Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround — and It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it

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Barnes and Noble’s surprising turnaround tedgioia.substack.com \| points: 863 \| comments: 455

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It’s easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it news.ycombinator.com \| points: 462 \| comments: 391

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Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend theverge.com \| points: 404 \| comments: 93

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Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer spindas.dreamwidth.org \| points: 367 \| comments: 131

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Waze tests new alerts warning drivers about roads with a ‘history of crashes’ theverge.com \| points: 343 \| comments: 184

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WireGuard for the ESP32 github.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 111

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AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off fortressofdoors.com \| points: 326 \| comments: 246

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Reverse-engineering the source prompts of Notion AI lspace.swyx.io \| points: 312 \| comments: 76

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I Lost All Faith in LastPass infosec.exchange \| points: 274 \| comments: 264

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How Southwest Airlines melted down wsj.com \| points: 269 \| comments: 297

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I ran the length of every street in Pittsburgh [video] youtube.com \| points: 250 \| comments: 59

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“Why We Sleep” is riddled with scientific and factual errors (2019) guzey.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 106

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Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market thetimes.co.uk \| points: 228 \| comments: 292

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72-year-old Congressman pursues a Master’s in AI washingtonpost.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 126

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PostgREST – Serve a RESTful API from any Postgres database postgrest.org \| points: 216 \| comments: 111

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Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 mastodon.laurenweinstein.org \| points: 181 \| comments: 35

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Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (2012) paroj.github.io \| points: 175 \| comments: 119

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Why Solana was decimated by Bankman-Fried’s downfall coindesk.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 186

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ChatBCG: Generative AI For Slides chatbcg.com \| points: 148 \| comments: 39

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Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata seumasjeltzz.github.io \| points: 146 \| comments: 61

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