Hacker News headlines

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DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems (ans.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | ans.org | best

3

Andrej Karpathy on X: RLHF is just barely RL (twitter.com/karpathy)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

49

Self-Compressing Neural Networks (arxiv.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | arxiv.org | best

44

With CO2 Levels Rising, Drylands Are Turning Green – Yale E360 (yale.edu)

a year ago | bilsbie | yale.edu | frontpage

4

Probably Overthinking It: There is only one test (allendowney.blogspot.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | blogspot.com | newest

1

Polyethylene films manage to achieve a 3.1 GPA tensile strength (acs.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | acs.org | newest

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Demand for seed-oil-free foods is growing (foodnavigator.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | foodnavigator.com | newest

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Humans may be fueling global warming by breathing: new study (nypost.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | nypost.com | newest

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Andrej Karpathy: "LLM model size competition is intensifying backwards (twitter.com/karpathy)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

13

Founder Gigs (foundergigs.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | foundergigs.com | frontpage

288

I am starting an AI+Education company (twitter.com/karpathy)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | best

36

Future of Space Telescopes in the Era of Super Heavy Lift Launch (payloadspace.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | payloadspace.com | frontpage

1

The Valley of Code (thevalleyofcode.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | thevalleyofcode.com | newest

1

Marc Andreessen on X: "The Little Tech Agenda (twitter.com/pmarca)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

13

Feynman's Nobel Ambition (ohio-state.edu)

a year ago | bilsbie | ohio-state.edu | frontpage

3

The "Whiteboard" Trick That Trains AI to Visualize (twitter.com/intuitmachine)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

45

[flagged] (10) Rounds of interviews. Never seen something like this before. This is nuts (twitter.com/catalinmpit)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

2

AI analogous to when factory engineers tried elec the same way using steam power (twitter.com/noahpinion)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

28

New Warp Drive Model Requires No 'Exotic Matter,' Scientists Say We Can Build (2021) (thedebrief.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | thedebrief.org | frontpage

2

The Triumph of Electromagnetism over Thermodynamics (noahpinion.blog)

a year ago | bilsbie | noahpinion.blog | newest

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CO2 is making Earth greener–for now Science (nasa.gov)

a year ago | bilsbie | nasa.gov | frontpage

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Andrej Karpathy on X: "100% Software 2.0 computer.Just a single neural net (twitter.com/karpathy)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

2

Chip-scale titanium-sapphire laser puts powerful technology in reach (stanford.edu)

a year ago | bilsbie | stanford.edu | newest

47

Re: Supreme Court's Loper decision: offer some thought someone who has litigated (twitter.com/brendancarrfcc)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

2

Zip Fuel (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | wikipedia.org | newest

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After a trillion tons of CO2, the Great Barrier Reef hits record coral cover (joannenova.com.au)

a year ago | bilsbie | joannenova.com.au | newest

2

ConfessionsPetrol Head love electric vehicles it has nothing to do with politics (twitter.com/jimfarley98)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

1

People and AI = Billion Dollar Company? [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | youtube.com | newest

1

Protect AI Research – Stop SB 1047 (stopsb1047.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | stopsb1047.com | newest

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Patrick Collison on X: "This morning, Nature published two papers on bridge (twitter.com/patrickc)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Alzheimer's-related synapse damage reversed by synthetic protein (longevity.technology)

a year ago | bilsbie | longevity.technology | newest

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California Water Temperatures Drop to Dangerous Levels – Newsweek (newsweek.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | newsweek.com | frontpage

21

GitHub – Karpathy/LLM101n: LLM101n: Let's Build a Storyteller (github.com/karpathy)

a year ago | bilsbie | github.com | frontpage

1

Air Taxi Network in the San Francisco Bay Area (twitter.com/archeraviation)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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One built-in UI/UX feature of LLM interfaces I'd love is proof (twitter.com/karpathy)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Predictions vs. Reality for Solar Energy (twitter.com/alecstapp)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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New Concrete That Stores Electricity Could Turn Whole Homes into Batteries (futurism.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | futurism.com | newest

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Starship Flight 4: A Turning Point – By Peter Hague (planetocracy.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | planetocracy.org | newest

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Owen Sparks on X: "From Starship to Falcon 9, SpaceX reaches new milestones." (twitter.com/owensparks_)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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For, you see, this island's ecosystem is artificial (twitter.com/jordan_w_taylor)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Engineers find new way to make 'wonder material' Graphene that could change the (independent.co.uk)

a year ago | bilsbie | independent.co.uk | frontpage

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'It's better for humans': The four-day workweek is closer than you think (marketwatch.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | marketwatch.com | newest

2

AI Reveals Complex Language Patterns in Sperm Whales (imnovation-hub.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | imnovation-hub.com | frontpage

4

500K Prize to Communicate with Animals (tau.ac.il)

a year ago | bilsbie | tau.ac.il | newest

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Discovery of Supercapacitors 'Missing Link' (thedebrief.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | thedebrief.org | newest

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The AI revolution is coming to robots: how will it change them? (nature.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | nature.com | newest

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Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words (2005) (wlonk.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | wlonk.com | best

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Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all (2012) (lbl.gov)

a year ago | bilsbie | lbl.gov | best

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7.3B People, One Building – Wait but Why (waitbutwhy.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | waitbutwhy.com | newest

