Top news for December 21, 2008

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Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

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Mux (YC W16) is hiring a platform engineer that cares about (internal) DX

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I tried Plaud's new NotePin S at CES - and it might be the Otter.ai replacement I've been looking for