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American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class economist.com \| points: 741 \| comments: 758

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Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce stripe.com \| points: 660 \| comments: 917

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Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation twitter.com \| points: 574 \| comments: 622

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Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce stripe.com \| points: 557 \| comments: 420

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Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency github.com \| points: 546 \| comments: 147

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Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch rebble.io \| points: 433 \| comments: 314

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Rust 1.65.0 blog.rust-lang.org \| points: 398 \| comments: 110

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Justice Department announces takedown of catalytic converter theft ring justice.gov \| points: 395 \| comments: 441

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Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap forum.snapcraft.io \| points: 391 \| comments: 376

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JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools kellyjonbrazil.github.io \| points: 360 \| comments: 112

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The case for JPEG XL cloudinary.com \| points: 351 \| comments: 181

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Sugar Substitutes Surprise science.org \| points: 348 \| comments: 239

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Lyft to lay off about 700 employees in second round of job cuts wsj.com \| points: 338 \| comments: 260

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Moderation is different from censorship astralcodexten.substack.com \| points: 321 \| comments: 470

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FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf] people.freebsd.org \| points: 299 \| comments: 144

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Universal Paperclips decisionproblem.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 128

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Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online duplicati.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 165

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Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers github.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 69

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Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX sile-typesetter.org \| points: 187 \| comments: 131

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Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD’s ImportC briancallahan.net \| points: 184 \| comments: 81

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