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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
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simonwillison.net
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| 331 points by
bilsbie
7 hours ago
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The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
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berkeley.edu
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| 174 points by
ronbenton
6 hours ago
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80 comments
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Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler
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axler.net
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| 16 points by
the-mitr
1 hour ago
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5 comments
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A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
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rvembedded.com
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| 465 points by
Narishma
14 hours ago
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239 comments
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AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
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meanhamster.com
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| 66 points by
erickhill
5 hours ago
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9 comments
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Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
(
reticulum.network
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| 91 points by
sudo_cowsay
7 hours ago
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22 comments
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Claude: System Prompts
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claude.com
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| 625 points by
tosh
18 hours ago
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249 comments
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Rhombus 1.1 is now available
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racket-lang.org
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| 61 points by
spdegabrielle
6 hours ago
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21 comments
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Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter
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lowtechlab.org
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×1.45
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| 156 points by
Bluestein
13 hours ago
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41 comments
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Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”
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science.org
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×1.19
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| 37 points by
gumby
6 hours ago
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7 comments
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Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
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vocalslice.com
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| 14 points by
terranivium
3 hours ago
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5 comments
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Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)
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breakintochat.com
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| 47 points by
bananaboy
7 hours ago
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11 comments
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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
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pikuma.com
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| 108 points by
ibobev
12 hours ago
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43 comments
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Design 3D-printable parts by talking
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nurb.dev
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| 8 points by
mkmk
2 hours ago
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3 comments
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GIMP Development Update
(
gimp.org
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| 19 points by
lumpa
3 hours ago
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discuss
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$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM
(
semianalysis.com
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| 23 points by
_delirium
1 hour ago
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6 comments
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Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)
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epfl.ch
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| 9 points by
andsoitis
4 hours ago
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1 comments
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Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
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github.com/crabbuild
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| 31 points by
forhappy
6 hours ago
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1 comments
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Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012)
(
wolfram.com
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| 38 points by
surprisetalk
8 hours ago
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4 comments
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The AI Credit Resale Economy
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vectoral.com
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| 268 points by
mlenhard
16 hours ago
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113 comments
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How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
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google.com
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×2.72
| 88 points by
dt3ft
9 hours ago
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54 comments
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MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
(
math-ai-org.github.io
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| 86 points by
homarp
12 hours ago
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27 comments
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Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
(
techcrunch.com
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| 300 points by
zacharyozer
10 hours ago
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198 comments
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Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome
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buf.build
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×1.25
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| 141 points by
theanonymousone
12 hours ago
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92 comments
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Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI
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cam.ac.uk
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| 44 points by
hardlianotion
11 hours ago
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7 comments
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Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
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youtube.com
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| 64 points by
tobr
14 hours ago
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16 comments
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Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
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nnamgreb.de
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| 104 points by
emptybits
16 hours ago
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14 comments
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Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
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reuters.com
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| 192 points by
root-parent
10 hours ago
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87 comments
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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
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mozilla.org
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| 629 points by
pentagrama
18 hours ago
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253 comments
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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
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| 432 points by
stagas
13 hours ago
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109 comments
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Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
(
wustl.edu
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| 84 points by
lermontov
15 hours ago
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23 comments
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St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
(
wptv.com
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| 184 points by
toomuchtodo
15 hours ago
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136 comments
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The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
(
highereddive.com
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| 202 points by
walrus01
6 hours ago
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92 comments
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A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
(
ei3lh.eu
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| 103 points by
austinallegro
18 hours ago
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11 comments
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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
(
tasklet.ai
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17 hours ago
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discuss
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Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
(
hwbusters.com
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| 141 points by
txrx0000
23 hours ago
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42 comments
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Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
(
brandur.org
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| 147 points by
abelanger
21 hours ago
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94 comments
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A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem
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arxiv.org
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| 92 points by
matt_d
21 hours ago
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35 comments
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Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama
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ianvisits.co.uk
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| 27 points by
brod_ie
15 hours ago
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3 comments
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Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
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nature.com
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| 67 points by
sbulaev
21 hours ago
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15 comments
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The FastLanes Unified Transport Layout
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dave.tf
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| 5 points by
raggi
6 hours ago
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discuss
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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
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google.com
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| 385 points by
Alifatisk
18 hours ago
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134 comments
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Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
(
publicdomainreview.org
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| 27 points by
samclemens
15 hours ago
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3 comments
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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
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w4g1.dev
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| 304 points by
hruvhwe
12 hours ago
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170 comments
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The Marvelously Inventive Life of Mária Telkes (2023)
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pbs.org
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| 6 points by
mooreds
5 hours ago
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1 comments
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
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science.org
