Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions — and Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?

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Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions latimes.com \| points: 660 \| comments: 1066

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Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore? old.reddit.com \| points: 596 \| comments: 326

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The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition awk.dev \| points: 475 \| comments: 127

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CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library til.simonwillison.net \| points: 462 \| comments: 133

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Kagi raises $670k blog.kagi.com \| points: 375 \| comments: 325

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National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers washingtonpost.com \| points: 374 \| comments: 373

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Ask HN: Is GitHub down? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 297 \| comments: 176

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Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans androidauthority.com \| points: 289 \| comments: 201

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Github.com is down github.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 110

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Programming languages going above and beyond whileydave.com \| points: 279 \| comments: 154

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Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time nature.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 131

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Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law ctvnews.ca \| points: 259 \| comments: 335

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XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens blog.salesforceairesearch.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 89

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Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1 blog.jonlu.ca \| points: 242 \| comments: 176

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Racket: Lisp for the modern day deusinmachina.net \| points: 241 \| comments: 152

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Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads technologyreview.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 122

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Canada’s new tech talent strategy canada.ca \| points: 226 \| comments: 290

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OpenOrca: open source dataset and instruct-tuned LLMs erichartford.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 53

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Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B pismo.io \| points: 217 \| comments: 113

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Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT ’privacy violations’ theregister.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 213

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