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1. Use one big server (specbranch.com)
1413 points by pclmulqdq on Aug 2, 2022 | 585 comments
2. I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo (jacobmartins.com)
1045 points by cube2222 on Aug 2, 2022 | 378 comments
3. Understanding Jane Street (thediff.co)
671 points by mxtihvb on Aug 2, 2022 | 374 comments
4. Robinhood lays off 23% of staff (wsj.com)
672 points by tempsy on Aug 2, 2022 | 684 comments
5. DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf] (dallery.gallery)
455 points by tomduncalf on Aug 2, 2022 | 149 comments
6. Crimes with Python's pattern matching (hillelwayne.com)
406 points by signa11 on Aug 2, 2022 | 120 comments
7. What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? (interviewing.io)
433 points by leeny on Aug 1, 2022 | 617 comments
8. Introducing multitasking to Arduino (arduino.cc)
186 points by pyprism on Aug 2, 2022 | 87 comments
9. Airflow's Problem (stkbailey.substack.com)
261 points by cloakedarbiter on Aug 2, 2022 | 122 comments
10. Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app (livebook.dev)
326 points by cgarvis on Aug 2, 2022 | 108 comments
11. Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for PFAS (acs.org)
160 points by rntn on Aug 2, 2022 | 110 comments
12. PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting (pibox.io)
277 points by erulabs on Aug 1, 2022 | 169 comments
13. People spend too much time on decisions with equally satisfying outcomes (robkhenderson.substack.com)
252 points by Bostonian on July 31, 2022 | 121 comments
14. A Love Letter to Geocities Sites (cameronsworld.net)
269 points by martialg on Aug 1, 2022 | 111 comments
15. The end of Optane is bad news (theregister.com)
270 points by RachelF on Aug 2, 2022 | 249 comments
16. The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions (brandur.org)
184 points by kiyanwang on July 31, 2022 | 105 comments
17. North Korean Tactics (2020) [pdf] (fas.org)
125 points by openasocket on Aug 2, 2022 | 118 comments
18. Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system (csail.mit.edu)
171 points by memorable on Aug 2, 2022 | 75 comments
19. Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021) (stanislas.blog)
171 points by hasheddan on Aug 2, 2022 | 55 comments
20. Coding as a greybeard
395 points by jamesofthedrum on Aug 2, 2022 | 339 comments
21. Building a panel out of e-ink electronic shelf labels (rbaron.net)
229 points by frxx on Aug 2, 2022 | 37 comments
22. 20B-parameter Alexa model sets new marks in few-shot learning (amazon.science)
112 points by reckel on Aug 2, 2022 | 86 comments
23. Oracle Suspended My Account (batin.sh)
400 points by stradiv on Aug 2, 2022 | 277 comments
24. Cat gap (wikipedia.org)
182 points by pxeger1 on July 31, 2022 | 48 comments
25. Capy – Cross-platform library for making native GUIs in Zig (github.com/capy-ui)
164 points by Sparkenstein on Aug 2, 2022 | 52 comments
26. AlphaFold's database grows over 200x to cover nearly all known proteins (wandb.ai)
152 points by OnlineInference on Aug 1, 2022 | 50 comments
27. The high-stakes race to engineer new psychedelic drugs (wired.com)
149 points by gtsnexp on July 31, 2022 | 186 comments
28. Launch HN: DeploySentinel (YC S22) – End-to-end tests that don't flake
56 points by mikeshi42 on Aug 2, 2022 | 36 comments
29. Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake (twitter.com/samczsun)
301 points by onion2k on Aug 2, 2022 | 334 comments
30. Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for the community (trino.io)
212 points by electrum on Aug 2, 2022 | 62 comments

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