Facebook-owned sites are down — E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi — and It takes a PhD to develop that

Issue #546 — October 05, 2021

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Facebook-owned sites are down facebook.com \| points: 2235 \| comments: 1143

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E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi github.com \| points: 636 \| comments: 153

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It takes a PhD to develop that blog.royalsloth.eu \| points: 566 \| comments: 367

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Personal Information of More Than 1.5B Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum privacyaffairs.com \| points: 458 \| comments: 129

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Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix twitter.com \| points: 442 \| comments: 157

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Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge ctrl.blog \| points: 424 \| comments: 114

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Android and iOS data collection tomsguide.com \| points: 406 \| comments: 216

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McKinsey never told the FDA it was working for both the FDA and opioid makers propublica.org \| points: 357 \| comments: 103

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Facebook whistleblower says she wants to fix company, not harm it wsj.com \| points: 347 \| comments: 527

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Whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public cbsnews.com \| points: 311 \| comments: 162

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Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 286 \| comments: 100

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FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store micahlerner.com \| points: 243 \| comments: 43

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Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries indiehackers.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 96

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The reputation economy is turning us into conformists (2017) [video] media.ccc.de \| points: 202 \| comments: 172

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 nobelprize.org \| points: 200 \| comments: 104

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Python 3.11 docs.python.org \| points: 195 \| comments: 132

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The big alcohol study that didn’t happen dynomight.net \| points: 191 \| comments: 149

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Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous durmonski.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 83

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BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury esa.int \| points: 182 \| comments: 60

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Things Go needs more than generics ryanc118.medium.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 238

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