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1.School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study (york.ac.uk)
1014 points by jonatron on Dec 14, 2024 | 679 comments
2.A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b) (futilitycloset.com)
731 points by beardyw on Dec 15, 2024 | 192 comments
3.Map of GitHub (github.com/anvaka)
717 points by vortex_ape on Dec 15, 2024 | 102 comments
4.Preferring throwaway code over design docs (softwaredoug.com)
327 points by softwaredoug on Dec 14, 2024 | 172 comments
5.SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer (github.com/janneuendorf)
207 points by thunderbong on Dec 15, 2024 | 62 comments
6.Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) (andrewkchan.dev)
344 points by homarp on Dec 14, 2024 | 57 comments
7.Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions (yottanami.com)
215 points by yottanami on Dec 14, 2024 | 56 comments
8.Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app (washingtonpost.com)
225 points by bookofjoe on Dec 11, 2024 | 68 comments
9.Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game (steviep.xyz)
268 points by scyclow on Dec 15, 2024 | 89 comments
10.Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance (railgunlabs.com)
117 points by hgs3 on Dec 15, 2024 | 48 comments
11.Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups (irrationalanalysis.substack.com)
224 points by zdw on Dec 15, 2024 | 124 comments
12.Crystal Ball Trading Game (elmwealth.com)
254 points by EvgeniyZh on Dec 15, 2024 | 154 comments
13.Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform (eatingpolicy.com)
159 points by rmason on Dec 14, 2024 | 301 comments
14.Maximum likelihood estimation and loss functions (rish-01.github.io)
119 points by snprajwal on Dec 15, 2024 | 31 comments
15.The First 50M Prime Numbers (1975) [pdf] (mpg.de)
93 points by quickfox on Dec 15, 2024 | 39 comments
16.Dumb TVs deserve a comeback (makeuseof.com)
382 points by znpy on Dec 15, 2024 | 439 comments
17.Vercel/fun: ƒun – Local serverless function λ development runtime (github.com/vercel)
77 points by Onavo on Dec 13, 2024 | 25 comments
18.The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio (leancrew.com)
162 points by aebtebeten on Dec 15, 2024 | 45 comments
19.Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars? (milescole.dev)
169 points by RobinL on Dec 14, 2024 | 114 comments
20.Computing Inside an AI (willwhitney.com)
117 points by pongogogo on Dec 14, 2024 | 68 comments
21.In-Depth Ruby Concurrency: Navigating the Ruby Concurrency Landscape (jpcamara.com)
166 points by chmaynard on Dec 15, 2024 | 17 comments
22.Llama.cpp Now Supports Qwen2-VL (Vision Language Model) (github.com/ggerganov)
155 points by BUFU on Dec 14, 2024 | 50 comments
23.Best-of-N Jailbreaking (arxiv.org)
68 points by flyingpumba on Dec 14, 2024 | 15 comments
24.Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
315 points by leros on Dec 15, 2024 | 146 comments
25.Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight (boydrinksink.com)
128 points by jim-jim-jim on Dec 13, 2024 | 87 comments
26.Programmers want flow. When programming, light turns red (scannedinavian.com)
98 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 13, 2024 | 68 comments
27.Program Synthesis and Large Language Models (acm.org)
74 points by ChristofferSN on Dec 12, 2024 | 29 comments
28.A journey of optimization of cloud-based geospatial data processing (terrafloww.com)
28 points by BrainBuzzer on Dec 13, 2024 | 13 comments
29.Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging (owlposting.com)
66 points by abhishaike on Dec 12, 2024 | 11 comments
30.Isomorphic Web Components (jakelazaroff.com)
91 points by Fudgel on Dec 14, 2024 | 48 comments

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