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1. Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease (science.org)
721 points by lonelyasacloud on May 16, 2023 | 325 comments
2. A guidance language for controlling LLMs (github.com/microsoft)
552 points by evanmays on May 16, 2023 | 190 comments
3. Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI (reuters.com)
914 points by vforgione on May 16, 2023 | 1214 comments
4. The Sourdough Framework (github.com/hendricius)
532 points by hendricius on May 16, 2023 | 103 comments
5. Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features (apple.com)
636 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2023 | 342 comments
6. Bun 0.6 (bun.sh)
421 points by tommasoamici on May 16, 2023 | 235 comments
7. My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated (visionarycto.com)
579 points by spo81rty on May 15, 2023 | 573 comments
8. StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length (arxiv.org)
317 points by belter on May 15, 2023 | 162 comments
9. JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents (reddit.com)
734 points by notRobot on May 16, 2023 | 376 comments
10. Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles (billydm.github.io)
347 points by ingve on May 14, 2023 | 265 comments
11. CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley (datastructur.es)
321 points by curious16 on May 16, 2023 | 73 comments
12. One man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed its onset (nature.com)
177 points by deepzn on May 16, 2023 | 57 comments
13. Seaflooding (tomaspueyo.com)
322 points by deegles on May 16, 2023 | 138 comments
14. Artists must be allowed to make bad work (austinkleon.com)
240 points by open-source-ux on May 14, 2023 | 160 comments
15. Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics (plover.com)
189 points by luu on May 14, 2023 | 107 comments
16. Ultimate Electronics (2021) (ultimateelectronicsbook.com)
242 points by mutant_glofish on May 16, 2023 | 51 comments
17. Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice (alcademics.com)
205 points by mhb on May 16, 2023 | 71 comments
18. Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy (fortran-lang.discourse.group)
169 points by zaikunzhang on May 16, 2023 | 80 comments
19. Pinball is booming in America (economist.com)
267 points by pseudolus on May 15, 2023 | 248 comments
20. John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020) (raganwald.com)
144 points by warrenm on May 16, 2023 | 24 comments
21. The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video] (youtube.com)
233 points by luu on May 14, 2023 | 46 comments
22. Show HN: A little web server in C (github.com/robdelacruz)
178 points by robdelacruz on May 16, 2023 | 116 comments
23. USB MIDI interface for the NeXTCube – ISPW board (0110.be)
65 points by zdw on May 16, 2023 | 7 comments
24. A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert (hcn.org)
143 points by bikenaga on May 15, 2023 | 137 comments
25. So, how do you refill an aquifer? (heatmap.news)
129 points by Hooke on May 15, 2023 | 91 comments
26. Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers (ieee.org)
138 points by pseudolus on May 16, 2023 | 91 comments
27. Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe (pnas.org)
296 points by tfourb on May 16, 2023 | 254 comments
28. LMQL: A query language for programming (large) language models (github.com/eth-sri)
108 points by behnamoh on May 16, 2023 | 12 comments
29. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) [video] (archive.org)
130 points by Animats on May 16, 2023 | 78 comments
30. Show HN: Capillaries: Distributed data processing with Go and Cassandra (capillaries.io)
70 points by kleineshertz on May 16, 2023 | 25 comments

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