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1.		Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)
		576 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago [ext] \| 242 comments [ext]
2.		I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)
		534 points by noperator 9 months ago [ext] \| 205 comments [ext]
3.		New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source (quantamagazine.org)
		427 points by pseudolus 9 months ago [ext] \| 218 comments [ext]
4.		The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
		376 points by kol5306 2 days ago \| hide \| 127 comments
4.		Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)
		1299 points by adrianh 9 months ago [ext] \| 424 comments [ext]
5.		Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com/jackjackbits)
		795 points by ananddtyagi 9 months ago [ext] \| 424 comments [ext]
6.		When Figma starts designing us (designsystems.international)
		302 points by bravomartin 9 months ago [ext] \| 142 comments [ext]
7.		Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
		374 points by ium4024 71 days ago \| hide \| 174 comments
7.		François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] (youtube.com)
		227 points by sandslash 9 months ago [ext] \| 204 comments [ext]
8.		Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore (archaeologymag.com)
		264 points by hilux 9 months ago [ext] \| 197 comments [ext]
9.		Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils (sarahrenaeclark.com)
		208 points by picture 9 months ago [ext] \| 47 comments [ext]
10.		Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
		420 points by guz3550 602 days ago \| hide \| 25 comments
10.		Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered (phys.org)
		207 points by wglb 9 months ago [ext] \| 114 comments [ext]
11.		The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry (futureecologies.net)
		236 points by zeristor 9 months ago [ext] \| 55 comments [ext]
12.		Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver (mildbyte.xyz)
		208 points by mildbyte 9 months ago [ext] \| 18 comments [ext]
13.		The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
		222 points by orz6622 333 days ago \| hide \| 88 comments
13.		Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer (buildmytransit.nyc)
		201 points by HeavenFox 9 months ago [ext] \| 32 comments [ext]
14.		The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long (bbc.com)
		227 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago [ext] \| 167 comments [ext]
15.		My first verified imperative program (markushimmel.de)
		181 points by TwoFx 9 months ago [ext] \| 93 comments [ext]
16.		How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
		117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago \| hide \| 18 comments
16.		Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads (chipsandcheese.com)
		260 points by zdw 9 months ago [ext] \| 123 comments [ext]
17.		LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping (disneyresearch.com)
		129 points by jw1224 9 months ago [ext] \| 29 comments [ext]
18.		Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)
		521 points by bwfan123 9 months ago [ext] \| 338 comments [ext]
19.		Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
		325 points by hol5935 219 days ago \| hide \| 175 comments
19.		Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge (businessinsider.com)
		497 points by pyman 9 months ago [ext] \| 651 comments [ext]
20.		Why are there no good dinosaur films? (briannazigler.substack.com)
		200 points by fremden 9 months ago [ext] \| 461 comments [ext]
21.		Building the Rust Compiler with GCC (fractalfir.github.io)
		225 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago [ext] \| 58 comments [ext]
22.		When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
		380 points by orz1950 91 days ago \| hide \| 148 comments
22.		Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)
		551 points by drankl 9 months ago [ext] \| 498 comments [ext]
23.		Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI (github.com/zaneh)
		203 points by FinalDestiny 9 months ago [ext] \| 58 comments [ext]
24.		The era of exploration (yidingjiang.github.io)
		106 points by jxmorris12 9 months ago [ext] \| 11 comments [ext]
25.		The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
		249 points by bom7529 398 days ago \| hide \| 12 comments
25.		Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec [ext]
		217 points by bhaktatejas922 9 months ago [ext] \| 185 comments [ext]
26.		The first time I was almost fired from Apple (engineersneedart.com)
		345 points by chmaynard 9 months ago [ext] \| 149 comments [ext]
27.		Running a Certificate Transparency log (filippo.io)
		160 points by Metalnem 9 months ago [ext] \| 68 comments [ext]
28.		The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
		271 points by prl1591 602 days ago \| hide \| 193 comments
28.		Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI (remark.ing)
		175 points by koch 9 months ago [ext] \| 105 comments [ext]
29.		Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017) (crypto101.io)
		236 points by pona-a 9 months ago [ext] \| 15 comments [ext]
30.		Swedish Campground (2004) (folklore.org)
		119 points by CharlesW 9 months ago [ext] \| 38 comments [ext]
31.		The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
		478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago \| hide \| 193 comments
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