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1. The long, slow death of global development (americanaffairsjournal.org)
74 points by telotortium on April 11, 2023 | 77 comments
2. The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition (routledge.com)
387 points by zzxcvb on April 8, 2023 | 166 comments
3. Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distributed Systems (2022) (exhypothesi.com)
397 points by alexzeitler on April 1, 2023 | 108 comments
4. Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire (acm.org)
245 points by donmcc on April 1, 2023 | 264 comments
5. A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (nightingaledvs.com)
508 points by skadamat on March 22, 2023 | 251 comments
6. A mirror that reverses how light travels in time (ieee.org)
131 points by mfiguiere on March 22, 2023 | 35 comments
7. People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity (smithsonianmag.com)
293 points by olalonde on March 19, 2023 | 303 comments
8. Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video] (youtube.com)
549 points by nixcraft on March 19, 2023 | 408 comments
9. Learning the ropes: why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (2021) (theguardian.com)
283 points by mschuster91 on March 19, 2023 | 156 comments
10. Trouble with Erythritol (science.org)
208 points by Metacelsus on March 7, 2023 | 225 comments
11. Reliability: It’s not great (fly.io)
1226 points by bishopsmother on March 6, 2023 | 455 comments
12. Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents (github.com/facebookresearch)
909 points by micro_charm on March 3, 2023 | 693 comments
13. Normalization of Deviance (2015) (danluu.com)
447 points by akshaykarthik on Feb 14, 2023 | 219 comments
14. [dupe] The FTC plans to curtail the use of non-compete clauses (economist.com)
190 points by thomas_hn on Jan 16, 2023 | 116 comments
15. British Motorway Database (roads.org.uk)
72 points by scrlk on Jan 14, 2023 | 38 comments
16. In the Stacks (brandnewbox.com)
35 points by shortleash on Jan 7, 2023 | 11 comments
17. A skeptical take on ChatGPT: Ezra Klein interviews Gary Marcus (nytimes.com)
102 points by superposeur on Jan 6, 2023 | 123 comments
18. Playing games with AIs: The limits of GPT-3 and similar large language models (springer.com)
110 points by nigamanth on Jan 7, 2023 | 57 comments
19. Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do (ecu.edu.au)
202 points by emerongi on Jan 6, 2023 | 211 comments
20. Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes (theconversation.com)
81 points by signor_bosco on Jan 7, 2023 | 78 comments
21. Ancient Apocalypse reviewed (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
46 points by jeffreyrogers on Jan 5, 2023 | 36 comments
22. Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia (liorsinai.github.io)
109 points by the_origami_fox on Jan 6, 2023 | 21 comments
23. Monkey stone tools shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites (sagepub.com)
174 points by wslh on Jan 7, 2023 | 119 comments
24. I Feel for the NetBSD Community (rubenerd.com)
42 points by jayp1418 on Jan 7, 2023 | 38 comments
25. Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering (vadimkravcenko.com)
419 points by mikecarlton on Jan 6, 2023 | 277 comments
26. Why was Roman concrete so durable? (news.mit.edu)
627 points by geox on Jan 6, 2023 | 270 comments
27. Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan (twitter.com/trungtphan)
142 points by cwwc on Dec 31, 2022 | 168 comments
28. Lessons Learned from the Book “Effective Remote Work” (phauer.com)
154 points by 0x54MUR41 on Jan 2, 2023 | 100 comments
29. How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? (ntdotdev.wordpress.com)
574 points by serhack_ on Jan 2, 2023 | 410 comments
30. The internet wants to be fragmented (noahpinion.substack.com)
312 points by miletus on Jan 1, 2023 | 235 comments

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