Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger — and Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase

Issue #1350 — December 19, 2023

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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger figma.com \| points: 1626 \| comments: 799

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Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase github.com \| points: 470 \| comments: 110

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0% of the phrases of the original Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article remain twitter.com \| points: 454 \| comments: 116

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3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn’t tell the public minnesotareformer.com \| points: 448 \| comments: 230

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"I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1" twitter.com \| points: 380 \| comments: 311

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Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle web.law.duke.edu \| points: 342 \| comments: 194

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Word2Vec received ’strong reject’ four times at ICLR2013 openreview.net \| points: 279 \| comments: 127

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The "Cheap" Web potato.cheap \| points: 263 \| comments: 146

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This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond servo.org \| points: 237 \| comments: 63

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“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs jacobbartlett.substack.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 199

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Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler lwn.net \| points: 230 \| comments: 138

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Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real 404media.co \| points: 228 \| comments: 260

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Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review onemileatatime.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 123

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Fly Kubernetes fly.io \| points: 214 \| comments: 132

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How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time nytimes.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 443

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Show HN: Microagents: Agents capable of self-editing their prompts / Python code github.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 71

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Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems github.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 81

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US Steel, once the largest corporation, agrees to sell to Nippon Steel cnn.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 176

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Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges cnbc.com \| points: 172 \| comments: 152

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So you want custom allocator support in your C library nullprogram.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 99

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