I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it — Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites — and Building an economy simulator from scratch

Issue #1257 — September 17, 2023

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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it basta.substack.com \| points: 650 \| comments: 500

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Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites mastodon.gamedev.place \| points: 437 \| comments: 307

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Building an economy simulator from scratch thomassimon.dev \| points: 421 \| comments: 182

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Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments github.com \| points: 365 \| comments: 96

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Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain subdomain.center \| points: 328 \| comments: 113

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Inflation in Austria mastodon.gamedev.place \| points: 300 \| comments: 187

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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers engineercodex.substack.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 173

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Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com \| points: 243 \| comments: 44

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“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases pme.uchicago.edu \| points: 240 \| comments: 86

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The first week of US v. Google – Defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing theverge.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 171

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Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization docs.google.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 112

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Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser exaequos.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 91

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Books for Game Developers mrelusive.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 55

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Everyday uses for PVC water pipe tomtilley.net \| points: 177 \| comments: 141

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Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible? workplace.stackexchange.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 182

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I wouldn’t be productive enough for today’s academic system (2013) theguardian.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 85

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“Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers arstechnica.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 106

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enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001) enroncorp.com \| points: 144 \| comments: 68

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GPT-4 is not getting worse coagulopath.com \| points: 136 \| comments: 155

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Generative Image Dynamics generative-dynamics.github.io \| points: 133 \| comments: 17

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