Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company — and How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

Issue #1188 — July 10, 2023

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Don’t Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company eidel.io \| points: 557 \| comments: 328

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How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary? blog.washi.dev \| points: 327 \| comments: 170

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PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISS github.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 123

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California needs real math education, not gimmicks noahpinion.blog \| points: 271 \| comments: 319

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PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news blog.mithrilsecurity.io \| points: 253 \| comments: 126

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Defecting from North Korea is now harder nytimes.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 142

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Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed github.com \| points: 235 \| comments: 228

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Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery adamsinger.substack.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 172

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Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement theverge.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 198

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The Development of the C Language (1993) bell-labs.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 277

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You Suck at Excel (2015) [video] youtube.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 100

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Fairphone 4 is coming to the US arstechnica.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 124

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Open sourcing the Nginx playground jvns.ca \| points: 196 \| comments: 6

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Machine Unlearning Challenge ai.googleblog.com \| points: 167 \| comments: 29

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Open Letter to Tim O’Reilly to Free the Perl Camel news.ycombinator.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 50

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US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it wired.com \| points: 153 \| comments: 55

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KDE for Travelers kde.org \| points: 152 \| comments: 30

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Is Htmx Gaining in Popularity? trends.builtwith.com \| points: 148 \| comments: 73

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Deputy US Marshal pleads guilty to obtaining cell phone location unlawfully [pdf] oig.justice.gov \| points: 145 \| comments: 60

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Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019) web.archive.org \| points: 139 \| comments: 149

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