TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app — An old hacker's tips on staying employed — and GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

Issue #492 — August 12, 2021

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TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app asia.nikkei.com \| points: 949 \| comments: 617

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An old hacker’s tips on staying employed madned.substack.com \| points: 597 \| comments: 250

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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces github.blog \| points: 578 \| comments: 497

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Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US culdesac.com \| points: 564 \| comments: 349

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Please log in with router’s password google.com \| points: 563 \| comments: 249

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Australia is becoming a surveillance state ia.acs.org.au \| points: 449 \| comments: 346

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The Problem with Ethereum tomerstrolight.medium.com \| points: 421 \| comments: 299

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The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020) advances.sciencemag.org \| points: 418 \| comments: 359

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Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance engineering.fb.com \| points: 402 \| comments: 153

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1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults 1password.community \| points: 352 \| comments: 399

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End of the line for Uber? pluralistic.net \| points: 286 \| comments: 298

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New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy patrick-breyer.de \| points: 280 \| comments: 134

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The Ancient Persian way to keep cool bbc.com \| points: 278 \| comments: 173

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The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free ianvisits.co.uk \| points: 263 \| comments: 46

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Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses news.ycombinator.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 74

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How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe reuters.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 243

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Actual impostors don’t get impostor syndrome zapier.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 161

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Default disappearing messages signal.org \| points: 195 \| comments: 157

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Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M investors.unity.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 86

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Apple call center workers fear AI-powered surveillance cameras in their homes 9to5mac.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 64

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