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Let's run a tiny chess neural network by hand [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

2

Early Adopters Win Wars (palladiummag.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | palladiummag.com | newest

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A (very) brief primer on California water (jabberwocking.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | jabberwocking.com | newest

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US Private School Demographics (propublica.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | propublica.org | newest

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Alternatives to "Sorry" (taylor.town)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Some interesting open problems in technology (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | newest

3

Biocubes: A visual story of the living and the built (biocubes.net)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | biocubes.net | newest

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UI is hell: four-function calculators (lcamtuf.substack.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | best

1

Self-Destruction: A Chess Puzzle (futilitycloset.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | futilitycloset.com | newest

6

Is budgeting just therapy but for money (milofultz.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | milofultz.com | frontpage

1

"Prepopr Splelnig" (futilitycloset.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | futilitycloset.com | newest

94

Young men now spend more of their free time alone than any other group (flowingdata.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | flowingdata.com | frontpage

2

Dreaming of Smel Shell (taylor.town)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Energy energy efficiency may anchor civilizations – solving the Fermi paradox (theeggandtherock.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | theeggandtherock.com | newest

2

Food Maps (agnescameron.info)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | agnescameron.info | newest

5

Ontario's Icon Computer (jacobfilipp.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | jacobfilipp.com | newest

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Will capital-havers or capability-havers gain the most from AI? (fortressofdoors.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | fortressofdoors.com | newest

1

Infrastructure for Debugging (akkartik.name)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | akkartik.name | newest

8

Unconventional Adventures (quarter--mile.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | quarter--mile.com | frontpage

21

The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023) (esri.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | esri.com | best

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[flagged] The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | frontpage

1

Dittemore's Law: observations on elite organization dysfunction (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | newest

2

Questions for VCs (quarter--mile.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | quarter--mile.com | newest

1

A Plantation Is Not a Forest (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com | newest

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eventbrite.ics (taylor.town)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Has the tennis ball gotten worse? (defector.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | defector.com | newest

2

Gun Control (Math Puzzle) (futilitycloset.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | futilitycloset.com | newest

2

Imagining a Multiparty System in the US (flowingdata.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | flowingdata.com | newest

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Imagine if the United States used proportional representation (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | nytimes.com | newest

4

Alignment faking in large language models (lesswrong.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | lesswrong.com | frontpage

1

A unique satellite reaction wheel [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

Task-relevant maturity: a lens for effective management (ktheory.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | ktheory.com | newest

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US and China lead global AI collaboration as research partnerships grow (restofworld.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | restofworld.org | newest

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Jevons and the Automated Developer (exponentialview.co)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | exponentialview.co | newest

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Understanding the so-called obesity 'wonder drugs' (thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | newest

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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users (restofworld.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | restofworld.org | newest

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Justified Text: Better Than Expected? (cloudfour.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | cloudfour.com | newest

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TRON Project (wikipedia.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | wikipedia.org | newest

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Has Canada Become a Jamaican Bobsled Team? (jaymartin.substack.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | frontpage

87

Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) (akkartik.name)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | akkartik.name | best

1

Disk Space (alexschroeder.ch)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | alexschroeder.ch | newest

2

Tracking mining with multispectral satellite imagery (agnescameron.info)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | agnescameron.info | frontpage

1

LittleJS Jam Results (frankforce.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | frankforce.com | newest

1

What is the smallest phone number? (cadence.moe)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | cadence.moe | newest

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Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18 (boehs.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | boehs.org | best

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A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper (core77.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | core77.com | best

18

A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements (cassidoo.co)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | cassidoo.co | best

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Ask HN: Who are your favorite digital designers?

8 months ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Ten days into 2025, how are you doing?

8 months ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

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Browser Adaptation (bradwoods.io)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | bradwoods.io | frontpage

1

California's Vestal Flame (2022) (palladiummag.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | palladiummag.com | newest

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Contrarian ideas about GenAI in the workplace (exponentialview.co)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | exponentialview.co | newest

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The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California (livenearfriends.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | livenearfriends.com | newest

3

It Comes in Waves (todepond.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | todepond.com | newest

1

Drops (oimo.io)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | oimo.io | newest

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The Patterns of Barricelli (2024) (akkartik.name)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | akkartik.name | frontpage

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"Thanks. How do you want to help?" (taylor.town)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Ask HN: Please share your favorite joke

8 months ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

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"Thanks. How do you want to help?" (taylor.town)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

1

Python script to export WeChat stickers (mgx.me)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | mgx.me | newest

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How to Visit India for Normies (marginalrevolution.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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An ocean-engineering project will build an undersea habitat (ieee.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | ieee.org | newest

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SSH App Bots (alexschroeder.ch)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | alexschroeder.ch | newest

2

HG Wells was awful in every way (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | newest

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Examples of Eventual Counterexamples (2011) (mathoverflow.net)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | mathoverflow.net | newest

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Making a DIY CNC machine with limited tools [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | frontpage

2

Asimov Press' New Book, Written in DNA (asimov.press)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | asimov.press | newest

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Why I'm skeptical of minimum prices for ride-sharing (dynomight.net)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | dynomight.net | newest

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Feral hogs represent an immediate threat to peyote (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com | newest

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Most important recipes of the past 100 years (slate.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | slate.com | frontpage

1

A simple framework and scalable digital note-taking method for Apple Notes (myforevernotes.com)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | myforevernotes.com | newest

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Old Maps Online (oldmapsonline.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | oldmapsonline.org | newest

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SI Base Units and Constants (taylor.town)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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I'm Opposed to the TikTok Ban (boehs.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | boehs.org | newest

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Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity (brandur.org)

8 months ago | surprisetalk | brandur.org | newest

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An Unreasonable Amount of Time (allenpike.com)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | allenpike.com | newest

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Life Without Stars: Stanets and Ploons (theeggandtherock.com)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | theeggandtherock.com | newest

3

Emulating 6502 (zserge.com)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | zserge.com | frontpage

3

A Puzzle about a Calculator (aperiodical.com)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | aperiodical.com | frontpage

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | restofworld.org | newest

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Grading My 2024 Predictions (exponentialview.co)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | exponentialview.co | newest

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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

9 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)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | frontpage

3

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

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

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Stripe V2 (brandur.org)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | brandur.org | frontpage

2

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | inconvergent.net | newest

1

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | github.com | newest

1

Efficiency Is a False God (milofultz.com)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | milofultz.com | newest

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Photo Storage (arun.is)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | arun.is | newest

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The RotoZipper (chrisfenton.com)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | chrisfenton.com | newest

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Against the Hydraulic Analogy (lcamtuf.substack.com)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | frontpage

1

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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Catching Up with Async Rust (fasterthanli.me)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | fasterthanli.me | frontpage

3

Scrolling Rails and Button Controls (ryanmulligan.dev)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | ryanmulligan.dev | newest

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

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LFFS: Simplicity vs. Efficiency (bytes.zone)

9 months ago | surprisetalk | bytes.zone | newest

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | github.io | newest

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

9 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest