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1.		So you wanna build a local RAG? (yakkomajuri.com)
		390 points by pedriquepacheco 4 months ago \| 105 comments
2.		Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25 (mfbmina.dev)
		62 points by mfbmina 8 months ago \| 47 comments
3.		Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? (annehelen.substack.com)
		289 points by moonka on April 2, 2025 \| 308 comments
4.		Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR (auntiepdf.com)
		99 points by bilater on March 8, 2025 \| 40 comments
5.		Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code (simonwillison.net)
		979 points by k__ on Jan 28, 2025 \| 746 comments
6.		Where is London's most central sheep? (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
		247 points by GeoAtreides on Jan 23, 2025 \| 161 comments
7.		My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010) (might.net)
		257 points by vismit2000 on Dec 13, 2024 \| 104 comments
8.		Show HN: Tea-tasting, a Python package for the statistical analysis of A/B tests (e10v.me)
		150 points by e10v_me on July 29, 2024 \| 48 comments
9.		CLI tool and Python library for manipulating SQLite databases (datasette.io)
		4 points by punnerud on July 8, 2024 \| 1 comment
10.		Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
		200 points by mjbale116 on June 19, 2024 \| 201 comments
11.		Sentry: From the Beginning (cra.mr)
		199 points by ellieh on Nov 1, 2023 \| 55 comments
12.		Queueing Theory: An introduction for software development (github.com/joelparkerhenderson)
		287 points by pramodbiligiri on Sept 16, 2023 \| 54 comments
13.		Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew (simonwillison.net)
		22 points by samwillis on Aug 1, 2023 \| 6 comments
14.		Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript (simonwillison.net)
		508 points by sebg on May 13, 2023 \| 175 comments
15.		How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette (simonwillison.net)
		164 points by swyx on Jan 22, 2023 \| 31 comments
16.		Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?
		342 points by WhackyIdeas on Jan 23, 2023 \| 319 comments
17.		ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model (github.com/blinkdl)
		300 points by maraoz on Jan 19, 2023 \| 132 comments
18.		The Perfect Commit (simonwillison.net)
		197 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 29, 2022 \| 219 comments
19.		DDR5 RAM prices crashed by 20% in May (tech4gamers.com)
		293 points by ddtaylor on June 4, 2022 \| 172 comments
20.		Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data (simonwillison.net)
		436 points by simonw on Nov 14, 2020 \| 59 comments
21.		There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		501 points by tape_measure on Oct 11, 2020 \| 175 comments
22.		DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion (securitum.com)
		161 points by fanf2 on Oct 6, 2020 \| 81 comments
23.		Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3 (jepsen.io)
		769 points by aphyr on June 12, 2020 \| 140 comments
24.		Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos (simonwillison.net)
		216 points by markx2 on May 22, 2020 \| 36 comments
25.		Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?
		146 points by crocodiletears on May 22, 2020 \| 42 comments
26.		How to Speak (2018) [video] (ocw.mit.edu)
		531 points by pagade on April 12, 2020 \| 43 comments
27.		DeltaPy – Tabular Data Augmentation (colab.research.google.com)
		126 points by firedup on April 9, 2020 \| 2 comments
28.		Ffcms – FFmpeg's -filter_complex made simple (stryku.pl)
		93 points by stryku2393 on March 22, 2020 \| 26 comments
29.		Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App (atrium.co)
		1620 points by jenthoven on Jan 4, 2019 \| 559 comments
30.		Japan eyes startup visa program (nikkei.com)
		372 points by benguild on Dec 8, 2017 \| 213 comments
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