Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world — Software disenchantment

Issue #1294 — October 24, 2023

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Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world protomaps.com \| points: 677 \| comments: 101

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Software disenchantment tonsky.me \| points: 476 \| comments: 367

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Cooler screens computer.rip \| points: 327 \| comments: 212

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Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation techdirt.com \| points: 301 \| comments: 197

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Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse torrentfreak.com \| points: 295 \| comments: 178

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Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google abc.net.au \| points: 253 \| comments: 178

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Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part 1 flavio.castelli.me \| points: 240 \| comments: 115

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Base64 Encoding, Explained akshaykhot.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 105

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EU Chat Control Bill Postponed tutanota.com \| points: 230 \| comments: 179

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Nanofiche: Small Storage, for Forever archmission.org \| points: 222 \| comments: 136

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Rivian R1T is the first EV to win the longest off-road competition in the US techcrunch.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 186

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Great Male Renunciation en.wikipedia.org \| points: 205 \| comments: 146

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Raspberry Pi 5: available now raspberrypi.com \| points: 200 \| comments: 188

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Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off insider.microsoft365.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 138

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Java implementation of a quantum computing resistant cryptographic algorithm github.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 40

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UK government surveilling social media of teaching assistants reclaimthenet.org \| points: 192 \| comments: 97

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Show HN: Pypipe – A Python command-line tool for pipeline processing github.com \| points: 181 \| comments: 36

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Why Japan has blue traffic lights instead of green rd.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 241

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Ask HN: Was any Starfighter postmortem ever published? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 154 \| comments: 99

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Yarn 4.0 yarnpkg.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 113

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