CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking — Vim Boss — and The Future of the Vim Project

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CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking theverge.com \| points: 739 \| comments: 526

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Vim Boss neovim.io \| points: 651 \| comments: 58

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The Future of the Vim Project groups.google.com \| points: 610 \| comments: 348

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Speed Test speed.cloudflare.com \| points: 546 \| comments: 177

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MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names learn.microsoft.com \| points: 387 \| comments: 281

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Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize? pair.withgoogle.com \| points: 342 \| comments: 137

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Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas theguardian.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 229

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Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden ’deactivation’ kuow.org \| points: 298 \| comments: 350

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GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk \| points: 290 \| comments: 195

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eSignature for Google Docs and Google Drive (Beta) workspaceupdates.googleblog.com \| points: 218 \| comments: 100

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Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists dynomight.net \| points: 217 \| comments: 339

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Students’ insight proves that the local-global conjecture doesn’t hold quantamagazine.org \| points: 216 \| comments: 74

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years maritime-executive.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 50

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The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data confiant.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 237

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Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI aerolite.dev \| points: 169 \| comments: 48

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Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler conversationswithtyler.com \| points: 161 \| comments: 103

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Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols vpncentral.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 150

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Has Google Translate been fixed yet? isgooglefixed.tw \| points: 153 \| comments: 206

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Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming [pdf] dl.acm.org \| points: 148 \| comments: 34

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Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, Now Open Source github.com \| points: 147 \| comments: 36

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