Why Lichess will always be free — and Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

Issue #382 — April 24, 2021

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Why Lichess will always be free lichess.org \| points: 1241 \| comments: 392

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Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years bbc.com \| points: 892 \| comments: 389

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Apple is sued for telling you that you’re “buying” movies nofilmschool.com \| points: 682 \| comments: 419

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Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model extremetech.com \| points: 549 \| comments: 794

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Get better at Googling markodenic.com \| points: 531 \| comments: 214

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Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf] beej.us \| points: 460 \| comments: 150

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Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system bbc.co.uk \| points: 393 \| comments: 4

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The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered blogs.sciencemag.org \| points: 384 \| comments: 151

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Lego Microscope github.com \| points: 346 \| comments: 94

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Light Pollution Map lightpollutionmap.info \| points: 325 \| comments: 143

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Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage bbc.com \| points: 277 \| comments: 241

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Cycles X code.blender.org \| points: 273 \| comments: 76

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Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors spectrum.ieee.org \| points: 266 \| comments: 162

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Mars sucks marssucks.com \| points: 260 \| comments: 209

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UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’ theguardian.com \| points: 245 \| comments: 257

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The Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army newyorker.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 160

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The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm cs.utexas.edu \| points: 206 \| comments: 70

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4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google cnbc.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 255

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GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors github.blog \| points: 175 \| comments: 47

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Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 190

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