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| 149 points by
brandonb
14 hours ago
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75 comments
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A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs
(
bernsteinbear.com
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| 68 points by
evakhoury
9 hours ago
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43 comments
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If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever
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bbc.com
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| 27 points by
tartoran
4 hours ago
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5 comments
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The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains
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wunc.org
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| 28 points by
yareally
14 hours ago
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10 comments
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Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
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falstad.com
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| 69 points by
pykello
1 day ago
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14 comments
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AI Coding Without the Vibes
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peterbloem.nl
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| 82 points by
riskone
20 hours ago
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49 comments
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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
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anthropic.com
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| 183 points by
maxutility
1 day ago
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130 comments
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In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall
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slowtravelberlin.com
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| 19 points by
yitchelle
11 hours ago
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3 comments
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TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video]
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youtube.com
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| 20 points by
eig
6 hours ago
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6 comments
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Qwen 3.8 27B
(
huggingface.co
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| 1417 points by
erdaltoprak
2 days ago
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787 comments
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US Air Force jet engine manufacturing plagued by 'significant challenges'
(
militarytimes.com
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| 10 points by
toomuchtodo
3 hours ago
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5 comments
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Asus Bike Booster
(
asus.com
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×2.96
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| 617 points by
wiradikusuma
1 day ago
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434 comments
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Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
(
micdrop.gg
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| 82 points by
johnsillings
1 day ago
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37 comments
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Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
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duckdb.org
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| 275 points by
pdet
1 day ago
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31 comments
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GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
(
newyorker.com
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×1.12
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| 77 points by
karakoram
16 hours ago
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63 comments
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AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
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arxiv.org
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| 55 points by
Jimmc414
1 day ago
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7 comments
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The weekend is 100 years old
(
theguardian.com
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| 192 points by
lentil_soup
15 hours ago
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135 comments
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
(
henrikkarlsson.xyz
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| 268 points by
felixbraun
1 day ago
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63 comments
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Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite
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notebook.link
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| 68 points by
xalfotis
1 day ago
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16 comments
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Nobody Knows Anything
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strangeloopcanon.com
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| 8 points by
gtirloni
8 hours ago
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1 comments
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Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
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daringfireball.net
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| 176 points by
ropbear
9 hours ago
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176 comments
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At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
(
smithsonianmag.com
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| 291 points by
gmays
1 day ago
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119 comments
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GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
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z.ai
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| 1156 points by
pella
3 days ago
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573 comments
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Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
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wiley.com
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| 485 points by
randycupertino
1 day ago
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384 comments
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What I learned securing Sniffnet with the GitHub secure open source fund
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sniffnet.app
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×0.25
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| 16 points by
dmit
19 hours ago
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3 comments
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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
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bearblog.dev
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| 448 points by
tosh
1 day ago
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92 comments
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Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs
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github.com/marsbos
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×1.10
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| 9 points by
bosmarcel
13 hours ago
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1 comments
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Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons
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sciencedaily.com
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×1.83
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| 16 points by
gradus_ad
5 hours ago
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discuss
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Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector
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github.com/cesarblum
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×1.01
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| 5 points by
sigalor
13 hours ago
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discuss
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The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
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ivan-gavran.github.io
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×1.15
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| 88 points by
ghuntley
10 hours ago
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100 comments
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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
(
acc.org
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| 330 points by
theanonymousone
1 day ago
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302 comments
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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)
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tinkerings.org
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×1.03
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| 112 points by
Eridanus2
1 day ago
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27 comments
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Health benefits of Tai Chi
(
harvard.edu
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| 42 points by
helloplanets
1 day ago
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25 comments
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AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward
(
science.org
)
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| 184 points by
AnodicElegy
1 day ago
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90 comments
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Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX at end of second quarter
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cnbc.com
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| 42 points by
johnbarron
12 hours ago
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21 comments
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RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
(
dmitry.gr
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| 383 points by
dmitrygr
1 day ago
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437 comments
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Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
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ieee.org
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| 29 points by
adm4
1 day ago
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13 comments
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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor
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github.com/wmww
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×1.06
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| 84 points by
schmorptron
1 day ago
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14 comments
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An image can overflow
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master.dev
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| 60 points by
ibobev
1 day ago
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20 comments
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Octopuses could help us conceptualize a different form of intelligence
(
cbc.ca
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| 9 points by
colinprince
5 hours ago
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2 comments
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Connecting my Illumos box to a Japanese ISP
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skalski.dev
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×1.37
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| 20 points by
mskalski
23 hours ago
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discuss
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Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
(
mun-logadan.github.io
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×4.56
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| 969 points by
numeri
2 days ago
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858 comments
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Tea5767-Radio-Tuner
(
github.com/turtushig22-blip
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| 56 points by
turtushig22
1 day ago
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4 comments
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Treasury Orders Erasure of Domestic Ownership Records
(
treasury.gov
)
×2.67
8
| 43 points by
Jimmc414
13 hours ago
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8 comments
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Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension
(
julius383.github.io
)
×1.42
86
| 10 points by
kajm
17 hours ago
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discuss
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