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 1.                                                                  Where the goblins came from ( openai.com )                                                                
     417 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | hide | 209 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                               
 2.                                                                  Craig Venter has died ( jcvi.org )                                                                        
     206 points by rdl 5 hours ago | hide | 35 comments                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                               
 3.                                                                  Zed 1.0 ( zed.dev )                                                                                       
     1753 points by salkahfi 16 hours ago | hide | 565 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
 4.                                                                  Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs ( github.com/cauchy221 ) 
     106 points by reconnecting 4 hours ago | hide | 62 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                               
 5.                                                                  Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans ( noctua.at )                                 
     126 points by embedding-shape 4 hours ago | hide | 23 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                               
 6.                                                                  The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy ( simonwillison.net )              
     161 points by lumpa 4 hours ago | hide | 72 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                               
 7.                                                                  Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?" ( scottaaronson.blog )                        
     15 points by bwesterb 44 minutes ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                               
 8.                                                                  Copy Fail ( copy.fail )                                                                                   
     856 points by unsnap_biceps 13 hours ago | hide | 325 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                               
 9.                                                                  Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell ( burrito.bio )              
     66 points by the-mitr 3 hours ago | hide | 9 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                               
10.                                                                  Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig ( pure-systems.org )                                    
     77 points by xngbuilds 4 hours ago | hide | 48 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                               
11.                                                                  Cursor Camp ( neal.fun )                                                                                  
     848 points by bpierre 15 hours ago | hide | 136 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                               
12.                                                                  London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) ( amusingplanet.com )                                                    
     34 points by CGMthrowaway 3 hours ago | hide | 10 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
13.                                                                  FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies ( agwa.name )                     
     316 points by agwa 14 hours ago | hide | 74 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                               
14.                                                                  Monad Tutorials Timeline ( haskell.org )                                                                  
     16 points by brudgers 2 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                               
15.                                                                  OpenTrafficMap ( opentrafficmap.org )                                                                     
     220 points by moooo99 11 hours ago | hide | 51 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                               
16.                                                                  Mike: open-source legal AI ( mikeoss.com )                                                                
     70 points by noleary 6 hours ago | hide | 24 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                               
17.                                                                  HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing ( github.com/anthropics )    
     1090 points by homebrewer 12 hours ago | hide | 463 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                               
18.                                                                  Who Is That Knocking at My (SSH) Door? ( sheep.horse )                                                    
     16 points by speckx 2 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                               
19.                                                                  Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell ( jointhefreeworld.org )                         
     211 points by jjba23 13 hours ago | hide | 100 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                               
20.                                                                  Creating a Color Palette from an Image ( amandahinton.com )                                               
     55 points by evakhoury 6 hours ago | hide | 8 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                               
21.                                                                  The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted ( scienceblog.com )                            
     5 points by jnord 1 hour ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                               
22.                                                                  Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight ( flyingmag.com )                     
     40 points by Jblx2 6 hours ago | hide | 92 comments                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                               
23.                                                                  Laws of UX ( lawsofux.com )                                                                               
     243 points by bobbiechen 14 hours ago | hide | 35 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
24.                                                                  Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function ( devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing )
     51 points by aragonite 7 hours ago | hide | 23 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                               
25.                                                                  Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer ( ycombinator.com )                              
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26.                                                                  An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce ( github.com/gliax )                 
     238 points by 0x54MUR41 16 hours ago | hide | 104 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
27.                                                                  A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust ( acm.org )                                       
     27 points by tkhattra 5 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                               
28.                                                                  Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write ( github.com/aallan )                         
     80 points by unignorant 9 hours ago | hide | 64 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                               
29.                                                                  We need a federation of forges ( tangled.org )                                                            
     559 points by icy 17 hours ago | hide | 344 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                               
30.                                                                  How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] ( youtube.com )                                           
     110 points by sandslash 14 hours ago | hide | 54 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                               
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