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merricksb··on SDF Public Access Unix System
Discussed here 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31076886 (159 points/46 comments)

merricksb··on [dead]
Significant discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31990364

merricksb··on Windows 95 in Electron
First seen here as a Show HN in 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17827797

merricksb··on K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family
Mozilla's version of the story already on the front page for > 2 hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31725103

merricksb··on Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix
Several significant discussions about Mutt in the past couple years (and earlier):

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mutt.org

merricksb··on Telegram reportedly surrendered user data to authorities
Large discussion about this topic here 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31619010 (210 points/182 comments)

merricksb··on One Job, One Pay
Discussed a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601926 (99 points/162 comments)

merricksb··on Court Says Bees Are Fish
Discussed a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596034 (54 points/127 comments)

merricksb··on Tesla no longer allowing remote work
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31577268 (190 points/260 comments)

merricksb··on You feel like shit: An interactive self care guide
Posted a few months ago under a different URL (but same content and creator):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872373 (231 points/245 comments)

merricksb··on Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)
Discussed 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481120 (130 points/96 comments)

merricksb··on The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1.1B (2021)
Discussed less than two months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30720876 (151 points/55 days ago/175 comments)

merricksb··on Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal
Discussion about Fig less than two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31113396 (76 points/9 days ago/63 comments)

And their Launch HN less than a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819 (559 points/11 months ago/378 comments)

merricksb··on Marriage and luxury beliefs at the United Nations
Cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fZeFSL...

merricksb··on CDC Alerts Providers to Hepatitis Cases of Unknown Origin
Discussed here a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31094459

merricksb··on Netflix hints at password sharing crackdown as subscribers fall
Covered directly or indirectly in these articles in the past 24 hours:

Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 10+ years (cnbc.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088353 - 218 points - 16 hours ago – 333 comments

Netflix Officially Adding Commercials (popculture.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31092126 - 54 points - 10 hours ago - 50 comments

Netflix shares drop 26% after it loses 200K subscribers (apnews.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31089802 - 44 points - 14 hours ago - 25 comments

merricksb··on The chicken you are eating has increased 364% in size over the last 50 years
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31058636

merricksb··on Cooking for Engineers
Previous discussions many years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745687 (93 points, July 2011, 27 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79856 (20 points, November 2007, 12 comments)

merricksb··on PipeWire 0.3.46
Several recent HN threads about this project:

PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28726125 (128 points/4 months ago/37 comments)

PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490078 (531 points/5 months ago/172 comments)

PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327779 (457 points/11 months ago/201 comments)

Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26080207 (139 points/Feb 9, 2021/90 comments)

PipeWire 0.3 – JACK compatibility layer with comparable performance to JACK2 – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22391896 (128 points/Feb 22, 2020/43 comments)

merricksb··on Django: Reformatted code with Black
Earlier submission at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30258530

merricksb··on If it were my home
Last significant discussion about this here in 2011:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119220

merricksb··on Windy.com: See the wind, temperature, rain and air quality around you
Major discussion 4 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486389 (1052 points/215 comments)

Also:

4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094639 (580 points/Aug 24, 2017/103 comments)

merricksb··on GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, easy online transactions
Major discussion 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261314 (346 points/111 comments)

Also:

5 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28301172 (47 points/9 comments)

4 years ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274110 (479 points/149 comments)

6 years ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11840453 (276 points/192 comments)

merricksb··on Winnie the Pooh to Enter the Public Domain in 2022
This was a part of the discussion about works entering public domain 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734933

merricksb··on The Invention of Santa Claus: From Thomas Nast to Coca-Cola
Another discussion about Santa origins submitted earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29528169

merricksb··on WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
A major discussion about this already in the past year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26633708 (181 points/8 months ago/128 comments)

merricksb··on Car, gas industry knew about health risks of lead, sold it for 100 years anyway
Major discussion about this topic just a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500508

(611 points/88 days ago/411 comments)

merricksb··on eBay’s Stalking Campaign against a Natick Couple
Recent discussion about this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28046491 (4 months ago/495 points/139 comments)

And other posts linked from that thread by Dang:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049706

merricksb··on Advent of Code 2021
Big discussion 10 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29292818 (731 points/196 comments)

merricksb··on Omicron poses high global risk, world must prepare – WHO
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373066

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