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The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm

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Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2

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Python: Just Write SQL

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Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

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Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

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Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media

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Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties

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Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better

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Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?

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JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe

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Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet

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Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange

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Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story

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Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

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The IPv6 mess

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The 2002 Überlingen midair collision

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Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

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Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

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Peter Pan Copyright

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Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision

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Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling

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Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns (2021)

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How to run a miserable code review

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Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom

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What happened to the microfinance company Kiva?

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Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative

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Non-thoughts on the Open Source Initiative (2020)

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Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues

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Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?

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Java 21: First Release Candidate

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Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts

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Anti Warez Association, 1 (1993)

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Ask HN: I learned useless skill of prompt engineering, how relevant will it be?

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What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data

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Lack of Walkability in the US is destroying mental health

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Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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How to be successful as a research mathematician? Follow your gut

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The Bitter Lesson (2019) [pdf]

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The Cuts at WVU

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Show HN: Anonymize HN – a Chrome extension to anonymize Hacker News users

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Webvan: The Dotcom Bubble’s Biggest Bust

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Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted

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Show HN: User Persona Generator

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California PG&E Joins Proposal to Set Utility Rates Based on Income

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My (Herb Sutter's) C++ Now 2023 talk is online: “A TypeScript for C++”

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Lynn Conway's Story (2000)

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Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention

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Next slide, please: A brief history of the corporate presentation

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AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation [pdf]

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Ruins of Emperor Nero’s Theater Discovered Near Vatican

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What If All the Gasoline Cars Became Electric Vehicles?

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Peter Shor's MIT Fall 2022 course lecture notes on quantum computing

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Michael Burry shorts Major index in sizable bets

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Negative developer comments about Agile and Scrum on social media

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Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

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ParkyTowers: Thin Clients Laid Bare

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Students foot the bill for flagship state universities

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Bombe: Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once

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More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless–At a Record Rate

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Show HN: Epsilla – Open-source vector database with low query latency

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Grindr employees have 2 weeks to move across the country, RTO or lose their jobs

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Argentina voted no on the Argentinian peso. USD will become its new currency

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Does there exist a complete implementation of the Risch algorithm?

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Fan-made port of Wipeout (PSX) for modern browsers

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A C parser for CREATE and ALTER TABLE SQLite statements

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New way to read data in antiferromagnets unlocks their use as computer memory

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Love Notes to Newton [video]

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New calcium material functions as an ammonia synthesis catalyst

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Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web

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Momentum, a DIY 12-voice virtual analogue polyphonic synthesizer based on TSynth

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The Virtual Blender Camera

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Carl Linnaeus Set Out to Label All of Life

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A most very unofficial guide to the W65C265SXB

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Show HN: CoolReadME, a way to display GitHub profile readmes with custom CSS

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WhoFundsWho: Instantly see who funds the organizations you are reading about

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Why font-size must NEVER be in pixels

9

Stefan Tilkov has died

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Tell HN: Google Maps is again requiring wi-fi scanning to enable navigation

9

Show HN: A website chatbot that also uses APIs

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S.F.’s top-paid employee makes $640K. Here’s what every city worker gets paid

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LED lights will change the world as incandescent bulbs phase out

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Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid

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Detection of L-Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction from Electrocardiographic Images

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AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating

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Rust Abstractions Posted for Sockets and Other Fundamental Network Bits

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Wright's Book of Poultry (1911)