Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) — Self-host your fonts for better performance — and EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home

Issue #242 — December 05, 2020

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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) web.archive.org \| points: 618 \| comments: 390

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Self-host your fonts for better performance wicki.io \| points: 553 \| comments: 371

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EU pushes for ’right to disconnect’ from work at home m.dw.com \| points: 507 \| comments: 478

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“I’ve had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews” news.efinancialcareers.com \| points: 483 \| comments: 638

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An update to storage policies across your Google Account blog.google \| points: 397 \| comments: 409

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Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy themarkup.org \| points: 376 \| comments: 113

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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) prog21.dadgum.com \| points: 349 \| comments: 141

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System76 – Pangolin system76.com \| points: 344 \| comments: 359

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Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers justice.gov \| points: 302 \| comments: 342

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Billionaires Build paulgraham.com \| points: 300 \| comments: 453

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I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for commercial and personal use pixeltrue.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 110

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Justice Department Sues to Block Visa’s Proposed Acquisition of Plaid justice.gov \| points: 277 \| comments: 113

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A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming jacobzelko.com \| points: 255 \| comments: 119

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No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding occamstypewriter.org \| points: 242 \| comments: 109

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Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling scottaaronson.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 99

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PixelNeRF Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images alexyu.net \| points: 207 \| comments: 55

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TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications coming from a smartphone github.com \| points: 206 \| comments: 52

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How I Manage My Random Daily Notes hachibu.net \| points: 197 \| comments: 167

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Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’ itsinternational.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 295

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CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs clig.dev \| points: 166 \| comments: 52

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