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Jan Koum (WhatsApp cofounder) tops AIPAC donor list (trackaipac.com)

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Designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction (whitehouse.gov)

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Samsung Internet Browser Launches on Windows (samsung.com)

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Victorian-Era Downtown Los Angeles (wikipedia.org)

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The Perplexity Search API (perplexity.ai)

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Opinion: Europe's VCs must embrace risk – or resign the AI era to US control (thenextweb.com)

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The Disappearance of Saturday Morning (2003) (awn.com)

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Rats in New York City (wikipedia.org)

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Scottish Colonization of the Americas (wikipedia.org)

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: Some Thoughts on Generative AI (aboutamazon.com)

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FCC Approves Verizon-Frontier Merger [pdf] (fcc.gov)

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Support changes to our earliest generation Nest Learning Thermostats (googlenestcommunity.com)

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AI Accent Conversion for call centers (krisp.ai)

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Designating English as the Official Language of the United States (whitehouse.gov)

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In memo to Google's AI team, Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is 'sweet spot' (yahoo.com)

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Every .gov Domain (flatgithub.com)

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Open Euro LLM (openeurollm.eu)

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A Plan for Establishing a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund (whitehouse.gov)

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Thunderbird Appointment (appointment.day)

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No shrubs and lots of concrete: This is what a fire-resistant house looks like (fastcompany.com)

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Music Torture in the War on Terror (wikipedia.org)

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Uniweather.js: Get weather data directly from national weather services (github.com/ghobs91)

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NYC Council passes zoning reforms to create 82K homes, $5B for infrastructure (nyc.gov)

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House Select Subcommittee: Covid likely emerged from accidental lab leak [pdf] (house.gov)

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70% of the US Dept of Ed budget backs the majority of student loans (usaspending.gov)

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Bridgy Fed generates Mastodon and Bluesky profiles to follow websites (brid.gy)

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Show HN: Chronicl – Decentralized Internet Archive distributed on Nostr relays (chronicl.vercel.app)

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Most Public Engagement Is Worthless (strongtowns.org)

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Decentralized Tech Ecosystem Map (kumu.io)

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China's New Nuclear Submarine Sank During Mysterious Incident in Wuhan (twz.com)

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Unbundle Disney (unbundledisney.com)

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Google in talks to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23B (theverge.com)

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First Official NYC Trash Bins (bins.nyc)

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Mass. statewide 911 outage caused by firewall false positive blocking 911 calls (mass.gov)

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Kscien List of Predatory Academic Publishers (kscien.org)

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Show HN: Velox – PWA RSS Reader with no accounts, feeds saved locally (veloxreader.app)

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[flagged] Microwaves Not Made in China (aintfromchina.com)

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Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore bridge collapse at $43.7M (uscourts.gov)

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Ibis, the Federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)

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Fluent Emoji: Microsoft's open source emoji library (github.com/microsoft)

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Aipac uncorks $100M war chest to sink progressive candidates (politico.com)

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Weather.gov 2.0 (github.com/weather-gov)

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Nonprofit Explorer (propublica.org)

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Trump Heights (wikipedia.org)

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LessPass: Generates passwords offline based on a login, a master pass, and a url (github.com/lesspass)

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Timeline of the Demographics of Palestine (Region) (wikipedia.org)

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Updates on the Xbox Business [video] (youtube.com)

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Walmart in talks to buy TV maker Vizio for more than $2B (theverge.com)

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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work with Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (wired.com)

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The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy (backblaze.com)

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" We are worried," says European rocket chief at prospect of launch competition (ft.com)

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From Dallas to Gaza: The JFK Assassination Was Good for Israel (mintpressnews.com)

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Impulse Induction Stove: boils water in 40s and has backup battery for outages (impulselabs.com)

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List of Shoe-Throwing Incidents (wikipedia.org)

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Flightsrights.gov (transportation.gov)

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National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (justice.gov)

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Show HN: Agora – Beeper for Social Networks (Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Twitter) (agorasocial.app)

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Performance.gov: Track the U.S. government's goals (performance.gov)

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Trust-based moderation systems (cblgh.org)

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EIA forecasts residential heating costs (natural gas) 21% lower than last winter (eia.gov)

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Feeling Optimistic about Egypt (noahpinion.blog)

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Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board (twitter.com/openai)

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Statement from President Joe Biden on the Hostage Release Deal in Gaza (whitehouse.gov)

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FTC.gov: Fortnite Refunds (ftc.gov)

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Volunteer.gov: Discover volunteer opportunities around the country (volunteer.gov)

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China Slowdown Means It May Never Overtake US Economy, Forecast Shows (bloomberg.com)

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ProPublica: Find out why your health insurer denied your claim (propublica.org)

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China permits SMIC founder to have churches on company campuses (2008) (csmonitor.com)

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SEC Charges Co-CEOs of Bitwise for Falsifying Documents While Raising $70M (sec.gov)

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Show HN: Primus News – Actionable news, directly from the primary source (primus.news)

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1,800 Gen Z and Millennial Lawmakers are uniting under the name "Future Caucus" (futurecaucus.org)

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Gulf War Syndrome (wikipedia.org)

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2023 Holiday to Reach Record Spending Levels (nrf.com)

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FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf] (fcc.gov)

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AI.gov (ai.gov)

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Cloudflare Browser Market Share Report (cloudflare.com)

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Nixon Jew Count (wikipedia.org)

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U.S. News Ranking: Most Powerful Countries (usnews.com)

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Lockheed Martin Raider X Attack Helicopter (lockheedmartin.com)

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The Snapdragon X Series for PC (qualcomm.com)

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National Vulnerability Database (nist.gov)

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Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone (cloudflare.com)

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Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999) (meforum.org)

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Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search (bitmagnet.io)

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How the fall of the Roman Empire paved the road to modernity (aeon.co)

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Storry.tv: decentralized video hosting site that uses IPFS to store/serve videos (storry.tv)

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KartaView: Open-source and crowdsourced street level imagery (kartaview.org)

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The Age of the Universe (geraldschroeder.com)

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Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic group (wikipedia.org)

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Heisse Preise: Fetches price data from big Austrian grocery chains daily (heisse-preise.io)

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America’s Boom: 1M Units Built in 3 Years. NYC top builder with 33k apts (rentcafe.com)

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Punjabi Mexican Americans (wikipedia.org)

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New Great Migration (wikipedia.org)

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DTV Reception Maps (fcc.gov)

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FBI Capitol Violence Images (fbi.gov)

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These are the 10 wealthiest cities in the world–3 of them are in the U.S. (cnbc.com)

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NASA's New Website Is in Beta (nasa.gov)

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LifeVac Choking Rescue Device (lifevac.net)

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Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties (nih.gov)

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Avocado Economy: Why Russia can't produce anything (kamilkazani.substack.com)