I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach

Issue #1201 — July 23, 2023

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I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach jakeseliger.com \| points: 706 \| comments: 380

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Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists natesilver.substack.com \| points: 452 \| comments: 341

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Llama: Add grammar-based sampling github.com \| points: 394 \| comments: 99

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Plane – Open-source Jira alternative plane.so \| points: 367 \| comments: 123

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Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors blog.zaccohn.com \| points: 342 \| comments: 160

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FBI improperly used 702 surveillance powers on US senator thehill.com \| points: 323 \| comments: 248

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Putting the “You” in CPU cpu.land \| points: 297 \| comments: 96

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Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought wiz.io \| points: 270 \| comments: 78

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Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI thedeepdive.ca \| points: 266 \| comments: 321

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AWS networking concepts in a diagram miparnisariblog.wordpress.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 105

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What we talk about when we talk about system design maheshba.bitbucket.io \| points: 228 \| comments: 31

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Important Coding Habits puppycoding.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 146

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Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old theregister.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 111

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Why even let users set their own passwords? devever.net \| points: 213 \| comments: 289

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Apple’s interactive television box: Hacking the set top box System 7.1 in ROM oldvcr.blogspot.com \| points: 200 \| comments: 34

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Internet search tips gwern.net \| points: 199 \| comments: 68

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Bun v0.7.0 bun.sh \| points: 189 \| comments: 141

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I thought I wanted to be a professor, then I served on a hiring committee (2021) science.org \| points: 189 \| comments: 158

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Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco bigtechwiki.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 113

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Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013) onehundredpages.wordpress.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 153

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