Help! Is This Arabic? — Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery — and Most data work seems fundamentally worthless

Issue #1056 — February 28, 2023

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Help! Is This Arabic? isthisarabic.com \| points: 599 \| comments: 279

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Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery writing.samsonhu.com \| points: 569 \| comments: 272

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Most data work seems fundamentally worthless ludic.mataroa.blog \| points: 543 \| comments: 279

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The Camera-Shy Hoodie macpierce.com \| points: 442 \| comments: 191

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From Go on EC2 to Fly.io benhoyt.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 187

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Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow bristolpost.co.uk \| points: 268 \| comments: 126

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Steam Deck: First Anniversary boilingsteam.com \| points: 258 \| comments: 225

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Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT github.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 105

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Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot wired.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 148

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Relic: Functional relational programming for Clojure(Script) github.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 87

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Ongoing Incident in Google Cloud status.cloud.google.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 96

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Zig’s multi-sequence for loops kristoff.it \| points: 211 \| comments: 222

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TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter twitter.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 165

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AMD releases a new flagship CPU for consumer market with 128M of L3 Cache techpowerup.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 182

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Very Long-Term Backup (2008) longnow.org \| points: 190 \| comments: 119

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A runner who leads every pack and then vanishes nytimes.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 181

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Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers news.ycombinator.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 97

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The Determinate Nix Installer determinate.systems \| points: 171 \| comments: 55

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Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America slate.com \| points: 170 \| comments: 228

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Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (2009) kalzumeus.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 96

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