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5011.

DHL “Lost” My AirTag Parcel (but I knew where it was) (youtube.com)

9 points by ushakov on Dec 5, 2021 | 1 comments

5012.

How Can You Destroy a Person’s Life and Only Get a Slap on the Wrist? (nytimes.com)

9 points by fortran77 on Dec 5, 2021 | 1 comments

5013.

China Seeks First Military Base on Africa's Atlantic Coast – U.S. Intelligence (wsj.com)

9 points by everybodyknows on Dec 5, 2021 | 1 comments

5014.

Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language (zdnet.com)

9 points by CrankyBear on Dec 7, 2021 | 1 comments

5015.

Time of day matters in antibody response to Covid-19 vaccine (massgeneral.org)

9 points by amichail on Dec 7, 2021 | 1 comments

5016.

Apple reaches quiet truce over iPhone privacy changes (arstechnica.com)

9 points by sumthinprofound on Dec 8, 2021 | 1 comments

5017.

React has shipped experimental support for custom elements (github.com)

9 points by saranshk on Dec 8, 2021 | 1 comments

5018.

How the Inventor of Tickle Me Elmo Became a Unabomber Suspect (melmagazine.com)

9 points by onychomys on Dec 8, 2021 | 1 comments

5019.

Scientist bitten by mouse in Taipei lab before testing positive for Covid (taiwannews.com.tw)

9 points by deepfriedginger on Dec 10, 2021 | 1 comments

5020.

Tesla Cofounder’s new Rock-Tunneling Robots drill without touching the rock (forbes.com)

9 points by samuell on Dec 10, 2021 | 1 comments

5021.

Fans spend millions on football club crypto tokens (bbc.co.uk)

9 points by wolfwyrd on Dec 10, 2021 | 1 comments

5022.

Russia blocks privacy service Tor, ratcheting up internet control (reuters.com)

9 points by manjana on Dec 11, 2021 | 1 comments

5023.

Nonprofit seeks to raise $43M to acquire and steward Lost Coast Redwoods (savetheredwoods.org)

9 points by carapace on Dec 12, 2021 | 1 comments

5024.

Should we trust what Pfizer tells us about its vaccine and omicron? (qz.com)

9 points by sam-2727 on Dec 12, 2021 | 1 comments

5025.

The biggest snowstorm of the season to hit California this week (lite.cnn.com)

9 points by LinuxBender on Dec 13, 2021 | 1 comments

5026.

FAA: No more commercial astronaut wings, too many launching (apnews.com)

9 points by perihelions on Dec 13, 2021 | 1 comments

5027.

S.Korea to test AI-powered facial recognition to track Covid-19 cases (reuters.com)

9 points by thunderbong on Dec 13, 2021 | 1 comments

5028.

Exploding Glitter Bomb 4.0 vs. Package Thieves (youtube.com)

9 points by awoodbeck on Dec 13, 2021 | 1 comments

5029.

Computer History Museum curator picks for holiday reads (computerhistory.org)

9 points by cxr on Dec 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5030.

China Uses YouTube Influencers to Spread Propaganda (nytimes.com)

9 points by nowherebeen on Dec 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5031.

Kronos hit with ransomware, warns of data breach and 'several week' outage (zdnet.com)

9 points by xtracto on Dec 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5032.

Reality TV star strikes gold with $50k a week in jarred fart sales (nypost.com)

9 points by DocFeind on Dec 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5033.

JWST now launching no earlier than Dec 24th due to communications issue (blogs.nasa.gov)

9 points by asmithmd1 on Dec 15, 2021 | 1 comments

5034.

NASA craft 'touches' sun for first time, dives into atmosphere (apnews.com)

9 points by jonbaer on Dec 15, 2021 | 1 comments

5035.

Remove Carbon with Every Payment (stripe.com)

9 points by RunOutOfMemory on Dec 15, 2021 | 1 comments

5036.

Using GitHub Actions to get notified when an API response (or web page) changes (ben.balter.com)

9 points by chmaynard on Dec 16, 2021 | 1 comments

5037.

NPM now marks packages as abandoned after 24h since the last commit (theolognion.com)

9 points by SenHeng on Dec 16, 2021 | 1 comments

5038.

Show HN: I made a bot that suggests fixes for Python bugs right inside the PR (codereview.doctor)

9 points by rikatee on Dec 16, 2021 | 1 comments

5039.

The Meat of the Metaverse (siliconpublishing.com)

9 points by matt_harshman on Dec 16, 2021 | 1 comments

5040.

Apple Builds New Team in Southern California to Bring More Chips In-House (bloomberg.com)

9 points by kaboro on Dec 16, 2021 | 1 comments