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Emulating 6502 (zserge.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | zserge.com | frontpage

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A Puzzle about a Calculator (aperiodical.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | aperiodical.com | frontpage

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Kenya's EV bus adoption stalled by supply shortages, import tariffs (restofworld.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | restofworld.org | newest

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Grading My 2024 Predictions (exponentialview.co)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | exponentialview.co | newest

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Santa gave me a concurrency problem for Christmas [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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Using the Internet Without Leaving a Trace: A How-To Guide (netninja.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | netninja.com | newest

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Adjusting Microwave Cook Times with OR: Inspired by an Xkcd Comic (2012) (orbythebeach.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | frontpage

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RBAR: Row by Agonizing Row (2007) (red-gate.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | red-gate.com | newest

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Stripe V2 (brandur.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | brandur.org | frontpage

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Graph Data Structure with Datalog QL (2022) (inconvergent.net)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | inconvergent.net | newest

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A List of Post-Mortems (github.com/danluu)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.com | newest

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Efficiency Is a False God (milofultz.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | milofultz.com | newest

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Photo Storage (arun.is)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | arun.is | newest

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The RotoZipper (chrisfenton.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | chrisfenton.com | newest

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Against the Hydraulic Analogy (lcamtuf.substack.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | frontpage

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How to Flatpack Programs [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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Catching Up with Async Rust (fasterthanli.me)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | fasterthanli.me | frontpage

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Scrolling Rails and Button Controls (ryanmulligan.dev)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | ryanmulligan.dev | newest

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Against a universal definition of 'type' [pdf] (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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The Case for Value-Based Care (thetakeoff.substack.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

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LFFS: Simplicity vs. Efficiency (bytes.zone)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | bytes.zone | newest

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The Universe of Beatrix Potter (edbrims.github.io)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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Economists dropped $10M in rural Africa. It changed economic science forever [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Favorite essays, tech talks, books, etc. of 2024?

5 months ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

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Cramming Scrapscript into Msgpack (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | frontpage

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This open problem taught me what topology is [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | best

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What was the Golden Age of Antibiotics, and how can we spark a new one? (ourworldindata.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | ourworldindata.org | frontpage

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How do antibiotics work, and how does antibiotic resistance evolve? (ourworldindata.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | ourworldindata.org | newest

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Snow Signs (viewsproject.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | frontpage

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I Use Obsidian Templater (cassidoo.co)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | cassidoo.co | newest

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AI-generated tools can make programming more fun (geoffreylitt.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | geoffreylitt.com | newest

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A 15-minute intro to resin casting (lcamtuf.substack.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

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Cramming Scrapscript into Msgpack (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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[flagged] AIs Will Increasingly Attempt Shenanigans (lesswrong.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | lesswrong.com | frontpage

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The Structure and Legal Interpretation of Computer Programs [pdf] (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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[flagged] Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children (2023) (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | frontpage

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Massive Multiplayer Governance (erlend.sh)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | erlend.sh | newest

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You should be talking with GPT about philosophy (theendsdontjustifythemeans.substack.com...

5 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | frontpage

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Founding Fathers on Today's America (karpathy.ai)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | karpathy.ai | newest

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Nigel Richards won Spanish Scrabble championship without speaking language (washingtonpost.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | washingtonpost.com | newest

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In praise of the hundred page idea (tracydurnell.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | tracydurnell.com | best

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Network of Supermarket Chains (flowingdata.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | flowingdata.com | newest

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Will computers ever become easy to use? (1997) [pdf] (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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Facts Grounding: A new benchmark for evaluating the factuality of LLMs (deepmind.google)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | deepmind.google | newest

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The distribution of eigenvalues of GUE and its minors at fixed index (terrytao.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | frontpage

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A New Sequence (aperiodical.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | aperiodical.com | newest

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A Non-Terminating Game of Beggar-My-Neighbor (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | arxiv.org | newest

