I wish GPT4 had never happened — Why human societies developed so little during 300k years — and The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition

Issue #1096 — April 09, 2023

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I wish GPT4 had never happened chaudhry.notion.site \| points: 454 \| comments: 1026

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Why human societies developed so little during 300k years woodfromeden.substack.com \| points: 293 \| comments: 290

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The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition routledge.com \| points: 284 \| comments: 111

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Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? A study too good to be true inews.co.uk \| points: 238 \| comments: 179

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Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk pluralistic.net \| points: 229 \| comments: 151

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Go port of SQLite without CGo gitlab.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 108

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FAA K-12 Airport Design Challenge in Minecraft faa.gov \| points: 200 \| comments: 55

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Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp kevinyank.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 164

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Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux utcc.utoronto.ca \| points: 178 \| comments: 121

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0x0: Share Files from Terminal 0x0.st \| points: 172 \| comments: 64

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Google to Ban Financial Lending Apps from Accessing User Photos, Contacts pcmag.com \| points: 170 \| comments: 97

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Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penalise unveiled women reuters.com \| points: 154 \| comments: 145

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Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test nature.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 120

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Estes Rockets Model Scale 1:100 Replica of SpaceX Falcon 9 estesrockets.com \| points: 150 \| comments: 94

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Electricity Prices by Country electricrate.com \| points: 149 \| comments: 137

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Paul Graham is an investor in the company trying to kill Twitter twitter.com \| points: 141 \| comments: 140

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The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be at risk of going under futurism.com \| points: 138 \| comments: 64

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Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness theverge.com \| points: 121 \| comments: 45

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DPReview Will Remain Available as an Archive After It Closes petapixel.com \| points: 119 \| comments: 8

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Show HN: BrowserBox – do stuff with browsers that you can’t normally github.com \| points: 115 \| comments: 51

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