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Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday

805 points by mofosyne on Nov 8, 2021 | 192 comments

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Computer Graphics from Scratch (gabrielgambetta.com)

805 points by AlexeyBrin on Feb 3, 2021 | 116 comments

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Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2 (twitter.com)

804 points by mortenjorck on Jan 14, 2021 | 347 comments

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Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit (independent.co.uk)

804 points by notRobot on Sep 14, 2021 | 250 comments

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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) (blog.danslimmon.com)

804 points by jabo on Nov 2, 2021 | 230 comments

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U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says (reuters.com)

803 points by mjreacher on Jun 3, 2021 | 554 comments

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ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs (github.com)

803 points by stanislavb on May 5, 2021 | 307 comments

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Vscode.dev (code.visualstudio.com)

803 points by connor4312 on Oct 20, 2021 | 260 comments

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SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll (sparkfun.com)

803 points by mkeeter on Jun 30, 2021 | 178 comments

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How we got to LiveView (fly.io)

802 points by klohto on Sep 22, 2021 | 283 comments

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Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative (baserow.io)

802 points by punnerud on Mar 13, 2021 | 225 comments

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YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability (reddit.com)

801 points by decrypt on Apr 14, 2021 | 290 comments

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Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance (theguardian.com)

800 points by ipster_io on Jul 19, 2021 | 152 comments

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Observing my cellphone switch towers (fabiensanglard.net)

800 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 | 132 comments

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Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend (twitter.com)

799 points by dsr12 on Jun 28, 2021 | 469 comments

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A patent troll backs off (sparkfun.com)

799 points by zdw on Oct 26, 2021 | 208 comments

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Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019) (arstechnica.com)

797 points by Tomte on Apr 19, 2021 | 424 comments

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AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go (swyx.io)

797 points by pimterry on Oct 18, 2021 | 286 comments

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Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux (boilingsteam.com)

796 points by ekianjo on Mar 5, 2021 | 327 comments

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Signal WhatsApp Chats Import (github.com)

796 points by janisz on Jan 8, 2021 | 271 comments

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Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file (static.wiki)

796 points by segfall on Jul 30, 2021 | 189 comments

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Don't Feed the Thought Leaders (earthly.dev)

795 points by crummy on Jun 11, 2021 | 280 comments

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On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't (residentcontrarian.substack.com)

792 points by maxwelljoslyn on Mar 1, 2021 | 884 comments

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Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test (cbc.ca)

792 points by walterbell on Feb 11, 2021 | 587 comments

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“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” (lore.kernel.org)

792 points by pengaru on May 1, 2021 | 501 comments

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Fingerprints can be hacked (blog.kraken.com)

792 points by SerCe on Nov 22, 2021 | 315 comments

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Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind (applevis.com)

792 points by latexr on Sep 26, 2021 | 210 comments

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Flutter 2 (developers.googleblog.com)

791 points by wstrange on Mar 3, 2021 | 754 comments

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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016) (npr.org)

789 points by mgh2 on Feb 13, 2021 | 460 comments

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September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time (911realtime.org)

788 points by smohnot on Sep 11, 2021 | 445 comments