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I worked at Google for -10 days andgein.ru \| points: 629 \| comments: 390

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We’re building a browser when it’s supposed to be impossible awesomekling.substack.com \| points: 471 \| comments: 302

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Substack Notes Launched on.substack.com \| points: 411 \| comments: 436

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Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died nytimes.com \| points: 377 \| comments: 61

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SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue prequel.co \| points: 359 \| comments: 210

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Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior arxiv.org \| points: 350 \| comments: 234

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Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI techcrunch.com \| points: 340 \| comments: 418

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Sponsor the open source projects you depend on thanks.dev \| points: 328 \| comments: 196

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The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale muratbuffalo.blogspot.com \| points: 303 \| comments: 84

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Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions supabase.com \| points: 272 \| comments: 68

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People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system theatlantic.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 269

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It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT old.reddit.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 292

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Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering ruxu.dev \| points: 220 \| comments: 159

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Supabase Logs: open-source logging server supabase.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 62

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Distributed Machine Learning Notebooks with Elixir and Livebook news.livebook.dev \| points: 205 \| comments: 19

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Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study news.mit.edu \| points: 200 \| comments: 209

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FreeBSD 13.2 freebsd.org \| points: 197 \| comments: 90

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YouTube suspends a YouTuber’s Patreon-exclusive account for self-impersonation twitter.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 119

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Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer refactoringui.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 138

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The Coming of Local LLMs nickarner.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 170

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