Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking — and Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

Issue #1340 — December 09, 2023

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Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking badcyber.com \| points: 617 \| comments: 249

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Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget kagi.com \| points: 400 \| comments: 225

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Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise arstechnica.com \| points: 391 \| comments: 163

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The pro-Israel information war jackpoulson.substack.com \| points: 379 \| comments: 547

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Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet] twitter.com \| points: 367 \| comments: 154

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Goodbye, clean code (2020) overreacted.io \| points: 356 \| comments: 287

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A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay astralcodexten.com \| points: 338 \| comments: 137

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JC converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON github.com \| points: 286 \| comments: 122

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FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease statnews.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 161

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Judge allows major ’right to repair’ lawsuit against John Deere to move forward techdirt.com \| points: 255 \| comments: 62

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The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year bloomberg.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 314

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Greedflation: Corporate profiteering ’significantly’ boosted global prices,study theguardian.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 171

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We investigated France’s mass profiling machine lighthousereports.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 100

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World of Goo 2 worldofgoo2.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 50

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You are never taught how to build quality software florianbellmann.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 230

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Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022) sts10.github.io \| points: 182 \| comments: 103

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Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS sol-1.org \| points: 181 \| comments: 40

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards nytimes.com \| points: 181 \| comments: 204

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X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? nerology.substack.com \| points: 161 \| comments: 176

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How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth medium.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 106

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