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1.Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk (github.com/onetrueawk)
618 points by ducktective on Aug 20, 2022 | 208 comments
2.Coping with Copilot (sigarch.org)
333 points by lameda on Aug 20, 2022 | 444 comments
3.AWS switch from gzip to zstd โ€“ about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage (twitter.com/adrianco)
489 points by luu on Aug 20, 2022 | 201 comments
4.Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997) (williams.edu)
426 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2022 | 177 comments
5.Diablo 1 for Web Browsers (github.com/d07riv)
449 points by nsoonhui on Aug 20, 2022 | 109 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference? (martinalderson.com)
6 min read | by Martin Alderson | saved 191 days ago | archive
6.Visual Sum of Cubes (x.st)
362 points by lnyan on Aug 20, 2022 | 39 comments
7.A competitive multiplayer version of Conway's Game of Life (lifecompetes.com)
143 points by Use on Aug 20, 2022 | 35 comments
8.Tell HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else)
285 points by goodside on Aug 20, 2022 | 83 comments
9.The Merge (ethereum.org)
238 points by kristianpaul on Aug 20, 2022 | 391 comments
10.The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review) (continuations.com)
206 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 20, 2022 | 179 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Kalshi Found Some Insider Traders (archive.is)
18 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 1 day ago | archive
11.I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E (lucytalksdata.com)
230 points by lucytalksdata on Aug 20, 2022 | 128 comments
12.Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more (webkit.org)
214 points by samwillis on Aug 20, 2022 | 125 comments
13.After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work (artnet.com)
287 points by green-eclipse on Aug 20, 2022 | 360 comments
14.C++ Concurrency Model on x86 for Dummies (2020) (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
129 points by greghn on Aug 19, 2022 | 71 comments
15.Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity (rieck.me)
123 points by Pseudomanifold on Aug 20, 2022 | 27 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Writing advice (zhengdongwang.com)
4 min read | by Zhengdong Wang | saved 64 days ago | archive
16.Zig is now selfโ€“hosted by default (github.com/ziglang)
387 points by BratishkaErik on Aug 20, 2022 | 111 comments
17.Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries (eugeneyan.com)
178 points by 7d7n on Aug 20, 2022 | 38 comments
18.Nvidia Kaolin Wisp: a PyTorch library to work with neural fields (github.com/nvidiagameworks)
83 points by lnyan on Aug 17, 2022 | 13 comments
19.How I learned to stop worrying and love macros (zdimension.fr)
140 points by magnio on Aug 18, 2022 | 52 comments
20.Supabase Vault (supabase.com)
198 points by traviskuhl on Aug 20, 2022 | 70 comments
๐Ÿ“š. the k-shaped economy (shaanpuri.com)
2 min read | by shaanpuri.com | saved 355 days ago | archive
21.Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance (jeanhsu.substack.com)
155 points by kiyanwang on Aug 19, 2022 | 30 comments
22.How to Make a CubeSat (orbitalindex.com)
120 points by tectonic on Aug 17, 2022 | 55 comments
23.Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86) (dougallj.wordpress.com)
170 points by brigade on Aug 20, 2022 | 16 comments
24.Unicode Utilities: Confusables (unicode.org)
97 points by simonpure on Aug 17, 2022 | 34 comments
25.Float Toy (evanw.github.io)
142 points by agomez314 on Aug 19, 2022 | 53 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Exploring the Limits of Large Language Models as Quant Traders (nof1.ai)
11 min read | by Alpha Arena | saved 109 days ago | archive
26.Scientists discover how mosquitoes can โ€˜sniff outโ€™ humans (theguardian.com)
136 points by signa11 on Aug 19, 2022 | 125 comments
27.Let's Try Gnome Boxes (glovesoff.substack.com)
65 points by ctsdownloads on Aug 20, 2022 | 40 comments
28.The erosion of the Mac experience (twitter.com/stroughtonsmith)
266 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2022 | 474 comments
29.The architect who became the king of bank robberies (thehustle.co)
124 points by paulpauper on Aug 20, 2022 | 11 comments
30.Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance (astralcodexten.substack.com)
105 points by Michelangelo11 on Aug 20, 2022 | 22 comments
๐Ÿ“š. China Is Getting Much of What It Wants From the U.S., Including Chips (archive.ph)
9 min read | by Lily Kuo | saved 78 days ago | 31% read | archive

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