U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon — and Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?

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U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon cnbc.com \| points: 354 \| comments: 1036

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Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 346 \| comments: 270

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SICP: the end of an era (2021) [video] youtube.com \| points: 336 \| comments: 363

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Ghost boat with GPS leads father-son duo to man overboard garmin.com \| points: 322 \| comments: 209

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Poline – esoteric color palette generator meodai.github.io \| points: 308 \| comments: 52

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I use C when I believe in memory safety gavinhoward.com \| points: 303 \| comments: 361

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Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later nature.com \| points: 276 \| comments: 242

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I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month simonberens.me \| points: 273 \| comments: 308

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Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 235 \| comments: 612

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If you’re happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough muezza.ca \| points: 211 \| comments: 109

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The Market for Lemons infrequently.org \| points: 203 \| comments: 130

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Showering at the South Pole brr.fyi \| points: 199 \| comments: 89

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What can I do for Arch Linux? whatcanidofor.archlinux.org \| points: 179 \| comments: 26

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NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency’s hiring spree washingtontimes.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 233

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A patch to enable Windows Subsystem for Android to run on Windows 10 github.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 77

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The cheapest flash microcontroller you can buy is actually an Arm Cortex-M0+ jaycarlson.net \| points: 172 \| comments: 57

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Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic bloomberg.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 188

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Gen Z Netiquettes manyonepercents.substack.com \| points: 145 \| comments: 222

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I’m going to scale my foot up your ass (2008) widgetsandshit.com \| points: 145 \| comments: 84

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HSBC’s Money Laundering Scandal (2022) investopedia.com \| points: 142 \| comments: 95

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