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Ask HN: Why do some people prefer Seattle over Silicon Valley for tech jobs?

13 hours ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Scientists May Have Discovered a Natural Alternative to Ozempic (sciencealert.com)

a day ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Tell HN: Getting preconditions to compile in release builds of app using Swift 6

a day ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Wildfires are erasing California's climate gains, research shows (2022) (uchicago.edu)

a day ago | amichail | uchicago.edu | frontpage

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Ask HN: Do smart people avoid adulting because it's a waste of their brainpower?

3 days ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Why the Godfather of AI Now Fears His Creation [video] (youtube.com)

3 days ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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In the Northeast, 50% of Adult Ticks Carry Lyme Disease (dartmouth.edu)

4 days ago | amichail | dartmouth.edu | newest

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[flagged] Ask HN: Why does US allow hard tech interview questions if it bans IQ tests?

5 days ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Genetics, not shared envs, drives parent-child similarities in intelligence (psypost.org)

5 days ago | amichail | psypost.org | frontpage

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Popular sleeping pill shown to block brain's critical cleaning cycle (newatlas.com)

5 days ago | amichail | newatlas.com | newest

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OpenAI's reasoning model thinks in Chinese sometimes and no one knows why (techcrunch.com)

5 days ago | amichail | techcrunch.com | newest

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Increased AI use linked to eroding critical thinking skills (phys.org)

6 days ago | amichail | phys.org | newest

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Ask HN: Do technical interviewers feel guilty about their hard questions?

6 days ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why not use finger printing to ensure students use a particular AI?

6 days ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will clever prompting become less important as AI improves?

6 days ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will the US have the most trouble adapting to UBI in the age of AI?

a week ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Researchers Have Found a Way to Help Erase Bad Memories (sciencealert.com)

a week ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Scientists uncover a subtle everyday behavior that signals Alzheimer's risk (psypost.org)

a week ago | amichail | psypost.org | newest

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Ask HN: Should public libraries provide supervised AI-free rooms for homework?

a week ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Are indie devs safer than software engineers from being replaced by AI?

a week ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Physicist claims to have solved the infamous 'grandfather paradox' (livescience.com)

a week ago | amichail | livescience.com | newest

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Stuart Russell – AI: What if we succeed? [video] (youtube.com)

a week ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Blue Origin New Glenn Ready to Beat SpaceX's Old Rockets [video] (youtube.com)

a week ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can AI choose camera angles that hide fakeness of prof. wrestling moves?

a week ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why hasn't AI eliminated graded homework assignments yet?

a week ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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People prone to experiencing anger more likely to believe in conspiracy theories (psypost.org)

a week ago | amichail | psypost.org | newest

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Ask HN: Do people who write with flawless grammar now get accused of using AI?

a week ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Most of the atoms in your body left the Milky Way on a 'cosmic conveyor belt' (livescience.com)

a week ago | amichail | livescience.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would having yearly moves in same apartment building reduce conflicts?

a week ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Limit coffee-drinking to this time window to lower early death risk (cnn.com)

a week ago | amichail | cnn.com | newest

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BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just a 'Corridor' (kotaku.com)

2 weeks ago | amichail | kotaku.com | newest

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Scientists Discover Common Virus Could Be Causing a Type of Alzheimer's (sciencealert.com)

2 weeks ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do you need 20/20 vision to benefit from a 4K, 24-inch computer display?

2 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Did Trudeau fail because new immigrants wanted to study CS?

2 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Unborn Babies Use Genes from Dad to "Remote-Control" Mothers for Extra Food (scitechdaily.com)

2 weeks ago | amichail | scitechdaily.com | newest

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Last Expression as Return Value (swift.org)

2 weeks ago | amichail | swift.org | newest

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TeXmacs Font Mechanics (texmacs.github.io)

2 weeks ago | amichail | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: Do you have an emergency plan in case of a bird flu pandemic?

2 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Common ADHD Drug Could Make Some People Better Drivers (sciencealert.com)

2 weeks ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will AGI affect people's religious beliefs?

2 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Can We Stop Brain Aging? Scientists Uncover Mitochondrial Key (scitechdaily.com)

2 weeks ago | amichail | scitechdaily.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is calling someone too intelligent considered an insult?

