Hacker News: Besthttps://news.ycombinator.com/bestHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:42:55 +0000<![CDATA[Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy]]>Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858850

Points: 370

# Comments: 148

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:44:57 +0000https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/edsimpsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858850https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858850
<![CDATA[The race to replace Redis]]>Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/966631/6bf2063136effa1e/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858144

Points: 401

# Comments: 231

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:27:29 +0000https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/966631/6bf2063136effa1e/chmaynardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858144https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858144
<![CDATA[You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it]]>Article URL: https://seancoates.com/blogs/matter-and-privacy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857433

Points: 369

# Comments: 127

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 21:19:10 +0000https://seancoates.com/blogs/matter-and-privacytodsacerdotihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857433https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857433
<![CDATA[What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane]]>Article URL: https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856413

Points: 689

# Comments: 420

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:42:21 +0000https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/doom2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856413https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856413
<![CDATA[NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++]]>Article URL: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182

Points: 429

# Comments: 264

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:50:59 +0000https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNextBrajeshwarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182
<![CDATA[Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison]]>Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-sentencing-03-28-24/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953

Points: 1155

# Comments: 1287

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:48:12 +0000https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-sentencing-03-28-24/index.htmlmisiti3780https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953
<![CDATA[LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge]]>Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2024/large-language-models-use-surprisingly-simple-mechanism-retrieve-stored-knowledge-0325

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852118

Points: 343

# Comments: 123

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:37:50 +0000https://news.mit.edu/2024/large-language-models-use-surprisingly-simple-mechanism-retrieve-stored-knowledge-0325CharlesWhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852118
<![CDATA[Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?]]>What are some exciting things that are happening in the #ML #DataScience world that we are not able to hear over the din of LLMs?

I notice that Cynthia rudin is continuing to produce great stuff on explainable AI.

What else is going on that is not GPT/Diffusion/MultiModal?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847

Points: 332

# Comments: 89

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:25:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847afliphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847
<![CDATA[Writing Gnome Apps with Swift]]>Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844936

Points: 542

# Comments: 270

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:40:59 +0000https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/msk-lywennhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844936https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844936
<![CDATA[MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan]]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/nyc-congestion-pricing-tolls-mta.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841703

Points: 388

# Comments: 783

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:03:22 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/nyc-congestion-pricing-tolls-mta.htmljaredwienerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841703
<![CDATA[Daniel Kahneman has died]]>Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286

Points: 975

# Comments: 298

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:09:13 +0000https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/mrjaegerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286
<![CDATA[DBRX: A new open LLM]]>Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838104

Points: 823

# Comments: 335

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:23:48 +0000https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llmjasondavieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838104
<![CDATA[Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study]]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/27/two-nights-of-broken-sleep-can-make-people-feel-years-older-finds-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837714

Points: 349

# Comments: 293

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:28:13 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/27/two-nights-of-broken-sleep-can-make-people-feel-years-older-finds-studyBrajeshwarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837714https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837714
<![CDATA[FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU]]>Article URL: https://www.furygpu.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745

Points: 423

# Comments: 122

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:37:38 +0000https://www.furygpu.comargulanehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745
<![CDATA[Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring]]>Hi everyone! I’m the founder of Explanations (https://explanations.app). I’m building a website where students can get college level math & physics help for 1/10th the cost of private tutoring. You’d type a question, and your teacher replies by drawing a Youtube/KhanAcademy-style video; and this happens asynchronously throughout the week.

When I was studying at MIT, I often had to wait 40-60 minutes in line just to get 5 minutes of “help” from a TA - when I needed 1-2 hours. I understood that TAs can’t spend all their time helping me. That’s understandable. But what made me bitter was that, the school went the extra mile to ensure I don’t have the resources to learn on my own,

1. Blocking access to solutions for past problems (to prevent cheating)

2. Purposely not recording explanations to increase attendance: https://piazza.com/class/ky0jj3k89mz5d2/post/9

3. Insisting that Office Hours is a 1-by-1 format even when crowded (to prevent solutions from leaking)

These policies have good intentions - it’s to encourage a synchronous, in-person learning experience. But in practice, it had side-effects:

1. Help resources become inefficient - because so much material is restricted, and so much time is spent on delivering live lectures, there’d often be 40 students competing for help from 2 TAs in a 2-hour Office Hours

2. Because help resources are inefficient, it’s very hard to catch-up: once you fall behind, you have no way to review past material efficiently enough to compensate the difference - like credit card debt

3.Every day, I’d wake up, go to a lecture I don’t understand, go to Office Hours so I can hopefully ask for a review (which’d would take a few hours), realize TAs aren’t willing to do that, then realize there is nothing I can do to recover. I fell into a depression for many years, and my bitterness fueled me to work on the early versions of explanations.app

It turns out that universities succeed by being prestigious, not by teaching well. To win at prestige, be highly selective (by keeping supply low), keep a huge endowment (because it affects school rankings), and hire the best researchers (not teachers). This is actually the fundamental reason for the odd incentives in higher education, and something felt wrong.

