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Tell HN: Thank You Dang news.ycombinator.com \| points: 2174 \| comments: 227

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How to Think for Yourself paulgraham.com \| points: 729 \| comments: 618

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CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017) shkspr.mobi \| points: 633 \| comments: 612

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Microsoft’s Creepy New ’Productivity Score’ Gamifies Workplace Surveillance gizmodo.com \| points: 474 \| comments: 248

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Due to a problem with AWS, many "smart" vacuums or doorbells will stop working eminetra.com.au \| points: 444 \| comments: 369

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Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries vice.com \| points: 293 \| comments: 205

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Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging theguardian.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 222

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Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects nationalgeographic.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 62

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Psiloscoby: Psilocybin Brewed by Kombucha invisible.college \| points: 212 \| comments: 91

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1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby blog.peterzhu.ca \| points: 212 \| comments: 101

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‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase nytimes.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 124

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SQLite as a Document Database dgl.cx \| points: 184 \| comments: 36

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Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake nature.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 94

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Digital Tools I Wish Existed jon.bo \| points: 182 \| comments: 75

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Bombadillo: a non-web browser bombadillo.colorfield.space \| points: 172 \| comments: 48

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Infinite Bad Guy billie.withyoutube.com \| points: 169 \| comments: 64

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DIY Smart Doorbell with a Raspberry Pi technicallywizardry.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 74

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Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano Style Cheese” [video] m.youtube.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 178

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A group of recent Princeton graduates has won more than $6M in 66 lottery wins indystar.com \| points: 153 \| comments: 79

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A look at Chang’e 5 telemetry destevez.net \| points: 152 \| comments: 29

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