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1.
Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count (quantamagazine.org)
993 points by jasondavies 8 months ago | 287 comments
2.
Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2) (github.com/higherorderco)
1041 points by LightMachine 8 months ago | 253 comments
3.
Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video] (ccc.de)
607 points by robin_reala 8 months ago | 170 comments
4.
Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective (toon3d.studio)
414 points by lnyan 8 months ago | 111 comments
5.
ADSL works over wet string (2017) (revk.uk)
273 points by fanf2 8 months ago | 109 comments
6.
A forged Apple employee badge (cabel.com)
952 points by ecliptik 8 months ago | 348 comments
7.
Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online (useequityval.com)
287 points by trevzercap 8 months ago | 150 comments
8.
Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely (github.com/google)
279 points by nequo 8 months ago | 68 comments
9.
The beauty of concrete (worksinprogress.co)
174 points by jger15 8 months ago | 87 comments
10.
A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans (dukehealth.org)
282 points by geox 8 months ago | 68 comments
11.
Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017) (dolphin-emu.org)
222 points by Grognak 8 months ago | 69 comments
12.
Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email (gabrielsieben.tech)
396 points by gjsman-1000 8 months ago | 301 comments
13.
500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks (newscientist.com)
120 points by gumby 8 months ago | 27 comments
14.
Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton (arstechnica.com)
88 points by nobody9999 8 months ago | 31 comments
15.
HMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Long Context Language Processing (arxiv.org)
87 points by jasondavies 8 months ago | 6 comments
16.
Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API (github.com/metaskills)
227 points by metaskills 8 months ago | 80 comments
17.
Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting (smudge.ai)
390 points by seabass 8 months ago | 49 comments
18.
Exact binary vector search for RAG in 100 lines of Julia (domluna.com)
180 points by lunaticd 8 months ago | 23 comments
19.
Ideas and Creativity (2019) (rieck.me)
113 points by Pseudomanifold 8 months ago | 27 comments
20.
Exercises to Learn Rust (rust-exercises.com)
752 points by sebg 8 months ago | 123 comments
21.
Third Time: a better way to work (2022) (lesswrong.com)
123 points by FigurativeVoid 8 months ago | 54 comments
22.
Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research (arxiv.org)
85 points by snats 8 months ago | 31 comments
23.
Glewbot scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles (arduino.cc)
48 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 9 comments
24.
Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020) (bdtechtalks.com)
130 points by DeathArrow 8 months ago | 83 comments
25.
Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress (architecturalrecord.com)
140 points by ayanai 8 months ago | 94 comments
26.
The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018) (datawrapper.de)
152 points by Leftium 8 months ago | 65 comments
27.
Growing sodium chloride crystals at home (crystalverse.com)
198 points by behnamoh 8 months ago | 62 comments
28.
Arch Linux RISC-V (archriscv.felixc.at)
166 points by hggh 8 months ago | 29 comments
29.
ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F# (github.com/m4rs-mt)
157 points by neonsunset 8 months ago | 35 comments
30.
A transport protocol's view of Starlink (potaroo.net)
214 points by fanf2 8 months ago | 45 comments

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