App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps — and John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

Issue #865 — August 21, 2022

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App Store doesn’t accept “too simple” apps notes.alinpanaitiu.com \| points: 517 \| comments: 342

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John Carmack’s new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round twitter.com \| points: 441 \| comments: 594

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AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage twitter.com \| points: 416 \| comments: 165

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Diablo 1 for Web Browsers github.com \| points: 400 \| comments: 97

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Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997) web.williams.edu \| points: 380 \| comments: 148

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Visual Sum of Cubes x.st \| points: 322 \| comments: 34

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Zig is now self–hosted by default github.com \| points: 308 \| comments: 81

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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk github.com \| points: 283 \| comments: 75

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After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life’s work news.artnet.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 344

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Coping with Copilot sigarch.org \| points: 205 \| comments: 255

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High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance in northern California hsr.ca.gov \| points: 193 \| comments: 337

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Cosmopolitan Libc v2.0 github.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 31

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Show HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else) news.ycombinator.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 58

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Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more webkit.org \| points: 185 \| comments: 104

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Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 183 \| comments: 196

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Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life theverge.com \| points: 167 \| comments: 48

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The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review) continuations.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 121

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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries eugeneyan.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 33

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Ask HN: So, what’s up with Phoenix (web framework)? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 119

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Supabase Vault supabase.com \| points: 153 \| comments: 54

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