Astral — The Windows 11 Trash Party — and Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)

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Astral astral.sh \| points: 593 \| comments: 154

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The Windows 11 Trash Party birchtree.me \| points: 561 \| comments: 468

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Making friends as an adult is hard (2021) wbur.org \| points: 547 \| comments: 328

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Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content search.marginalia.nu \| points: 458 \| comments: 162

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Why don’t more people live close to friends? annehelen.substack.com \| points: 429 \| comments: 510

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Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival cnbc.com \| points: 419 \| comments: 399

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An example of LLM prompting for programming martinfowler.com \| points: 397 \| comments: 212

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Heroku has been running a second copy of my scheduler instance openfolder.sh \| points: 284 \| comments: 115

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Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans tailscale.com \| points: 282 \| comments: 96

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A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting amightygirl.com \| points: 268 \| comments: 67

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Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska’s Night Sky petapixel.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 151

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Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu theregister.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 400

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GPT4All Chat – Locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J gpt4all.io \| points: 248 \| comments: 159

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PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function mjg59.dreamwidth.org \| points: 243 \| comments: 143

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The New XOR Problem blog.wtf.sg \| points: 182 \| comments: 77

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KV.js github.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 58

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Brain images just got 64 million times sharper medicalxpress.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 76

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DINOv2: State-of-the-art computer vision models with self-supervised learning dinov2.metademolab.com \| points: 170 \| comments: 14

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Ampersand (2015) haggardhawksblog.blogspot.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 90

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Apple’s agreement with Cupertino news.bloombergtax.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 123

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