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Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails github.blog \| points: 595 \| comments: 281

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Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub codeberg.org \| points: 445 \| comments: 173

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60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically vox.com \| points: 365 \| comments: 270

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Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again npr.org \| points: 348 \| comments: 179

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Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack arstechnica.com \| points: 327 \| comments: 219

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Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days status.mycloud.com \| points: 326 \| comments: 181

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How does database sharding work? planetscale.com \| points: 323 \| comments: 93

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Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me? nytimes.com \| points: 308 \| comments: 376

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Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars hubblesite.org \| points: 303 \| comments: 172

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NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security privacy.org.nz \| points: 282 \| comments: 133

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Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter economist.com \| points: 251 \| comments: 545

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We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics simonwillison.net \| points: 246 \| comments: 181

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U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables reuters.com \| points: 241 \| comments: 245

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‘Alien calculus’ could save particle physics from infinities quantamagazine.org \| points: 207 \| comments: 108

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Is it my fault if you can’t handle the truth? (2019) agileotter.blogspot.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 256

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Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (2019) spoon-tamago.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 147

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Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? raphkoster.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 73

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Why did Phreesia share my medical data after I opted out? statnews.com \| points: 170 \| comments: 70

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SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch spacenews.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 146

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JavaScript-algorithms: Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript github.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 53

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