In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously — and The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8

Issue #687 — February 24, 2022

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In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously thehub.ca \| points: 957 \| comments: 775

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The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 devblogs.microsoft.com \| points: 497 \| comments: 152

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I shaved 187MB off United Airlines’ 439MB iOS app telkins.dev \| points: 485 \| comments: 329

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Wordle is pretty damn smart in many subtle ways vaghetti.dev \| points: 428 \| comments: 247

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EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf] europarl.europa.eu \| points: 405 \| comments: 319

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Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes nginx.com \| points: 395 \| comments: 99

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Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam bethesda.net \| points: 377 \| comments: 383

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Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer shop.simulavr.com \| points: 354 \| comments: 317

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Podman 4.0 podman.io \| points: 342 \| comments: 146

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I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I’m sad at the computer healeycodes.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 80

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Launch HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Query Any Database via Postgres hydras.io \| points: 243 \| comments: 58

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Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 233

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Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing supernotes.app \| points: 213 \| comments: 149

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Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android vancedapp.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 255

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I’m so sorry everyone. Or: why I’m switching to Cloudflare ersei.saggis.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 177

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Show HN: I made an iOS app recording RGBD videos and a web app playing them telegie.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 54

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Show HN: I made a tool to create product tutorials textframe.app \| points: 184 \| comments: 27

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FAA says 5G could impact radio altimeters on most Boeing 737s reuters.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 205

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“Sustainability with Rust” post misleading about Go twitter.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 292

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Subaru, Kia shut off some car features rather than adhere to ’right to repair’ ksdk.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 85

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