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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

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Building an economy simulator from scratch

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Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments

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Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain
 

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Inflation in Austria

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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

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Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)

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“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases

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The first week of US v. Google – Defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing
 

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Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization

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Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser

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Books for Game Developers

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Everyday uses for PVC water pipe

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Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?
 

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I wouldn’t be productive enough for today’s academic system (2013)

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“Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers

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enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

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GPT-4 is not getting worse

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Generative Image Dynamics
 

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