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Issue #559 — October 18, 2021

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Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files obsidian.md \| points: 473 \| comments: 285

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It’s been 42 years since ’The Hitchhiker’s Guide’ answered the ultimate question npr.org \| points: 347 \| comments: 106

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HTTP is obsolete – it’s time for the distributed, permanent web (2015) ipfs.io \| points: 298 \| comments: 164

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Netflix’s new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video plopdown.video \| points: 276 \| comments: 156

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Is nuclear power our best bet against climate change? bostonreview.net \| points: 242 \| comments: 383

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The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017) allthatsinteresting.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 82

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Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux github.com \| points: 227 \| comments: 117

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An underwater mystery on Canada’s coast bbc.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 61

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Roger Hui has died jsoftware.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 14

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Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing notion.so \| points: 192 \| comments: 28

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What the Irish Ate Before Potatoes bonappetit.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 155

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Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020) tailscale.com \| points: 167 \| comments: 50

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Go: Don’t Change the Libraries in 1.18 github.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 99

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The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids economist.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 155

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Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed infoworld.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 190

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New wave of strikes will test worker power axios.com \| points: 156 \| comments: 183

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Privacy activists oppose EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2 theregister.com \| points: 152 \| comments: 98

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Ask a Librarian ask.loc.gov \| points: 142 \| comments: 27

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Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do theverge.com \| points: 141 \| comments: 110

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Amazon Corretto JDK docs.aws.amazon.com \| points: 138 \| comments: 80

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