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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
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laurentiugabriel.github.io
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| 245 points by
laurentiurad
3 hours ago
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The Hacker's Renaissance
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phrack.org
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| 41 points by
yu3zhou4
2 hours ago
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The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
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andymasley.com
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| 39 points by
mef
2 hours ago
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New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it
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propelmusic.co.nz
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| 28 points by
berghoffer
1 hour ago
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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| 139 points by
david927
5 hours ago
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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
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terrygodier.com
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| 515 points by
satvikpendem
9 hours ago
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The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
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economist.com
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| 46 points by
simonpure
2 hours ago
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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
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w3.org
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| 146 points by
Klaster_1
7 hours ago
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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
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theconversation.com
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| 127 points by
jader201
7 hours ago
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94 comments
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Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]
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youtube.com
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| 15 points by
jackdoe
2 hours ago
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Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
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tuxedono2.com
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| 12 points by
smartmic
1 hour ago
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OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
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openchamber.dev
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| 85 points by
hexomancer
5 hours ago
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46 comments
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I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
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mynoise.net
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| 32 points by
gregsadetsky
3 hours ago
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7 comments
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How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
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newyorker.com
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| 25 points by
tintinnabula
4 hours ago
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6 comments
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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)
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kibotronics.net
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| 109 points by
Kiboneu
8 hours ago
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65 comments
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Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
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github.com/yegors
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| 48 points by
campuscodi
2 hours ago
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Everything you do is being recorded
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theatlantic.com
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| 158 points by
ike_usawa
11 hours ago
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When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8
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nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
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rbanffy
4 hours ago
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4 comments
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Touring the Consensus, Six Months In
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theconsensus.dev
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| 3 points by
tosh
1 hour ago
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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
(
notebookcheck.net
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| 287 points by
akyuu
7 hours ago
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243 comments
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Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5
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github.com/rochus-keller
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| 98 points by
Rochus
9 hours ago
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Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices
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raed.dev
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| 11 points by
Raed667
2 hours ago
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The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle
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science.org
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| 7 points by
toomuchtodo
1 hour ago
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4 comments
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Crickets as pets
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wikipedia.org
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| 68 points by
Michelangelo11
7 hours ago
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31 comments
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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
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oskrim.github.io
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| 104 points by
tremguy
10 hours ago
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There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order
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gukov.dev
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| 176 points by
gukoff
15 hours ago
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28 comments
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Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
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theregister.com
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| 61 points by
joebuckwilliams
3 hours ago
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26 comments
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Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win
(
alphabetsoup.club
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| 13 points by
johnchinjew
2 hours ago
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9 comments
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Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing
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github.com/eighttrigrams
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| 39 points by
eighttrigrams
7 hours ago
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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
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github.com/jmarshall23
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| 158 points by
BruceEel
17 hours ago
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66 comments
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Archival Resource Key (ARK) Alliance
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arks.org
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| 3 points by
cxr
2 hours ago
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discuss
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The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)
(
halfhill.com
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| 73 points by
Lammy
12 hours ago
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60 comments
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If experience is the goal, then you always win
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startingfromnix.com
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| 47 points by
jger15
3 hours ago
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7 comments
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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
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techeblog.com
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| 188 points by
Thorondor
7 hours ago
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64 comments
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Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse
(
wtoc.com
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chirau
1 hour ago
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4 comments
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Is it all just vapourware?
