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  1. I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers (dropofahat.zone)
    1347 points by jimhi · 779 days ago · 440 comments
  2. The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets (righto.com)
    930 points by todsacerdoti · 779 days ago · 508 comments
  3. Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM (fuglede.github.io)
    608 points by fuglede_ · 779 days ago · 154 comments
  4. Liquid Layers (grantkot.com)
    525 points by nmstoker · 780 days ago · 52 comments
  5. Ruby: A great language for shell scripts (lucasoshiro.github.io)
    442 points by lucasoshiro · 780 days ago · 353 comments
  6. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) (rhodesmill.org)
    411 points by vmbrasseur · 779 days ago · 165 comments
  7. I've stopped using box plots (2021) (nightingaledvs.com)
    371 points by colinprince · 780 days ago · 247 comments
  8. LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground (linqpad.net)
    308 points by wofo · 779 days ago · 130 comments
  9. Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy (nature.com)
    254 points by Tomte · 779 days ago · 179 comments
  10. Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC (quic.video)
    224 points by wofo · 780 days ago · 209 comments
  11. Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video] (youtube.com)
    223 points by zdw · 779 days ago · 40 comments
  12. Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data (theconversation.com)
    193 points by rntn · 779 days ago · 229 comments
  13. B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    191 points by greghn · 779 days ago · 74 comments
  14. The economics of the Birkin handbag (wsj.com)
    190 points by wallflower · 779 days ago · 351 comments
  15. Remembering the LAN (2020) (tailscale.com)
    180 points by udev4096 · 780 days ago · 50 comments
  16. Words you can spell with a calculator (2005) (paperlined.org)
    174 points by wonger_ · 780 days ago · 81 comments
  17. Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles (arxiv.org)
    172 points by matt_d · 779 days ago · 18 comments
  18. Of Psion and Symbian (abortretry.fail)
    171 points by klelatti · 780 days ago · 60 comments
  19. Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off (restofworld.org)
    171 points by Brajeshwar · 779 days ago · 154 comments
  20. Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead (unix.stackexchange.com)
    170 points by nomilk · 780 days ago · 205 comments
  21. Traffic noise hurts children's brains (bbc.com)
    170 points by rntn · 779 days ago · 136 comments
  22. A railroad simulation using discrete event simulation (picolisp-explored.com)
    169 points by todsacerdoti · 779 days ago · 71 comments
  23. The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive (sciencealert.com)
    165 points by georgecmu · 780 days ago · 58 comments
  24. US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban (opb.org)
    164 points by geox · 779 days ago · 141 comments
  25. Mitochondrial signal transduction (2022) (cell.com)
    163 points by breck · 779 days ago · 113 comments
  26. Three ways to think about Go channels (dolthub.com)
    162 points by ingve · 779 days ago · 137 comments
  27. Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4 (grski.pl)
    158 points by sebastianvoelkl · 780 days ago · 206 comments
  28. Asynchronous Consensus Without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography (eprint.iacr.org)
    157 points by simonpure · 779 days ago · 46 comments
  29. ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability (washington.edu)
    150 points by geox · 780 days ago · 133 comments
  30. TinyLetter shut down by Mailchimp, so I built the letterdrop (github.com)
    141 points by madawei2699 · 780 days ago · 99 comments