The worst programmer I know — Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web — and The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge

Issue #1243 — September 03, 2023

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The worst programmer I know dannorth.net \| points: 802 \| comments: 389

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Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web wavacity.com \| points: 726 \| comments: 114

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The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge tylervigen.com \| points: 522 \| comments: 138

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Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing opensecrets.org \| points: 302 \| comments: 152

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Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline leebutterman.com \| points: 297 \| comments: 57

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Tesla, Rivian Put on Fake Show of Support for ‘Right to Repair’ techdirt.com \| points: 230 \| comments: 182

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On Craft drcathicks.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 27

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A GPT-4 capability forecasting challenge nicholas.carlini.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 100

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Explaining the Postgres iceberg avestura.dev \| points: 161 \| comments: 22

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No way in or out of Burning Man after storm sfgate.com \| points: 160 \| comments: 131

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How to edit your own lousy writing (2017) stingingfly.org \| points: 158 \| comments: 62

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Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone’s wealth grow faster ergodicityeconomics.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 268

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Semantic Zoom alexanderobenauer.com \| points: 150 \| comments: 42

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A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm arxiv.org \| points: 144 \| comments: 125

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Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’ ptv-news.com.pk \| points: 139 \| comments: 142

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Recursively Summarizing Enables Long-Term Dialogue Memory in LLMs arxiv.org \| points: 122 \| comments: 55

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Csound csound.com \| points: 110 \| comments: 54

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Internals of async / await in JavaScript akashhamirwasia.com \| points: 110 \| comments: 41

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Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis? ucsf.edu \| points: 109 \| comments: 40

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Not a single emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of Antarctica smh.com.au \| points: 101 \| comments: 91

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