716
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554
266
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447
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440
252
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397
533
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392
81
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361
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Proton launches its own version of Google Docs
https://www.engadget.com/proton-launches-its-own-version-of-google-docs-100044471.html
342
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287
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https://zdimension.fr/analyzing-my-electricity-consumption/
283
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264
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254
A practical introduction to constraint programming using CP-SAT and Python
https://pganalyze.com/blog/a-practical-introduction-to-constraint-programming-using-cp-sat
208
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https://github.com/mathialo/bython
206
51
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https://avikdas.com/2019/01/23/writing-gui-applications-on-raspberry-pi-without-x.html
205
53
Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite
https://jtarchie.com/posts/2024-07-02-optimizing-large-scale-openstreetmap-data-with-sqlite
193
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192
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Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build
https://nextword.substack.com/p/why-ai-infrastructure-startups-are
183
52
Show HN: Jb / json.bash – Command-line tool (and bash library) that creates JSON
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19
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https://luakit.github.io/
170
57
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163
131
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https://elevenlabs.io/voice-isolator
154
97
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to AI/ML development?
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153
59
Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html
127
96
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117
67
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107
27
The Math of Card Shuffling
https://fredhohman.com/card-shuffling/
104
22
Show HN: Improve LLM Performance by Maximizing Iterative Development
https://github.com/palico-ai/palico-ai
102
146
Don't use booleans (2019)
https://www.luu.io/posts/dont-use-booleans
99
10
Dear Julia, Dear Yuri: A mathematical correspondence (2022)
https://celebratio.org/Robinson_JB/article/964/
92
Chinese AI stirs panic at European geoscience society
https://www.science.org/content/article/chinese-ai-stirs-panic-european-geoscience-society
229
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https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-george-orwell-paved-noam-chomskys-path-to-anarchism/
88
93
Sublime Merge
https://www.sublimemerge.com
15
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85
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83
34
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https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click
82
5
Dolphin Emulator changes to a rolling release model
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2024/07/02/dolphin-releases-announcement/
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http://www.softwarelitigationconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/schulman_blast_from_the_past_disassembling_dos.html
80
33
Introduction to Program Synthesis
https://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/SynthesisCourse/Lecture1.htm
USB and the Myth of 500 Milliamps
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/03/usb-and-the-myth-of-500-milliamps/
72
48
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https://jdh.hamkins.org/how-ch-could-have-been-fundamental/
58
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https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers
68
25
Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Euler_letters/
Show HN: Open Sourcing Our No-Code WebXR Editor After 5 Years of Development
https://github.com/transferthought/transfer-thought
64
101
A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72ver6172do
63
56
Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2024-07-02-ryzen-7-mini-pc-low-power-proxmox-hypervisor/
Creating My Own Linux-Based Smart TV
https://carltheperson.com/posts/earlgreytv/
60
32
Hurricane Beryl Isn't a Freak Storm–It's the Nightmare Meteorologists Predicted
https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-beryl-category-5-storm-extreme-weather-summer-2024/
0
HuggingFace releases support for tool-use and RAG models
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v4.42.0
55
18
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https://labs.google/multimodal-canvas
Google's greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/googles-greenhouse-gas-emissions-jump-48-in-five-years/
54
24
Reproducibility in Disguise
https://fzakaria.com/2024/07/02/reproducibility-in-disguise.html
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https://physicsworld.com/a/the-legacy-of-liverpools-forgotten-synchrocyclotron/
21
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-declares-victory-effort-end-government-use-floppy-disks-2024-07-03/
13
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https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/2/e001899
50
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