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1.		Llama 2 (meta.com)
		2268 points by friggeri on July 18, 2023 \| 820 comments
2.		Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer (treeherder.mozilla.org)
		1282 points by akyuu on July 18, 2023 \| 544 comments
3.		Sweden Sans (sweden.se)
		467 points by 2143 on July 18, 2023 \| 187 comments
4.		Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo (islamov.ai)
		473 points by aislamov on July 18, 2023 \| 116 comments
5.		Val, a high-level systems programming language (val-lang.dev)
		423 points by cpeterso on July 18, 2023 \| 277 comments
6.		A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022) (hagerty.com)
		385 points by colinprince on July 18, 2023 \| 303 comments
7.		Never waste a midlife crisis (austinkleon.com)
		445 points by herbertl on July 17, 2023 \| 437 comments
8.		AutoChain, lightweight and testable alternative to LangChain (github.com/forethought-technologies)
		211 points by yilu331 on July 18, 2023 \| 36 comments
9.		Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring
		261 points by podoman on July 18, 2023 \| 134 comments
10.		How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009) (jacquesmattheij.com)
		346 points by wofo on July 17, 2023 \| 165 comments
11.		Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds (stephenwolfram.com)
		254 points by RafelMri on July 18, 2023 \| 110 comments
12.		Voder Speech Synthesizer (griffin.moe)
		253 points by CyborgCabbage on July 18, 2023 \| 42 comments
13.		Cython 3.0 Released (cython.readthedocs.io)
		221 points by ngoldbaum on July 18, 2023 \| 82 comments
14.		Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the LLM-replicate plugin (simonwillison.net)
		200 points by simonw on July 18, 2023 \| 43 comments
15.		Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, revolutionary, cryptologist… suspected spy? (resobscura.substack.com)
		74 points by benbreen on July 18, 2023 \| 4 comments
16.		The Drivers Cooperative: New York’s driver-owned ride-hailing app (nextcity.org)
		294 points by chaisquared on July 18, 2023 \| 131 comments
17.		Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL (citusdata.com)
		160 points by mulander on July 18, 2023 \| 45 comments
18.		fMRI-to-image with contrastive learning and diffusion priors (stability.ai)
		146 points by tmabraham on July 18, 2023 \| 64 comments
19.		Nintendo 64 Test Cart ROM (gamingalexandria.com)
		149 points by ecliptik on July 18, 2023 \| 16 comments
20.		Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft (paul.reviews)
		196 points by varun_ch on July 16, 2023 \| 73 comments
21.		Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity (noahpinion.blog)
		684 points by bankershill on July 18, 2023 \| 750 comments
22.		Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage (newatlas.com)
		95 points by DamnInteresting on July 17, 2023 \| 105 comments
23.		A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning (arxiv.org)
		140 points by vov_or on July 18, 2023 \| 51 comments
24.		Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases (nautil.us)
		189 points by jnord on July 17, 2023 \| 151 comments
25.		Payment systems while working at a pizza place (nickjanetakis.com)
		260 points by nickjj on July 18, 2023 \| 149 comments
26.		Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials (nature.com)
		333 points by headalgorithm on July 18, 2023 \| 283 comments
27.		Tesla directors agree to return $735M following claims they were overpaid (engadget.com)
		235 points by thunderbong on July 18, 2023 \| 109 comments
28.		Vx32: Portable, efficient, safe user-space execution of untrusted x86 code (2008) (csail.mit.edu)
		89 points by nateb2022 on July 18, 2023 \| 23 comments
29.		Stalwart All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP) (github.com/stalwartlabs)
		243 points by erlend_sh on July 18, 2023 \| 75 comments
30.		A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft (github.com/lxtharia)
		395 points by sijmen on July 18, 2023 \| 69 comments
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