“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” — and I want a computer that I own

Issue #337 — March 10, 2021

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“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” twitter.com \| points: 962 \| comments: 302

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I want a computer that I own misc-stuff.terraaeon.com \| points: 919 \| comments: 611

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New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations quantamagazine.org \| points: 520 \| comments: 109

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Write libraries instead of services, where possible catern.com \| points: 455 \| comments: 284

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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils sylvestre.ledru.info \| points: 443 \| comments: 266

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ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available twitter.com \| points: 285 \| comments: 138

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5k Year Old Bog Oak Table: Digging up 4k-year-old trees for furniture blog.lostartpress.com \| points: 275 \| comments: 99

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The Uyghur Genocide: An examination of breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention newlinesinstitute.org \| points: 270 \| comments: 192

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Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry restofworld.org \| points: 259 \| comments: 200

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Ask HN: Do you create music? let’s hear it news.ycombinator.com \| points: 248 \| comments: 344

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I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc theroadchoseme.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 74

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Webmention.io webmention.io \| points: 236 \| comments: 70

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Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free bbc.co.uk \| points: 228 \| comments: 385

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`three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (2014) github.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 90

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Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019) abhijitbhaduri.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 144

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Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015) economist.com \| points: 205 \| comments: 450

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A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions github.blog \| points: 204 \| comments: 46

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The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science rogerpielkejr.substack.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 124

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Inspired by Alabama’s union battle, Amazon workers elsewhere consider organizing washingtonpost.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 135

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The Quirks of Gmail UI hanami.run \| points: 186 \| comments: 74

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