Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone — You can change your number — and SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO

Issue #672 — February 09, 2022

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Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone apple.com \| points: 693 \| comments: 563

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You can change your number signal.org \| points: 638 \| comments: 365

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SoftBank’s Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO reuters.com \| points: 465 \| comments: 209

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Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow devblogs.microsoft.com \| points: 422 \| comments: 194

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IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access krebsonsecurity.com \| points: 394 \| comments: 156

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Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor news.ycombinator.com \| points: 394 \| comments: 178

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I would like a job writing Haskell blog.plover.com \| points: 393 \| comments: 450

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Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds washingtonpost.com \| points: 365 \| comments: 568

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Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr \| points: 341 \| comments: 109

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Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015) vinepair.com \| points: 325 \| comments: 175

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Some mistakes Rust doesn’t catch fasterthanli.me \| points: 313 \| comments: 161

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Can no longer view websites on smart display support.google.com \| points: 307 \| comments: 164

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Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox flexboxfroggy.com \| points: 306 \| comments: 30

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Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel erisa.dev \| points: 305 \| comments: 145

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KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE changelog.complete.org \| points: 303 \| comments: 166

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How the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm restofworld.org \| points: 266 \| comments: 73

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Gyroflow: Advanced open-source gyro-assisted video stabilization gyroflow.xyz \| points: 262 \| comments: 38

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Peter Thiel to step down from Meta’s board nytimes.com \| points: 260 \| comments: 232

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Two arrested for alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5B in stolen cryptocurrency justice.gov \| points: 256 \| comments: 4

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Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 198

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