About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off — and Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

Issue #1288 — October 18, 2023

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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off theverge.com \| points: 609 \| comments: 576

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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft joshcsimmons.com \| points: 549 \| comments: 374

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Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value economist.com \| points: 450 \| comments: 841

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Small business owners say they’re pressured to hire off-duty cops for security minnesotareformer.com \| points: 435 \| comments: 370

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Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police reason.com \| points: 401 \| comments: 216

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Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty blog.tripu.info \| points: 401 \| comments: 194

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Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease phys.org \| points: 361 \| comments: 267

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Frasier Fantasy edward-la-barbera.itch.io \| points: 334 \| comments: 79

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4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering guanjunwu.github.io \| points: 306 \| comments: 81

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Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme krebsonsecurity.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 238

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BB(3, 3) is Hard sligocki.com \| points: 293 \| comments: 118

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Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end github.com \| points: 283 \| comments: 111

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Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy rachelbythebay.com \| points: 270 \| comments: 249

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Ask HN: 20% of LinkedIn’s recent layoffs were managers news.ycombinator.com \| points: 269 \| comments: 266

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Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music music.ishkur.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 82

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Making CRDTs More Efficient jakelazaroff.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 45

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Patlabor 2, the Movie: realistic portrayal of modern aerial combat taskandpurpose.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 69

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The importance of handwriting is now better understood economist.com \| points: 183 \| comments: 141

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Leaked Microsoft pay guidelines – salary, hiring bonus, stock awards by level businessinsider.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 208

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Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees ifmetall.se \| points: 179 \| comments: 190

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