Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug” — Patterns in Confusing Explanations — and I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers

Issue #502 — August 22, 2021

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Google’s Secret Initiative – “Project Hug” twitter.com \| points: 603 \| comments: 178

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Patterns in Confusing Explanations jvns.ca \| points: 472 \| comments: 140

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I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers thecut.com \| points: 338 \| comments: 214

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EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning eff.org \| points: 322 \| comments: 110

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Court rules California’s Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional sacbee.com \| points: 297 \| comments: 269

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Urban Dictionary on Hacker News urbandictionary.com \| points: 282 \| comments: 132

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FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly ffmpegwasm.netlify.app \| points: 263 \| comments: 77

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Generics enabled by default in Go tip go-review.googlesource.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 312

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An Opinionated Guide to Xargs oilshell.org \| points: 235 \| comments: 97

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macOS 11’s hidden security improvements blog.malwarebytes.com \| points: 226 \| comments: 134

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Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad theverge.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 29

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Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug sciencemag.org \| points: 213 \| comments: 89

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Janet Programming Language janet-lang.org \| points: 211 \| comments: 105

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Google’s payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees businessinsider.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 118

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Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft sqlite.org \| points: 163 \| comments: 53

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We Will Do Anything to Get You to Work for Us Except Pay You Enough [McSweeneys] mcsweeneys.net \| points: 160 \| comments: 69

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GitHub Issues-only project management blog.placemark.io \| points: 153 \| comments: 75

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Collaborative filtering doesn’t work for us about.chatroulette.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 100

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Genius Checklist supermemo.guru \| points: 150 \| comments: 105

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A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data buzzfeednews.com \| points: 149 \| comments: 75

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