Scrollbars are becoming a problem — Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator — and Every app that adds AI looks like this

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Scrollbars are becoming a problem artemis.sh \| points: 785 \| comments: 756

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Why you shouldn’t join Y Combinator newsletter.smallbets.co \| points: 542 \| comments: 273

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Every app that adds AI looks like this botharetrue.substack.com \| points: 513 \| comments: 190

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Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook tokyodev.com \| points: 379 \| comments: 525

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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption newscientist.com \| points: 305 \| comments: 188

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One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly ruoyusun.com \| points: 293 \| comments: 138

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The Interface of Kai Krause’s Software (2003) mprove.de \| points: 284 \| comments: 84

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Populating the page: how browsers work (2020) developer.mozilla.org \| points: 238 \| comments: 34

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Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database blog.xot.nl \| points: 227 \| comments: 225

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HTTP/2 rapid reset attack impacting Nginx products nginx.com \| points: 226 \| comments: 54

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Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard theguardian.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 408

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CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic nbcnews.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 123

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Cisco can’t stop using hard-coded passwords schneier.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 94

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Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA lightning.ai \| points: 188 \| comments: 26

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Signal Identification Wiki sigidwiki.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 24

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GPSJam: Daily maps of possible GPS interference gpsjam.org \| points: 186 \| comments: 80

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OpenWrt 23.05 openwrt.org \| points: 181 \| comments: 73

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Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal danmeyer.substack.com \| points: 181 \| comments: 213

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Blue Frontier and its energy-efficient AC technologyreview.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 79

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Scalar: Generate interactive API documentations from Swagger files github.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 63

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