Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero — The layoffs at Klarna — and Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system

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Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero aljazeera.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 336

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The layoffs at Klarna blog.pragmaticengineer.com \| points: 286 \| comments: 294

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Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system github.com \| points: 282 \| comments: 173

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Will Bun JavaScript Take Node’s Crown semaphoreci.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 270

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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992) github.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 75

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OctoPrint: Snappy web interface for your 3D printer octoprint.org \| points: 237 \| comments: 103

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Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot llnl.gov \| points: 231 \| comments: 166

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A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave wired.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 81

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Cloud.gov cloud.gov \| points: 192 \| comments: 44

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Hacker News Predictions hnpredictions.github.io \| points: 183 \| comments: 112

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Muxfs – a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD sdadams.org \| points: 160 \| comments: 52

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Mexican Loan Apps, Extortion, and the Google Play Store techpolicy.press \| points: 153 \| comments: 92

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Swedish tech startups and scaleups swedishtechnews.com \| points: 129 \| comments: 101

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Ask HN: Are Linux HowTos dead? Why? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 127 \| comments: 144

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Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 125 \| comments: 236

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Speedcubing kid can skip last layer by learning 3915 algorithms for every case twitter.com \| points: 124 \| comments: 48

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Slab City reaches its boiling point bluedotliving.com \| points: 115 \| comments: 102

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Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 109 \| comments: 153

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Elements of Programming (2019) elementsofprogramming.com \| points: 109 \| comments: 9

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Observations on tragedy in a digital age tedgioia.substack.com \| points: 97 \| comments: 43

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