608
306
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594
111
Ventoy
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524
372
The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
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516
123
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487
238
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362
329
An Empirical Study and Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108
349
193
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https://www.iflscience.com/new-mind-reading-braingpt-turns-thoughts-into-text-on-screen-72054
265
133
AMD's CDNA 3 Compute Architecture
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/12/17/amds-cdna-3-compute-architecture/
239
207
“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/yes-actually-means-no-the-curious
235
128
Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review
https://onemileatatime.com/news/qatar-airways-bans-youtuber-negative-review/
216
461
How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/world/africa/africa-french-language.html
95
Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems
https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch
195
42
Promptbase: All things prompt engineering
https://github.com/microsoft/promptbase
194
175
US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04045-8
183
108
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181
109
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177
30
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149
135
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https://notgull.net/finding-a-forge/
139
73
He felt 'creatively dead', then harnessed the power of boredom
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/17/1219463824/he-was-creatively-dead-then-he-harnessed-the-power-of-boredom
136
32
Tracking Java native memory with JDK flight recorder
https://www.morling.dev/blog/tracking-java-native-memory-with-jdk-flight-recorder/
129
147
The origin of the law of torture: A cautionary tale
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/torture
116
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https://forum.misra.org.uk/thread-1668.html
112
22
A Forth Vocabulary for Iteration
https://blog.information-superhighway.net/a-forth-vocabulary-for-iteration
110
137
Microsoft forced people to install their browser (2010)
http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html
90
Ask HN: Terrified I wont find another job
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106
17
Tree of Life Explorer
https://www.evogeneao.com/en/explore/tree-of-life-explorer
105
40
Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38673253
103
Show HN: NowDo – MacOS todo app for procrastinators
https://nowdo.org/
102
138
Why it's taking so long for Americans to get payments instantly
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/why-its-taking-so-long-for-americans-to-get-payments-instantly-83dc468a
101
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https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3822
96
84
What made Apollo a success? (1971) [pdf]
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94
3
Internet Archive Defends Digital Rights for Libraries
https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/internet-archive-defends-digital-rights-for-libraries/
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https://www.npr.org/2023/12/17/1219599404/goodreads-review-bombing-cait-corrain
92
38
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring
14
Intel proposes XeGPU dialect for LLVM MLIR
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-xegpu-dialect-for-intel-gpus/75723
25
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https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
89
26
A 90-year-old man who built a western wear empire
https://thehustle.co/the-90-year-old-man-who-built-a-western-wear-empire/
82
OpenAI employee: GPT-4.5 rumor was a hallucination
https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/1736470540351950867
80
87
Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted
https://careercutler.substack.com/p/becoming-a-go-to-person-gets-you
75
204
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/17/tranq-tourism-tiktok-philadelphia-drug-use-xylazine
91
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-staggering-number-of-species-across-the-world/
8
Pearl: A Production-Ready Reinforcement Learning Agent
https://github.com/facebookresearch/Pearl
13
The OS Classics
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2020/07/the-os-classics.html
72
127
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-ppc-engineer-title-1.7061266
70
45
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https://ptrchm.com/posts/base32-explained/
16
AMD's Response to Nvidia regarding H100 vs. MI300X on real world workloads
https://community.amd.com/t5/instinct-accelerators/competitive-performance-claims-and-industry-leading-inference/ba-p/652304
19
ArtBot for Stable Diffusion
https://tinybots.net/artbot
68
54
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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/most-profitable-ui-element-ever/
53
Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014)
https://qz.com/557639/everyone-on-earth-is-actually-your-cousin
66
The rabbit hole of unsafe Rust bugs
https://notgull.net/cautionary-unsafe-tale/
65
15
WyGPT: Minimal mature GPT model in C++
https://github.com/wangyi-fudan/wyGPT
64
Reindeer can see UV light
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20416695231218520
62
48
Ask HN: How to figure out a good direction/goals for the year ahead?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38675686
9
Perl Poetry Generators in 256 Characters
https://nickm.com/poems/ppg256.html
76
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https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/111593487329402102
61
146
A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
https://www.economist.com/international/2023/12/16/a-new-suez-crisis-threatens-the-world-economy