So explanations.app is completely inspired by KhanAcademy and Youtube. The mystery to me was - why weren’t there more Youtube teachers & KhanAcademy videos? I believe it’s a combination of:

1. People who teach college subjects well often have better opportunities e.g. work, research

2. Lack of rewards: even Youtubers with 100K views and 10K subscribers would have at most 1-5 paying members on Patreon

On the one hand, there are all these free resources, where teachers changed the world way more than they ever got rewarded for. Then on the other hand, there is private tutoring - very effective - but very expensive e.g. $100/hour for college level subjects.

I believe the balanced solution is a system where lots of students pay $10/week to a few teachers who make videos, like a paid, Q&A Youtube/KhanAcademy, so it’s personalized, effective, but still affordable.

There are currently 2 teachers on explanations.app - Ben & Esther - both MIT grads, teaching physics & math for subjects like linear algebra and electromagnetism. 3 students - Laquazia, Lidija and Chandra from US, Serbia and Korea joined this month following r/physicsStudents launch: [https://www.reddit.com/r/PhysicsStudents/comments/1b2t5u6/i_started_a_program_where_mit_grads_do_physics/]

While explanations.app is focused on college-level math and physics, the platform is completely open for anyone to learn and/or teach. I hope you can try it :^) and give me the chance to work with you.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836630

Points: 376

# Comments: 176

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:10:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836630eltonlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836630https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836630
<![CDATA[Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users]]>Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836350

Points: 393

# Comments: 218

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:10:11 +0000https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/vdddvhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836350https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836350
<![CDATA[Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?]]>I see so many AI product launches. Is there anyone who is working on non-AI products?

If so what are you working on?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695

Points: 347

# Comments: 503

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:25:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695jackedEngineerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695
<![CDATA[Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor]]>Hey HN! We’re Jack and Finn from Aqua Voice (https://withaqua.com/). Aqua is a voice-native document editor that combines reliable dictation and natural language commands, letting you say things like: “make this a list” or “it’s Erin with an E” or “add an inline citation here for page 86 of this book”. Here is a demo: https://youtu.be/qwSAKg1YafM.

Finn, who is big-time dyslexic, has been using dictation software since the sixth grade when his dad set him up on Dragon Dictation. He used it through school to write papers, and has been keeping his own transcription benchmarks since college. All that time, writing with your voice has remained a cumbersome and brittle experience that is riddled with painpoints.

Dictation software is still terrible. All the solutions basically compete on accuracy (i.e. speech recognition), but none of them deal with the fundamentally brittle nature of the text that they generate. They don't try to format text correctly and require you to learn a bunch of specialized commands, which often are not worth it. They're not even close to a voice replacement for a keyboard.

Even post LLM, you are limited to a set of specific commands and the most accurate models don’t have any commands. Outside of these rules, the models have no sense for what is an instruction and what is content. You can’t say “and format this like an email” or “make the last bullet point shorter”. Aqua solves this.

This problem is important to Finn and millions of other people who would write with their voice if they could. Initially, we didn't think of it as a startup project. It was just something we wanted for ourselves. We thought maybe we'd write a novel with it - or something. After friends started asking to use the early versions of Aqua, it occurred to us that, if we didn't build it, maybe nobody would.

Aqua Voice is a text editor that you talk to like a person. Depending on the way that you say it and the context in which you're operating, Aqua decides whether to transcribe what you said verbatim, execute a command, or subtly modify what you said into what you meant to write.

For example, if you were to dictate: "Gryphons have classic forms resembling shield volcanoes," Aqua would output your text verbatim. But if you stumble over your words or start a sentence over a few times, Aqua is smart enough to figure that out and to only take the last version of the sentence.

The vision is not only to provide a more natural dictation experience, but to enable for the first time an AI-writing experience that feels natural and collaborative. This requires moving away from using LLMs for one-off chat requests and towards something that is more like streaming where you are in constant contact with the model. Voice is the natural medium for this.

Aqua is actually 6 models working together to transcribe, interpret, and rewrite the document according to your intent. Technically, executing a real-time voice application with a language model at its core requires complex coordination between multiple pieces. We use MoE transcription to outperform what was previously thought possible in terms of real-time accuracy. Then we sync up with a language model to determine what should be on the screen as quickly as possible.

