The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway — and How Dwarf Fortress is built

Issue #479 — July 30, 2021

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The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway alexskra.com \| points: 836 \| comments: 319

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How Dwarf Fortress is built stackoverflow.blog \| points: 636 \| comments: 225

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Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale promethean.news \| points: 582 \| comments: 316

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Crafting Interpreters is available in print craftinginterpreters.com \| points: 513 \| comments: 107

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Evil programmer’s tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) yosefk.com \| points: 485 \| comments: 189

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Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud cnbc.com \| points: 436 \| comments: 345

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“I just got a copyright claim for TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD” twitter.com \| points: 395 \| comments: 158

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Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017) unix.stackexchange.com \| points: 391 \| comments: 200

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Calculus Made Easy (1910) calculusmadeeasy.org \| points: 385 \| comments: 91

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Command line tools for productive programmers earthly.dev \| points: 361 \| comments: 133

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Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information” i.postimg.cc \| points: 350 \| comments: 221

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’Arthur,’ the longest-running kids animated series, is ending npr.org \| points: 334 \| comments: 159

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Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO reuters.com \| points: 301 \| comments: 321

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Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it mdolon.com \| points: 279 \| comments: 262

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Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices npr.org \| points: 261 \| comments: 558

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Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database news.err.ee \| points: 246 \| comments: 110

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Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring aws.amazon.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 138

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First detection of light from behind a black hole news.stanford.edu \| points: 212 \| comments: 6

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Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (2018) ldpreload.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 37

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FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot fsf.org \| points: 198 \| comments: 125

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