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1.
I'd rather read the prompt (claytonwramsey.com)
1316 points by claytonwramsey 1 day ago | 796 comments
2.
Design for 3D-Printing (rahix.de)
769 points by q3k 1 day ago | 185 comments
3.
Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes (github.com/jacksaur)
438 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 122 comments
4.
An Alabama landline that keeps ringing (oxfordamerican.org)
330 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 102 comments
5.
What went wrong with wireless USB (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
325 points by goldenskye 1 day ago | 210 comments
6.
Oberon Pi (hansotten.com)
199 points by tosh 1 day ago | 34 comments
7.
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)
435 points by amichail 2 days ago | 434 comments
8.
In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use (news.mit.edu)
136 points by LorenDB 5 days ago | 84 comments
9.
Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection (bbc.co.uk)
202 points by neversaydie 5 days ago | 76 comments
10.
Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling (rentry.co)
218 points by nkko 1 day ago | 35 comments
11.
Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns (victoriametrics.com)
225 points by mkl95 1 day ago | 55 comments
12.
Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart (space.com)
235 points by spchampion2 3 days ago | 231 comments
13.
Pascal for Small Machines (hansotten.com)
115 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 24 comments
14.
TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs (github.com/foreseerr)
128 points by zX41ZdbW 1 day ago | 27 comments
15.
Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades (owentrueblood.com)
138 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 24 comments
16.
Typed Lisp, a Primer (alhassy.com)
131 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 58 comments
17.
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] (matthewjbrown.net)
192 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 143 comments
18.
Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy (programmablemutter.com)
170 points by akkartik 1 day ago | 219 comments
19.
Google Gemini has the worst LLM API (venki.dev)
194 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 174 comments
20.
Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018) (githubusercontent.com)
83 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 25 comments
21.
A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy (texasmonthly.com)
134 points by wallflower 1 day ago | 143 comments
22.
Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (github.com/pncnmnp)
200 points by pncnmnp 3 days ago | 51 comments
23.
I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II
110 points by Kobayashiii 3 days ago | 47 comments
24.
The complicated business of electing a Doge (theballotboy.com)
85 points by dr_dshiv 1 day ago | 43 comments
25.
DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs (github.com/kalldrexx)
65 points by ingve 3 days ago | 17 comments
26.
A Survey of AI Agent Protocols (arxiv.org)
90 points by distalx 1 day ago | 62 comments
27.
Elvish – Scripting language and interactive shell (github.com/elves)
77 points by kartikarti 5 days ago | 52 comments
28.
Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)
65 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 18 comments
29.
Orders of Infinity (terrytao.wordpress.com)
76 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 13 comments
30.
A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING (shayon.dev)
56 points by namanyayg 2 days ago | 50 comments

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