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frb

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    Old bank notes are not in circulation forever. They are accounted for by serial numbers. Banks and ATMs can process the serials and designs and report them. Eventually bank notes g…

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    Comment #49033588

    > I wonder why do we need new notes... Every redesign introduces new (secret) watermarks, patterns that are hard to copy, so it's also a "tech" update. Eventually more and more of …

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    Comment #48959345

    By now I’m more and more starting to wonder how this graph looks for Google itself

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    Comment #48940267

    I wanted to try it today. Had to request access on huggingface, which was still not answered after a day. Given all the Inkling and Kimi announcements, this atm just feels like too…

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    Comment #48788095

    I don’t understand Merz’s obsession with this sick leave topic, like this is going solve the economic crisis in Germany and calling people lazy will score points with voters? Fun f…

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    Comment #48774017

    But why would you still test for IE in 2026? Honest question. I’s < .5% market share and retired since 2023.

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    Comment #48773922

    All this felt heavy to me. Full browser, debug protocol, DOM dump on every read. MCP vs CLI is the smaller question, what sits underneath matters more. So I built a small Rust bina…

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    Comment #48773872

    Had the same experience with Claude, just somehow the entire thing felt (token) expensive.

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    Comment #48759407

    Put a maid's uniform on it and looks almost like Rosey for the Jetsons (1962): https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Rosey Now honest question: How is all of that Daily Reset and Laun…

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    ...the influx of contributions authored or submitted by AI is sapping the projects' maintainers of their willingness to confront the "already tedious" work of reviewing pull reques…

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    Show HN: Vibesurfer – a token-efficient browser for AI agents, no Chromium/CDP

    I grew tired of numerous Chrome/Playwright/Puppeteer skills and MCP plugins, which for me felt quite heavy and unstable. So I built this to allow my agents to efficiently test and …

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    Comment #48570591

    It looks like an updated HomePod mini

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