Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely — and Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices

Issue #1118 — May 01, 2023

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Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely covertactionmagazine.com \| points: 697 \| comments: 297

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Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices grist.org \| points: 506 \| comments: 276

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Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you ratethelandlord.org \| points: 475 \| comments: 389

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Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs justsimply.dev \| points: 404 \| comments: 262

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My favorite C compiler flags during development nullprogram.com \| points: 269 \| comments: 118

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MLC-LLM: GPT/Llama on consumer-class GPUs and phones github.com \| points: 250 \| comments: 86

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Awesome Music Theory: books, links, videos, research, visuals, composition github.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 32

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FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying apnews.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 91

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Fide World Chess Championship Decided in Rapid Tiebreaks chess24.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 143

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40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi thecurb.com.au \| points: 183 \| comments: 64

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Show HN: Frogmouth – A Markdown browser for the terminal github.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 54

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Why Are Lithium Prices Collapsing? internationalbanker.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 412

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Orbital Mechanics braeunig.us \| points: 152 \| comments: 34

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Waterloo Style theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com \| points: 150 \| comments: 50

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Engineers develop water filtration that permanently removes “forever chemicals” nbcnews.com \| points: 150 \| comments: 84

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Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news ishadeed.com \| points: 141 \| comments: 58

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The lifesaving sled dog Balto had genes unlike those of dog breeds today scientificamerican.com \| points: 134 \| comments: 69

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Show HN: EVA – AI-Relational Database System github.com \| points: 128 \| comments: 12

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Epstein’s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief wsj.com \| points: 128 \| comments: 139

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Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science insidehighered.com \| points: 125 \| comments: 110

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