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Twitter acquires Revue

Twitter announces Birdwatch

Everything I know (HN comments)

Otokichi

The 1983 Johnny Cash classic Kairei

Halt and Catch Fire syllabus

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats (2020)

Death, revolution, and CSS. Happy monday.

Larry King has died

Brad Cox has died

The computer revolution hasn't happened yet (Alan Kay, OOPSLA 1997)

whitehouse.gov

An incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

A combination plate: new hardware, new science, and new social media services. Everything a growing HNTLDR listener needs.

Ultraleap Haptic Feedback

Sundayy

Longwave

Vitamin D study

Mendelian Randomization (Wikipedia)

Youtube DL Summary

90% of everything is crap

MuscleWiki

New & Old: a new president and old dream of a single unified chat app.

It’s a Show HN sandwich! Kenny highlights the best and worst products launched on HN in the past 24 hours and Colin finally learns about the Google acquisition of Fitbit.

Show HNs:

HitTheFrontPage

Haxplore

Nothingly

Supernotes

Articles:

Rent a person who does nothing

Fitbit join Google

Open letter from Laura Poitras

The used to post selfies. Now they're trying to overturn the election.

More on the Parler takedown and associated avalanche of thoughtpieces! Plus Sci-Hub starts using distributed DNS service Handshake on the 8th anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death.

We need a new media system (Taibbi)

How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler (Greenwald)

The Lies That Can Undermine Democracy (Martin Fowler)

The original fluent interface blog post

Sci-Hub using Handshake

Aaron Swartz commemoration

Did you see that Donald Trump tweet last night? 🔥

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not

Working off grid efficiently

Will the US Really Experience a Violent Upheaval in 2020?

We're finally at the end of this totally normal week! We talk Gumroad's approach to the workplace, the WhatsApp exodus, and more.

Well that escalated...steadily over four years. 

Kenny learns the difference between Bridgerton and Paddington. We also talk DALL·E, Iran, behavioral psychology, and Nat Friedman being pretty cool.