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1.
Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry (leonarddavid.com)
406 points by Wingman4l7 7 days ago | 279 comments
2.
Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics (anukari.com)
511 points by humbledrone 7 days ago | 123 comments
3.
The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020) (massivesci.com)
414 points by smusamashah 7 days ago | 445 comments
4.
Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface (abdisa.me)
271 points by abdisaDev 7 days ago | 120 comments
5.
Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy (openai.com)
250 points by synthwave 7 days ago | 278 comments
6.
Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders (github.com/nathan-barry)
228 points by nathan-barry 7 days ago | 25 comments
7.
How to live an intellectually rich life (utsavmamoria.substack.com)
586 points by TheLadyParadox 7 days ago | 321 comments
8.
Third party cookies must be removed (w3ctag.github.io)
451 points by pabs3 8 days ago | 228 comments
9.
The Cannae Problem (joanwestenberg.com)
162 points by flobosg 7 days ago | 106 comments
10.
Suno v4.5 (suno.com)
390 points by platers 7 days ago | 280 comments
11.
A Common Lisp jq replacement (world-playground-deceit.net)
155 points by tmtvl 7 days ago | 57 comments
12.
When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history (quantamagazine.org)
277 points by mathgenius 8 days ago | 173 comments
13.
Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits (arstechnica.com)
281 points by Tomte 8 days ago | 281 comments
14.
Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups (ubicloud.com)
129 points by msarnowicz 7 days ago | 23 comments
15.
What I've learned from jj (zerowidth.com)
216 points by eproxus 7 days ago | 135 comments
16.
Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents (github.com/stanford-mast)
145 points by calebhwin 7 days ago | 66 comments
17.
LLMs for Engineering: Teaching Models to Design High Powered Rockets (arxiv.org)
123 points by tamassimond 9 days ago | 44 comments
18.
Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution (antaripasaha.notion.site)
105 points by sebg 8 days ago | 34 comments
19.
Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux (felix86.com)
126 points by rguiscard 8 days ago | 31 comments
20.
Doom GPU Flame Graphs (brendangregg.com)
107 points by zdw 8 days ago | 30 comments
21.
Bloom Filters (thegreenplace.net)
240 points by mfrw 8 days ago | 77 comments
22.
Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China (apnews.com)
360 points by Alifatisk 7 days ago | 237 comments
23.
The History of Album Art (matthewstrom.com)
107 points by tobr 7 days ago | 22 comments
24.
Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer (goto10retro.com)
111 points by rbanffy 7 days ago | 60 comments
25.
xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs (krebsonsecurity.com)
244 points by todsacerdoti 8 days ago | 70 comments
26.
Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US (developer.apple.com)
461 points by macguillicuddy 7 days ago | 345 comments
27.
Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution (lwn.net)
161 points by sohkamyung 8 days ago | 34 comments
28.
“Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps (support.google.com)
402 points by pk97 7 days ago | 242 comments
29.
Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates (webflow.com)
135 points by mefengl 7 days ago | 41 comments
30.
RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code (microsoft.com)
142 points by mmastrac 9 days ago | 93 comments

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