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Article URL: https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165346

Points: 44

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Article URL: https://mtsunews.com/worlds-largest-punk-archive-moves-to-center-for-popular-music/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163877

Points: 16

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Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/chinese/562914/it-workers-struggling-in-new-zealand-s-tight-job-market

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166033

Points: 23

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Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-the-humanities-more-important

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166102

Points: 6

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Article URL: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/tech-trends/japanese-scientists-develop-artificial-blood/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163428

Points: 57

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Article URL: http://balaji-amg.surge.sh/blog/typing-118-wpm-brain-rewiring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162327

Points: 88

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Article URL: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/engineering/conformance-checking-at-mongodb-testing-our-code-matches-our-tla-specs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163496

Points: 29

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Article URL: https://dafny.org/blog/2023/12/15/teaching-program-verification-in-dafny-at-amazon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163618

Points: 7

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/snowflake-to-buy-crunchy-data-for-250-million-233543ab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162443

Points: 35

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I’ve been building absurd, mostly useless web projects for fun — and I publish one every month at absurd.website.

These are deliberately non-functional, weird, sometimes funny, sometimes philosophical — and usually totally unnecessary.

Some examples:

Sexy Math — solve math problems to reveal erotic images.

Trip to Mars — a real-time simulation that takes 7 months to finish.

Add Luck to Your e-Store — add a waving cat widget to boost your conversion via superstition.

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