EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017) — Instagram Has Become SkyMall — and Automated Hydroponic System Build (2020)

Issue #461 — July 12, 2021

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EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn’t hurt sales (2017) engadget.com \| points: 875 \| comments: 272

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Instagram Has Become SkyMall clivethompson.medium.com \| points: 605 \| comments: 314

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Automated Hydroponic System Build (2020) kylegabriel.com \| points: 386 \| comments: 53

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Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card wificard.io \| points: 352 \| comments: 170

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Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful bloomberg.com \| points: 314 \| comments: 341

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Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use fairuseify.ml \| points: 284 \| comments: 140

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Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some raymii.org \| points: 250 \| comments: 173

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Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash betterprogramming.pub \| points: 237 \| comments: 178

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WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writing space on the web writefreely.org \| points: 219 \| comments: 83

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’Superager’ brains resist the march of time to have memories like 25-year-olds sciencealert.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 146

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Why do we use R rather than Excel? shkspr.mobi \| points: 217 \| comments: 228

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Branson and crew reach space, return in runway landing cnbc.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 223

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Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill thepodswap.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 64

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No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction reuters.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 137

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Project-Nested: An NES Emulator Running on the SNES github.com \| points: 161 \| comments: 62

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List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K twitter.com \| points: 161 \| comments: 184

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Preschool children rarely seek data when observation and testimony conflict srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com \| points: 147 \| comments: 78

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I’m a programmer – how can I help SciHub? reddit.com \| points: 138 \| comments: 51

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Cybersecurity and the curse of binary thinking philvenables.com \| points: 129 \| comments: 84

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Show HN: A tiny web browser implementation with V8 JavaScript engine and Rust github.com \| points: 123 \| comments: 9

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