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1.
Craig Venter has died (jcvi.org)
122 points by rdl 2 hours ago | 25 comments
2.
Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed] (claude.com)
101 points by rob 2 hours ago | 92 comments
3.
Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
739 points by bpierre 12 hours ago | 122 comments
4.
Be Alexandra Elbakyan (twitter.com/mushtaqbilalphd)
105 points by DanielleMolloy 5 hours ago | 11 comments
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Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos with Historic JFK Flight (flyingmag.com)
27 points by Jblx2 2 hours ago | 56 comments
6.
Where the Goblins Came From (openai.com)
58 points by ilreb 29 minutes ago | 13 comments
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Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write (github.com/aallan)
67 points by unignorant 6 hours ago | 58 comments
8.
DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design (eetimes.com)
38 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 3 comments
9.
I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief." (maxtaylor.me)
79 points by max-t-dev 6 hours ago | 52 comments
10.
Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
29 points by aragonite 2 days ago | 14 comments
11.
Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
23 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 3 comments
12.
Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
9 points by the-mitr 25 minutes ago | discuss
13.
The Lingua Franca of LaTeX (2019) (increment.com)
18 points by ripe 1 day ago | 3 comments
14.
What can we gain by losing infinity? (quantamagazine.org)
21 points by Tomte 12 hours ago | 30 comments
15.
A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust (acm.org)
11 points by tkhattra 2 hours ago | discuss
16.
Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
27 points by noleary 2 hours ago | 8 comments
17.
Claude.ai down again?
25 points by zh_code 2 hours ago | 18 comments
18.
Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis (handyai.substack.com)
67 points by sss111 8 hours ago | 23 comments
19.
Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU (github.com/qumulator)
6 points by nnoorbakhsh 2 days ago | 3 comments
20.
Sony rolls out 30-day DRM check-in for PlayStation – stay online or lose access (tomshardware.com)
27 points by josephcsible 6 hours ago | 6 comments
21.
On the stand, Elon Musk can't escape his own tweets (techcrunch.com)
13 points by jnord 2 hours ago | discuss
22.
Have You Seen the New Excel? (idiallo.com)
18 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 5 comments
23.
Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary (opensource.microsoft.com)
11 points by hackthemack 57 minutes ago | 1 comment
24.
German Bundeswehr does not intend to use Palantir software (zeit.de)
11 points by doener 5 hours ago | discuss
25.
China pushes EU capitals to scrap 'Made in Europe' law or face retaliation (euronews.com)
11 points by ericmay 3 hours ago | 1 comment
26.
The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
13 points by lumpa 1 hour ago | 1 comment
27.
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz (theregister.com)
9 points by omer_k 3 hours ago | 1 comment
28.
Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs (github.com/cauchy221)
3 points by reconnecting 38 minutes ago | discuss
29.
Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig (pure-systems.org)
7 points by xngbuilds 38 minutes ago | discuss
30.
Zulip 12.0 Released (zulip.com)
4 points by tabbott 1 hour ago | discuss

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