Report Links Piracy to Drugs, Weapons, and the Mafia; Calls for US Site-Blocking (torrentfreak.com)

EU-Funded DNS Provider Must Block Pirate Sites, French Court Rules (torrentfreak.com)

Filmmakers Drop Piracy Liability Lawsuit Against ISP RCN (torrentfreak.com)

GitHub Reports DMCA Takedown Record and Surging Anti-Circumvention Claims (torrentfreak.com)

Google Uses Cox Ruling to Kill Last Copyright Claim in Textbook Piracy Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)

Record Labels Drop Piracy Lawsuits Against Altice and Verizon After Cox Ruling (torrentfreak.com)

The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Turned 22 (torrentfreak.com)

India's Expanding Site Blocking Orders Hit Legal Wall at Delhi High Court (torrentfreak.com)

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight (torrentfreak.com)

EU Site-Blocking Is Broken: Report Calls for Ban and Rightsholder Liability (torrentfreak.com)

The Irony of iPad: A Great Day For Open Technologies (yehudakatz.com)

The Free Software Foundation's Reaction to the iPad Launch (fsf.org)

A Deeper Look Into Google's 800-Pound Panda Problem (blogg.se)

I will make 100 redesigns because I'm sick of startups (romansnitko.posterous.com)

Apple iPad (apple.com)

How geek communication differs from the norm. (groups.google.com)

Apple iPad biggest news is Apple A4 chip. Now they fully control supply chain (gizmodo.com)

Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event (engadget.com)

Apple's Mistake (paulgraham.com)

Derek Sivers: There are always more than two options (sivers.org)

PG's On Lisp missing figures scanned (zerobeat.in)

Excellent body language resource (westsidetoastmasters.com)

Ask Peter Norvig Anything (reddit.com)

Global Warming vs. Clojure (bestinclass.dk)

Canonical/Yahoo revenue deal; Yahoo is the new Ubuntu search default (ubuntu.com)

Emacs as a tiling window manager (monkey.org)

Busting an iPhone thief (iphonetheif.blogspot.com)

Alternative Erlang Documentation (erldocs.com)

The Apple Tablet Is Here, And It's Called the iPad (gizmodo.com)

NFL Games Have 11 Minutes of Action (wsj.com)

The best running shoe may be nature's own (reuters.com)

Mixpanel (YC S09) releases macro-level A/B testing tool (mixpanel.com)

Poll: Are you getting an iPad?

Libevent 2.0.x: Like Libevent 1.4.x, Only More So. (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

Gccgo language contribution accepted (gmane.org)

Arel, a composable relational algebra for Ruby (github.com/rails)

How Google tracks clicks for backpropagation (ryanangilly.com)

An Affordable $199 Tablet for Everyone -- And It's Not From Apple (pcworld.com)

How To: Apple MacBook Pro RAID 0 Array with 2 Intel X25-M SSDs (paulstamatiou.com)

The psychology of power: Absolutely (economist.com)

Eric Raymond on "Hiding the Decline, Part 1" (ibiblio.org)

Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again (nytimes.com)

Video Professor Tries To Bully Washington Post, Fails (techcrunch.com)

CRU's "very artificial correction for decline" is dead code (jgc.org)

Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to github. (github.com/pkrumins)

Setting Pricing for a Startup - The Rule of 80%  (sachinagarwal.com)

Getting it wrong over coffee (brontecapital.blogspot.com)

The Dark Side of Customer Development and Lean Startups (coconutheadsets.com)

Japanese Addresses: the opposite is also true [video] (sivers.org)

The Best Way to Solve a Problem: Give Up (illuminatedmind.net)

Design Explorations by 37signals (37signals.com)

Why Losing A Biz Plan Competition Is Better Than Winning (techcrunch.com)

Want Good Tools? Break Your Problems Down (urth.org)

Fred Wilson: A Lot Can Happen In Five Years (avc.com)

The news business is probably holding “a one-way ticket to Bangalore.” (nytimes.com)

Interview with Google Go Language lead Rob Pike (thechangelog.com)

Five Rules for Writing Good Code (skwpspace.com)

OCaml Language Sucks (podval.org)

Pattern Calculus (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

As toll mounts, researchers peer into the H1N1 death spiral (theglobeandmail.com)

Facebook and Death (thesegentlemen.blogspot.com)

Our Killer App: The Story of RedLaser in the App Store (newsweek.com)

Ask HN and PG - Justin.tv Question?

You Think The Google Interview Is Tough? Try Getting A Job At A PE Firm (businessinsider.com)

Noobcomments View Allows Flagging Spam Comments (news.ycombinator.com)

Rupert has balls (buzzmachine.com)

Cadence & Slang is a book about interaction design.

Django and Python 3 (lazypython.blogspot.com)

The Billion-Year Technology Gap: Could One Exist? (dailygalaxy.com)

The Other Education (nytimes.com)

I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time (awesomekling.github.io)

Twitter confirms Twitter Blue (twitter.com/wongmjane)

Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser (therecord.media)

QUIC is now RFC 9000 (fastly.com)

It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage (keydiscussions.com)

The Unix Game (unixgame.io)

Why Russians do not smile (2002) (chicagomaroon.com)

PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Output Explained (cybertec-postgresql.com)

Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine (ninfex.com)

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (2019) (fangpenlin.com)

Safari tries to fill username (github.com/livewire-ui)

Overwork contributes to 745k premature deaths per year (npr.org)

Anthropic AI (anthropic.com)

Control-flow integrity in Linux 5.13 (lwn.net)

PID Controller: A Simple Control Loop Mechanism (vaclavkosar.com)

Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid (nltimes.nl)

Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly (ieee.org)

Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars (boringavatars.com)

WordPress 18 (ma.tt)

Ask HN: How are you using unikernels?

Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition (arstechnica.com)

The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower (japan-forward.com)

First Tasmanian Devils born in the wild of Australia mainland in 3k years (reuters.com)

ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system (github.com/clickhouse)

Automated Data Wrangling (catalyst.coop)

Learn American Sign Language Fingerspelling with Machine Learning (fingerspelling.xyz)

Show HN: I Built Multiplayer Deathmatch Joust (joust.life)

How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co (celinehh.com)

LibreFoodPantry – a community building FOSS for food pantries (librefoodpantry.org)

Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks (redact.dev)

Pro Git, 2nd Edition (git-scm.com)

Angular 2 Core (docs.google.com)

Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns (washingtonpost.com)

Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required

Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor (medium.com/mrjamesfisher)

We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America' (forbes.com/sites/groupthink)

Will It Optimize? (2010) (ridiculousfish.com)

Show HN: Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel (patricklorio.com)

The Problem with Positive Thinking (nytimes.com)

Why Google wants to replace Gmail (computerworld.com)

How statically linked programs run on Linux (2012) (thegreenplace.net)

Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe (google.com)

An Introduction to Semiconductor Economics (adapteva.com)

Ice Cream and Distributed Systems (brooker.co.za)

Ask HN: Making money with ebooks and video courses vs. writing apps?

Binary Search Eliminates Branch Mispredictions (2012) (pvk.ca)

Living with Schizophrenia: Coffee and Friends (nytimes.com)

Indian Air Force Issues Security Warning; Xiaomi Clears the Air (ibtimes.co.in)

Recreating the spectrogram face (danielrapp.github.io)

Flatbuffers by Google – CapnProto alternative (github.com/google)

Retailers are disabling NFC readers to shut out Apple Pay (theverge.com)

Windows 93 (windows93.net)