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Ask HN: Do employers find that recent CS/SE grads are too picky in their coding?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How could vibe coding show the code at a high level to non-programmers?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Boeing Dropped Chevrons from Largest Engine in the World (aviationa2z.com)

6 months ago | amichail | aviationa2z.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Did you know whether you preferred programming or game design?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why aren't most non-programmers interested in vibe coding?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can you exclude ~/Library except for your iCloud Drive in macOS backups?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Neuroscientists identify a shared brain circuit for creativity (psypost.org)

6 months ago | amichail | psypost.org | newest

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Gene Switch Reboots Sight and Sound: A Breakthrough in Sensory Regeneration (scitechdaily.com)

6 months ago | amichail | scitechdaily.com | newest

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Durand–Kerner Method (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | amichail | wikipedia.org | newest

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A commercial fork of TeXmacs is coming from China (texmacs.cn)

6 months ago | amichail | texmacs.cn | newest

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Toronto's unsold condo rate has reached 'an incredible level': expert (bnnbloomberg.ca)

6 months ago | amichail | bnnbloomberg.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Why are most of the people interested in my puzzle game beta from China?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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How the climate crisis threatens Indigenous traditions in Canada (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | amichail | theguardian.com | newest

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Anna Rudolf: "I spent 37 years without knowing who I really am" [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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LLM ported to the C64 (hackaday.com)

6 months ago | amichail | hackaday.com | newest

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Self-Driving Car? Does It Work? [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should people who can only work on their own ideas be a protected class?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do CS grads become more open-minded as they age?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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How to play 60kHz samples on an unmodified Commodore PET, poorly [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why not have a conference where an AI decides which papers to accept?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How much math do software engineers remember from their CS degrees?

6 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Both novelty and familiarity affect memory (theconversation.com)

6 months ago | amichail | theconversation.com | frontpage

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Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | amichail | arstechnica.com | best

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Type 2 diabetes alters brain circuits involved in reward processing (psypost.org)

6 months ago | amichail | psypost.org | frontpage

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Why men are shaving off their eyelashes (cnn.com)

6 months ago | amichail | cnn.com | newest

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

6 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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Mathematician solves algebra's oldest problem using intriguing number sequences (phys.org)

6 months ago | amichail | phys.org | frontpage

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Mega-buildings are now slowing Earth's spin (sciencefocus.com)

7 months ago | amichail | sciencefocus.com | newest

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The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI (quantamagazine.org)

7 months ago | amichail | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Ask HN: Are retro TV/movies depressing but retro music and computing are not?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is science more likely than art to be picked up by someone else?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why don't we have malware-detection software for the real world?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why is big O often used in CS when omega or theta should be used?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Why do all graphic designers use Macs? (creativebloq.com)

7 months ago | amichail | creativebloq.com | newest

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers' Story (ieee.org)

7 months ago | amichail | ieee.org | frontpage

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Ask HN: Are humans too biased to interview tech job candidates in the age of AI?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will employers care less about math contests as AI gets better at them?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics (medicalxpress.com)

7 months ago | amichail | medicalxpress.com | best

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Ask HN: A basic income variant that pays people based on self-employment effort?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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What would the real Commodore 128 from a better timeline have looked like? (reddit.com)

7 months ago | amichail | reddit.com | newest

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A Common Pill May Shorten Life Expectancy by Nearly 6 Years (parade.com)

7 months ago | amichail | parade.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Canadians average more work-from-home days than any country, global survey finds (bnnbloomberg.ca)

7 months ago | amichail | bnnbloomberg.ca | frontpage

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Vibe Code or Retire (infoworld.com)

7 months ago | amichail | infoworld.com | newest

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University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use (thelogic.co)

7 months ago | amichail | thelogic.co | frontpage

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A Solution to America's Gun Problem (freakonomics.com)

7 months ago | amichail | freakonomics.com | newest

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Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to public nearly a year after announcing it (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | amichail | arstechnica.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do you find it hard to work on something without international reach?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should meaningful post-work society living be taught in high schools?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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An LLM-Based Approach to Review Summarization on the App Store (machinelearning.apple.com)

7 months ago | amichail | apple.com | newest

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Regular chicken consumption linked to higher risk of early death from cancers (medicalxpress.com)

7 months ago | amichail | medicalxpress.com | newest

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James Webb Telescope Confirms a Troubling Anomaly (dailygalaxy.com)

