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Social Cooling (2017) socialcooling.com \| points: 1822 \| comments: 799

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Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads flatpanelshd.com \| points: 893 \| comments: 833

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Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo spreadprivacy.com \| points: 632 \| comments: 223

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Minecraft’s “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology docs.google.com \| points: 502 \| comments: 83

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YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions arstechnica.com \| points: 412 \| comments: 194

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Writing a book: is it worth it? martin.kleppmann.com \| points: 396 \| comments: 195

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Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic iamkush.me \| points: 333 \| comments: 115

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The SaaS website content you need to close sales mikesonders.com \| points: 299 \| comments: 46

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Google requiring Android apps on Play store to use its billing system next year 9to5google.com \| points: 287 \| comments: 215

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Wireflow – an open-source flowchart real-time collaboration tool github.com \| points: 250 \| comments: 44

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Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal amnesty.org.in \| points: 249 \| comments: 249

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Microsoft 365 Outage status.office365.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 158

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Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge theverge.com \| points: 227 \| comments: 373

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Compact nuclear fusion reactor is ’very likely to work,’ studies suggest nytimes.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 149

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Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 blog.ipfs.io \| points: 210 \| comments: 75

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US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate degrees qz.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 412

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New Features in the Fish Shell lwn.net \| points: 189 \| comments: 84

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The life and death of email read tracking missiveapp.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 134

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Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better streets.mn \| points: 170 \| comments: 201

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“I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots” bbc.co.uk \| points: 164 \| comments: 209

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