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CloudGazing
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So you want to parse a PDF?
How to grow almost anything
A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)
Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme
Everything to know about UniFi OS Server
'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market
US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam
Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related orgs from one of its funding lists
Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine
Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions
The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)
In the future all food will be cooked in a microwave
Welcome to url.town, population 465
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Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl
Writing a good design document
Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation
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AI hallucinations will be solvable within a year (2024)
Gabe Newell on AI, Gaming, and Success [video]
Show HN: Turn impulse buys into dream investments
The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video]
Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise
The Dollar Is Dead
A 3D model of the human airways via a digital light processing bioprinter
The AI Mirage: July Jobs Report vs. Tech Hiring Truths
Caracas on the Potomac
Modern Node.js Patterns
This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)
ChatGPT chats were indexed then removed from search but still remain online
Ex-Barclays VP who completed a PhD in prison: "All my former colleagues ignore"
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
We Paid Users $300K to Upload Their Camera Rolls, Homework, and Dashcam Footage
Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization
The Subway Game (1980)
Time Theft at the Terminal
EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
UN report finds UN reports are not widely read
Converge (YC S23) well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers
Palantir: The Most Evil Company
My bytecode optimizer beats Copilot by 2x
How OpenAI Is Turning Monopoly Money into Real Debt
Apple lacks strategic vision
Show HN: Implementation of DDPM (Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models)
Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance
The Ski Rental Problem
$83B Wasted: Showing up at the airport 3 hours before your flight
The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas
One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days
Flipping Bits in the World
How to make almost anything (2019)
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Descent of Inanna into the Underworld
Tokens are getting more expensive
2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals
Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329M verdict
If you're remote, ramble
Self-employed, self-exhausted
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches
The Algebra Gatekeepers
A Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Parser
People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
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