Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp — and Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand

Issue #626 — December 24, 2021

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Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp consumerfinance.gov \| points: 636 \| comments: 603

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Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand fabiensanglard.net \| points: 506 \| comments: 68

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Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter nytimes.com \| points: 498 \| comments: 386

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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020) jeffhuang.com \| points: 437 \| comments: 173

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Fq: Jq for Binary Formats github.com \| points: 400 \| comments: 78

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AWS Support able to access any S3 object due to permission change twitter.com \| points: 396 \| comments: 118

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Krita 5.0 krita.org \| points: 361 \| comments: 73

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Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement reuters.com \| points: 355 \| comments: 352

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An interview that disappeared – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 josimarfootball.com \| points: 311 \| comments: 200

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Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud scmp.com \| points: 296 \| comments: 182

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Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year bnnbloomberg.ca \| points: 295 \| comments: 445

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Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed digest.bps.org.uk \| points: 287 \| comments: 160

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South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew washingtonpost.com \| points: 266 \| comments: 473

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Alternative privacy-respecting front ends for popular services github.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 105

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PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads portableapps.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 90

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Saying goodbye to an old friend ar.al \| points: 220 \| comments: 122

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SpeedCrunch speedcrunch.org \| points: 220 \| comments: 69

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Grindr €6.5M fined for not collecting users’ valid consent for sharing data gdprhub.eu \| points: 211 \| comments: 216

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Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “Worst thing we did” revyuh.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 123

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Our recent server issues lichess.org \| points: 194 \| comments: 50

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