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The end of the nice GTK button blog.brixit.nl \| points: 830 \| comments: 598

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I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues aschmelyun.com \| points: 557 \| comments: 126

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Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout www2.ljworld.com \| points: 524 \| comments: 528

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Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes theverge.com \| points: 467 \| comments: 312

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Reddit’s website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020) smitop.com \| points: 389 \| comments: 180

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37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home sciencedirect.com \| points: 335 \| comments: 352

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Writing a simple operating system from scratch (2010) [pdf] cs.bham.ac.uk \| points: 298 \| comments: 82

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EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants politico.eu \| points: 290 \| comments: 315

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ReVanced github.com \| points: 288 \| comments: 217

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Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac eggerapps.at \| points: 262 \| comments: 115

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Various Honda vehicles send the same, unencrypted RF signal for each door-open github.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 128

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Show HN: Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno github.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 77

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Building a no-code toxicity classifier by talking to GitHub Copilot surgehq.ai \| points: 206 \| comments: 139

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Cat Printer github.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 49

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Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client pidgin.im \| points: 198 \| comments: 95

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The flood that filled the Mediterranean Sea - in one year everythingisamazing.substack.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 57

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Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, study finds axios.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 116

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A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to Posix sh github.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 73

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Epistemic legibility: being easy to argue with is a virtue acesounderglass.com \| points: 180 \| comments: 37

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Brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts science.org \| points: 177 \| comments: 44

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