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The Growing Importance of Desalination – Contrary (contrary.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | contrary.com | newest

2

Shard: On the Decentralized Training of Foundation Models (aksh-garg.medium.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | medium.com | newest

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Young Blood-Mediated Rejuvenation (springer.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | springer.com | newest

2

EVs Are Ushering in the Return of Rear-Wheel Drive, and Here's Why (motortrend.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | motortrend.com | newest

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An assessment of threats to the American power grid (biomedcentral.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | biomedcentral.com | newest

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Green banana biomass anti-obesogenic, anti-hyperlipidemic, antidiabetic (oup.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | oup.com | newest

2

How to spin up a planet [pdf] (buildengineer.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | buildengineer.com | newest

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Surprised to see that the standard CO2 level on the space station is 4000 ppm (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

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Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | bilsbie | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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81% of young people say 4-day workweek would boost productivity, survey reports (cnbc.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Increased UVA exposures and decreased cutaneous Vitamin D3 incidence of melanoma (sciencedirect.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | sciencedirect.com | newest

1

Large Language Models and the Paradox of the Unsayable (psychologytoday.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | psychologytoday.com | newest

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Americans Are Open to Cheap Chinese Cars. That's Scary for the Auto Industry (insideevs.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | insideevs.com | newest

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Sodium Batteries from Michigan Challenge Lithium's Grip on Energy Transition (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | bloomberg.com | newest

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Javier Milei Sparks Wild Rally That Makes Peso No. 1 in World (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | bloomberg.com | newest

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Four months into office, Argentine President Javier Milei has pulled off (unusualwhales.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | unusualwhales.com | frontpage

2

Most Investments Are Bad. Here’s Why (lynalden.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | lynalden.com | newest

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Modern EV Batteries Rarely Fail: Study (insideevs.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | insideevs.com | best

6

Engineers Should Study Philosophy (hbr.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | hbr.org | newest

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The software industry rapidly convergng on 3 languages: Go, Rust, and JavaScript (twitter.com/bitfield)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

2

Moore's Law for Everything (samaltman.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | samaltman.com | newest

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US per capita CO2 emissions now at 1913 levels (twitter.com/hankgreen)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Allulose: Sugar Substitute – Near.blog (near.blog)

a year ago | bilsbie | near.blog | newest

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Blueprint 1.0 Review – Near.blog (near.blog)

a year ago | bilsbie | near.blog | newest

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Scientists discover first nitrogen-fixing organelle (phys.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | phys.org | newest

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87% of US Tesla drivers say they'll buy another Tesla – Electrek (electrek.co)

a year ago | bilsbie | electrek.co | frontpage

2

Paul Graham on X: "I always prefer ordinary voice calls to Zoom calls (twitter.com/paulg)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Thank God It's Thursday? These companies have embraced four-day work week (msn.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | msn.com | newest

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Astro Mechanica – Not Boring by Packy McCormick (notboring.co)

a year ago | bilsbie | notboring.co | newest

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Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI (noahpinion.blog)

a year ago | bilsbie | noahpinion.blog | best

1

The Space Runway FAQ. Q: What Is the Space Runway? (medium.com/rokomijic)

a year ago | bilsbie | medium.com | newest

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Starship Is Still Not Understood – Casey Handmer's Blog (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | wordpress.com | newest

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The problem with blaming climate change for extreme weather damage (thenewatlantis.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | thenewatlantis.com | newest

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How to Twitter Successfully – Near.blog (near.blog)

a year ago | bilsbie | near.blog | newest

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Is Everything a Religion? (slatestarcodex.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | slatestarcodex.com | newest

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The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set (2020) (eleuther.ai)

a year ago | bilsbie | eleuther.ai | best

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JWST Spies Surprising Signs of Warmth in Frozen Solar System Worlds (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | scientificamerican.com | newest

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Evo: Long-context modeling from molecular to genome scale (together.ai)

a year ago | bilsbie | together.ai | newest

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Beyond Self-Attention: How a Small Language Model Predicts the Next Token (shyam.blog)

a year ago | bilsbie | shyam.blog | newest

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Vesuvius Challenge – an ML and computer vision contest – deep dive (twitter.com/sporadicalia)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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You're never too old to start exercising ask a 93-year-old rowing champion (peterattiamd.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | peterattiamd.com | frontpage

2

Normal behavior is forgotten. Only weird behavior survives (twitter.com/george__mack)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017) (karpathy.medium.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | medium.com | best

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Winning these hard challenges doesn't even get you to the screening interview (twitter.com/tunguz)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Story of how the US became the biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas (twitter.com/sstapczynski)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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The Future of Sustainable Energy? Scientists Create Battery Using Hemoglobin (scitechdaily.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | scitechdaily.com | newest

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96% of U.S. temperature stations fail to meet what NOAA considers "acceptable" [pdf] (heartland.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | heartland.org | newest

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People are bad at understanding just how big LLM's are (twitter.com/jam3scampbell)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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As of now, our engineering interviews will encourage candidates to use an LLM (twitter.com/bindureddy)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge (twitter.com/willmanidis)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | best

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Targeting senescent cells for cognitive health (peterattiamd.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | peterattiamd.com | newest