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 1.                                                                  Where the goblins came from ( openai.com )                                                                
     267 points by ilreb 2 hours ago | hide | 116 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                               
 2.                                                                  Craig Venter has died ( jcvi.org )                                                                        
     165 points by rdl 3 hours ago | hide | 32 comments                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                               
 3.                                                                  Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs ( github.com/cauchy221 )                
     68 points by reconnecting 2 hours ago | hide | 27 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
 4.                                                                  Zed 1.0 ( zed.dev )                                                                                       
     1681 points by salkahfi 14 hours ago | hide | 541 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
 5.                                                                  Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig ( pure-systems.org )                                    
     46 points by xngbuilds 2 hours ago | hide | 26 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                               
 6.                                                                  The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy ( simonwillison.net )              
     86 points by lumpa 3 hours ago | hide | 21 comments                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                               
 7.                                                                  Copy Fail ( copy.fail )                                                                                   
     767 points by unsnap_biceps 11 hours ago | hide | 306 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                               
 8.                                                                  Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell ( burrito.bio )              
     42 points by the-mitr 2 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                               
 9.                                                                  Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans ( noctua.at )                                 
     46 points by embedding-shape 2 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                               
10.                                                                  Cursor Camp ( neal.fun )                                                                                  
     797 points by bpierre 13 hours ago | hide | 133 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                               
11.                                                                  Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight ( flyingmag.com )                     
     37 points by Jblx2 4 hours ago | hide | 76 comments                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                               
12.                                                                  FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies ( agwa.name )                     
     296 points by agwa 13 hours ago | hide | 69 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                               
13.                                                                  OpenTrafficMap ( opentrafficmap.org )                                                                     
     191 points by moooo99 9 hours ago | hide | 42 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                               
14.                                                                  Creating a Color Palette from an Image ( amandahinton.com )                                               
     41 points by evakhoury 4 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                               
15.                                                                  HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing ( github.com/anthropics )    
     1060 points by homebrewer 10 hours ago | hide | 452 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                               
16.                                                                  Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function ( devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing )
     42 points by aragonite 5 hours ago | hide | 20 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                               
17.                                                                  Mike: open-source legal AI ( mikeoss.com )                                                                
     52 points by noleary 4 hours ago | hide | 14 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                               
18.                                                                  Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell ( jointhefreeworld.org )                         
     192 points by jjba23 11 hours ago | hide | 87 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                               
19.                                                                  A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust ( acm.org )                                       
     23 points by tkhattra 3 hours ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                               
20.                                                                  Laws of UX ( lawsofux.com )                                                                               
     231 points by bobbiechen 12 hours ago | hide | 34 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
21.                                                                  Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer ( ycombinator.com )                              
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22.                                                                  An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce ( github.com/gliax )                 
     231 points by 0x54MUR41 14 hours ago | hide | 94 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                               
23.                                                                  London to Calcutta by Bus ( amusingplanet.com )                                                           
     10 points by CGMthrowaway 1 hour ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                               
24.                                                                  DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design ( eetimes.com )                                                    
     45 points by giuliomagnifico 7 hours ago | hide | 3 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                               
25.                                                                  Monad Tutorials Timeline ( haskell.org )                                                                  
     3 points by brudgers 1 hour ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                               
26.                                                                  Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write ( github.com/aallan )                         
     73 points by unignorant 7 hours ago | hide | 60 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                               
27.                                                                  We need a federation of forges ( tangled.org )                                                            
     545 points by icy 15 hours ago | hide | 340 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                               
28.                                                                  Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials ( promptarmor.com )                                               
     124 points by takira 11 hours ago | hide | 38 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                               
29.                                                                  I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot ( lina.sh )                             
     89 points by fishgoesblub 8 hours ago | hide | 36 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
30.                                                                  Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years ( jivx.com )                     
     309 points by momentmaker 9 hours ago | hide | 87 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                               
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