(
kirahowe.com
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| 70 points by
Lyngbakr
1 hour ago
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111 comments
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Every fast write moves work somewhere else
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shayon.dev
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shayonj
6 hours ago
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19 comments
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Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud
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informs.org
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| 176 points by
iamnothere
7 hours ago
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81 comments
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Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions
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github.com/nMaroulis
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| 12 points by
nmaroulis21
5 hours ago
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To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes
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nytimes.com
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| 5 points by
mooreds
30 minutes ago
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Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium
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euronews.com
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| 93 points by
andrewstetsenko
2 hours ago
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96 comments
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A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample
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wordpress.com
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| 25 points by
ijustlovemath
8 hours ago
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CRT-TV-Emulator
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github.com/AARomanov1985
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xterminal
2 hours ago
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A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite
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github.com/nsrht
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| 21 points by
thunderbong
3 hours ago
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2 comments
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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
(
techcrunch.com
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| 220 points by
evo_9
7 hours ago
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178 comments
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Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]
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youtube.com
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| 65 points by
johnbarron
10 hours ago
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117 comments
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The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground
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practical.engineering
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| 121 points by
michaefe
15 hours ago
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34 comments
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UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account
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unyolo.io
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| 12 points by
hosolmaz
6 hours ago
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1 comments
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Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s
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npr.org
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| 4 points by
mooreds
28 minutes ago
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Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future
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douwe.com
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dosinga
8 hours ago
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5 comments
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Cross-compilation with Wails (2025)
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chriswheeler.dev
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auraham
5 hours ago
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IRC technology news from the first half of 2026
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ilmarilauhakangas.fi
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| 10 points by
birdculture
2 hours ago
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Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
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nytimes.com
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| 63 points by
bookofjoe
3 hours ago
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58 comments
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My server is a phone now
(
seg6.space
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| 481 points by
seg6
23 hours ago
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234 comments
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Noctua finds more than half of PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances
(
tomshardware.com
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| 11 points by
sbulaev
3 hours ago
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TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics
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theoremdb.org
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| 88 points by
frozenseven
21 hours ago
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14 comments
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Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
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bbc.com
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| 108 points by
tchalla
23 hours ago
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117 comments
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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
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arstechnica.com
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Eloissssss
20 hours ago
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53 comments
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Lawyers using "AI" could face sanctions including costs for fake citations
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irishtimes.com
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| 3 points by
1vuio0pswjnm7
55 minutes ago
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Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation
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airy.so
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| 33 points by
login588
13 hours ago
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15 comments
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Romania Extends Nuclear Reactor Output by Nine Days After Danube Blasts
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bloomberg.com
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| 6 points by
alephnerd
1 hour ago
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1 comments
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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
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os8088.com
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| 242 points by
jggonz
22 hours ago
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159 comments
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Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
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bbc.com
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| 41 points by
1659447091
18 hours ago
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51 comments
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Kill Switch (X-Files episode)
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wikipedia.org
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| 5 points by
theopsimist
1 hour ago
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Fastmail offers EU data region
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fastmail.com
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| 493 points by
groomlake
1 day ago
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282 comments
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TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 (2024, video)
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youtube.com
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| 4 points by
Velocifyer
1 hour ago
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FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US
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tomshardware.com
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| 100 points by
f-serif
6 hours ago
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90 comments
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The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)
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longbets.org
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| 193 points by
doubletwoyou
17 hours ago
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94 comments
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Dithered QR Codes
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andrewt.net
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| 353 points by
jmusall
23 hours ago
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41 comments
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harness
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antigma.ai
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| 25 points by
ubermon
13 hours ago
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5 comments
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Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)
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stanford.edu
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| 49 points by
Doriell
11 hours ago
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91 comments
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Message your other Claude Code sessions
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claude.com
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| 148 points by
mfiguiere
1 day ago
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66 comments
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Tesla Driver Tries 'I Wasn't Driving' Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket
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gizmodo.com
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| 7 points by
ripe
3 hours ago
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6 comments
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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
(
senko.net
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| 854 points by
senko
1 day ago
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CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
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portswigger.net
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| 87 points by
ashurandi
12 hours ago
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33 comments
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Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?
(
cbc.ca
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| 4 points by
empressplay
1 hour ago
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_for-sale DNS records
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specification.website
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| 427 points by
shaunpud
1 day ago
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161 comments
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NoRecognition: AI Adversarial Clothing
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norecognition.org
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windyVector
6 hours ago
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1 comments
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Literary Sins
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thedial.world
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| 23 points by
lermontov
6 hours ago
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3 comments
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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
(
daringfireball.net
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| 315 points by
minimaxir
19 hours ago
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60 comments
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How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp
(
unherd.com
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| 37 points by
bookofjoe
14 hours ago
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7 comments
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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
(
deepmind.google
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| 432 points by
bhavansig
1 day ago
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129 comments
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Relying on Go
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antonz.org
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| 26 points by
ibobev
7 hours ago
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discuss
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Why are German heat pumps more expensive?
(
janrosenow.substack.com
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| 14 points by
DamonHD
4 hours ago
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4 comments
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SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost
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404media.co
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| 89 points by
theanonymousone
14 hours ago
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67 comments
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Emacs for NvChads
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qlain.online
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| 7 points by
etoql
9 hours ago
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discuss
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70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic [video]
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youtube.com
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| 65 points by
johnbarron
10 hours ago
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80 comments
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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
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oup.com
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| 169 points by
bohaska
21 hours ago
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199 comments
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Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon
(
frequal.com
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| 48 points by
TeaVMFan
5 hours ago
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50 comments
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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
(
noemamag.com
)
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| 1045 points by
RickJWagner
2 days ago
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1281 comments
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