Hacker News on 18 October 2020

• Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
• Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime
• Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
• Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
• Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater
• Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy
• A legislative path to an interoperable internet
• The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
• Openproject: Open-source project management software
• Google's penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary