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Ask HN: Should movie theaters allow you to watch movies in 30 minute chunks?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why not use AI to make professional wrestling look less fake?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Jonathan Gorard: the complete first interview [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is a strong volunteer military incompatible with a strong safety net?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Periphery: A tool to identify unused code in Swift projects (github.com/peripheryapp)

5 months ago | amichail | github.com | newest

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The History of Cursor Keys [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa? (space.com)

5 months ago | amichail | space.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Would today's AIs fail the Turing test because their memory is too good?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will AI reduce stigma of geniuses becoming professional chess players?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Timothy Gowers – Why Are LLMs Not Better at Finding Proofs? [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Tick-borne disease is spreading into new parts of Canada (ctvnews.ca)

5 months ago | amichail | ctvnews.ca | newest

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Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java (swift.org)

5 months ago | amichail | swift.org | newest

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Ask HN: Should science ensure NDEs are pleasant without damaging the brain?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should science make near death experiences more pleasant?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is "compatibilism" causing students to lose interest in philosophy?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should teachers explain in what sense the Earth rotates around the Sun?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will Tetris be eclipsed by a variant soon due to AI coding help?

5 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Type of Fiber Could Have Weight Loss Benefits Similar to Ozempic (sciencealert.com)

5 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Solar Storms Are Pushing Elon Musk's Satellites Back to Earth (gizmodo.com)

5 months ago | amichail | gizmodo.com | newest

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The Theory of Everything That Nobody Talks About [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Flying robot morphs in mid-air to land and roll on wheels (newatlas.com)

6 months ago | amichail | newatlas.com | newest

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Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguistics overplays it?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What do you think of this Tetris variant that is simpler than Tetris?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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AI Isn't a Worker Replacement; It's a Human Replacement (reddit.com)

6 months ago | amichail | reddit.com | newest

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[flagged] Superhuman performance of an LLM on the reasoning tasks of a physician (arxiv.org)

6 months ago | amichail | arxiv.org | frontpage

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New brain-spine interface tech in Shanghai helps paralyzed patients walk again [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Are AIs intentionally weak at debugging their code?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Ban streaming services from playing the same commercial constantly?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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AI isn't ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | amichail | arstechnica.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would understanding why LLMs work so well be a disaster for humans?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What do you think of this color-based variant of Tetris?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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The Commodore 64 gets an HDMI upgrade (hackaday.com)

6 months ago | amichail | hackaday.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do tech companies avoid hiring cynical candidates?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will countries ban realtime language translation to reduce overt racism?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Air Canada pilot slams air traffic controller shortage to passengers on flight (cbc.ca)

6 months ago | amichail | cbc.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Is this Tetris variant novel? Would it be fun?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why does the WWE constantly remind viewers that matches are scripted?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will removing language barriers via AI make discrimination more obvious?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars (theconversation.com)

6 months ago | amichail | theconversation.com | newest

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'They're attacking culture': Quebec's new French packaging rules spark backlash (montrealgazette.com)

6 months ago | amichail | montrealgazette.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is AI better for startups in socialist countries w/ higher labor costs?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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CRISPR Delivers RNA to Repair Neurons Right Where It's Needed (neurosciencenews.com)

6 months ago | amichail | neurosciencenews.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should you use cracked screen stickers in public to avoid being robbed?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can you do what you want via invention but not via research?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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New study links depression to accelerated brain aging (psypost.org)

6 months ago | amichail | psypost.org | newest

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Idea: A competitive Tetris variant using a single grid

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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New Obesity Pill Mimics Gastric Bypass Without Surgery (scitechdaily.com)

6 months ago | amichail | scitechdaily.com | newest

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Narcissistic personality traits appear to reduce reproductive success (psypost.org)

6 months ago | amichail | psypost.org | newest

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The Event Horizon Telescope's Next Feat? Multi-Color Pictures of Black Holes (universetoday.com)

6 months ago | amichail | universetoday.com | newest

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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. They don't work (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | amichail | theguardian.com | newest

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Business owners are using AI "concerned residents" to fight a proposed bus lane (torontolife.com)

6 months ago | amichail | torontolife.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is CS research mostly discovery while novel game dev mostly invention?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Using AI for Reviews (computationalcomplexity.org)

