Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes arstechnica.com \| points: 915 \| comments: 358

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Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser krausefx.com \| points: 772 \| comments: 317

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’Too many employees, but few work’: Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm business-standard.com \| points: 413 \| comments: 637

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U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5% bls.gov \| points: 300 \| comments: 779

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Why aren’t smart people happier? experimentalhistory.substack.com \| points: 296 \| comments: 432

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Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021) nature.org \| points: 272 \| comments: 285

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U.K.’s online censorship bill causes more harm than it attempts to prevent reason.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 215

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Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 132

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How SQLite Helps You Do ACID fly.io \| points: 241 \| comments: 52

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Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside mgaudet.ca \| points: 229 \| comments: 125

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The strength of the strong force phys.org \| points: 228 \| comments: 131

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OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits nypost.com \| points: 227 \| comments: 139

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Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture nccoe.nist.gov \| points: 213 \| comments: 59

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Essential Climbing Knots climbing.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 137

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Reddit’s database has two tables (2012) kevin.burke.dev \| points: 173 \| comments: 232

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Ask HN: Exercises to think, then speak, more clearly? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 172 \| comments: 80

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Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones thenewleafjournal.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 129

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Google Maps’ moat is evaporating (2020) joemorrison.substack.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 197

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Show HN: State-of-the-art German speech recognition in 284 lines of C++ github.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 110

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The semantic web is dead – Long live the semantic web github.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 103

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