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h3throwon Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

NYT spam?

I'll bite. What makes a (generally considered) reputable news outlet such as the NYT reporting on relatively major news spam?

h3throwon South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life

Yeah, I think the comparison to a monastery really helps with understanding here.

h3throwon Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing

I used this a lot when I worked at Uber. Very similar but maps to variably sized Hexagons which were nice for things like surge/dispatch algorithms: https://github.com/uber/h3