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31.
AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
57 points by Jimmc414 34 days ago | 7 comments
32.
Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (nature.com)
74 points by sbulaev 37 days ago | 16 comments
33.
SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud) (sugartrack-beta.vercel.app)
56 points by hunzaboy 34 days ago | 26 comments
34.
Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (falstad.com)
83 points by pykello 33 days ago | 18 comments
35.
The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)
223 points by lentil_soup 33 days ago | 155 comments
36.
NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)
160 points by brandonb 33 days ago | 91 comments
37.
What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)
245 points by porridgeraisin 33 days ago | 209 comments
38.
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (ieee.org)
30 points by adm4 33 days ago | 13 comments
39.
Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (ianvisits.co.uk)
29 points by brod_ie 38 days ago | 5 comments
40.
GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)
102 points by karakoram 33 days ago | 101 comments
41.
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
89 points by evakhoury 35 days ago | 38 comments
42.
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (ieee.org)
74 points by Jimmc414 34 days ago | 4 comments
43.
Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
31 points by samclemens 37 days ago | 4 comments
44.
Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
86 points by adjohu 33 days ago | 75 comments
45.
The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
95 points by ghuntley 33 days ago | 121 comments
46.
A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (rand.org)
133 points by thunderbong 33 days ago | 95 comments
47.
Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise (bribes.fyi)
55 points by neverenderr 34 days ago | 39 comments
48.
Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils (pickcode.io)
15 points by skadamat 38 days ago | 2 comments
49.
AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
99 points by riskone 33 days ago | 57 comments
50.
The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (wunc.org)
41 points by yareally 36 days ago | 11 comments
51.
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny (nntaleb.substack.com)
47 points by scoofy 33 days ago | 83 comments
52.
I Remain a Skeptic (jsbarretto.com)
130 points by lproven 34 days ago | 130 comments
53.
Speaking for the Dead (longreads.com)
12 points by NaOH 38 days ago | 9 comments
54.
Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent (github.com/alexander-akhmetov)
28 points by eventuallyacat 33 days ago
55.
What I learned securing Sniffnet with the GitHub secure open source fund (sniffnet.app)
18 points by dmit 36 days ago | 3 comments
56.
Impulse Tracker (ovidem.com)
40 points by vsvagr 37 days ago | 13 comments
57.
Humazon (hughhowey.com)
36 points by herbertl 34 days ago | 14 comments
58.
Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax (github.com/abhiramasonny)
44 points by AbhiramaVS 37 days ago | 61 comments
59.
The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (breck.lol)
64 points by cjlm 33 days ago | 21 comments
60.
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)
157 points by healsdata 33 days ago | 188 comments

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