Honestly, It's Probably the Phones — and U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs

Issue #1059 — March 03, 2023

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Honestly, It’s Probably the Phones noahpinion.substack.com \| points: 562 \| comments: 498

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U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs cbsnews.com \| points: 557 \| comments: 458

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Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning tutanota.com \| points: 532 \| comments: 181

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Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules bbc.co.uk \| points: 358 \| comments: 240

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A Senior Engineer’s Guide to the System Design Interview interviewing.io \| points: 357 \| comments: 127

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EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022) protocol.com \| points: 357 \| comments: 502

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Royal Astronomical Society: all journals to publish as open access from 2024 ras.ac.uk \| points: 353 \| comments: 65

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HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatGPT API hackerfm.com \| points: 333 \| comments: 148

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All you may need is HTML fabiensanglard.net \| points: 328 \| comments: 224

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What is the minimal possible UK address? microblog.vladh.net \| points: 316 \| comments: 325

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Creating Isometric RPG Game Backgrounds talesofsyn.com \| points: 310 \| comments: 50

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ChatML: ChatGPT API expects a structured format, called Chat Markup Language github.com \| points: 309 \| comments: 72

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90% of Kidnappings in São Paulo result from dates on Tinder and similar apps restofworld.org \| points: 307 \| comments: 183

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You don’t need a build step deno.com \| points: 268 \| comments: 168

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Chicago sold rights to 36k parking meters for $1.2B that generate $200M per year chicago.suntimes.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 263

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5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq smithsonianmag.com \| points: 259 \| comments: 90

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World spectrum.ieee.org \| points: 243 \| comments: 80

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Asteroid lost 1M kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft nature.com \| points: 230 \| comments: 188

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FTC has proposed banning non-compete agreements regulations.gov \| points: 228 \| comments: 65

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Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry (2013) nature.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 209

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