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Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019) austinhenley.com \| points: 509 \| comments: 302

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Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs github.com \| points: 470 \| comments: 205

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Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies asia.nikkei.com \| points: 368 \| comments: 184

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Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023 news.ycombinator.com \| points: 335 \| comments: 69

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Website search hurts my feelings openmymind.net \| points: 315 \| comments: 178

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Nintendo Network shutdown – The beginning of the end pretendo.network \| points: 289 \| comments: 191

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A list of Hacker News’s undocumented features and behaviors github.com \| points: 275 \| comments: 124

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Fed court rules for retired engineer told by state to not talk about math wect.com \| points: 265 \| comments: 87

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A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven twitter.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 170

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A copy-and-patch JIT compiler for CPython github.com \| points: 244 \| comments: 51

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The life and death of open source companies lucumr.pocoo.org \| points: 220 \| comments: 189

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Black Triangles (2014) rampantgames.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 52

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Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals medicalxpress.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 129

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UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions spectator.co.uk \| points: 193 \| comments: 241

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How many legs do ten elephants have, if two of them are legless? bard.google.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 135

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A data corruption bug in OpenZFS? despairlabs.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 95

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Simple Made Easy (2011) [video] youtube.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 36

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Positive news from 2023 gapminder.org \| points: 172 \| comments: 98

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Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public) obsidian.md \| points: 172 \| comments: 166

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Learn Modern C++ learnmoderncpp.com \| points: 169 \| comments: 153

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