Scratch is a big deal — and Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)

Issue #830 — July 17, 2022

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Scratch is a big deal bryanbraun.com \| points: 427 \| comments: 143

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Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016) thelegalartist.com \| points: 391 \| comments: 269

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FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 Mbps fcc.gov \| points: 350 \| comments: 278

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Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems github.com \| points: 317 \| comments: 118

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Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs raphlinus.github.io \| points: 311 \| comments: 239

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Amazon instructs New York workers “don’t sign” union cards engadget.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 331

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Learning The Elite Class aella.substack.com \| points: 218 \| comments: 251

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Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses 9to5google.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 219

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Success stories are propaganda (2017) martinweigel.org \| points: 198 \| comments: 157

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Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 179

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Why rails buckle in Britain networkrail.co.uk \| points: 187 \| comments: 171

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To Ruby from Python ruby-lang.org \| points: 182 \| comments: 245

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The Book of Experiments (1958) [pdf] arvindguptatoys.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 35

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Designing the Characters of ’Cowboy Bebop’ animationobsessive.substack.com \| points: 172 \| comments: 73

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Async Rust: What is a runtime? Here is how tokio works under the hood kerkour.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 69

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China Mortgage Crisis Boycott Data Erased by Censors, GitHub Remains Data Source bloomberg.com \| points: 152 \| comments: 80

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Satellites give clues about the coming global harvest bbc.com \| points: 144 \| comments: 115

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Show HN: I made a simple platform to buy/sell side projects news.ycombinator.com \| points: 143 \| comments: 96

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U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday hhs.gov \| points: 142 \| comments: 176

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Vala Programming Language vala.dev \| points: 137 \| comments: 80

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