The model isn't perfect, but it is ready for early adopters and we’ve already been getting feedback from grateful users. For example, a historian with carpal tunnel sent us an email he wrote using Aqua and said that he is now able to be five times as productive as he was previously. We've heard from other people with disabilities that prevent them from typing. We've also seen good adoption from people who are dyslexic or simply prefer talking to typing. It’s being used for everything from emails to brainstorming to papers to legal briefings.

While there is much left to do in terms of latency and robustness, the best experiences with Aqua are beginning to feel magical. We would love for you to try it out and give us feedback, which you can do with no account on https://withaqua.com. If you find it useful, it’s $10/month after a 1000-token free trial. (We want to bump the free trial in the future, but we're a small team, and running this thing isn’t cheap.)

We’d love to hear your ideas and comments with voice-to-text!


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686

Points: 701

# Comments: 233

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:53:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686the_kinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686
<![CDATA[Flipping Pages: New Linux vulnerability in nf_tables and exploitation techniques]]>Article URL: https://pwning.tech/nftables/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828424

Points: 400

# Comments: 114

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:35:33 +0000https://pwning.tech/nftables/Unroll0201https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828424https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828424
<![CDATA[Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO]]>Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/26/rust-cdo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827645

Points: 357

# Comments: 238

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:36:40 +0000https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/26/rust-cdo/Tomtehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827645https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827645
<![CDATA[Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses]]>Article URL: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-key-bridge/60303975

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827266

Points: 703

# Comments: 1101

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:58:21 +0000https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-key-bridge/60303975tbihlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827266https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827266
<![CDATA[Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16]]>Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/floridas-desantis-signs-law-restricting-social-media-people-under-16-2024-03-25

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827113

Points: 330

# Comments: 728

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:41:02 +0000https://www.reuters.com/world/us/floridas-desantis-signs-law-restricting-social-media-people-under-16-2024-03-25hotdailyshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827113https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827113
<![CDATA[Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)]]>Article URL: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/sega-saturn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39825901

Points: 326

# Comments: 229

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:51:42 +0000https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/sega-saturn/StefanBatoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39825901https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39825901
<![CDATA[The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed]]>Article URL: https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1772514015790477667

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39825033

Points: 725

# Comments: 2

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:25:09 +0000https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1772514015790477667repelsteeltjehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39825033https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39825033
<![CDATA[Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe]]>Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canva-acquires-affinity-design-suite-004813952.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824191

Points: 330

# Comments: 340

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:05:45 +0000https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canva-acquires-affinity-design-suite-004813952.htmlachowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824191https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824191
<![CDATA[Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture]]>Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39822184

Points: 351

# Comments: 183

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:56:37 +0000https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecturec_jolyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39822184https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39822184
<![CDATA[ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based platforms]]>Article URL: https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/zenhammer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819599

Points: 326

# Comments: 132

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:20:05 +0000https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/zenhammer/transputehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819599https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819599
<![CDATA[Two open source projects with great architecture documentation]]>Article URL: https://johnjago.com/great-docs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819409

Points: 366

# Comments: 35

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:58:56 +0000https://johnjago.com/great-docs/johnjagohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819409
<![CDATA[Show HN: Jampack – Optimizes static websites as a post-processing step]]>Hi!

Jampack is a post-processing tool that takes the output of your Static Site Generator (aka SSG) and optimizes it for best user experience and best Core Web Vitals scores.

As of today it can:

- Optimize local images, CDN images or external images

- Optimize above-the-fold vs below-the-fold

- Limit images max width

- Inline critical CSS

- Prefetch links on scroll

- Improve browser compatibility

- Auto-fixes HTML issues

- Warn for HTML accessibility issues

- Compress all assets in the end

It processes directly the static output so it's compatible with any SSG or framework. We are intensively using it as a post-processing step to our Astro websites for example.

With Jampack, we end-up focusing more on how simple, readable and maintainable our code is, throw images of any size, and let it optimize for maximum performance.

We hope this can be helpful to lot of people! Cheers, Georges and the ‹div›RIOTS team!


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816836

Points: 320

# Comments: 58

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:32:46 +0000https://github.com/divriots/jampackgeorges_gomeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816836https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816836
<![CDATA[Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026]]>Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/travel/sagrada-familia-barcelona-completion-scli-intl/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815805

Points: 496

# Comments: 326

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:06:44 +0000https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/travel/sagrada-familia-barcelona-completion-scli-intl/index.htmlmooredshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815805