French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs — Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

Issue #181 — October 05, 2020

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French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs cozyit.com \| points: 551 \| comments: 253

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Reddit’s About page doesn’t include Aaron Swartz as a founder reddit.com \| points: 366 \| comments: 269

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Witeboard witeboard.com \| points: 310 \| comments: 123

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Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitive impairment uoc.edu \| points: 289 \| comments: 149

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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video] youtube.com \| points: 289 \| comments: 46

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Eco disaster at Kamchatka peninsula with mass death of sea animals siberiantimes.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 57

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NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML nestedtext.org \| points: 275 \| comments: 254

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Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio shapez.io \| points: 256 \| comments: 74

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Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017) strongtowns.org \| points: 253 \| comments: 363

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Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler fuel.edby.coffee \| points: 252 \| comments: 28

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A Small C Compiler github.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 36

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Open-source self-hosted comments systems for static websites lisakov.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 62

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The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018) nationalgeographic.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 103

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Why I left my tenured academic job reyammer.io \| points: 211 \| comments: 102

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Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks chemistryworld.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 90

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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2012) gist.github.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 67

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Time to Pardon Edward Snowden? infosecurity-magazine.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 94

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Sonos is spying on me (and you) blog.gingerlime.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 100

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Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers doi.org \| points: 173 \| comments: 86

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Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature nautil.us \| points: 173 \| comments: 114

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