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OpenAI for India (openai.com)

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OpenAI for India (openai.com)

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27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (reddit.com)

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Notes on Clarifying Man Pages (jvns.ca)

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Solving Systems of Equations Faster (entropicthoughts.com)

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Beyond AlphaFold (ifp.org)

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Dear Comrade Xi (campbellramble.ai)

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Skill: Cognitive black box flight recorder (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

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AmbientCG – Free Textures, HDRIs and Models (ambientcg.com)

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The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas (2022) (asmartbear.com)

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Screenlife (wikipedia.org)

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Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education (deepmind.google)

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Mysterious NSFW "Grok" Notification from Google App (taylor.town)

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Tell HN: Google Allegedly Sent NSFW "Grok" Notification to People

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A Pattern Language Index (patternlanguageindex.com)

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Catalyzing Generative Protein [video] (youtube.com)

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God created men; Sam Altman made them equal (taylor.town)

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Engineer's underground dome home blends into desert like living organism [video] (youtube.com)

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Quoting ROUGH DRAFT 8/2/66 (simonwillison.net)

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First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day (simonwillison.net)

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Ask HN: I'm investing $100k in cool people with boring skills. Any leads?

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My Big Kink Survey dataset, raw (aella.substack.com)

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Unreal Numbers (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience (asteriskmag.com)

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Anthropic and the Government of Rwanda sign MOU for AI in health and education (anthropic.com)

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Nano Banana Pro diff to webcomic (simonwillison.net)

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Towards Native Multimodal Agents (simonwillison.net)

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Making the Vortex Mixer (asimov.press)

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Four Minutes of Air Conditioning (ourworldindata.org)

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Survey Responder Lies (aella.substack.com)

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Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

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How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)

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The Chinese periodic table goes hard [video] (youtube.com)

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Psychological differences within China explained by rice vs. wheat agriculture (nih.gov)

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What if everything was "Async", but nothing needed "Await"? [video] (youtube.com)

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Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams (cmu.edu)

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"I built a site to explore and analyze all 18,500 Pitchfork reviews" (reddit.com)

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The lifelong exercise that keeps Japan moving (2020) (bbc.com)

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YouTube Launches on Apple Vision Pro (macrumors.com)

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A Brief History of Xenopus (asimov.press)

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Rethinking High-School Science Fairs (asteriskmag.com)

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Memory Safety Is (matklad.github.io)

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Bio-Theory Lab Notes (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Survival Analysis of the Supreme Court (entropicthoughts.com)

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How to Win Titular Metagames (taylor.town)

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Mapping Ignorance (mappingignorance.org)

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Making a Game for the Pokémon Mini [video] (youtube.com)

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Trying to Make an Automated Ecologist (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Agent orchestration isn't just for coders (handyai.substack.com)

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The strongest encryption is just noise (hypertextgarden.com)

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Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR [video] (youtube.com)

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I Just Returned from China. We Are Not Winning (nytimes.com)

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A Language for Agents (pocoo.org)

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The seam through the center of things (usefulfictions.substack.com)

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Sex Workers Are Built Different (Graph Dump) (aella.substack.com)

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No-code History: Sketchpad (2022) (instadeq.com)

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Alzheimer's: from causes and risk factors to models and interventions (nintil.com)

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Hard problems in social media archiving (alexwlchan.net)

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Download the map of your city for offline use (practicalbetterments.com)

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I guess we're doing Moon factories now (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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We have outgrown the Process model (sidhion.com)

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How to Create Real Permitting Certainty (ifp.org)

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Interactive Fiction and Text Adventures Database (ifdb.org)

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You Don't Need It (moq.dev)

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Singing the Gospel of Collective Efficacy (interconnected.org)

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So I Got an EEG (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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SAC of Enshittification (digitalsorceress.com)

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The Perfect Device (sometimes.digital)

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FWD: Re: radioactive fungus email from grandma (2024) (taylor.town)

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The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead (joanwestenberg.com)

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Musicals use motifs to tell stories (pudding.cool)

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Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish? (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Can a Single Screenshot Predict a Game's Success? [video] (youtube.com)

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John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds (plover.com)

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The Impact of Housing Affordability on Consumption, Work Effort, and Investment (ssrn.com)

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Friendship maintenance (avabear.xyz)

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Concat Arrays with SQL Aggregate Functions (2024) (taylor.town)

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The three year myth (spacedino.net)

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The Blurry Boundaries Between Programming and Direct Use (joshuahhh.com)

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Taylor's Media Criticism System (2023) (taylor.town)

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Stellarium Web Online Star Map (2021) (stellarium-web.org)

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My Internet Yardsale (departure.blog)

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The Coherence Premium (joanwestenberg.com)

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Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck (motherduck.com)

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Struggling Towards an Algebraic Theory of Music (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

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To be well-calibrated is to be punctual (lesswrong.com)

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Making Money on OnlyFans Is a Lot Harder Than You Think (2020) (vice.com)

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Crocker's Rules (sl4.org)

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Shades of Halftone (maximeheckel.com)

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Blockchain Is a Galactic Algorithm (shakeddown.substack.com)

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AI After Drug Development (asteriskmag.com)

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We Just Discovered Why Light Does This [video] (youtube.com)

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Downgrade your phone to a limited data plan (practicalbetterments.com)

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Self-Assembling Space Structures [video] (youtube.com)

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Case Study: Agape (supernuclear.substack.com)

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Apple should acquire Wolfram Research (2023) (taylor.town)

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Never name a new species of an existing dinosaur genus (svpow.com)