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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin (maraoz.com)
1079 points by maraoz on July 18, 2020 | 526 comments
2.
Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs (cookieplmonster.github.io)
562 points by Macha on July 19, 2020 | 178 comments
3.
Tired of note-taking apps (akkshaya.blog)
478 points by akkshu92 on July 19, 2020 | 465 comments
4.
Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away (ieee.org)
373 points by bookofjoe on July 19, 2020 | 185 comments
5.
Things Unexpectedly Named After People (rolandcrosby.com)
433 points by vortex_ape on July 19, 2020 | 289 comments
6.
Low-Background Steel (wikipedia.org)
359 points by confeit on July 19, 2020 | 107 comments
7.
MIT OCW: Statistics for Applications (2016) (ocw.mit.edu)
278 points by tosh on July 19, 2020 | 37 comments
8.
The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys (twitter.com/claytravis)
543 points by andrenth on July 19, 2020 | 281 comments
9.
Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API (minimaxir.com)
267 points by vortex_ape on July 19, 2020 | 189 comments
10.
Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test (lacker.io)
453 points by DavidSJ on July 19, 2020 | 234 comments
11.
Worms Armageddon 3.8 (worms2d.info)
446 points by typh00n on July 19, 2020 | 142 comments
12.
Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog (petevilter.me)
275 points by arjunnarayan on July 17, 2020 | 61 comments
13.
The Passport Payment (2000) (archive.org)
209 points by csapdani on July 19, 2020 | 52 comments
14.
The Zen of Erlang (2016) (ferd.ca)
192 points by swyx on July 19, 2020 | 79 comments
15.
All of us test in production all the time (2019) (increment.com)
198 points by jrvarela56 on July 19, 2020 | 156 comments
16.
Optimizing 128-bit Division (danlark.org)
136 points by EvgeniyZh on July 19, 2020 | 28 comments
17.
Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce (hbr.org)
188 points by jsnell on July 18, 2020 | 75 comments
18.
Computation Graphs and Graph Computation (breandan.github.io)
109 points by bmc7505 on July 18, 2020 | 37 comments
19.
Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell (medium.com/swlh)
127 points by jose_zap on July 16, 2020 | 37 comments
20.
Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots (businessinsider.com)
85 points by onetimemanytime on July 19, 2020 | 69 comments
21.
Show HN: Dendron – a roam like open source markdown note taking app (dendron.so)
127 points by kevinslin on July 19, 2020 | 39 comments
22.
The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia (thonyc.wordpress.com)
115 points by hecubus on July 18, 2020 | 56 comments
23.
How e-commerce platform Elliot fell back down to Earth (modernretail.co)
76 points by lxm on July 19, 2020 | 23 comments
24.
Why companies lose their best innovators (2019) (forbes.com/sites/kmehta)
190 points by hhs on July 19, 2020 | 163 comments
25.
The Keynesian Revolution: A new biography of John Maynard Keynes (bostonreview.net)
54 points by newest on July 18, 2020 | 45 comments
26.
Spies in the Xerox Machine (1997) (electricalstrategies.com)
68 points by myrandomcomment on July 19, 2020 | 36 comments
27.
Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem – magnetism in solids is a quantum mechanical effect (wikipedia.org)
141 points by apsec112 on July 19, 2020 | 88 comments
28.
John Gilmore: History of Cygnus's Growth (tuhs.org)
75 points by cxr on July 18, 2020 | 10 comments
29.
Modelling the lanuage of the immune system with machine learning (first steps) (github.com/jostmey)
52 points by jostmey on July 19, 2020 | 9 comments
30.
Building DIY LED strips for fun (wholelottanothing.org)
100 points by MindGods on July 19, 2020 | 33 comments

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