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1.
Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)
1219 points by signa11 1 day ago | 445 comments
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Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)
597 points by bilsbie 2 days ago | 233 comments
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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)
1068 points by thm 1 day ago | 501 comments
4.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)
409 points by zdw 2 days ago | 106 comments
5.
That Methyl Methacrylate Tank (science.org)
413 points by nooks 1 day ago | 186 comments
6.
How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)
391 points by subract 2 days ago | 82 comments
7.
I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline (djspeckhals.com)
284 points by dustin1114 5 days ago | 74 comments
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Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs (signalbloom.ai)
313 points by GodelNumbering 1 day ago | 356 comments
9.
The worst job interview I ever had (oliverio.dev)
612 points by oliverio 1 day ago | 507 comments
10.
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)
592 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 231 comments
11.
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)
531 points by obscurette 2 days ago | 595 comments
12.
Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com/logannye)
183 points by samuell 6 days ago | 55 comments
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down (cnbc.com)
369 points by aghuang 1 day ago | 430 comments
14.
Use boring languages with LLMs (jry.io)
224 points by evakhoury 5 days ago | 165 comments
15.
The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)
410 points by ggcr 1 day ago | 832 comments
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Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia (medium.com/jakeorlowitz)
556 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 333 comments
17.
DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)
337 points by dynip 1 day ago | 123 comments
18.
Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)
152 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 81 comments
19.
Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com/yugr)
135 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 126 comments
20.
Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)
397 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 228 comments
21.
What color is your function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)
134 points by tosh 1 day ago | 181 comments
22.
The user is visibly frustrated (pscanf.com)
297 points by croes 1 day ago | 271 comments
23.
A portentous reunion (dtrace.org)
137 points by cafkafk 1 day ago | 40 comments
24.
C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View” (retrogamecoders.com)
92 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 15 comments
25.
Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale (minicor.com)
101 points by fchishtie 1 day ago | 61 comments
26.
 [dupe] GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)
652 points by cebert 1 day ago | 1 comment
27.
The Steinwinter Supercargo (thedrive.com)
85 points by itronitron 4 days ago | 27 comments
28.
C array types are weird (anselmschueler.com)
124 points by signa11 2 days ago | 132 comments
29.
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)
146 points by speckx 5 days ago | 61 comments
30.
Opaque Types in Python (glyph.im)
125 points by lumpa 4 days ago | 58 comments

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