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1.What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video] (youtube.com)
689 points by ecliptik on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 295 comments [ext]
2.Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
390 points by mathgenius on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 350 comments [ext]
3.Xerox to acquire Lexmark (lexmark.com)
263 points by taubek on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 214 comments [ext]
4. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
4.Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond (ft.com)
327 points by pseudolus on Dec 19, 2024 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
5.Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island (github.com/isledecomp)
251 points by foxtacles on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
6.Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access (goodfire.ai)
201 points by trq_ on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
7. 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
7.Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024 (fogus.me)
259 points by janvdberg on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
8.Show HN: Keypub.sh – OAuth for the terminal using SSH keys (keypub.sh)
222 points by messh on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
9.WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States (wa.gov)
169 points by rguiscard on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
10. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 592 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Manx – a catalog of manuals for old computers (manx-docs.org)
98 points by Lammy on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
11.Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells (medicalxpress.com)
421 points by wglb on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 317 comments [ext]
12.One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch (npr.org)
350 points by geox on Dec 22, 2024 [ext] | 271 comments [ext]
13. Metsera's bold antitrust hack: let Novo Nordisk buy us twice (archive.ph)
377 points by psx3247 84 days ago | hide | 153 comments
13.Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation (github.com/princeton-vl)
293 points by KolmogorovComp on Dec 22, 2024 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
14.CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops (github.com/samwho)
257 points by freetonik on Dec 21, 2024 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
15.The intricacies of implementing memoization in Ruby (denisdefreyne.com)
130 points by thunderbong on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
16. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
16.In praise of the hundred page idea (tracydurnell.com)
165 points by surprisetalk on Dec 19, 2024 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
17.My Colleague Julius (ploum.net)
599 points by dabacaba on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 127 comments [ext]
18.Tokenisation Is NP-Complete (arxiv.org)
117 points by belter on Dec 22, 2024 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder forums (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
202 points by Trasmatta on Dec 22, 2024 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
20.AI Decodes the Calls of the Wild (nature.com)
90 points by bookofjoe on Dec 22, 2024 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: Ephemeral VMs in 1 Microsecond (github.com/libriscv)
84 points by fwsgonzo on Dec 20, 2024 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
22. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
22.Narrative Jailbreaking for Fun and Profit (interconnected.org)
105 points by tobr on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
23.Ask HN: Predictions for 2025? [ext]
286 points by uncomplexity_ on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 588 comments [ext]
24.C++ is an absolute blast (learncodethehardway.com)
311 points by ok123456 on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 368 comments [ext]
25. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 9 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Litestack: All your data infrastructure, in one Ruby gem (github.com/oldmoe)
160 points by thunderbong on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
26.RAG Logger: An Open-Source Alternative to LangSmith (github.com/brandon-c-tech)
95 points by Brandon_Chen on Dec 22, 2024 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections (webextension.net)
136 points by trungpv1601 on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
28. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
28.'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images (abovethelaw.com)
385 points by haunter on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 240 comments [ext]
29.Offline Reinforcement Learning for LLM Multi-Step Reasoning (arxiv.org)
111 points by belter on Dec 23, 2024 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
30.Collatz’s Ant (gbragafibra.github.io)
114 points by Fibra on Dec 21, 2024 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
31. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments

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