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1.		FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal (fcc.gov)
		1156 points by ortusdux 4 months ago \| 674 comments
2.		John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died (fourmilab.ch)
		1072 points by jdougan 4 months ago \| 227 comments
3.		Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced (blog.google)
		668 points by chamoda 4 months ago \| 1100 comments
4.		Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy (fortune.com)
		859 points by jacooper 4 months ago \| 701 comments
5.		I accidentally Blender VSE (aras-p.info)
		511 points by bangonkeyboard 4 months ago \| 94 comments
6.		Doorway effect (wikipedia.org)
		313 points by aavshr 4 months ago \| 146 comments
7.		VirtualBox KVM Public Release (cyberus-technology.de)
		520 points by CyberusTech 4 months ago \| 196 comments
8.		Physics for Mathematicians – Introduction (nicf.net)
		233 points by irsagent 4 months ago \| 60 comments
9.		Baruch Spinoza and the art of thinking in dangerous times (newyorker.com)
		162 points by mitchbob 4 months ago \| 71 comments
10.		Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search (arxiv.org)
		198 points by jonbaer 4 months ago \| 130 comments
11.		The appendix is not, in fact, useless (npr.org)
		309 points by Digit-Al 4 months ago \| 157 comments
12.		Concrete.css (concrete.style)
		342 points by soap- 4 months ago \| 115 comments
13.		Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
		162 points by murb 4 months ago \| 85 comments
14.		J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books (mitpress.mit.edu)
		172 points by anarbadalov 4 months ago \| 48 comments
15.		How to (seriously) read a scientific paper (2016) (science.org)
		145 points by sebg 4 months ago \| 62 comments
16.		Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's (traderjoesprices.com)
		274 points by cmoog 4 months ago \| 147 comments
17.		Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (2004) [pdf] (forth.com)
		227 points by fagnerbrack 4 months ago \| 61 comments
18.		SQLite-Web: Web-based SQLite database browser written in Python (github.com/coleifer)
		181 points by thunderbong 4 months ago \| 45 comments
19.		Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta (fb.com)
		217 points by atg_abhishek 4 months ago \| 85 comments
20.		When "letting it crash" is not enough (flawless.dev)
		157 points by thunderbong 4 months ago \| 79 comments
21.		How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck (helixml.substack.com)
		215 points by lewq 5 months ago \| 47 comments
22.		Loungy: An Application Launcher Written with GPUI, the Zed GPU UI Framework (github.com/matthiasgrandl)
		113 points by goranmoomin 4 months ago \| 41 comments
23.		Novel drug could protect brains from damage after repeat concussions (medicalxpress.com)
		108 points by wglb 4 months ago \| 96 comments
24.		Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say (sfgate.com)
		323 points by mayakacz 4 months ago \| 713 comments
25.		Dutch Police intelligence services unlawfully spied on whole population groups (nltimes.nl)
		286 points by belter 4 months ago \| 263 comments
26.		Automate the creation of YouTube Shorts by providing a topic (github.com/fujiwarachoki)
		117 points by rcarmo 4 months ago \| 59 comments
27.		Gemini Ultra Released (one.google.com)
		427 points by hackerlight 4 months ago \| 6 comments
28.		"Niksen": The art of doing nothing (theguardian.com)
		102 points by Archelaos 4 months ago \| 81 comments
29.		The power of two random choices (brooker.co.za)
		139 points by mfiguiere 4 months ago \| 33 comments
30.		Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs (cloud.google.com)
		101 points by srameshc 4 months ago \| 74 comments
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