Water — Google Maps has become an eyesore — and We are all animals at night

Issue #1217 — August 08, 2023

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Water oimo.io \| points: 1153 \| comments: 130

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Google Maps has become an eyesore fastcompany.com \| points: 720 \| comments: 630

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We are all animals at night hazlitt.net \| points: 536 \| comments: 258

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Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2000) pages.cs.wisc.edu \| points: 444 \| comments: 76

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Some tactics for writing in public jvns.ca \| points: 398 \| comments: 148

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PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default techpowerup.com \| points: 363 \| comments: 338

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Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi capitalfm.co.ke \| points: 330 \| comments: 307

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GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler platform.openai.com \| points: 323 \| comments: 280

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In every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person was Black businessinsider.com \| points: 302 \| comments: 208

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Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts forums.spacebattles.com \| points: 297 \| comments: 275

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Barco: Linux Containers from Scratch in C github.com \| points: 273 \| comments: 68

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Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” kottke.org \| points: 270 \| comments: 438

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Not Using Zoom the.webm.ink \| points: 268 \| comments: 188

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My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022) getwaitlist.com \| points: 264 \| comments: 189

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The $1M shot that changed sports contests espn.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 121

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Zoom’s TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out stackdiary.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 29

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Request: Re-open JPEG XL issue bugs.chromium.org \| points: 249 \| comments: 121

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Cloth Simulation oimo.io \| points: 247 \| comments: 39

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Ask HN: What’s the coolest physical thing you’ve made? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 475

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Kafka is dead, long live Kafka warpstream.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 160

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