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Ask HN: Has AI made you stop caring about the intricacies of English grammar?

8 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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We may understand how metformin lowers blood sugar, animal study finds (livescience.com)

8 months ago | amichail | livescience.com | newest

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Stronger Than Steel, Tougher Than Kevlar – Spider Silk's Revealed (scitechdaily.com)

8 months ago | amichail | scitechdaily.com | newest

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Proposed bill would keep Trump from funding military invasion of Canada (nationalpost.com)

8 months ago | amichail | nationalpost.com | newest

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Chiddle Daily Word Puzzle (chiddle.net)

8 months ago | amichail | chiddle.net | newest

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Ask HN: Is Trump using a randomized strategy like evolution and chatbots?

8 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Are people less entrepreneurial in colder climates?

8 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Covid-19 speeds up artery plaque growth, raising heart disease risk (news-medical.net)

8 months ago | amichail | news-medical.net | frontpage

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QwQ: Tiny Thinking Model That Tops DeepSeek R1 (Open Source) [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can dual citizens be conscripted in case of war between US and Canada?

8 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Will vibe coding better motivate students to learn to read and write?

8 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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LLM generates the entire output at once (first diffusion LLM) [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Why isn’t striving for near‑perfect grades considered an addiction?

8 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Tesla owners get creative to distance themselves from Elon (electrek.co)

8 months ago | amichail | electrek.co | newest

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Vibe Coding a Full Game (AI Coding) [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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NASA shows shock waves as Boom's supersonic demonstrator breaks sound barrier (boomsupersonic.com)

8 months ago | amichail | boomsupersonic.com | frontpage

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Elimination Game Benchmark: Social Reasoning, Strategy, and Deception in LLMs (github.com/lechmazur)

8 months ago | amichail | github.com | newest

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Can you solve it? Clueless sudoku, a genius new puzzle (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | amichail | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Do employees at large companies use internal forums instead of Reddit?

8 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Robots can now learn like humans, using self-awareness (earth.com)

8 months ago | amichail | earth.com | frontpage

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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | amichail | arstechnica.com | newest

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Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less (arxiv.org)

8 months ago | amichail | arxiv.org | newest

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Ask HN: Are mathematicians more likely to enjoy programming with AI coding help?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why aren't "reverse blogs" popular?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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CRISPR transforms ordinary fat cells into cancer killing machines (thebrighterside.news)

9 months ago | amichail | thebrighterside.news | frontpage

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Unknown illness kills over 50 in Congo with hours between symptoms and death (apnews.com)

9 months ago | amichail | apnews.com | frontpage

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C64 OS new features – World of Commodore 2024 [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Discovery Shows Mice Trying to Revive Fallen Companions (sciencealert.com)

9 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Emacs 30.1 Released with Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler by Default (phoronix.com)

9 months ago | amichail | phoronix.com | newest

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Performance Goals Can Harm Students (psychologytoday.com)

9 months ago | amichail | psychologytoday.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why doesn't automatic brightness take into account screen content?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Landing a Model Rocket Like SpaceX [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Vibe Coding: Where Everyone Can 'Speak' Computer Programming (thenewstack.io)

9 months ago | amichail | thenewstack.io | newest

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Canadian military now accepting recruits with asthma, ADHD and other conditions (cbc.ca)

9 months ago | amichail | cbc.ca | newest

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Octopuses Rewrite Their RNA to Beat the Cold (science.org)

9 months ago | amichail | science.org | frontpage

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Ask HN: Why does turning off auto brightness fix screen wakeup on MacBook Pro?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How do you prepare a MacBook Pro for intensive testing in Apple Store?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why don't "hot" rankings replace daily leaderboards in games?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Mere weeks after Starship's breakup, the vehicle may soon fly again (arstechnica.com)

9 months ago | amichail | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Would you want a dumb phone with no physical buttons and no screen?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics for Almost 300 Years (sciencealert.com)

9 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Ask HN: Does professional wrestling constantly try to gaslight its audience?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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As bird flu spreads, Canada buys 500K vaccines for humans (globalnews.ca)

9 months ago | amichail | globalnews.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Will AI make high IQ people less arrogant?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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How Alexey Pajitnov Created Tetris – Game Maker's Notebook Podcast [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Updates on JesseSort (reddit.com)

9 months ago | amichail | reddit.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why do some billionaires wear suits at work?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is Musk unusual in his interests in both tech and economics?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Pilot fatigue, accidental switch press blamed for plane going off runway (ctvnews.ca)

9 months ago | amichail | ctvnews.ca | newest

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Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says (arstechnica.com)

9 months ago | amichail | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Immediately Invoked Closures in Swift (stackoverflow.com)