7 months ago | amichail | dailygalaxy.com | newest

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How to Unlock Hearing Aid Mode for AirPods Pro in Canada (iphoneincanada.ca)

7 months ago | amichail | iphoneincanada.ca | newest

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Lockheed wants to turn F-35 into a 'Ferrari' with sixth-gen tech (defensenews.com)

7 months ago | amichail | defensenews.com | newest

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Ask HN: What are the real reasons people vote in elections?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered – Official Reveal [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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[flagged] Ask HN: Why were lengthy type‑in programs legal in the '80s?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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DropZap World beta 0.9.254 released [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Physicists Designed a Quantum Rubik's Cube and Found the Best Way to Solve It (sciencealert.com)

7 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Does putting "late" before a name diminish the person's accomplishments?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Laws of Physics That Only Exist in Wrestling (whatculture.com)

7 months ago | amichail | whatculture.com | newest

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Authoritarian attitudes linked to altered brain anatomy, neuroscientists reveal (psypost.org)

7 months ago | amichail | psypost.org | frontpage

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Ask HN: How to make professional wrestling appeal to highly educated people?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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[flagged] Ask HN: Would banning obviously fake moves in wrestling improve US reputation?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What do you think of this idea for a chess variant?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Has modern AI proven that intelligence does not require free will?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would you want a brain implant to query ChatGPT by thought alone?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Ok to assume your users are gifted as they can ask a gifted AI for help?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why don’t modern operating systems include built‑in retro emulators?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Apple canceled 'Mythic Quest.' Then it did something unheard of in streaming TV (fastcompany.com)

7 months ago | amichail | fastcompany.com | newest

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80 Columns in Software on the Commodore Vic-20 (techtinkering.com)

7 months ago | amichail | techtinkering.com | newest

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Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed If the Whole Universe Was Spinning (sciencealert.com)

7 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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Researchers uncover molecular connection between body fat and anxiety (mcmaster.ca)

7 months ago | amichail | mcmaster.ca | frontpage

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Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019) (nurpax.github.io)

7 months ago | amichail | github.io | best

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What's new in X-Plane 12.2.0? (x-plane.com)

7 months ago | amichail | x-plane.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is there a daily puzzle where the rules of the puzzle change every day?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why do numbered function keys exist on modern keyboards?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Pushing the Boundaries of C64 Graphics with NUFLIX (cobbpg.github.io)

7 months ago | amichail | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: Do breakthroughs make you feel bad that you didn't have them earlier?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Port all Compute!'s Gazette games/apps via AI prompts to modern systems?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Realistic Talking Portrait Generation via Coherent Motion Synthesis (fantasy-amap.github.io)

7 months ago | amichail | github.io | newest

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Introducing Presenter [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Fastest Business Jet in the World Nears Completion in Canada (aviationa2z.com)

7 months ago | amichail | aviationa2z.com | newest

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Mobile Flight Simulator More Realistic Than MSFS2024 Aerofly A350 [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Was typing in programs from magazines in the 80s educational for you?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will CS/SE majors now focus on specification instead of implementation?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Reminiscence Bump (wikipedia.org)

7 months ago | amichail | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Why do portals create pocket dimensions when a small portal put into bigger one? [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason (theregister.com)

7 months ago | amichail | theregister.com | newest

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Optimizing 1979's Manbiki Shounen: Shoplifting Boy for Commodore PET [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Unlocking Sudoku's Secrets (chalkdustmagazine.com)

7 months ago | amichail | chalkdustmagazine.com | frontpage

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I just tested the first agentic AI web browser and it blows away ChatGPT (tomsguide.com)

7 months ago | amichail | tomsguide.com | newest

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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days – and never imagined it would last 20 years (zdnet.com)

7 months ago | amichail | zdnet.com | frontpage

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The Continuum Hypothesis – The Problem That Broke Mathematics [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should IQ tests involve using advanced AI to help you write them?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | amichail | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Is small talk a form of low-effort speech that should be discouraged?

7 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Motion-Tracking Mania (slate.com)

7 months ago | amichail | slate.com | newest

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Ontario schools begin suspending students who aren't fully vaccinated (cbc.ca)

7 months ago | amichail | cbc.ca | frontpage

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iPhones could triple in price to $3,500 if they're made in the US (cnn.com)

7 months ago | amichail | cnn.com | frontpage