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Hacker News (Apr 2023)
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Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
68 points • comment • apr 10, 2023
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Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity
68 points • comment • apr 25, 2023
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The many ways of converting FP32 to FP16
68 points • comment • apr 22, 2023
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Frank Rosenblatt
68 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)
68 points • comment • apr 21, 2023
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Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries
67 points • comment • apr 04, 2023
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The Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat
67 points • comment • apr 27, 2023
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The RISC Wars Part 1: The Cambrian Explosion
67 points • comment • apr 30, 2023
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ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to
67 points • comment • apr 23, 2023
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Passing the Reins on Panfrost
67 points • comment • apr 10, 2023
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Nvenc vs. QSV: Who Has the Best Hardware AV1 Encoder?
67 points • comment • apr 16, 2023
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American offices are half-empty. That could be the next big risk for banks
67 points • comment • apr 10, 2023
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The Data Delusion
67 points • comment • apr 01, 2023
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Was MPLS Traffic Engineering Worthwhile?
67 points • comment • apr 03, 2023
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The Early Days of Linux
67 points • comment • apr 26, 2023
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Parrondo's Paradox
67 points • comment • apr 28, 2023
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Alphabet’s Google Combines AI Research Units Brain and DeepMind
67 points • comment • apr 20, 2023
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Thinking about our passive exposure to IPv6 issues
67 points • comment • apr 25, 2023
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Piper: A proposal for a graphy pipe-based build system
67 points • comment • apr 23, 2023
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Microsoft Announces Q3 Earnings
67 points • comment • apr 25, 2023
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Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950 (2021)
67 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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Semantic Tokenizer for Enhanced Natural Language Processing
67 points • comment • apr 27, 2023
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Chess, unlike war, is a game of perfect information
67 points • comment • apr 13, 2023
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Schools are ditching homework, deadlines in favor of ‘equitable grading’
67 points • comment • apr 26, 2023
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A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques
66 points • comment • apr 26, 2023
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“I'm a Barbie girl” as a three-part classical fugue [video]
66 points • comment • apr 23, 2023
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Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century
66 points • comment • apr 16, 2023
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Running Dolly 2.0 on Paperspace
66 points • comment • apr 13, 2023
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The Madness in our Methods: Crash of GW9525 and our broken aeromedical system
66 points • comment • apr 29, 2023
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The long demise of the stretch limousine
66 points • comment • apr 29, 2023
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NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool
66 points • comment • apr 27, 2023
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There’s no universal cordless power tool battery – why?
66 points • comment • apr 13, 2023
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Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison during appeal of sentence
66 points • comment • apr 12, 2023
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Why I'm no longer writing stories with AI
66 points • comment • apr 28, 2023
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Maybe we can have a specific tab for submitted contents about GPT and AI
66 points • comment • apr 04, 2023
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Ask HN: AI to study my DSL and then output it?
66 points • comment • apr 19, 2023
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The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents
66 points • comment • apr 02, 2023
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Cisco Systems pulled out of Russia: destroyed $23.42M worth of equipment
66 points • comment • apr 05, 2023
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Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070
65 points • comment • apr 26, 2023
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I’m staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next week
65 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling
65 points • comment • apr 05, 2023
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When Slide Rules Ruled (2006) [pdf]
65 points • comment • apr 08, 2023
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Singapore plans to execute man over 1kg of cannabis
65 points • comment • apr 22, 2023
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How Microsoft names threat actors
65 points • comment • apr 27, 2023
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One of the world’s largest investment banks: ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far
65 points • comment • apr 09, 2023
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How Paris Is Taking Back Its Streets from Cars
65 points • comment • apr 28, 2023
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Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion
65 points • comment • apr 08, 2023
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Hawthorne effect
65 points • comment • apr 24, 2023
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Defining interfaces in C++ with ‘concepts’ (C++20)
65 points • comment • apr 19, 2023
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Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?
