John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset — and Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

Issue #564 — October 23, 2021

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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset arstechnica.com \| points: 606 \| comments: 215

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Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks cnbc.com \| points: 556 \| comments: 216

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Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) emacsair.me \| points: 556 \| comments: 295

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Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused eff.org \| points: 534 \| comments: 476

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ConcernedApe’s Haunted Chocolatier hauntedchocolatier.net \| points: 450 \| comments: 111

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The ’impossible’ crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video] twitter.com \| points: 419 \| comments: 119

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Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 363 \| comments: 531

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How is bamboo lumber made? (2016) bambooimport.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 199

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Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server github.com \| points: 311 \| comments: 143

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Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike truthout.org \| points: 228 \| comments: 223

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Facebook chooses profits over people peoplesworld.org \| points: 219 \| comments: 225

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PyTorch 1.10 pytorch.org \| points: 182 \| comments: 65

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Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition itvision.altervista.org \| points: 176 \| comments: 240

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Hackernews.com hackernews.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 121

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We’re seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider fastmailstatus.com \| points: 172 \| comments: 84

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Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 164 \| comments: 220

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Google takes two-to-four times as much as the fees charged by rival ad networks wsj.com \| points: 160 \| comments: 83

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After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020) theanarchistlibrary.org \| points: 154 \| comments: 226

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Chilling Effects astralcodexten.substack.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 92

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Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash economist.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 230

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