US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack — The Untold Story of SQLite — and Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots

Issue #453 — July 04, 2021

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US companies hit by ’colossal’ cyber-attack bbc.com \| points: 576 \| comments: 431

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The Untold Story of SQLite corecursive.com \| points: 483 \| comments: 84

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Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots historyofyesterday.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 153

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The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan technologyreview.com \| points: 266 \| comments: 230

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RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops rateourcops.org \| points: 241 \| comments: 200

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Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm electronicsweekly.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 165

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Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning sfchronicle.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 250

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Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go stripes.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 144

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Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement github.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 68

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Darktable 3.6 github.com \| points: 163 \| comments: 61

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BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited torrentfreak.com \| points: 160 \| comments: 82

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Major Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack wionews.com \| points: 153 \| comments: 168

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Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local account pcworld.com \| points: 149 \| comments: 157

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“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s righto.com \| points: 147 \| comments: 33

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Things I wish Git had: Commit groups blog.danieljanus.pl \| points: 132 \| comments: 99

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An Oral History of the L0pht (2018) duo.com \| points: 130 \| comments: 10

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Ask HN: How to stop download.cnet.com from hosting my app? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 116 \| comments: 43

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Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation (2018) nicolas.kruchten.com \| points: 113 \| comments: 15

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What did ancient languages sound like? antigonejournal.com \| points: 111 \| comments: 75

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Wav2vec Overview: Semi and Unsupervised Speech Recognition vaclavkosar.com \| points: 109 \| comments: 14

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