6 months ago | amichail | computationalcomplexity.org | newest

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Are groovy brains more efficient? (news.berkeley.edu)

6 months ago | amichail | berkeley.edu | newest

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The Many Types of Polymorphism (krishna.github.io)

6 months ago | amichail | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: Why did the godfather of AI retire given that AI can help you code?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would matrix support in BASIC have reduced VisiCalc's popularity?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Quebec to impose French-language quotas on streaming giants (cbc.ca)

6 months ago | amichail | cbc.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Will AI dramatically reduce the creation of crime fiction?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Canada Post is in trouble. Here are the facts (cbc.ca)

6 months ago | amichail | cbc.ca | newest

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Jupiter was formerly twice its current size and had much stronger magnetic field (phys.org)

6 months ago | amichail | phys.org | frontpage

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Ask HN: Why don't AIs devote more time for free for more interesting prompts?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can tube from Mt Rainier summit to Seattle bring sunlight during winter?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Have parents stopped giving their children career advice due to AI?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Is it better to shower in the morning or at night? What a microbiologist says (theconversation.com)

6 months ago | amichail | theconversation.com | newest

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Ask HN: Could large blimps allow people to enjoy sunlight in cloudy winters?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Could cloudy cities build 3,000-foot towers to rise above most clouds?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Canada needs more homes. Prefabricated houses could fill the void (cbc.ca)

6 months ago | amichail | cbc.ca | newest

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Are _symmetric_ multimethods worth it? (julialang.org)

6 months ago | amichail | julialang.org | newest

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AI models can't tell time or read a calendar, study reveals (livescience.com)

6 months ago | amichail | livescience.com | frontpage

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The First Interstellar Software Update – The Insane Hack That Saved Voyager 1 [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Is Silence Actually Good for You? (local12.com)

6 months ago | amichail | local12.com | newest

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Why Canada hosts more old passenger jets than any other country – by far (ctvnews.ca)

6 months ago | amichail | ctvnews.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Has AI made you less likely to read long posts (human written or not)?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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iOS 18 fixed my motion sickness problem with one new feature (9to5mac.com)

6 months ago | amichail | 9to5mac.com | newest

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Seed7 – The Extensible Programming Language (sourceforge.net)

6 months ago | amichail | sourceforge.net | newest

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Ask HN: Why does the WWE release so much content for free on YouTube?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East (gamedeveloper.com)

6 months ago | amichail | gamedeveloper.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is there a "YouTube" for AI coded web apps?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Should Hacker News have a "prompts" section to AI code novel apps/games?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Canada Post report recommends phasing out daily door-to-door mail delivery (ctvnews.ca)

6 months ago | amichail | ctvnews.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Should schools teach typing via complete AI prompts for novel games?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why not have people vote on one question for an AI to answer each day?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Software engineer lost $150K-a-year job to AI – he's been forced to DoorDash (yahoo.com)

6 months ago | amichail | yahoo.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Do you turn off web search when asking an AI something difficult?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die, Says Surprising New Study (sciencealert.com)

6 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Scientists discover what drives the maximum lifespan potential of mammals (thebrighterside.news)

6 months ago | amichail | thebrighterside.news | newest

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Ask HN: What do you think of this novel Rubik's Cube variant?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is AI more of a threat to software engineers than game designers?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will AI coding help increase or decrease the use of concurrency in apps?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why don't tech companies make their top employees world famous?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What do you think of this color changing Rubik's Cube variant?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Digital Sound Playback on the C64 (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)

6 months ago | amichail | wordpress.com | newest

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MIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger (news.mit.edu)

6 months ago | amichail | mit.edu | newest

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Ask HN: What do you think of this idea for a two color Rubik's Cube variant?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Has Swift's concurrency model gone too far? (swift.org)

6 months ago | amichail | swift.org | newest

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Caffeine in Your Blood Could Affect Body Fat and Diabetes Risk, Study Shows (sciencealert.com)

6 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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'A very exciting day': Canadian design may revolutionize the way ALS is treated (ctvnews.ca)

6 months ago | amichail | ctvnews.ca | frontpage

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Top posts on Reddit are increasingly being generated by ChatGPT (reddit.com)

6 months ago | amichail | reddit.com | frontpage

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Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition (arxiv.org)

6 months ago | amichail | arxiv.org | newest