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1.
I'd rather read the prompt (claytonwramsey.com)
1418 points by claytonwramsey 6 days ago | 839 comments
2.
Design for 3D-Printing (rahix.de)
821 points by q3k 6 days ago | 205 comments
3.
Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes (github.com/jacksaur)
458 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 123 comments
4.
An Alabama landline that keeps ringing (oxfordamerican.org)
337 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 105 comments
5.
What went wrong with wireless USB (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
330 points by goldenskye 6 days ago | 213 comments
6.
Oberon Pi (hansotten.com)
207 points by tosh 6 days ago | 45 comments
7.
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)
446 points by amichail 7 days ago | 444 comments
8.
In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use (news.mit.edu)
139 points by LorenDB 10 days ago | 85 comments
9.
Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection (bbc.co.uk)
204 points by neversaydie 10 days ago | 80 comments
10.
Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling (rentry.co)
228 points by nkko 6 days ago | 37 comments
11.
Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns (victoriametrics.com)
247 points by mkl95 6 days ago | 59 comments
12.
Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart (space.com)
241 points by spchampion2 8 days ago | 246 comments
13.
Pascal for Small Machines (hansotten.com)
116 points by ibobev 6 days ago | 24 comments
14.
TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs (github.com/foreseerr)
130 points by zX41ZdbW 6 days ago | 27 comments
15.
Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades (owentrueblood.com)
142 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 26 comments
16.
Typed Lisp, a Primer (alhassy.com)
140 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 66 comments
17.
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] (matthewjbrown.net)
201 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 143 comments
18.
Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy (programmablemutter.com)
176 points by akkartik 6 days ago | 243 comments
19.
Google Gemini has the worst LLM API (venki.dev)
202 points by indigodaddy 6 days ago | 178 comments
20.
Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018) (githubusercontent.com)
88 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 days ago | 27 comments
21.
A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy (texasmonthly.com)
144 points by wallflower 6 days ago | 156 comments
22.
Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (github.com/pncnmnp)
206 points by pncnmnp 8 days ago | 52 comments
23.
I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II
115 points by Kobayashiii 8 days ago | 47 comments
24.
The complicated business of electing a Doge (theballotboy.com)
91 points by dr_dshiv 6 days ago | 47 comments
25.
DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs (github.com/kalldrexx)
68 points by ingve 8 days ago | 17 comments
26.
Elvish – Scripting language and interactive shell (github.com/elves)
80 points by kartikarti 10 days ago | 59 comments
27.
A Survey of AI Agent Protocols (arxiv.org)
91 points by distalx 6 days ago | 63 comments
28.
Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)
68 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 days ago | 18 comments
29.
Orders of Infinity (terrytao.wordpress.com)
82 points by matt_d 6 days ago | 15 comments
30.
A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING (shayon.dev)
57 points by namanyayg 6 days ago | 50 comments

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