Robinhood lays off 23% of staff — What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? — and MIT invents $4 solar desalination device

Issue #848 — August 04, 2022

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Robinhood lays off 23% of staff wsj.com \| points: 658 \| comments: 656

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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? noctslackv2.wordpress.com \| points: 539 \| comments: 226

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MIT invents $4 solar desalination device freethink.com \| points: 429 \| comments: 210

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I still love PHP and JavaScript the.scapegoat.dev \| points: 399 \| comments: 372

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Hikaru Nakamura’s Forbidden Platform lichess.org \| points: 376 \| comments: 128

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FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot github.com \| points: 375 \| comments: 67

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Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding techcrunch.com \| points: 355 \| comments: 167

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Things I’ve learned building a modern TUI framework textualize.io \| points: 324 \| comments: 127

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Being swamped is normal and not impressive gkogan.co \| points: 318 \| comments: 133

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Ask HN: Working in tech for climate? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 243

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Productivity porn calebschoepp.com \| points: 273 \| comments: 168

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Django 4.1 djangoproject.com \| points: 270 \| comments: 112

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TikTok’s Poison Pill calnewport.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 368

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Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices themanual.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 245

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Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for the community trino.io \| points: 210 \| comments: 60

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The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection tls13.xargs.org \| points: 201 \| comments: 10

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Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing albertpedersen.com \| points: 200 \| comments: 60

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Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data? arxiv.org \| points: 191 \| comments: 78

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US Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force thecentersquare.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 191

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Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4 raspberrypi.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 84

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