65 points • comment • apr 21, 2023
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The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI
65 points • comment • apr 27, 2023
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I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
64 points • comment • apr 09, 2023
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Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods Closing a Year After Opening
64 points • comment • apr 11, 2023
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PostgreSQL Logical Replication Gotchas
64 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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Moving away from algorithmic curation
64 points • comment • apr 25, 2023
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Fire Sale: $300M San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty
64 points • comment • apr 27, 2023
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I wrote a tool in Go to write Sequence Diagrams in Go
64 points • comment • apr 27, 2023
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Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?
64 points • comment • apr 14, 2023
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Alcohol recovery startups shared patients’ private data with advertisers
64 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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Points on Cartooning (1937)
64 points • comment • apr 12, 2023
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Vestas hails breakthrough for recyclable wind turbines
64 points • comment • apr 11, 2023
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Free Speech Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical of Indian Government
64 points • comment • apr 11, 2023
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Xhtml Friends Network (2003)
64 points • comment • apr 25, 2023
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Where Do “Shenanigans” Come From? (2013)
64 points • comment • apr 06, 2023
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HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it (2015)
64 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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NPM Provenance Public Beta
64 points • comment • apr 19, 2023
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Genetic circuitry boosts cell longevity
64 points • comment • apr 28, 2023
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Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
64 points • comment • apr 14, 2023
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Show HN: Shell-maker, a maker of Emacs shells
64 points • comment • apr 09, 2023
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Liubo: Ancient Chinese board game originally played from about 500 BCE to 500 CE
64 points • comment • apr 28, 2023
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Why Not document.write()?
64 points • comment • apr 01, 2023
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Google does not sell your data. It's worse
64 points • comment • apr 22, 2023
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“Luxury” construction causes high rents like umbrellas cause rain
64 points • comment • apr 22, 2023
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Database branching: three-way merge for schema changes
64 points • comment • apr 26, 2023
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Someone Added ChatGPT to a Furby
64 points • comment • apr 03, 2023
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The largest number representable in 64 bits
64 points • comment • apr 23, 2023
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Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS
63 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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Podman 4.5.0
63 points • comment • apr 17, 2023
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Re-live buying a computer in 1995 [video]
63 points • comment • apr 22, 2023
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TSMC’s 3-Nm Push Faces Tool Struggles
63 points • comment • apr 26, 2023
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Running Python micro-benchmarks using the ChatGPT Code Interpreter alpha
63 points • comment • apr 12, 2023
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Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers
63 points • comment • apr 03, 2023
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Carbon nanotube recognition by human Siglec-14 provokes inflammation
63 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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Mass noun
63 points • comment • apr 21, 2023
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I did the math. SF is 2.6x more dangerous per sq mi than any other US city
63 points • comment • apr 08, 2023
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Medical wordlists in English, French and Ukrainian
63 points • comment • apr 22, 2023
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How Big Is Mexico?
63 points • comment • apr 13, 2023
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Real interview recordings to help job seekers
63 points • comment • apr 29, 2023
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A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist
63 points • comment • apr 14, 2023
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DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine
63 points • comment • apr 17, 2023
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Hetzner’s New AX102 Dedicated Server with AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
63 points • comment • apr 21, 2023
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High Speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Guidelines (2022)
63 points • comment • apr 18, 2023
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Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreational marijuana
63 points • comment • apr 23, 2023
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Apple store robbed of $500k in iPhones after thieves tunnel through coffee shop
63 points • comment • apr 06, 2023
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Sparkle
63 points • comment • apr 11, 2023
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When should a decision be fast, or slow?
63 points • comment • apr 09, 2023
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Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first
62 points • comment • apr 07, 2023
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Haiku Depot Server Technology Modernisation
62 points • comment • apr 06, 2023
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SF pays big bucks to nonprofits, fails to properly monitor them
62 points • comment • apr 28, 2023
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How the fuck did we get here? A small rant on the "modern" front-end
62 points • comment • apr 07, 2023