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31.
“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System (skyatnightmagazine.com)
417 points by fuidani on April 17, 2025 | 351 comments
32.
AI as Normal Technology (knightcolumbia.org)
239 points by randomwalker on April 15, 2025 | 92 comments
33.
Differentiable Programming from Scratch (thenumb.at)
108 points by sksxihve on April 17, 2025 | 20 comments
34.
What my stroke taught me (2017) (nautil.us)
118 points by blegh on April 14, 2025 | 72 comments
35.
BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report (arxiv.org)
111 points by galeos on April 17, 2025 | 30 comments
36.
The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
108 points by BerislavLopac on April 17, 2025 | 114 comments
37.
Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank (latimes.com)
139 points by walterbell on April 14, 2025 | 113 comments
38.
How refrigeration changed our food (nytimes.com)
76 points by whocansay on April 13, 2025 | 85 comments
39.
Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf] (uniforumchicago.org)
135 points by transpute on April 17, 2025 | 112 comments
40.
Building an AI that watches rugby (nickjones.tech)
87 points by reddavis on April 17, 2025 | 45 comments
41.
Scientists pioneer chemical process to repurpose rubber waste (phys.org)
43 points by PaulHoule on April 14, 2025 | 15 comments
42.
CN Tower, Behind the Scenes (2014) (roadwolf.ca)
64 points by ianpenney on April 17, 2025 | 16 comments
43.
Unix files have (at least) two sizes (utcc.utoronto.ca)
68 points by ingve on April 14, 2025 | 34 comments
44.
Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates (feldera.com)
143 points by Qadriq on April 17, 2025 | 87 comments
45.
Recursive LLM prompts (github.com/andyk)
81 points by vlan121 on April 17, 2025 | 19 comments
46.
There are two types of dishwasher people (theatlantic.com)
115 points by JumpCrisscross on April 14, 2025 | 344 comments
47.
This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops (wired.com)
235 points by colinprince on April 17, 2025 | 227 comments
48.
The Second Half (ysymyth.github.io)
90 points by Philpax on April 14, 2025 | 35 comments
49.
AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu (dwarkesh.com)
174 points by Philpax on April 17, 2025 | 375 comments
50.
N-Params vs. Single Param (carlos-menezes.com)
37 points by carlos-menezes on April 17, 2025 | 43 comments
51.
UniK3D: Universal Camera Monocular 3D Estimation (lpiccinelli-eth.github.io)
46 points by rbanffy on April 17, 2025 | 12 comments
52.
Nix Trigonometric Math Library from Ground Zero (lantian.pub)
47 points by todsacerdoti on April 13, 2025 | 6 comments
53.
In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016) (wired.com)
34 points by neamar on April 13, 2025 | 23 comments
54.
Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet (reuters.com)
119 points by prossercj on April 17, 2025 | 42 comments
55.
OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf (cnbc.com)
130 points by mfiguiere on April 17, 2025 | 116 comments
56.
A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence (github.com/ktr0731)
38 points by ktr0731 on April 14, 2025 | 9 comments
57.
US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban (bbc.com)
377 points by intunderflow on April 17, 2025 | 426 comments
58.
Manga Guide To Databases (2004) [pdf] (oberstar.eu.org)
72 points by mastermedo on April 17, 2025 | 6 comments
59.
Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale? (afterbabel.com)
157 points by Tomte on April 16, 2025 | 137 comments
60.
Encryption Is Not a Crime (privacyguides.org)
211 points by freddyym on April 17, 2025 | 211 comments

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