The Big [Censored] Theory — Welcome Home, Garry Tan — and Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

Issue #874 — August 30, 2022

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The Big [Censored] Theory pudding.cool \| points: 670 \| comments: 350

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Welcome Home, Garry Tan ycombinator.com \| points: 581 \| comments: 190

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Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers community.blokada.org \| points: 499 \| comments: 518

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Try Stable Diffusion’s Img2Img Mode huggingface.co \| points: 366 \| comments: 147

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90s Cursor Effects tholman.com \| points: 301 \| comments: 106

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Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 176

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Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language wren.io \| points: 291 \| comments: 122

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Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle ktool.io \| points: 289 \| comments: 55

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Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 281 \| comments: 465

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The silent majority in software vadimkravcenko.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 325

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Wizz Air now charging some travellers a strange extra fee (2020) thepointsguy.co.uk \| points: 245 \| comments: 195

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Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub dotfiles.github.io \| points: 244 \| comments: 58

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OCaml at First Glance batsov.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 64

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Teenager invented a low-cost tool to spot elephant poachers smithsonianmag.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 95

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Launch Attempt Scrubbed blogs.nasa.gov \| points: 167 \| comments: 219

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DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it wagslane.dev \| points: 166 \| comments: 225

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Ferret: A functional, lazy language for realtime embedded control systems ferret-lang.org \| points: 165 \| comments: 31

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Tetsuji: Remote Code Execution on a GameBoy Colour 22 Years Later xcellerator.github.io \| points: 160 \| comments: 7

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Git’s database internals I: packed object store github.blog \| points: 158 \| comments: 56

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Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit jonashietala.se \| points: 155 \| comments: 74

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