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1.Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore (uber.com)
328 points by gronky_ on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 335 comments [ext]
2.The Lunacy of Artemis (idlewords.com)
723 points by feross on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 513 comments [ext]
3.Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice (twitter.com/bobbyallyn)
1528 points by mjcl on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 1000 comments [ext]
4. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
4.Enlightenmentware (mmapped.blog)
444 points by zaik on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 238 comments [ext]
5.Grothendieck’s use of equality (arxiv.org)
178 points by golol on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
6.DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016) (bigmessowires.com)
160 points by jimmaswell on May 18, 2024 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
7. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL (tembo.io)
331 points by samaysharma on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
8.ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes (cnn.com)
644 points by spzx on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 1204 comments [ext]
9.Swift Tooling: Windows Edition (speakinginswift.substack.com)
166 points by pjmlp on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
10. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Rethinking Text Resizing on Web (medium.com/airbnb-engineering)
259 points by GavCo on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
11.C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014) (github.com/mcinglis)
226 points by zerojames on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
12.Scrabble and the Nature of Expertise (2015) (scientificamerican.com)
52 points by sergeant3 on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
13. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
13.Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy (anthropic.com)
153 points by Josely on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
14.Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review (arxiv.org)
87 points by belter on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
15.On the trail of my identity thief (msn.com)
118 points by signa11 on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
16. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
16.How a 64k intro is made (2017) (lofibucket.com)
218 points by aragonite on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
17.Introducing Copilot+ PCs (blogs.microsoft.com)
406 points by skilled on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 582 comments [ext]
18.What Is Generative Art? (2022) (amygoodchild.com)
152 points by nivethan on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
19. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that (kilianvalkhof.com)
130 points by fagnerbrack on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 171 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files" (github.com/dheera)
153 points by dheera on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
21.A promising 3-terminal diode for wireless comm. and optically driven computing (techxplore.com)
52 points by wglb on May 18, 2024 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
22. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
22.Overflow in consistent hashing (2018) (rmarcus.info)
81 points by g0xA52A2A on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
23.3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe (propublica.org)
462 points by whereistimbo on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 282 comments [ext]
24.The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017) (ianvisits.co.uk)
110 points by _vk_ on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
25. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
25.26× Faster Inference with Layer-Condensed KV Cache for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
127 points by georgehill on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
26.D-Expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
89 points by fanf2 on May 16, 2024 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
27.Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure (antennapod.org)
157 points by moasda on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
28. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
28.Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial (reuters.com)
197 points by tildef on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
29.Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas (washingtonpost.com)
62 points by pge on May 19, 2024 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
30.Fact checking of claims about nuclear power projects (neutronbytes.com)
57 points by hairytrog on May 20, 2024 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
31. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments

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