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1.
Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)
1257 points by signa11 13 days ago | 446 comments
2.
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)
616 points by bilsbie 13 days ago | 235 comments
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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)
1083 points by thm 12 days ago | 512 comments
4.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)
418 points by zdw 13 days ago | 112 comments
5.
That Methyl Methacrylate Tank (science.org)
432 points by nooks 12 days ago | 191 comments
6.
How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)
397 points by subract 13 days ago | 83 comments
7.
Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs (signalbloom.ai)
323 points by GodelNumbering 12 days ago | 374 comments
8.
I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline (djspeckhals.com)
285 points by dustin1114 16 days ago | 84 comments
9.
The worst job interview I ever had (oliverio.dev)
659 points by oliverio 12 days ago | 550 comments
10.
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)
607 points by vrganj 12 days ago | 234 comments
11.
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)
550 points by obscurette 13 days ago | 608 comments
12.
Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com/logannye)
185 points by samuell 17 days ago | 57 comments
13.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down (cnbc.com)
375 points by aghuang 12 days ago | 443 comments
14.
Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia (medium.com/jakeorlowitz)
578 points by cdrnsf 12 days ago | 350 comments
15.
The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)
441 points by ggcr 12 days ago | 866 comments
16.
Use boring languages with LLMs (jry.io)
230 points by evakhoury 16 days ago | 170 comments
17.
DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)
341 points by dynip 12 days ago | 128 comments
18.
Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)
155 points by MrBuddyCasino 13 days ago | 86 comments
19.
Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com/yugr)
136 points by tanelpoder 13 days ago | 130 comments
20.
Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)
406 points by Cider9986 13 days ago | 232 comments
21.
What color is your function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)
138 points by tosh 12 days ago | 189 comments
22.
The user is visibly frustrated (pscanf.com)
306 points by croes 12 days ago | 274 comments
23.
A portentous reunion (dtrace.org)
147 points by cafkafk 12 days ago | 45 comments
24.
C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View” (retrogamecoders.com)
93 points by ibobev 12 days ago | 15 comments
25.
Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale (minicor.com)
105 points by fchishtie 12 days ago | 64 comments
26.
 [dupe] GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)
655 points by cebert 12 days ago | 1 comment
27.
The Steinwinter Supercargo (thedrive.com)
87 points by itronitron 15 days ago | 27 comments
28.
C array types are weird (anselmschueler.com)
129 points by signa11 13 days ago | 138 comments
29.
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)
148 points by speckx 16 days ago | 62 comments
30.
Opaque Types in Python (glyph.im)
131 points by lumpa 15 days ago | 58 comments

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