
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The brain as a universal learning machine (2015)
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64
Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies
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75
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
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78
Microsoft passes Apple to become the most valuable company
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21
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55
Civil liberty fears as police consider using drones that film from 1,500ft
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26
Ithkuil IV Language FAQ
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72
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Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 Review: Return to Form
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Patagonia Is Boycotting Facebook, Urges Other Companies to Do the Same