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Hundreds riot at iPhone factory in India over exploitation claims
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South China Morning Post
Hundreds riot at Indian iPhone factory over exploitation claims
Workers at the Taiwanese-run Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing on the outskirts of Bangalore smashed glass panels with rods and flipped cars on their side.
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The Secret History of Windows Task Manager from Retired Microsoft Engineer
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01.Secret History of Windows Task Manager - Part 1 - Origins
Retired Microsoft engineer and original author of Task Manager (davepl) reveals the little known secret history of the application along with the technical details of how it works and why it was designed that way. The series is complete with a tour of the…
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John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89
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John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89
Thriller writer most famous for stories of complex cold war intrigue began his career as a real-life spy in postwar Europe
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U-2: The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace
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Bbc
The veteran spy plane too valuable to replace
Satellites – and drones – were intended to replace it. But the 65-year-old Lockheed U-2 is still at the top of its game, flying missions miles above our everyday world.
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Human Clock
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The Human Clock
The Human Clock is picture and video clock of someone holding the current time up for all 1,440 minutes in a day. Neat.
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Stressed banks: evidence from the largest-ever supervisory review [pdf]
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Thinking About Decentralized Communities
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Gurlic
Thinking About Decentralized Communities
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John le Carré: Cold War novelist dies aged 89
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BBC News
John le Carré: Espionage writer dies aged 89
The renowned Cold War novelist, author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, died following a short illness.
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SolarWinds supply chain attack exploits SUNBURST backdoor
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Google Cloud Blog
SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Uses SUNBURST Backdoor | Google Cloud Blog
A highly evasive attacker leverages a supply chain attack trojanizing SolarWinds Orion business software updates in order to distribute SUNBURST malware.
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Ask HN: How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?
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In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?
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Al Jazeera
In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?
Plastic production surged in the last 50 years, and we could be ingesting equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week.
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WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
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projectwaves.net
Waves Movement
Waves is a community ISP focused on providing high quality, high-availability, transparent internet to the Baltimore community in a scalable, cost-effective manner.
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Germany begins legal action against Facebook for their Oculus login requirements
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VR Final
Germany begins legal action against Facebook for their Oculus login requirements
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) has announced that they are opening formal abuse proceedings against Facebook after the introduction of their new login requirements for the Quest 2.
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Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying and Nobody Knows Why (2019)
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WUWM
Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying And Nobody Knows Why
A mysterious die-off of freshwater mussels has scientists scrambling to find a cause. Freshwater mussels clean water and provide habitat to countless other species.
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Blabrecs
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Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (2017)
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Quantcast
Death by 1000 layers: The Perils of Over-Abstraction in Java
Tips on how to get your thousand-layer Javanoscript down to a manageable few, improving velocity.
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Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary (by Internet Archive)
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books-search.typesense.org
Instantly Search OpenLibrary Books with Typesense
Search through 28M books from the OpenLibrary database (from Internet Archive) with Typesense
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Lambda School Is the Biggest Mistake I Made This Year
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reddit
r/LambdaSchool - Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
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37 votes and 28 comments so far on Reddit
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Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
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Singularity Hub
Europe’s Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
Crops will grow in stacks 14 layers high and will use more than 20,000 LED lights. Robots on wheels will deliver seeds to the growing shelves.
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Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading
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Sentiatechblog
AWS re:Invent 2020 Day 3: Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading
Amazon has released support for up to 10 GB memory and 6 vCPUs for your Lambda functions. In this article we will explore how these new memory configuration options can drive down costs and execution
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We need legal controls on web advertising
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The Register
Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us
We need regulations on web advertising
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