Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms — UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus — and Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years

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Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms techcrunch.com \| points: 990 \| comments: 231

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UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus citizenlab.ca \| points: 664 \| comments: 342

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Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years axios.com \| points: 624 \| comments: 826

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De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy brave.com \| points: 526 \| comments: 233

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Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear rebeccastrong.substack.com \| points: 466 \| comments: 236

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Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser lookscanned.io \| points: 391 \| comments: 142

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YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database ydb.tech \| points: 336 \| comments: 281

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Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”? twitter.com \| points: 276 \| comments: 539

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Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify github.com \| points: 273 \| comments: 207

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How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database retool.com \| points: 250 \| comments: 145

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Introducing a16z START a16z.com \| points: 248 \| comments: 100

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Debian and firmware blog.einval.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 165

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I Just Hit $100k/Yr on GitHub Sponsors (2020) calebporzio.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 58

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Cheat Engine contains GPL-licensed code but disallows commercial use github.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 94

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Lowering sodium intake doesn’t help heart patients thelancet.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 100

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Show HN: Emacs Configuration Generator emacs.amodernist.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 84

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Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive the-scientist.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 269

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Netlify Edge Functions: A new serverless runtime powered by Deno netlify.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 106

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The tech bubble that never burst nytimes.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 304

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The case for LineageOS and the PinePhone jleightcap.srht.site \| points: 202 \| comments: 254

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