DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source — and My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison

Issue #178 — October 02, 2020

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DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source blog.domenic.me \| points: 775 \| comments: 372

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My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison twitter.com \| points: 654 \| comments: 475

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Say goodbye to hold music blog.google \| points: 649 \| comments: 376

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USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess debugger.medium.com \| points: 488 \| comments: 550

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My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf reddit.com \| points: 459 \| comments: 208

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Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator sw.kovidgoyal.net \| points: 362 \| comments: 177

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Car seats as contraception privpapers.ssrn.com \| points: 352 \| comments: 312

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Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called ’Bread’ foodandwine.com \| points: 348 \| comments: 242

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We Learn Faster When We Aren’t Told What Choices to Make scientificamerican.com \| points: 345 \| comments: 128

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Google TV tv.google \| points: 316 \| comments: 423

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Industrial Literacy rootsofprogress.org \| points: 308 \| comments: 163

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020) news.ycombinator.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 481

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Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available github.blog \| points: 272 \| comments: 102

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Fossil fossil-scm.org \| points: 248 \| comments: 105

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Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find cbc.ca \| points: 240 \| comments: 68

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Quino, creator of Mafalda comic character, dies aged 88 bbc.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 40

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Stellar Explosion in Earth’s Proximity phys.org \| points: 206 \| comments: 76

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Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf] github.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 47

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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop wired.co.uk \| points: 178 \| comments: 251

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3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic github.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 79

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