Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data — Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers — and "About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

Issue #1287 — October 17, 2023

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Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data eff.org \| points: 595 \| comments: 235

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Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers cockpit-project.org \| points: 417 \| comments: 176

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"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" twitter.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 1

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Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22 eli.thegreenplace.net \| points: 284 \| comments: 197

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FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client github.com \| points: 282 \| comments: 382

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C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018) queue.acm.org \| points: 277 \| comments: 368

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Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR’s traffic pluralistic.net \| points: 266 \| comments: 135

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Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app support.mozilla.org \| points: 257 \| comments: 177

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LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees npr.org \| points: 249 \| comments: 225

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Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft news.ycombinator.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 144

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How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978) urbigenous.net \| points: 239 \| comments: 127

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MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems arxiv.org \| points: 221 \| comments: 124

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Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016) jvns.ca \| points: 202 \| comments: 118

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Omnigres: Postgres as a Platform github.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 71

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Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea blog.zarfhome.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 145

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Tech giants are hijacking the internet dw.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 112

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Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products theregister.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 177

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MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context github.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 64

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Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017) sciphijournal.org \| points: 177 \| comments: 228

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LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams cnbc.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 253

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