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Old CSS, new CSS / fuzzy notepad
Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming
Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy
01: Sebastian McKenzie on Babel and the Road to Rome
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Do large language models understand us?