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• JavaScript Restrictor (comments)
• Sending newsletters should cost something (comments)
• Playing Battleships over BGP (2018) (comments)
• Timescale Announces New Database Cloud (comments)
• Tox: Decentralized and Encrypted Instant Messaging (comments)
• Facebook whistleblower hearing: Frances Haugen testifies in Washington – live (comments)
• Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy (comments)
• 78 minutes of advice from YC founders and partners (comments)
• Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Tens of Thousands of Pages of Internal Documents (comments)
• PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49 (comments)
• Maintenance windows are a mistake (comments)
• Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable (comments)
• Choice Architecture [pdf] (comments)
• What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? (comments)
• Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous (comments)
• Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers (comments)
• Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart? (comments)
• Facebook-owned sites were down (comments)
• Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet (comments)
• Data-Driven Routers (comments)
• A curated list of PaaS and tools to emulate PaaS on cloud (comments)
• Dune: A Shell by the Beach (comments)
• Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich (comments)
• Removing my site from Google search (comments)
• How much information can a small image contain? (comments)
• Android and iOS data collection (comments)
• Facebook whistleblower says she wants to fix company, not harm it (comments)
• Show HN: SpotML – Managed ML Training on Cheap AWS/GCP Spot Instances (comments)
• DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight (comments)
• How does the economy work? A new Fed paper suggests nobody really knows (comments)
• E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi (comments)
• FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store (comments)
• Beware Centralization (comments)
• There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data (comments)
• What Happened to Treehouse? (comments)
• Why Carmakers Can’t Transition to Newer Chips (comments)
• Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings (comments)
• As a whistleblower prepares to speak out, what can be done to rein in Facebook? (comments)
• Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets (comments)
• This career feels like a few key hours with year-long cool-down periods (comments)
• Why do we tune in 5ths? (comments)
• Facebook Struggles to Quell Uproar over Instagram’s Effect on Teens (comments)
• So you want to go to grad school (in the academic humanities)? (comments)
• The new dot com bubble is online advertising (2019) (comments)
• Show HN: The Billboard, a fully decentralised billboard stored in Ethereum (comments)
• Downsides of Offline First (comments)
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021) (comments)
• Downsides to planting trillions of trees (comments)
• Archivematica: Open-source digital preservation system (comments)
• Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka (comments)
• Coinbase Breach Notification (comments)
• California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America (comments)
• Redditors are right about the unfairness of the market (comments)
• Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences? (comments)
• Hacker News RSS (comments)
• Facebook thrives on criticism of “disinformation” (comments)
• Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions (comments)
• Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason (comments)
• Coping with the Clutter of Houseplants (comments)
• Injecting environment variables into static websites using Nginx (comments)
• Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown (comments)
• Mongolia’s Melting Ice Reveals Fragile Prehistoric Artifacts (comments)
• AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services (comments)
• DMV approves Cruise and Waymo for commercial service in parts of Bay Area (comments)
• Cruise gets permit to give driverless rides to passengers in San Francisco (comments)
• Slack is experiencing a service disruption (comments)
• Learning to Superoptimize real-world programs (comments)
• PostgreSQL 14 (comments)
• Things Unlearned (comments)
• Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist (comments)
• Cloudflare's Disruption (comments)
• Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022 (comments)
• FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment (comments)
• YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute (comments)
• When listeners pay attention to stories, their heart rates rise and fall in sync (comments)
• TaskJuggler – A Free and Open Source Project Management Software (comments)
• Why is everything so hard in a large organization? (comments)
• AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas (comments)
• In software, when an engineer exits the team (comments)
• I'm working on open source full time (comments)
• Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface (comments)
• Selecting and Hardening Remote Access VPN Solutions [pdf] (comments)
• Remote-Anything.com (1999-2009) (comments)
• Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017) (comments)
• Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy (comments)
• Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018) (comments)
• Offline First (comments)
• Kraken Security Labs Identifies Vulnerabilities in Commonly Used Bitcoin ATM (comments)
• Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors (comments)
• YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007 (comments)

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