2 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Octopus DNA tells scientists that total collapse of Antarctic ice sheet is close (earth.com)

3 weeks ago | amichail | earth.com | newest

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Researchers Propose a Fourth Light on Traffic Signals – For Self-Driving Cars (ncsu.edu)

3 weeks ago | amichail | ncsu.edu | newest

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Ask HN: Should university grades be hidden from potential employers?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Have you tried skipping a surprise quiz by arguing it wasn't a surprise?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Single mutation in dairy cow-associated H5N1 increases receptor binding breadth (nature.com)

3 weeks ago | amichail | nature.com | newest

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AI tools may soon manipulate people's online decision-making, say researchers (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | amichail | theguardian.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can AI be used to create superheroes whose only power is a very high IQ?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: In basketball, why not award points based on ball speed through hoop?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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How can NBA address 3-point boom? Ranking 12 potential solutions (cbssports.com)

3 weeks ago | amichail | cbssports.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Could Canada become a US state while keeping its universal healthcare?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Does an implant or bridge preclude growing teeth in those positions?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why not create AI benchmarks to port open source to other languages?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would you watch a real but android version of professional wrestling?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is there an AI benchmark for coding large apps such as word processors?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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A Single One-Hour Daily Walk Could Add Six Hours to Your Lifespan (sciencealert.com)

3 weeks ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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China steps up campaign for single people to date, marry and give birth (ft.com)

3 weeks ago | amichail | ft.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do you feel bad for not taking your AI classes seriously long ago?

3 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Are Flight Crews at a Higher Risk of Cancer Than Other Jobs? (simpleflying.com)

4 weeks ago | amichail | simpleflying.com | newest

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Sonic booms from most powerful rocket ever built have some scientists worried (cnn.com)

4 weeks ago | amichail | cnn.com | newest

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People need to hold King County accountable for their behavior (reddit.com)

4 weeks ago | amichail | reddit.com | newest

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Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023) (arxiv.org)

4 weeks ago | amichail | arxiv.org | best

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Ask HN: Would you allow a robot to take your dog out for a walk every day?

4 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Having Your Tonsils Out as a Child May Have a Drastic Impact on Your Life (sciencealert.com)

4 weeks ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Why is ARC-AGI a good benchmark? Isn't any answer correct?

4 weeks ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will AGI put AI researchers out of work?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can VR make every seat a window seat?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Was O3 stream intended to highlight super high IQ of OpenAI researchers?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do math/programming contests put students on path away from creativity?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Even NASA Can't Explain the Alarming Surge in Global Heat We're Seeing (sciencealert.com)

a month ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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Scientists find new forms of life inside human bodies (earth.com)

a month ago | amichail | earth.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should all software engineers be periodically tested on linear algebra?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would Waterloo attract more talent with a 30 minute train to Toronto?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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The Vagus Nerve's Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled (scientificamerican.com)

a month ago | amichail | scientificamerican.com | newest

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Ask HN: Did Elon move to the right to get gov. funding for a colony on Mars?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Are constraints still your friend in creativity given AI's progress?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Lululemon stands by decision to fire employees who intervened in robbery (cnn.com)

a month ago | amichail | cnn.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would a vacuum train between Waterloo & Toronto attract top tech talent?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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o1-preview is far superior to doctors on reasoning tasks (twitter.com/deedydas)

a month ago | amichail | twitter.com | newest

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Ask HN: Does your MacBook Air/Pro have the screen wake hardware problem?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Worms at Chernobyl Appear Mysteriously Unscathed by Radiation (sciencealert.com)

a month ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Walmart employees are now wearing body cameras in some stores (cnbc.com)

a month ago | amichail | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Scientists Crack Cancer's Hidden Defense with a Breakthrough Protein Discovery (scitechdaily.com)

a month ago | amichail | scitechdaily.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can you tell if CS interests you without getting a degree in it first?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why was the fish shell rewritten in Rust instead of Swift?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Lower rates of death from Alzheimer's disease among taxi and ambulance drivers (eurekalert.org)

a month ago | amichail | eurekalert.org | newest

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Is it wrong to say that the sun turns around the Earth? (reddit.com)

a month ago | amichail | reddit.com | newest

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Too Much Fun finally tells the C64's legacy (polygon.com)

a month ago | amichail | polygon.com | newest

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AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid and hearing test features approved to launch in Canada (macrumors.com)

a month ago | amichail | macrumors.com | frontpage

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Tortured by an earworm? How to get it out of your head (theguardian.com)

a month ago | amichail | theguardian.com | newest

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WordGlyph: A new kind of word game (wordglyph.xyz)

a month ago | amichail | wordglyph.xyz | newest

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Physicists Find Particle That Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction (sciencealert.com)

a month ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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SpaceX wants to turn its Texas launch site into a city (texastribune.org)

a month ago | amichail | texastribune.org | newest

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Diabetes Cure: Scientists Close to Creating 'Simple Pill' (weblo.info)

a month ago | amichail | weblo.info | newest

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Ask HN: Do you feel anxiety if you don't use the -c flag when using cp on macOS?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do some apps/sites warn you of a slow WiFi when their servers are slow?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How can you check whether a MacBook Pro turns off screen when closed?

a month ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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I just saw a self-driving car save someone's life (reddit.com)

a month ago | amichail | reddit.com | frontpage

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Sofa problem that boggled mathematicians for decades may have a solution (livescience.com)

a month ago | amichail | livescience.com | newest