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China-US immigration policies could reshape the AI talent race (restofworld.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | restofworld.org | newest

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Takes on "Alignment Faking in Large Language Models" (joecarlsmith.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | joecarlsmith.com | frontpage

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Towards a new kind of science and technology (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | frontpage

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Gemini Powers Tldraw's "Natural Language Computing" Experience (ai.google.dev)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | google.dev | newest

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Sorry Spotify, I Wrapped It Myself (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | frontpage

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Santa Claus is not a god yet (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Droste's Lair (vezwork.github.io)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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Asking (manuelmoreale.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | manuelmoreale.com | newest

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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies (wired.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | wired.com | newest

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Write code with your Alphabet Radio on (vickiboykis.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | vickiboykis.com | newest

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Square joy: tile crush (exploding tiles in j) (mmapped.blog)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | mmapped.blog | newest

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States have a shelf life of about 200 years (thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | frontpage

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A Tale of Two Shanghais (arun.is)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | arun.is | newest

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How I Journal (wwinks.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | wwinks.com | newest

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How to hack an electronic road sign (2009) (jalopnik.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | jalopnik.com | newest

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How big data created the modern dairy cow (worksinprogress.co)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | worksinprogress.co | frontpage

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Schema Evolution in Interactive Programming Systems (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | arxiv.org | newest

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Malaysia's internet crackdown forces creators to self-censor (restofworld.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | restofworld.org | frontpage

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A list of countries that should change their name (satyrs.eu)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | satyrs.eu | newest

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The case against static typing in PHP (2023) (tonymarston.net)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | tonymarston.net | frontpage

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Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" listenership is slipping (nbcnews.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | nbcnews.com | newest

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Ox Delivers' Flatpack EV Truck Creates Prosperity in Africa (core77.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | core77.com | newest

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Creating a Typeface: Humanist Computer (arbesman.substack.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

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I'm daily driving Jujutsu, and maybe you should too (drewdevault.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | drewdevault.com | frontpage

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Concise Functions and Spanning Trees (igorpak.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | newest

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An Adventure in Victorian Printing (jacobfilipp.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | jacobfilipp.com | newest

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Building Freedom Cities (city-journal.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | city-journal.org | newest

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More Weight (leancrew.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | leancrew.com | newest

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Year Day is December 11 (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Drones Favor the Motivated (marginalrevolution.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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ed is the Standard (alexschroeder.ch)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | alexschroeder.ch | newest

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How WhatsApp for business changed the world (restofworld.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | restofworld.org | frontpage

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Large amounts of antibiotics are used in livestock, but this doesn't have to be (ourworldindata.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | ourworldindata.org | newest

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Implementation Is Semantic Interpretation (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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The Art of Calling Out Room Dynamics (leadership.garden)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | leadership.garden | frontpage

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Intuition in Software Development (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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I made a satellite ion thruster [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | frontpage

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HolyC Compiler and Transpiler (github.com/jamesbarford)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | github.com | newest

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Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed into Apartments in the U.S. [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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How to build god and get away with it (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Not My Name (csh.ac.at)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | csh.ac.at | newest

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A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 switches specificity to humans (science.org)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | science.org | newest

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The unplanned impact of mathematics (2011) (nature.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | nature.com | best

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Days Are Easily Made (autodidacts.io)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | autodidacts.io | newest

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Your Next Two Zeroes (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results (stephenwolfram.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | stephenwolfram.com | newest

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A Shining Palace Built Upon the Sand by Devine Lu Linvega [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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The correct amount of ads is zero (manuelmoreale.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | manuelmoreale.com | best

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Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy (design-milk.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | design-milk.com | best

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Undersea Surgeons (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | nytimes.com | newest

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What Happens When US Hospitals Binge on Nurse Practitioners (bloomberg.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | bloomberg.com | newest

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Failure Costs (siliconcontinent.com)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | siliconcontinent.com | newest

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Make a /Wish Page (taylor.town)

5 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest