HN 15 Years ago — The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States — and The latest campus cancellation is different

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HN 15 Years ago news.ycombinator.com \| points: 523 \| comments: 139

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The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States smithsonianmag.com \| points: 424 \| comments: 170

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The latest campus cancellation is different theatlantic.com \| points: 359 \| comments: 444

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Blue light from monitors no danger to eyes or sleep aerzteblatt.de \| points: 354 \| comments: 227

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VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 354 \| comments: 169

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Graph of Keybase commits pre and post Zoom acquisition github.com \| points: 331 \| comments: 62

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Understanding Python through its builtins sadh.life \| points: 326 \| comments: 97

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China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization wikimediafoundation.org \| points: 315 \| comments: 102

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ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today” scummvm.org \| points: 297 \| comments: 39

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Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history evanhatch.medium.com \| points: 238 \| comments: 143

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Kairos en.wikipedia.org \| points: 208 \| comments: 56

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SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review serenityos.org \| points: 206 \| comments: 35

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Localstack – Local AWS Emulator github.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 81

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Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI github.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 181

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Using load shedding to avoid overload aws.amazon.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 35

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Which Version of JDK Should I Use? whichjdk.com \| points: 183 \| comments: 160

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Singularity – Microsoft’s Experimental OS codingkaiser.blog \| points: 182 \| comments: 101

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Bashcrawl: Learn Linux commands by playing a simple text adventure gitlab.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 24

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Incenser, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables (2014) electrospaces.net \| points: 170 \| comments: 80

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Lisp in a Weekend github.com \| points: 154 \| comments: 35

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