I resigned from Twitter — Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony — and Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

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I resigned from Twitter twitter.com \| points: 1218 \| comments: 863

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Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony batsov.com \| points: 1092 \| comments: 550

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Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains blog.jetbrains.com \| points: 660 \| comments: 345

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Tiny tinycapital.com \| points: 528 \| comments: 131

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Winamp source code leak web.archive.org \| points: 379 \| comments: 257

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JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains jetbrains.com \| points: 348 \| comments: 142

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WebGL Water madebyevan.com \| points: 338 \| comments: 110

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The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016) atlasobscura.com \| points: 321 \| comments: 336

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Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 314 \| comments: 387

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Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again capiche.com \| points: 306 \| comments: 253

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Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats kavitareader.com \| points: 277 \| comments: 79

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Update on Omicron who.int \| points: 267 \| comments: 667

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Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL schemaverse.com \| points: 264 \| comments: 24

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CPython’s main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly twitter.com \| points: 258 \| comments: 92

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Free public domain audiobooks librivox.org \| points: 221 \| comments: 41

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Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags andadinosaur.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 129

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A $5B hoard of aluminum mining.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 71

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BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage autoblog.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 200

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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge doctorow.medium.com \| points: 170 \| comments: 41

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Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead consumerreports.org \| points: 167 \| comments: 114

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