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1.
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (john.hartnup.uk)
1886 points by ereiamjh 5 days ago | 955 comments
2.
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)
1350 points by nandakishor_ml 5 days ago | 316 comments
3.
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (terrytao.wordpress.com)
432 points by num42 5 days ago | 284 comments
4.
How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
763 points by joeriddles 7 days ago | 419 comments
5.
Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (stanford.edu)
663 points by emigre 5 days ago | 258 comments
6.
Brood War Bench (swerdlow.dev)
346 points by benswerd 5 days ago | 156 comments
7.
San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
398 points by z-mach9 5 days ago | 179 comments
8.
English: A vs. An (redblobgames.com)
363 points by azhenley 5 days ago | 529 comments
9.
GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (prinzai.com)
400 points by nsoonhui 5 days ago | 180 comments
10.
The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (nationalgeographic.com)
378 points by ohjeez 7 days ago | 148 comments
11.
Measure internet censorship (ooni.org)
221 points by Bluestein 5 days ago | 162 comments
12.
What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
280 points by ksec 5 days ago | 348 comments
13.
Asking authors about their own papers (medium.com/tmlrorg)
233 points by stefanpie 8 days ago | 119 comments
14.
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip (ieee.org)
205 points by maxall4 6 days ago | 139 comments
15.
The Secret Life of Circuits (coredump.cx)
325 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago | 82 comments
16.
SDCC – Small Device C Compiler (sourceforge.net)
137 points by lioeters 5 days ago | 37 comments
17.
ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression (iacr.org)
108 points by gslin 5 days ago | 33 comments
18.
Science Is Open Software (jepedersen.dk)
161 points by jegp 5 days ago | 74 comments
19.
Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
229 points by ksec 5 days ago | 98 comments
20.
You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (tigrisdata.com)
146 points by evacchi 8 days ago | 35 comments
21.
Why building a Rust LSP is hard (rust-glancer.github.io)
143 points by agluszak 8 days ago | 77 comments
22.
New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb (nature.com)
150 points by rndsignals 7 days ago | 81 comments
23.
Deodands put a price on objects that caused death (jstor.org)
115 points by samizdis 8 days ago | 42 comments
24.
I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
362 points by erwald 5 days ago | 171 comments
25.
Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (bartosz.fenski.pl)
179 points by farlight 5 days ago | 188 comments
26.
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' (quantamagazine.org)
105 points by jandrewrogers 6 days ago | 61 comments
27.
UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 (ufoseries.com)
96 points by DropDead 6 days ago | 39 comments
28.
Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook (echo.orpheusinstituut.be)
99 points by stuart78 7 days ago | 27 comments
29.
Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
76 points by torutofu 8 days ago | 6 comments
30.
Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (quantamagazine.org)
85 points by randomImmigrant 7 days ago | 26 comments

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