The window trick of Las Vegas hotels — and FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls

Issue #1027 — January 30, 2023

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The window trick of Las Vegas hotels schedium.net \| points: 619 \| comments: 219

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FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls commsrisk.com \| points: 381 \| comments: 156

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Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills web.archive.org \| points: 348 \| comments: 449

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Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 271 \| comments: 307

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Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive blog.archive.org \| points: 260 \| comments: 83

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80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea 8020.net \| points: 253 \| comments: 114

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Ask HN: What’s with the DIY state of the art long-range Wi-Fi? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 250 \| comments: 51

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Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group khon2.com \| points: 243 \| comments: 236

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AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement autohotkey.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 130

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Orion Browser browser.kagi.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 126

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Facebook drains users’ cellphone batteries intentionally says ex-employee phonearena.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 117

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Surgeon General says 13 is ‘too early’ to join social media cnn.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 129

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Grid Beam gridbeam.xyz \| points: 166 \| comments: 58

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Ask HN: What is the best source to learn Docker in 2023? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 72

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Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 225

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Apple sued for promising privacy, failing at it theregister.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 49

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Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file github.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 37

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Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language github.com \| points: 156 \| comments: 40

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Ask HN: Which book would you recommend for learning Python in detail? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 131 \| comments: 47

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The end of founder worship, and a reset of toxic startup values theglobeandmail.com \| points: 131 \| comments: 135

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