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1.How I got my laser eye injury (funraniumlabs.com)
792 points by omnibrain on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 361 comments [ext]
2.Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech (100r.co)
780 points by Bluestein on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 488 comments [ext]
3.Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters (fal.ai)
683 points by CuriouslyC on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 226 comments [ext]
4. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
4.Robot dentist performs first human procedure (newatlas.com)
351 points by voxadam on July 31, 2024 [ext] | 369 comments [ext]
5.Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead (groups.google.com)
738 points by bojanz on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 371 comments [ext]
6.I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go (github.com/cgzirim)
494 points by ccgzirim on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
7. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
7.Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans (proofpoint.com)
320 points by luu on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
8.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024) [ext]
383 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 467 comments [ext]
9.Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers (science.org)
400 points by igitur on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
10. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments
10.Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images (stability.ai)
321 points by meetpateltech on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
11.Artificial intelligence gives weather forecasters a new edge (nytimes.com)
158 points by petethomas on July 29, 2024 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
12.Space is a latent sequence: A theory of the hippocampus (science.org)
162 points by XzetaU8 on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
13. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
13.How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process (vercel.com)
200 points by ea016 on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
14.Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024) [ext]
157 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 388 comments [ext]
15.xdg-override: change default application temporarily on Linux (github.com/koiuo)
132 points by koiueo on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
16. The Cybersecurity Stack Was Built on Assumptions AI Just Broke ()
486 points by gtm4646 84 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs (embedding.io)
305 points by tompec on July 30, 2024 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
17.Parasites are everywhere. Why do so few researchers study them? (smithsonianmag.com)
196 points by sohkamyung on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
18.The effect of CRTs on pixel art (datagubbe.se)
286 points by zdw on July 31, 2024 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
19. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 9 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
19.DIY, 8mm film scanner Kotokino Mark IV (2020) (sabulo.com)
91 points by noyesno on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
20.Just disconnect the internet (computer.rip)
402 points by bathtub365 on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 210 comments [ext]
21.SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant (snowflakeos.org)
215 points by tkz1312 on July 31, 2024 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
22. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
22.WordGrinder: A simple word processor that runs on the console (github.com/davidgiven)
105 points by netule on July 31, 2024 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
23.Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere (github.com/pytorch)
261 points by constantinum on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
24.CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike (clownstrike.lol)
1234 points by clownstrikelol on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 229 comments [ext]
25. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
25.Don’t let your domain name become a sitting duck (krebsonsecurity.com)
232 points by mfkp on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
26.InstantSplat: Sparse-View SfM-Free Gaussian Splatting in Seconds (instantsplat.github.io)
95 points by smusamashah on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: Anyma V, a hybrid physical modelling virtual instrument (aodyo.com)
79 points by oinj on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
28. The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 474 days ago | hide | 135 comments
28.The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism (arxiv.org)
157 points by banjo_milkman on Aug 1, 2024 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
29.Crafting endless AS paths in BGP (bernat.ch)
47 points by JNRowe on July 29, 2024 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
30.Dunbar's Number Is Quadratic (2020) (falsifiable.com)
76 points by Bluestein on July 31, 2024 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
31. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments

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