Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station floor796.com \| points: 821 \| comments: 88

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Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75% bugzilla.mozilla.org \| points: 765 \| comments: 279

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Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source decodebytes.substack.com \| points: 447 \| comments: 252

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A Baby GPT twitter.com \| points: 434 \| comments: 129

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RePalm dmitry.gr \| points: 422 \| comments: 119

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Effective Spaced Repetition borretti.me \| points: 370 \| comments: 183

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The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business canarymedia.com \| points: 331 \| comments: 138

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FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls twitter.com \| points: 331 \| comments: 168

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Hell Never Ends on x86: The Hyperspace Story, Continued, Sort Of cohost.org \| points: 261 \| comments: 73

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We Need To Talk About Vercel maxcountryman.com \| points: 255 \| comments: 127

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How To Get Started In Soldering popularmechanics.com \| points: 243 \| comments: 199

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Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla bloomberg.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 234

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I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days davidmuller.github.io \| points: 225 \| comments: 262

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OpenBSD 7.3 openbsd.org \| points: 221 \| comments: 78

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Personal Concierge Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages github.com \| points: 205 \| comments: 86

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Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language szopa.medium.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 60

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EditAnything: Segment Anything + ControlNet + BLIP2 + Stable Diffusion github.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 22

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UnicodePlots github.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 34

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Dancing Plague of 1518 en.wikipedia.org \| points: 183 \| comments: 81

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Dashcam footage shows driverless cars clogging San Francisco wired.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 298

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