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1.		“It turns out” (2010) (jsomers.net)
		327 points by Munksgaard 4 days ago \| 91 comments
2.		Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024) (infinitelymore.xyz)
		246 points by FillMaths 26 days ago \| 377 comments
3.		We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
		824 points by ColinWright 29 days ago \| 869 comments
4.		'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) (theatlantic.com)
		210 points by BoorishBears 45 days ago \| 165 comments
5.		Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (smartere.dk)
		752 points by mchro 55 days ago \| 418 comments
6.		How will the miracle happen today? (kk.org)
		542 points by zdw 63 days ago \| 276 comments
7.		Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina (bbc.com)
		152 points by rmason 67 days ago \| 51 comments
8.		The universal weight subspace hypothesis (arxiv.org)
		358 points by lukeplato 3 months ago \| 132 comments
9.		210 IQ Is Not Enough (taylor.town)
		177 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago \| 279 comments
10.		Where do the children play? (unpublishablepapers.substack.com)
		409 points by casca 3 months ago \| 256 comments
11.		Scripts I wrote that I use all the time (evanhahn.com)
		1341 points by speckx 4 months ago \| 389 comments
12.		The day Return became Enter (2023) (aresluna.org)
		345 points by sohkamyung 6 months ago \| 176 comments
13.		What is going on right now? (catskull.net)
		378 points by todsacerdoti 6 months ago \| 317 comments
14.		Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness (slashdot.org)
		951 points by MilnerRoute 6 months ago \| 623 comments
15.		Death by AI (davebarry.substack.com)
		583 points by ano-ther 7 months ago \| 215 comments
16.		LLM Inevitabilism (tomrenner.com)
		1773 points by SwoopsFromAbove 7 months ago \| 1628 comments
17.		Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?
		89 points by pedrodelfino 8 months ago \| 62 comments
18.		Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)
		551 points by drankl 8 months ago \| 498 comments
19.		The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering (philschmid.de)
		915 points by robotswantdata 8 months ago \| 518 comments
20.		The cultural decline of literary fiction (oyyy.substack.com)
		214 points by libraryofbabel 8 months ago \| 405 comments
21.		Projective Geometric Algebra Done Right (terathon.com)
		137 points by erichocean on Jan 24, 2020 \| 25 comments
22.		Square Theory (aaronson.org)
		750 points by aaaronson 9 months ago \| 138 comments
23.		Owls in Towels (owlsintowels.org)
		770 points by schaum 9 months ago \| 98 comments
24.		Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023) (chomsky.info)
		286 points by mef 9 months ago \| 359 comments
25.		My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) (lfe.pt)
		195 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago \| 54 comments
26.		My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023) (lisyarus.github.io)
		675 points by atan2 on March 8, 2024 \| 378 comments
27.		The average college student today (hilariusbookbinder.substack.com)
		777 points by Jyaif 11 months ago \| 984 comments
28.		Has the decline of knowledge work begun? (nytimes.com)
		388 points by pseudolus 11 months ago \| 793 comments
29.		Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
		825 points by akanet on Feb 20, 2025 \| 193 comments
30.		Ask HN: What's the best implementation of Conway's Game of Life?
		107 points by jakemanger on Feb 12, 2025 \| 94 comments
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