Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals — and The world needs a non-profit search engine

Issue #824 — July 11, 2022

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Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals theguardian.com \| points: 676 \| comments: 348

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The world needs a non-profit search engine daoudclarke.net \| points: 492 \| comments: 359

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Why do so many brands change their logos and look like everyone else? velvetshark.com \| points: 482 \| comments: 201

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Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car gist.github.com \| points: 454 \| comments: 244

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The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe shingetsunewsagency.com \| points: 445 \| comments: 383

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Lichess: The free and open source chess server github.com \| points: 418 \| comments: 68

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CS101: Introduction to Computing Principles web.stanford.edu \| points: 297 \| comments: 77

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New Arizona law makes it illegal to film within 8 feet of police axios.com \| points: 289 \| comments: 298

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Show HN: Ants Sandbox - an ants simulator ants-sandbox.io \| points: 282 \| comments: 44

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Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous github.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 77

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As TikTok grows, so does suspicion economist.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 254

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Triangle Grids kvachev.com \| points: 152 \| comments: 29

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Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine developed in Common Lisp reader.tymoon.eu \| points: 136 \| comments: 15

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GoKey – A simple vaultless password manager in Go github.com \| points: 124 \| comments: 67

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Skyrim together: mod to play online github.com \| points: 117 \| comments: 63

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A new trade and liberal arts school: “College of St. Joseph the Worker” collegeofstjoseph.com \| points: 112 \| comments: 119

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FastECC – Reed-Solomon coder computing one million parity blocks at 1 GB/s github.com \| points: 110 \| comments: 14

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Beginner’s guide to error handling in Rust sheshbabu.com \| points: 107 \| comments: 53

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Russian gas flows to Europe berthub.eu \| points: 105 \| comments: 161

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Predictably Bad Investments: Evidence from Venture Capitalists papers.ssrn.com \| points: 104 \| comments: 53

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