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1. Llama 2 (meta.com)
2268 points by friggeri on July 18, 2023 | 820 comments
2. Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer (treeherder.mozilla.org)
1282 points by akyuu on July 18, 2023 | 544 comments
3. Sweden Sans (sweden.se)
467 points by 2143 on July 18, 2023 | 187 comments
4. Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo (islamov.ai)
473 points by aislamov on July 18, 2023 | 116 comments
5. Val, a high-level systems programming language (val-lang.dev)
423 points by cpeterso on July 18, 2023 | 277 comments
6. A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022) (hagerty.com)
385 points by colinprince on July 18, 2023 | 303 comments
7. Never waste a midlife crisis (austinkleon.com)
445 points by herbertl on July 17, 2023 | 437 comments
8. AutoChain, lightweight and testable alternative to LangChain (github.com/forethought-technologies)
211 points by yilu331 on July 18, 2023 | 36 comments
9. Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring
261 points by podoman on July 18, 2023 | 134 comments
10. How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009) (jacquesmattheij.com)
346 points by wofo on July 17, 2023 | 165 comments
11. Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds (stephenwolfram.com)
254 points by RafelMri on July 18, 2023 | 110 comments
12. Voder Speech Synthesizer (griffin.moe)
253 points by CyborgCabbage on July 18, 2023 | 42 comments
13. Cython 3.0 Released (cython.readthedocs.io)
221 points by ngoldbaum on July 18, 2023 | 82 comments
14. Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the LLM-replicate plugin (simonwillison.net)
200 points by simonw on July 18, 2023 | 43 comments
15. Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, revolutionary, cryptologist… suspected spy? (resobscura.substack.com)
74 points by benbreen on July 18, 2023 | 4 comments
16. The Drivers Cooperative: New York’s driver-owned ride-hailing app (nextcity.org)
294 points by chaisquared on July 18, 2023 | 131 comments
17. Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL (citusdata.com)
160 points by mulander on July 18, 2023 | 45 comments
18. fMRI-to-image with contrastive learning and diffusion priors (stability.ai)
146 points by tmabraham on July 18, 2023 | 64 comments
19. Nintendo 64 Test Cart ROM (gamingalexandria.com)
149 points by ecliptik on July 18, 2023 | 16 comments
20. Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft (paul.reviews)
196 points by varun_ch on July 16, 2023 | 73 comments
21. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity (noahpinion.blog)
684 points by bankershill on July 18, 2023 | 750 comments
22. Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage (newatlas.com)
95 points by DamnInteresting on July 17, 2023 | 105 comments
23. A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning (arxiv.org)
140 points by vov_or on July 18, 2023 | 51 comments
24. Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases (nautil.us)
189 points by jnord on July 17, 2023 | 151 comments
25. Payment systems while working at a pizza place (nickjanetakis.com)
260 points by nickjj on July 18, 2023 | 149 comments
26. Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials (nature.com)
333 points by headalgorithm on July 18, 2023 | 283 comments
27. Tesla directors agree to return $735M following claims they were overpaid (engadget.com)
235 points by thunderbong on July 18, 2023 | 109 comments
28. Vx32: Portable, efficient, safe user-space execution of untrusted x86 code (2008) (csail.mit.edu)
89 points by nateb2022 on July 18, 2023 | 23 comments
29. Stalwart All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP) (github.com/stalwartlabs)
243 points by erlend_sh on July 18, 2023 | 75 comments
30. A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft (github.com/lxtharia)
395 points by sijmen on July 18, 2023 | 69 comments

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