9 months ago | amichail | stackoverflow.com | newest

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Swift – Immediately Invoked Closures (encyclopediaofdaniel.com)

9 months ago | amichail | encyclopediaofdaniel.com | newest

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JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort. (github.com/lewj85)

9 months ago | amichail | github.com | frontpage

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Many Canadians willing to ditch U.S. booze, but not Netflix: poll (globalnews.ca)

9 months ago | amichail | globalnews.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Should an AI marriage be used to build your online dating profile?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will AI coding invert age discrimination among human software engineers?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Star Wars – The Ghost's Apprentice (fan film made using AI) [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is there one subscription service that does all adulting on your behalf?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Robot Band Plays "Axel F" [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | frontpage

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Scientists Found the Driving Force Behind Your Darkest Impulses (sciencealert.com)

9 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Apple Prototypes Tabletop Robot with Lifelike Movements (macrumors.com)

9 months ago | amichail | macrumors.com | newest

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Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals (cnn.com)

9 months ago | amichail | cnn.com | frontpage

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How Far Away Could We Detect Ourselves? (universetoday.com)

9 months ago | amichail | universetoday.com | frontpage

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New neuroscience research shows Covid-19 leaves mark on young adult brains (psypost.org)

9 months ago | amichail | psypost.org | frontpage

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Ask HN: Would you allow your closed source code to be used for AI training?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can AI make American football comprehensible to non-Americans?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How do US super high achievers cope with never being the best in the US?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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History-making ADHD study reveals grim life-expectancy cost (newatlas.com)

9 months ago | amichail | newatlas.com | newest

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Trump wants the US to land astronauts on Mars soon. Could it happen by 2029? (space.com)

9 months ago | amichail | space.com | newest

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Toronto Public Library (reddit.com)

9 months ago | amichail | reddit.com | newest

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Ask HN: A microblogging feed that only contains reshares and private messages?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do CS degrees avoid game design so CS majors don't lose interest in CS?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Bonobos Know When You're Clueless – Their Theory of Mind Explains Why (zmescience.com)

9 months ago | amichail | zmescience.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will secret tech be obsolete in the age of artificial superintelligence?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Where Did the DeepSeek Team Go to University? Not in the US (collegetowns.substack.com)

9 months ago | amichail | substack.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would curing tinnitus hurt streaming services?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Step-Game: Assessing LLM Collaboration and Deception Under Pressure (github.com/lechmazur)

9 months ago | amichail | github.com | newest

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Fabric can heat up almost 50 degrees to keep people warm in ultracold weather (livescience.com)

9 months ago | amichail | livescience.com | newest

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Ask HN: How much should you trust your brain in solo indie dev?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Toronto is finally beating New York at something: rat growth (thestar.com)

9 months ago | amichail | thestar.com | newest

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Ask HN: How does the AI you use handle this obscure puzzle?

9 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations (quantamagazine.org)

10 months ago | amichail | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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Ask HN: Which US cities are most amenable to banning smoking outside your home?

10 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Testing ChatGPT reasoning on an obscure puzzle (chatgpt.com)

10 months ago | amichail | chatgpt.com | newest

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Here's how Canadian tech salaries compare to the U.S. (thelogic.co)

10 months ago | amichail | thelogic.co | newest

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Ask HN: Will AI have better coding support for web apps than native apps?

10 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How can we be sure an AI doesn't have subjective experience?

10 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why do so many AI researchers care about philosophy?

10 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Human evolution in the USA: Education-linked genes being selected against (psypost.org)

10 months ago | amichail | psypost.org | newest

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Ask HN: Will people who lose their jobs to AI switch primarily to elder care?

10 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Two girls who pleaded guilty in alleged fatal swarming sentenced to probation (ctvnews.ca)

10 months ago | amichail | ctvnews.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Can AI soon make the Linux desktop a first-rate user experience?

10 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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On The Toxicity of Math Academia (reddit.com)

10 months ago | amichail | reddit.com | newest

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Think your dog can understand words? This scientist says you might be right (cbc.ca)

10 months ago | amichail | cbc.ca | frontpage

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Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim (theregister.com)

10 months ago | amichail | theregister.com | best

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Ask HN: Would including an AI in calls to friends/family reduce loud arguments?

10 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Increased Toxicity Risk Identified for Children with Autism, ADHD (sciencealert.com)

10 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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Crushing guilt led this Air France pilot to quit his dream job (euronews.com)

10 months ago | amichail | euronews.com | newest

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Stop Safari window closing when only pinned tabs are left (apple.stackexchange.com)

10 months ago | amichail | stackexchange.com | newest

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TeXmacs beta released including support for Android (texmacs.org)

10 months ago | amichail | texmacs.org | newest