Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

Issue #420 — June 01, 2021

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Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate? dailydot.com \| points: 567 \| comments: 525

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Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020) datacenterdynamics.com \| points: 405 \| comments: 146

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Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station sciencealert.com \| points: 400 \| comments: 191

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NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report bbc.com \| points: 389 \| comments: 151

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Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 334 \| comments: 281

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Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts) windowslatest.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 211

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The most expensive number in engineering surjan.substack.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 100

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PostGIS at 20, the Beginning blog.cleverelephant.ca \| points: 232 \| comments: 27

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Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 economist.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 168

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Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120 hackaday.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 122

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In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes apnews.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 224

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We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor butwhatfor.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 97

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Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back jalopnik.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 126

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China allows couples to have three children bbc.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 306

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The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides nirandfar.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 79

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iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices imore.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 181

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Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints noyb.eu \| points: 185 \| comments: 117

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I Was Paralyzed by Severe Depression. Then Came Ketamine nytimes.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 151

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Chinese paddlefish, one of the world’s largest fish, declared extinct nationalgeographic.com \| points: 181 \| comments: 130

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Uber charges driver for completing a 13-mile fare twitter.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 127

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