Charlie Munger has died — My $500M Mars rover mistake — and The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

Issue #1331 — November 30, 2023

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Charlie Munger has died berkshirehathaway.com \| points: 1439 \| comments: 383

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My $500M Mars rover mistake chrislewicki.com \| points: 959 \| comments: 322

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The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster octodon.social \| points: 697 \| comments: 546

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Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it’s hardware xuanwo.io \| points: 552 \| comments: 154

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Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com github.com \| points: 336 \| comments: 110

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SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model stability.ai \| points: 267 \| comments: 138

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Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud phoronix.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 194

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Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership wsj.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 257

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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity github.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 142

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How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don’t Like forbes.com \| points: 246 \| comments: 285

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Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users bloomberg.com \| points: 245 \| comments: 147

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Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free wgbh.org \| points: 243 \| comments: 114

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The camel, the rope, and the needle’s eye kiwihellenist.blogspot.com \| points: 238 \| comments: 224

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BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced bbcbasic.co.uk \| points: 225 \| comments: 100

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Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in ’company reset’ reuters.com \| points: 205 \| comments: 155

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The dead children we must see newyorker.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 499

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Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL twitter.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 123

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Show HN: Hacky Meta Glasses GPT4 Vision Integration github.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 82

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Deno Cron deno.com \| points: 183 \| comments: 119

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Show HN: Dobb·E – towards home robots with an open-source platform dobb-e.com \| points: 181 \| comments: 81

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