Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer — and Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension

Issue #550 — October 09, 2021

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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer simplethread.com \| points: 1099 \| comments: 538

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Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension techspot.com \| points: 990 \| comments: 383

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How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha robmensching.com \| points: 425 \| comments: 317

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Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin kxan.com \| points: 417 \| comments: 615

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Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules arstechnica.com \| points: 391 \| comments: 162

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Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h media.uzh.ch \| points: 391 \| comments: 215

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When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up niemanlab.org \| points: 377 \| comments: 197

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Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux github.com \| points: 337 \| comments: 103

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Laser for control of mosquitos, weeds and pests github.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 154

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Crews are abandoned on ships in record numbers without pay, food or a way home wsj.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 171

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Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disadvantaged aspiring devs underdogdevs.org \| points: 235 \| comments: 101

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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM xmonad.org \| points: 232 \| comments: 157

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Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine reuters.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 352

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Xterm.js xtermjs.org \| points: 202 \| comments: 61

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Orion is a new WebKit-based browser for Mac browser.kagi.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 129

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Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy fingerprintjs.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 76

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136 Countries agree to minimum corporate tax rate lite.cnn.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 141

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1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company twitter.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 241

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Ask HN: People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 173

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Samsung Foundry Forum announcements news.samsung.com \| points: 167 \| comments: 123

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