Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard — GPS — and No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption

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Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard news.microsoft.com \| points: 1805 \| comments: 1121

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GPS ciechanow.ski \| points: 1612 \| comments: 161

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No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption noplacetohide.org.uk \| points: 440 \| comments: 287

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Matrix Multiplication matrixmultiplication.xyz \| points: 415 \| comments: 94

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How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) archipro.co.nz \| points: 331 \| comments: 300

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A delightful quirk of relativity theory twitter.com \| points: 311 \| comments: 187

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Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML eyeo.com \| points: 297 \| comments: 190

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Kakoune Code Editor kakoune.org \| points: 288 \| comments: 162

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The SNESticle Liberation Project dataswamp.org \| points: 273 \| comments: 80

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Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 258 \| comments: 314

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Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend github.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 58

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Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) special.usps.com \| points: 243 \| comments: 243

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PostgreSQL query performance bottlenecks pawelurbanek.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 40

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The Intel Split stratechery.com \| points: 226 \| comments: 142

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Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens calcalistech.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 95

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Locked out of ’God Mode’, runners are hacking their treadmills wired.com \| points: 222 \| comments: 196

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In defense of flat earthers (2020) danboykis.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 422

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You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline twitter.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 173

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CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife gchq.github.io \| points: 199 \| comments: 33

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Why I Enjoy PostgreSQL – Infrastructure Engineer’s Perspective shayon.dev \| points: 192 \| comments: 57

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