Daily Top Stories
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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (hey.paris)
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (simonwillison.net)
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Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order (torrentfreak.com)
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Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
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1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023) (ghibli.jp)
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I tried Gleam for Advent of Code (blog.tymscar.com)
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YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same (cnbc.com)
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LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted (old.reddit.com)
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VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits (ipinfo.io)
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Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
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Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet (pv-magazine-usa.com)
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We built another object storage (fractalbits.com)
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Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data (wired.com)
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50 years of proof assistants (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
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Dick Van Dyke turns 100 (theguardian.com)
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A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021) (woodrush.github.io)
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Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost (science.org)
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The Checkerboard (99percentinvisible.org)
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Poor Johnny still won't encrypt (bfswa.substack.com)
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Oliver sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost? (newyorker.com)
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Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad? (npr.org)
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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] (youtube.com)
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Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith (twilio.com)
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Pope criticizes US bid to 'break apart' US-Europe alliance (apnews.com)
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The Coming Need for Formal Specification (benjamincongdon.me)
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Building an efficient hash table in Java (bluuewhale.github.io)
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AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement (wbur.org)
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Workday project at Washington University hits $266M (theregister.com)
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Think Tanker Altered Ukraine War Map Before Big Polymarket Payout (responsiblestatecraft.org)
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I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model (susam.net)