Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace — Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k — and Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default

Issue #351 — March 24, 2021

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace bell-labs.com \| points: 675 \| comments: 165

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Substack’s UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k timmyomahony.com \| points: 487 \| comments: 256

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Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default blog.chromium.org \| points: 449 \| comments: 320

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Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin old.reddit.com \| points: 445 \| comments: 195

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Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B bloomberg.com \| points: 375 \| comments: 443

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Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place economist.com \| points: 315 \| comments: 189

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Please don’t upgrade Docker without asking first github.com \| points: 276 \| comments: 208

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OpenSSL will release a high-severity issue fix on 25th mta.openssl.org \| points: 275 \| comments: 121

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Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN’s Khashoggi investigator theguardian.com \| points: 255 \| comments: 94

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SvelteKit Is in Public Beta svelte.dev \| points: 244 \| comments: 79

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This Music Video Does Not Exist [video] thismusicvideodoesnotexist.com \| points: 241 \| comments: 144

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We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud about.gitlab.com \| points: 241 \| comments: 243

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DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in virtual dogfights thedrive.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 191

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Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer to Mythic Goal quantamagazine.org \| points: 225 \| comments: 140

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Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (2015) openculture.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 97

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Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory arxiv.org \| points: 219 \| comments: 129

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Scaling YC blog.ycombinator.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 125

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0 A.D A free, open-source game of ancient warfare play0ad.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 39

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Result from LHCb experiment challenges the Standard Model bbc.co.uk \| points: 203 \| comments: 156

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MacBook Owners’ Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Gets Class Action Certification macrumors.com \| points: 200 \| comments: 153

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