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1.
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (john.hartnup.uk)
1770 points by ereiamjh 1 day ago | 909 comments
2.
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)
1291 points by nandakishor_ml 1 day ago | 310 comments
3.
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (terrytao.wordpress.com)
400 points by num42 1 day ago | 279 comments
4.
How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
713 points by joeriddles 3 days ago | 401 comments
5.
Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (stanford.edu)
640 points by emigre 1 day ago | 255 comments
6.
Brood War Bench (swerdlow.dev)
337 points by benswerd 1 day ago | 152 comments
7.
San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
388 points by z-mach9 1 day ago | 173 comments
8.
English: A vs. An (redblobgames.com)
348 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 478 comments
9.
GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (prinzai.com)
388 points by nsoonhui 1 day ago | 177 comments
10.
The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (nationalgeographic.com)
370 points by ohjeez 3 days ago | 141 comments
11.
Measure internet censorship (ooni.org)
204 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 145 comments
12.
Asking authors about their own papers (medium.com/tmlrorg)
222 points by stefanpie 4 days ago | 114 comments
13.
What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
257 points by ksec 1 day ago | 315 comments
14.
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip (ieee.org)
201 points by maxall4 2 days ago | 136 comments
15.
The Secret Life of Circuits (coredump.cx)
316 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 81 comments
16.
SDCC – Small Device C Compiler (sourceforge.net)
136 points by lioeters 1 day ago | 36 comments
17.
ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression (iacr.org)
102 points by gslin 1 day ago | 29 comments
18.
Science Is Open Software (jepedersen.dk)
158 points by jegp 1 day ago | 73 comments
19.
Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
224 points by ksec 1 day ago | 95 comments
20.
You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (tigrisdata.com)
146 points by evacchi 4 days ago | 35 comments
21.
Why building a Rust LSP is hard (rust-glancer.github.io)
140 points by agluszak 4 days ago | 71 comments
22.
New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb (nature.com)
148 points by rndsignals 3 days ago | 81 comments
23.
Deodands put a price on objects that caused death (jstor.org)
106 points by samizdis 4 days ago | 41 comments
24.
I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
339 points by erwald 1 day ago | 165 comments
25.
Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (bartosz.fenski.pl)
170 points by farlight 1 day ago | 158 comments
26.
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' (quantamagazine.org)
101 points by jandrewrogers 2 days ago | 59 comments
27.
UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 (ufoseries.com)
92 points by DropDead 2 days ago | 39 comments
28.
Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook (echo.orpheusinstituut.be)
94 points by stuart78 3 days ago | 27 comments
29.
Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
75 points by torutofu 4 days ago | 6 comments
30.
Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (quantamagazine.org)
79 points by randomImmigrant 3 days ago | 17 comments

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