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1.		Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease (science.org)
		721 points by lonelyasacloud on May 16, 2023 \| 325 comments
2.		A guidance language for controlling LLMs (github.com/microsoft)
		552 points by evanmays on May 16, 2023 \| 190 comments
3.		Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI (reuters.com)
		914 points by vforgione on May 16, 2023 \| 1214 comments
4.		The Sourdough Framework (github.com/hendricius)
		532 points by hendricius on May 16, 2023 \| 103 comments
5.		Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features (apple.com)
		636 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2023 \| 342 comments
6.		Bun 0.6 (bun.sh)
		421 points by tommasoamici on May 16, 2023 \| 235 comments
7.		My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated (visionarycto.com)
		579 points by spo81rty on May 15, 2023 \| 573 comments
8.		StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length (arxiv.org)
		317 points by belter on May 15, 2023 \| 162 comments
9.		JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents (reddit.com)
		734 points by notRobot on May 16, 2023 \| 376 comments
10.		Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles (billydm.github.io)
		347 points by ingve on May 14, 2023 \| 265 comments
11.		CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley (datastructur.es)
		321 points by curious16 on May 16, 2023 \| 73 comments
12.		One man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed its onset (nature.com)
		177 points by deepzn on May 16, 2023 \| 57 comments
13.		Seaflooding (tomaspueyo.com)
		322 points by deegles on May 16, 2023 \| 138 comments
14.		Artists must be allowed to make bad work (austinkleon.com)
		240 points by open-source-ux on May 14, 2023 \| 160 comments
15.		Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics (plover.com)
		189 points by luu on May 14, 2023 \| 107 comments
16.		Ultimate Electronics (2021) (ultimateelectronicsbook.com)
		242 points by mutant_glofish on May 16, 2023 \| 51 comments
17.		Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice (alcademics.com)
		205 points by mhb on May 16, 2023 \| 71 comments
18.		Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy (fortran-lang.discourse.group)
		169 points by zaikunzhang on May 16, 2023 \| 80 comments
19.		Pinball is booming in America (economist.com)
		267 points by pseudolus on May 15, 2023 \| 248 comments
20.		John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020) (raganwald.com)
		144 points by warrenm on May 16, 2023 \| 24 comments
21.		The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video] (youtube.com)
		233 points by luu on May 14, 2023 \| 46 comments
22.		Show HN: A little web server in C (github.com/robdelacruz)
		178 points by robdelacruz on May 16, 2023 \| 116 comments
23.		USB MIDI interface for the NeXTCube – ISPW board (0110.be)
		65 points by zdw on May 16, 2023 \| 7 comments
24.		A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert (hcn.org)
		143 points by bikenaga on May 15, 2023 \| 137 comments
25.		So, how do you refill an aquifer? (heatmap.news)
		129 points by Hooke on May 15, 2023 \| 91 comments
26.		Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers (ieee.org)
		138 points by pseudolus on May 16, 2023 \| 91 comments
27.		Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe (pnas.org)
		296 points by tfourb on May 16, 2023 \| 254 comments
28.		LMQL: A query language for programming (large) language models (github.com/eth-sri)
		108 points by behnamoh on May 16, 2023 \| 12 comments
29.		Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) [video] (archive.org)
		130 points by Animats on May 16, 2023 \| 78 comments
30.		Show HN: Capillaries: Distributed data processing with Go and Cassandra (capillaries.io)
		70 points by kleineshertz on May 16, 2023 \| 25 comments
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