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1.
Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)
1174 points by signa11 1 day ago | 433 comments
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Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)
582 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 231 comments
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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)
908 points by thm 19 hours ago | 419 comments
4.
How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)
377 points by subract 1 day ago | 79 comments
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Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs (signalbloom.ai)
283 points by GodelNumbering 20 hours ago | 303 comments
6.
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)
558 points by vrganj 21 hours ago | 220 comments
7.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)
347 points by zdw 1 day ago | 71 comments
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down (cnbc.com)
344 points by aghuang 19 hours ago | 369 comments
9.
Use boring languages with LLMs (jry.io)
213 points by evakhoury 4 days ago | 153 comments
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DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)
327 points by dynip 1 day ago | 120 comments
11.
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)
511 points by obscurette 1 day ago | 583 comments
12.
Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)
149 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 75 comments
13.
The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)
362 points by ggcr 17 hours ago | 739 comments
14.
Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com/yugr)
129 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 105 comments
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Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia (medium.com/jakeorlowitz)
487 points by cdrnsf 12 hours ago | 289 comments
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Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)
378 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 222 comments
17.
That Methyl Methacrylate Tank (science.org)
326 points by nooks 13 hours ago | 126 comments
18.
The user is visibly frustrated (pscanf.com)
288 points by croes 1 day ago | 250 comments
19.
I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline (djspeckhals.com)
235 points by dustin1114 4 days ago | 59 comments
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Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com/logannye)
154 points by samuell 5 days ago | 40 comments
21.
C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View” (retrogamecoders.com)
87 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 12 comments
22.
What color is your function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)
120 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 152 comments
23.
 [dupe] GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)
649 points by cebert 21 hours ago | 1 comment
24.
Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale (minicor.com)
88 points by fchishtie 18 hours ago | 54 comments
25.
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)
142 points by speckx 4 days ago | 59 comments
26.
Opaque Types in Python (glyph.im)
122 points by lumpa 3 days ago | 56 comments
27.
Squares in Squares (myphotos.cc)
103 points by carlos-menezes 2 days ago | 22 comments
28.
The Ballad of TIGIT (owlposting.com)
104 points by crescit_eundo 17 hours ago | 20 comments
29.
The Steinwinter Supercargo (thedrive.com)
68 points by itronitron 3 days ago | 19 comments
30.
A portentous reunion (dtrace.org)
101 points by cafkafk 1 day ago | 26 comments

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