Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California — and The metaverse is bullshit

Issue #572 — October 31, 2021

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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California signal.org \| points: 1242 \| comments: 550

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The metaverse is bullshit outline.com \| points: 938 \| comments: 658

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U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income realestatewitch.com \| points: 460 \| comments: 749

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Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player twitter.com \| points: 371 \| comments: 135

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Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux mozillagfx.wordpress.com \| points: 332 \| comments: 75

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Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today’s (1991) groups.csail.mit.edu \| points: 329 \| comments: 271

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Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost cnx-software.com \| points: 279 \| comments: 95

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FAA approves hundreds more engines to use unleaded avgas aopa.org \| points: 256 \| comments: 160

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The metaverse is already here, it’s called the internet canolcer.com \| points: 247 \| comments: 121

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OpenWorm github.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 94

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3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective middleendian.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 141

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Roblox has been down for over 24 hours status.roblox.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 104

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Programmer’s emotions blog.sidebits.tech \| points: 219 \| comments: 110

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Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector justine.lol \| points: 199 \| comments: 60

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How to help a programming student get unstuck offbyone.us \| points: 196 \| comments: 48

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Async Ruby brunosutic.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 109

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Heroes of Might and Magic V – Hammers of Bait and Switch madeupexplorations.wordpress.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 84

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Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku blog.roku.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 84

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The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world eff.org \| points: 175 \| comments: 36

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Why is houseplant advice so bad? dirtwise.substack.com \| points: 164 \| comments: 116

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