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31.
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia (ounapuu.ee)
149 points by hddherman on Sept 19, 2023 | 21 comments
32.
Neurons in Large Language Models: Dead, N-Gram, Positional (arxiv.org)
106 points by PaulHoule on Sept 20, 2023 | 52 comments
33.
Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf] (ca.gov)
175 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Sept 20, 2023 | 151 comments
34.
Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence (symphony.run)
93 points by jrmyphlmn on Sept 19, 2023 | 33 comments
35.
Getting into Pinball (tynan.com)
135 points by jeffreyrogers on Sept 19, 2023 | 102 comments
36.
Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection (mitpress.mit.edu)
109 points by torritest on Sept 20, 2023 | 63 comments
37.
Q-Transformer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning via Autoregressive Q-Functions (q-transformer.github.io)
101 points by GaggiX on Sept 20, 2023 | 15 comments
38.
100 Parking Tickets (2004) (100parkingtickets.com)
156 points by thunderbong on Sept 20, 2023 | 130 comments
39.
Leveraging Rust in our Java database (questdb.io)
151 points by jerrinot on Sept 18, 2023 | 88 comments
40.
Svelte 5: Runes (svelte.dev)
471 points by benmccann on Sept 20, 2023 | 386 comments
41.
Permazen: a different persistence layer for Java (github.com/permazen)
60 points by mike_hearn on Sept 19, 2023 | 41 comments
42.
Alameda lost tens of millions because of a fat fingering mistake (adityabaradwaj.com)
235 points by miohtama on Sept 20, 2023 | 187 comments
43.
Pink diamonds erupted to Earth’s surface after early supercontinent’s breakup (scientificamerican.com)
72 points by Bender on Sept 19, 2023 | 26 comments
44.
British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest (theguardian.com)
291 points by mindracer on Sept 20, 2023 | 247 comments
45.
We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure (mullvad.net)
360 points by dgavrilov on Sept 20, 2023 | 188 comments
46.
We are not sustainable (frame.work)
211 points by mrzool on Sept 20, 2023 | 132 comments
47.
Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions (portswigger.net)
112 points by chatmasta on Sept 19, 2023 | 32 comments
48.
Show HN: A reference implementation of Turing's paper “On Computable Numbers” (github.com/planetlambert)
63 points by jekude on Sept 17, 2023 | 14 comments
49.
Insect pests and radiation: SIT, inherited sterility, biological control (iaea.org)
32 points by suspecting on Sept 20, 2023 | 17 comments
50.
Monitor bandwidth usage with bandwhich (and build a snap package of it) (popey.com)
46 points by jandeboevrie on Sept 20, 2023 | 25 comments
51.
Show HN: Liz – Collaborative Lisp coding on Discord (github.com/d4ckard)
44 points by thasso on Sept 18, 2023 | 10 comments
52.
Writing HTML by hand (simblob.blogspot.com)
100 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 20, 2023 | 71 comments
53.
Algorithm-assisted discovery of an intrinsic order among mathematical constants (fermatslibrary.com)
85 points by BerislavLopac on Sept 20, 2023 | 13 comments
54.
SillycoValley: Write Code, Build Your Startup (sillycovalley.com)
92 points by kuberwebnetes on Sept 20, 2023 | 29 comments
55.
Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster (railsatscale.com)
175 points by nithinbekal on Sept 20, 2023 | 154 comments
56.
Application-specific terminals (cweagans.net)
49 points by cweagans on Sept 19, 2023 | 46 comments
57.
Programming is hard (myme.no)
121 points by ingve on Sept 19, 2023 | 114 comments
58.
Generic trait methods and new auto traits (without.boats)
54 points by ingve on Sept 20, 2023 | 3 comments
59.
Marin Mersenne on the Consolation of Sad Music (jhiblog.org)
34 points by pepys on Sept 20, 2023 | 9 comments
60.
Car showed pop-up while driving (glitterkitten.co.uk)
250 points by cpach on Sept 20, 2023 | 242 comments

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