I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you — and You don't need live chat on your website

Issue #975 — December 09, 2022

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I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you theeggandtherock.substack.com \| points: 943 \| comments: 692

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You don’t need live chat on your website timharek.no \| points: 466 \| comments: 214

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Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail newsletter.mollywhite.net \| points: 392 \| comments: 464

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Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms umass.edu \| points: 290 \| comments: 166

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Publicity Stunt Fallout scottaaronson.blog \| points: 279 \| comments: 179

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PHP 8.2 php.net \| points: 239 \| comments: 241

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A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom spritesmods.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 37

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Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM github.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 125

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TSMC founder Morris Chang says globalization and free trade ’almost dead’ asia.nikkei.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 276

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Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution news.fnal.gov \| points: 216 \| comments: 126

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Ask HN: Are things getting more convenient but less satisfying? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 190

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Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources beta.sayhello.so \| points: 195 \| comments: 141

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Ideas that changed my life collabfund.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 44

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What’s Great about Julia? viralinstruction.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 162

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The sad story of Heisenberg’s doctoral oral exam (1998) aps.org \| points: 189 \| comments: 116

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Effectivealtruism.org purchased a £15M estate for its headquarters in 2021 twitter.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 198

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CircleCI Layoffs circleci.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 139

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5000x faster CRDTs: An adventure in optimization (2021) josephg.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 20

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Intel is using DXVK for their Windows Arc GPU DX9 drivers gamingonlinux.com \| points: 169 \| comments: 84

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Theranos exec Sunny Balwani sentenced to 13 years in prison techcrunch.com \| points: 156 \| comments: 108

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