The hidden cost of air quality monitoring — We raised a bunch of money — and Fast machines, slow machines

Issue #1177 — June 29, 2023

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The hidden cost of air quality monitoring airgradient.com \| points: 554 \| comments: 267

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We raised a bunch of money fly.io \| points: 553 \| comments: 407

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Fast machines, slow machines jmmv.dev \| points: 455 \| comments: 256

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Plastics are poisoning us newyorker.com \| points: 387 \| comments: 453

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Is ORM still an anti-pattern? github.com \| points: 384 \| comments: 721

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Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress venturebeat.com \| points: 323 \| comments: 73

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The damaging results of mandated return to office entrepreneur.com \| points: 315 \| comments: 316

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Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning bbc.com \| points: 303 \| comments: 297

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Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits theregister.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 492

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Sears offered complete houses in large DIY kits twitter.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 253

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A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall pompeiisites.org \| points: 274 \| comments: 157

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Show HN: Open-source background removal in the browser github.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 27

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Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor awesomekling.substack.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 66

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Computerraria: A fully compliant RISC-V computer inside Terraria github.com \| points: 225 \| comments: 34

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Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs github.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 124

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Flashing elements alienate users astralcodexten.substack.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 140

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Meta developer tools: Working at scale engineering.fb.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 174

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US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs thehill.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 455

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FreeBSD Jails Containers vermaden.wordpress.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 57

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Making Games etodd.io \| points: 206 \| comments: 149

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