Tony Hsieh has died — Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework — and K6: Like unit testing, for performance

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Tony Hsieh has died yahoo.com \| points: 1305 \| comments: 250

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Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework revealjs.com \| points: 381 \| comments: 99

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K6: Like unit testing, for performance github.com \| points: 285 \| comments: 72

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Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting twitter.com \| points: 257 \| comments: 177

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Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region aws.amazon.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 101

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Apple Silicon M1: A Developer’s Perspective steipete.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 291

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AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock theregister.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 143

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Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months nytimes.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 265

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Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity reneweconomy.com.au \| points: 204 \| comments: 105

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Please please.build \| points: 191 \| comments: 159

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Goodbye PowerDNS blog.powerdns.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 86

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How the self-esteem craze took over America thecut.com \| points: 170 \| comments: 141

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Is Probability Real? arameb.com \| points: 160 \| comments: 144

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Most Americans Object to Government Tracking Their Activities Through Cellphones wsj.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 125

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ReStuff restuff.jcs.org \| points: 154 \| comments: 53

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TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents arxiv.org \| points: 145 \| comments: 36

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The Unix Command Language (1976) github.com \| points: 133 \| comments: 30

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R number for UK below 1 for first time since August bbc.co.uk \| points: 132 \| comments: 252

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Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing medium.com \| points: 131 \| comments: 204

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British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen bignewsnetwork.com \| points: 128 \| comments: 81

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