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Nobody wants to teach anymore jessicalexicus.medium.com \| points: 499 \| comments: 710

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Hacker News Official API github.com \| points: 430 \| comments: 102

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Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database univalence.me \| points: 277 \| comments: 57

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The Merge ethereum.org \| points: 227 \| comments: 353

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LibGen’s Bloat Problem liberalgeneral.neocities.org \| points: 223 \| comments: 106

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Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg uk.news.yahoo.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 340

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Apple is building an ad empire as its iPhone privacy crackdown weakens rivals axios.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 143

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HBO Max Pulls Nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ Episodes nytimes.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 218

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Got a rejection for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not twitter.com \| points: 180 \| comments: 73

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A demo of GPT-3’s ability to understand long instructions twitter.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 66

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An opinionated approach to GNU Make tech.davis-hansson.com \| points: 153 \| comments: 166

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iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for years, researcher claims arstechnica.com \| points: 146 \| comments: 36

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I Reached $4k/Mo. But How Many Great Startup Ideas Have Died? microfounder.com \| points: 144 \| comments: 69

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Ambient Scotrail Beats – Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats matteason.co.uk \| points: 140 \| comments: 33

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Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements simonwillison.net \| points: 128 \| comments: 25

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How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (2019) [pdf] numinous.productions \| points: 119 \| comments: 48

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Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you brew.fm \| points: 117 \| comments: 53

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