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1.Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world (thebullshitmachines.com)
930 points by ctbergstrom on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 603 comments [ext]
2.Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step() (iquilezles.org)
409 points by romes on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 231 comments [ext]
3.Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' (krebsonsecurity.com)
1624 points by mmsc on Feb 8, 2025 [ext] | 1801 comments [ext]
4. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments
4.LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning (arxiv.org)
389 points by trott on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
5.Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers (phys.org)
181 points by PaulHoule on Feb 8, 2025 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
6.Why blog if nobody reads it? (andysblog.uk)
770 points by alexgiann on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 359 comments [ext]
7. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
7.PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
174 points by enum on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
8.Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation details (twitter.com/abhi9u)
163 points by abhi9u on Feb 6, 2025 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
9.Chimes at Midnight (2024) (asteriskmag.com)
47 points by chautumn on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
10. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
10.3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire (thomaskole.nl)
346 points by simonpure on Feb 5, 2025 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
11.Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities (burke.dev)
420 points by kevinburke on Feb 7, 2025 [ext] | 396 comments [ext]
12.Classic Data science pipelines built with LLMs (github.com/pravko-solutions)
196 points by galgia on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
13. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
13.AI Demos (meta.com)
312 points by saikatsg on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
14.OpenStreetMap Calendar (osmcal.org)
126 points by faebi on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
15.The Recombobulation Area (2023) (onmilwaukee.com)
75 points by sans_souse on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
16. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix (chrastecky.dev)
147 points by Rikudou on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
17.Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization (github.com/jtroo)
159 points by lnyan on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
18.Linux as co-operative Windows process (2017) (colinux.org)
132 points by begoon on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
19. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
19.Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics (quantamagazine.org)
139 points by MindGods on Feb 7, 2025 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
20.Sand trafficking in Latin America (insightcrime.org)
108 points by josh-sematic on Feb 6, 2025 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
21.Baffled by generational garbage collection – wingolog (wingolog.org)
141 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
22. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
22.Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013) (cell.com)
125 points by stmw on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
23.Go Data Structures: Interfaces (2009) (swtch.com)
99 points by rednafi on Feb 5, 2025 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
24.Mathematics in the 20th century, by Michael Atiyah [pdf] (2002) (marktomforde.com)
122 points by practal on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
25. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Show HN: My first side project, streamlined book clubs on Slack (booktalk.club)
104 points by Papamanolis on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
26.Three Observations (samaltman.com)
192 points by davidbarker on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 234 comments [ext]
27.RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games (itizso.itch.io)
179 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
28. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
28.Show HN: Daily-notes.nvim – fuzzy time journal and planning plugin (github.com/fdavies93)
63 points by fdavies93 on Feb 9, 2025 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
29.Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa (grafana.com)
62 points by StratusBen on Feb 6, 2025 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
30.Ada Gems (2014) (adacore.com)
59 points by Tomte on Feb 8, 2025 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
31. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments

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