Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard — AirPods Max — and AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

Issue #246 — December 09, 2020

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Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard tallahassee.com \| points: 923 \| comments: 592

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AirPods Max apple.com \| points: 808 \| comments: 1431

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AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits twitter.com \| points: 624 \| comments: 350

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Chuck Yeager has died twitter.com \| points: 622 \| comments: 162

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Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects news.ycombinator.com \| points: 505 \| comments: 177

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GitHub Releases Dark Mode github.com \| points: 456 \| comments: 134

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Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH blog.cloudflare.com \| points: 421 \| comments: 236

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Qt 6.0 qt.io \| points: 389 \| comments: 262

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Hexagonal Grids (2013) redblobgames.com \| points: 354 \| comments: 69

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Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B techcrunch.com \| points: 342 \| comments: 350

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San Mateo County Health Officer Statement on Bay Area Stay-at-Home Orders smchealth.org \| points: 313 \| comments: 255

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How to Escape a Sinking Ship wired.com \| points: 289 \| comments: 174

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CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream lists.centos.org \| points: 286 \| comments: 347

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SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states arstechnica.com \| points: 278 \| comments: 247

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Expanding Fuchsia’s open source model opensource.googleblog.com \| points: 275 \| comments: 186

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CSS in GitHub Readmes github.com \| points: 264 \| comments: 81

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Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license github.com \| points: 257 \| comments: 127

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German court forces mail provider Tutanota to insert a backdoor heise.de \| points: 255 \| comments: 86

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SpaceX Starship Users’ Guide [pdf] spacex.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 208

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Ask HN: What’s the best paper you’ve read in 2020? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 232 \| comments: 81

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