Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider — and We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x

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Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider phoronix.com \| points: 733 \| comments: 350

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We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x blog.redplanetlabs.com \| points: 584 \| comments: 228

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Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains news.ycombinator.com \| points: 574 \| comments: 313

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OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge openfarm.cc \| points: 478 \| comments: 44

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Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React joshcollinsworth.com \| points: 466 \| comments: 509

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The OpenTF Manifesto opentf.org \| points: 448 \| comments: 256

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Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript github.com \| points: 411 \| comments: 108

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Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media blog.archive.org \| points: 391 \| comments: 173

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Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration tristam.ie \| points: 298 \| comments: 138

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The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm mindmatters.ai \| points: 276 \| comments: 381

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CSS Selectors: A Visual Guide fffuel.co \| points: 264 \| comments: 52

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Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says reuters.com \| points: 257 \| comments: 142

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Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion github.com \| points: 247 \| comments: 47

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Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21 jdk.java.net \| points: 213 \| comments: 107

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Why host your own LLM? marble.onl \| points: 212 \| comments: 104

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GPU-Accelerated LLM on an Orange Pi blog.mlc.ai \| points: 193 \| comments: 66

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Code Is Not Literature (2014) gigamonkeys.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 118

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Lynn Conway’s Story (2000) ai.eecs.umich.edu \| points: 161 \| comments: 41

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Peter Shor’s MIT Fall 2022 course lecture notes on quantum computing math.mit.edu \| points: 154 \| comments: 42

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Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling arstechnica.com \| points: 153 \| comments: 129

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