Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation — and Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

Issue #1336 — December 05, 2023

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Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io \| points: 1080 \| comments: 9

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Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17% newsroom.spotify.com \| points: 546 \| comments: 1095

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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 513 \| comments: 479

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Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one nolanlawson.com \| points: 496 \| comments: 90

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Django 5.0 djangoproject.com \| points: 447 \| comments: 150

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A decade of Have I Been Pwned troyhunt.com \| points: 403 \| comments: 92

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Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta washingtonpost.com \| points: 318 \| comments: 404

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Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer dogbolt.org \| points: 244 \| comments: 40

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Gron: Make JSON greppable github.com \| points: 241 \| comments: 58

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Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night english.elpais.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 221

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A study of Google’s code review tooling (Critique) engineercodex.substack.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 222

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Writing a file system from scratch in Rust blog.carlosgaldino.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 10

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Forecasts need to have error bars andrewpwheeler.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 73

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The Placeholder Girlfriend parhelia.conorbarnes.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 143

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Paper vs. devices: Brain activation differences during memory retrieval (2021) frontiersin.org \| points: 196 \| comments: 100

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The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore blogs.lse.ac.uk \| points: 194 \| comments: 207

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D Programming Language dlang.org \| points: 189 \| comments: 212

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Spotify cuts almost 1,600 jobs amid rising costs theguardian.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 24

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AI and Trust schneier.com \| points: 180 \| comments: 79

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Stuxnet Source Code github.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 117

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