Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas — and Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer

Issue #987 — December 21, 2022

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Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas obsidian.md \| points: 925 \| comments: 269

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Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer nbcnewyork.com \| points: 481 \| comments: 444

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Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 334 \| comments: 305

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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) news.ycombinator.com \| points: 318 \| comments: 349

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What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? bigthink.com \| points: 308 \| comments: 538

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How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? technologyreview.com \| points: 246 \| comments: 140

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“Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021) mdalmijn.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 142

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There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge there.oughta.be \| points: 238 \| comments: 14

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Show HN: Create a paid link to anything paidlink.to \| points: 235 \| comments: 158

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Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm github.com \| points: 225 \| comments: 91

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The Knights Templar started London’s first bank (2017) bbc.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 109

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Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable pcgamer.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 59

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Boring Python: Code quality b-list.org \| points: 204 \| comments: 187

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The topologist’s world map (2020) tafc.space \| points: 203 \| comments: 56

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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip bunniestudios.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 64

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Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says bloomberg.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 255

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Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp borretti.me \| points: 192 \| comments: 40

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The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in beta github.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 116

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Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe ourworldindata.org \| points: 186 \| comments: 83

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Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers finance.yahoo.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 204

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