Wikipedia is not short on cash — How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports — and Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

Issue #918 — October 13, 2022

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Wikipedia is not short on cash unherd.com \| points: 489 \| comments: 450

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How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports reverbmachine.com \| points: 450 \| comments: 118

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Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) signal.org \| points: 449 \| comments: 473

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Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study nature.com \| points: 413 \| comments: 298

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MAR1D: First-Person Mario mar1d.com \| points: 353 \| comments: 109

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JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program blog.jetbrains.com \| points: 318 \| comments: 279

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How to prove you know a secret without giving it away quantamagazine.org \| points: 304 \| comments: 155

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Seven sins of numerical linear algebra nhigham.com \| points: 288 \| comments: 62

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Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies digiday.com \| points: 270 \| comments: 388

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An unexpected revival of Firefox OS tuxphones.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 150

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One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross” uxdesign.cc \| points: 249 \| comments: 292

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Valve Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf] cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 160

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We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews (2016) blog.interviewing.io \| points: 236 \| comments: 247

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Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust github.com \| points: 218 \| comments: 84

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Apple to withhold its latest employee perks from unionized store bloomberg.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 185

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Researchers find ‘significant rates’ of sinking ground in Houston suburbs uh.edu \| points: 206 \| comments: 192

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Students break acceleration world record uni-stuttgart.de \| points: 205 \| comments: 157

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Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI mastodon.social \| points: 203 \| comments: 189

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What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love justworktogether.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 191

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FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows nytimes.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 233

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