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1.		HC-tree is an experimental high-concurrency database back end for SQLite (sqlite.org)
		524 points by nalgeon on Jan 18, 2023 \| 190 comments
2.		Why to start a startup in a bad economy (2008) (paulgraham.com)
		392 points by dbrereton on Jan 18, 2023 \| 225 comments
3.		Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev (bitwarden.com)
		479 points by xxkylexx on Jan 18, 2023 \| 391 comments
4.		Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video] (youtube.com)
		1110 points by georgehill on Jan 17, 2023 \| 104 comments
5.		Which GPU(s) to get for deep learning (timdettmers.com)
		348 points by itvision on Jan 18, 2023 \| 148 comments
6.		Tailscale bug allowed a person to share nodes from other tailnets without auth (tailscale.com)
		378 points by Operyl on Jan 17, 2023 \| 124 comments
7.		Thonny – Python IDE for beginners (thonny.org)
		402 points by ankit70 on Jan 18, 2023 \| 104 comments
8.		LangChain: Build AI apps with LLMs through composability (github.com/hwchase17)
		372 points by azhenley on Jan 18, 2023 \| 76 comments
9.		OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic (time.com)
		517 points by mkeeter on Jan 18, 2023 \| 570 comments
10.		No Start Menu for You (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		427 points by jabagawee on Jan 18, 2023 \| 272 comments
11.		Bun v0.5 (bun.sh)
		330 points by cyclecity on Jan 18, 2023 \| 153 comments
12.		Tar.pl – A tar creator and extractor in ~130 lines of Prolog (github.com/superdisk)
		271 points by superdisk on Jan 18, 2023 \| 85 comments
13.		Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri (twitter.com/john_hudson)
		207 points by danso on Jan 18, 2023 \| 256 comments
14.		Hello, PNG (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
		268 points by EntICOnc on Jan 18, 2023 \| 155 comments
15.		Personas (about.gitlab.com)
		143 points by mooreds on Jan 18, 2023 \| 33 comments
16.		QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation (github.com/questpdf)
		195 points by nateb2022 on Jan 18, 2023 \| 128 comments
17.		Datasette is my data hammer (jeremiak.com)
		299 points by Tomte on Jan 17, 2023 \| 69 comments
18.		U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100M a year from service members (npr.org)
		380 points by geox on Jan 18, 2023 \| 263 comments
19.		Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism (tegowerk.eu)
		216 points by victorstanciu on Jan 17, 2023 \| 190 comments
20.		Rust concepts I wish I learned earlier (rauljordan.com)
		379 points by rck on Jan 18, 2023 \| 170 comments
21.		New Norwegian land could emerge from the Atlantic Ocean (sciencenorway.no)
		119 points by LastNevadan on Jan 18, 2023 \| 90 comments
22.		The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020) (theverge.com)
		163 points by nequo on Jan 17, 2023 \| 248 comments
23.		Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation (github.com/christianvoigt)
		120 points by stareatgoats on Jan 18, 2023 \| 37 comments
24.		Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market?
		285 points by hazrmard on Jan 18, 2023 \| 254 comments
25.		Show HN: Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI (summate.it)
		142 points by k1m on Jan 17, 2023 \| 51 comments
26.		Japanese manhole mass production process [video] (youtube.com)
		206 points by zdw on Jan 18, 2023 \| 95 comments
27.		DensePose from WiFi (arxiv.org)
		176 points by deverton on Jan 18, 2023 \| 44 comments
28.		A stack of feed-forward layers does surprisingly well on ImageNet (arxiv.org)
		97 points by fzliu on Jan 18, 2023 \| 25 comments
29.		How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes (lareviewofbooks.org)
		89 points by diodorus on Jan 18, 2023 \| 66 comments
30.		My best techniques for evaluating character (tedgioia.substack.com)
		248 points by jger15 on Jan 18, 2023 \| 190 comments
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