A cab ride I'll never forget (1999) — The Shit Show — and Wobbly clock

Issue #1014 — January 17, 2023

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A cab ride I’ll never forget (1999) kentnerburn.com \| points: 977 \| comments: 107

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The Shit Show furbo.org \| points: 675 \| comments: 306

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Wobbly clock somethingorotherwhatever.com \| points: 639 \| comments: 142

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Reverse engineering a neural network’s clever solution to binary addition cprimozic.net \| points: 450 \| comments: 126

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Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport viewfromthewing.com \| points: 377 \| comments: 330

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1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001) gamedeveloper.com \| points: 374 \| comments: 162

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The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them shkspr.mobi \| points: 345 \| comments: 209

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We invested 10% to pay back tech debt blog.alexewerlof.com \| points: 308 \| comments: 211

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NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again theregister.com \| points: 299 \| comments: 139

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Windows 98 icons are great (2015) alexmeub.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 302

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Servo to Advance in 2023 servo.org \| points: 270 \| comments: 48

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Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021) fosslife.org \| points: 219 \| comments: 78

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Godot for AA/AAA game development – What’s missing? godotengine.org \| points: 208 \| comments: 143

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The art and science of spending money collabfund.com \| points: 205 \| comments: 111

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TensorFlow for Python is dying? thenextweb.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 187

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Tweetbot is back down again theverge.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 203

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Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation store.steampowered.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 67

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GPT-3 is the best journal I’ve used every.to \| points: 184 \| comments: 128

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Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content github.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 40

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Selfie – A tiny RISC-V C compiler, emulator and hypervisor selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at \| points: 173 \| comments: 17

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