When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code — and DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

Issue #739 — April 17, 2022

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When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code freakingrectangle.wordpress.com \| points: 882 \| comments: 503

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DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results torrentfreak.com \| points: 819 \| comments: 408

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Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself github.com \| points: 571 \| comments: 180

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My take on Elon’s offer for Twitter twitter.com \| points: 555 \| comments: 574

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Heroku Security Notification status.heroku.com \| points: 384 \| comments: 111

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Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers slowsocial.us \| points: 350 \| comments: 201

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Ten members of international stock manipulation ring charged in Manhattan justice.gov \| points: 286 \| comments: 159

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The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown storiesfromthestateofexception.wordpress.com \| points: 259 \| comments: 263

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Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators github.blog \| points: 254 \| comments: 66

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Netflix End of Series 1 brendangregg.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 67

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27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt twitter.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 38

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A Census of Minecraft Servers blog.bithole.dev \| points: 196 \| comments: 55

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Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones insidenova.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 184

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A drug that cures alcoholism may be the next anti-anxiety medication tus.ac.jp \| points: 188 \| comments: 150

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Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019) lethalguitar.wordpress.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 24

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The Principles of Deep Learning Theory arxiv.org \| points: 165 \| comments: 117

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I Avoid Async/Await uniqname.medium.com \| points: 148 \| comments: 211

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I was wrong – CRDTs are the future (2020) josephg.com \| points: 129 \| comments: 22

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Mac App Store Ransomware mjtsai.com \| points: 128 \| comments: 26

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Apple’s risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon is paying off wsj.com \| points: 121 \| comments: 170

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