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1. Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

   765 points • 428 comments • jan 03, 2025

2. Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

   507 points • 280 comments • jan 03, 2025

3. Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce

   370 points • 183 comments • jan 03, 2025

4. SpaceSim

   358 points • 46 comments • jan 03, 2025

5. VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)

   330 points • 82 comments • jan 03, 2025

6. Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

   320 points • 245 comments • jan 03, 2025

7. B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know

   308 points • 16 comments • jan 03, 2025

8. The Evolution of SRE at Google

   285 points • 134 comments • jan 03, 2025

9. Why Canada Should Join the EU

   283 points • 745 comments • jan 03, 2025

10. What we learned copying all the best code assistants

    267 points • 76 comments • jan 03, 2025