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1. HC-tree is an experimental high-concurrency database back end for SQLite (sqlite.org)
524 points by nalgeon on Jan 18, 2023 | 190 comments
2. Why to start a startup in a bad economy (2008) (paulgraham.com)
392 points by dbrereton on Jan 18, 2023 | 225 comments
3. Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev (bitwarden.com)
479 points by xxkylexx on Jan 18, 2023 | 391 comments
4. Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video] (youtube.com)
1110 points by georgehill on Jan 17, 2023 | 104 comments
5. Which GPU(s) to get for deep learning (timdettmers.com)
348 points by itvision on Jan 18, 2023 | 148 comments
6. Tailscale bug allowed a person to share nodes from other tailnets without auth (tailscale.com)
378 points by Operyl on Jan 17, 2023 | 124 comments
7. Thonny – Python IDE for beginners (thonny.org)
402 points by ankit70 on Jan 18, 2023 | 104 comments
8. LangChain: Build AI apps with LLMs through composability (github.com/hwchase17)
372 points by azhenley on Jan 18, 2023 | 76 comments
9. OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic (time.com)
517 points by mkeeter on Jan 18, 2023 | 570 comments
10. No Start Menu for You (randomascii.wordpress.com)
427 points by jabagawee on Jan 18, 2023 | 272 comments
11. Bun v0.5 (bun.sh)
330 points by cyclecity on Jan 18, 2023 | 153 comments
12. Tar.pl – A tar creator and extractor in ~130 lines of Prolog (github.com/superdisk)
271 points by superdisk on Jan 18, 2023 | 85 comments
13. Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri (twitter.com/john_hudson)
207 points by danso on Jan 18, 2023 | 256 comments
14. Hello, PNG (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
268 points by EntICOnc on Jan 18, 2023 | 155 comments
15. Personas (about.gitlab.com)
143 points by mooreds on Jan 18, 2023 | 34 comments
16. QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation (github.com/questpdf)
195 points by nateb2022 on Jan 18, 2023 | 128 comments
17. Datasette is my data hammer (jeremiak.com)
299 points by Tomte on Jan 17, 2023 | 69 comments
18. U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100M a year from service members (npr.org)
380 points by geox on Jan 18, 2023 | 263 comments
19. Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism (tegowerk.eu)
216 points by victorstanciu on Jan 17, 2023 | 190 comments
20. Rust concepts I wish I learned earlier (rauljordan.com)
379 points by rck on Jan 18, 2023 | 170 comments
21. New Norwegian land could emerge from the Atlantic Ocean (sciencenorway.no)
119 points by LastNevadan on Jan 18, 2023 | 90 comments
22. The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020) (theverge.com)
163 points by nequo on Jan 17, 2023 | 248 comments
23. Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation (github.com/christianvoigt)
120 points by stareatgoats on Jan 18, 2023 | 37 comments
24. Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market?
285 points by hazrmard on Jan 18, 2023 | 254 comments
25. Show HN: Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI (summate.it)
142 points by k1m on Jan 17, 2023 | 51 comments
26. Japanese manhole mass production process [video] (youtube.com)
206 points by zdw on Jan 18, 2023 | 95 comments
27. DensePose from WiFi (arxiv.org)
176 points by deverton on Jan 18, 2023 | 44 comments
28. A stack of feed-forward layers does surprisingly well on ImageNet (arxiv.org)
97 points by fzliu on Jan 18, 2023 | 25 comments
29. How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes (lareviewofbooks.org)
89 points by diodorus on Jan 18, 2023 | 66 comments
30. My best techniques for evaluating character (tedgioia.substack.com)
248 points by jger15 on Jan 18, 2023 | 190 comments

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