HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (davidepiffer.com)

519 points by rzk 18 hours ago | 449 comments

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Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

441 points by randycupertino 20 hours ago | 321 comments

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Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (severe-weather.eu)

286 points by dgellow 17 hours ago | 178 comments

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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)

276 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 220 comments

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At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (smithsonianmag.com)

265 points by gmays 22 hours ago | 101 comments

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A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)

235 points by sensanaty 21 hours ago | 91 comments

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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

192 points by felixbraun 15 hours ago | 48 comments

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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)

189 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 123 comments

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A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms (nature.com)

177 points by jeffreyrogers 19 hours ago | 77 comments

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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history (horn.gg)

159 points by madrox 14 hours ago | 106 comments

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What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)

155 points by porridgeraisin 4 hours ago | 117 comments

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AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)

148 points by AnodicElegy 17 hours ago | 82 comments

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The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake (core77.com)

127 points by Bowes-Lyon 19 hours ago | 57 comments

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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (anthropic.com)

123 points by maxutility 10 hours ago | 73 comments

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Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves (bbc.com)

115 points by blondie9x 19 hours ago | 113 comments

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I Remain a Skeptic (blog.jsbarretto.com)

114 points by lproven 19 hours ago | 105 comments

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The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (404media.co)

110 points by Jimmc414 13 hours ago | 82 comments

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Cloudflare's AI Psychosis (opensauce.it)

109 points by gregzeng95 22 hours ago | 90 comments

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Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL (printytron.com)

89 points by statenjason 22 hours ago | 45 comments

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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (michael.stapelberg.ch)

87 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 32 comments

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The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (en.wikipedia.org)

85 points by firefax 14 hours ago | 21 comments

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Could a computer scientist build a brain? (stankerstjens.github.io)

84 points by ogundipeore 23 hours ago | 66 comments

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Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (spectrum.ieee.org)

72 points by Jimmc414 14 hours ago | 4 comments

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Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign (blog.thunderbird.net)

71 points by birdculture 18 hours ago | 24 comments

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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com)

71 points by schmorptron 17 hours ago | 11 comments

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The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up (sina.bio)

70 points by sinab 20 hours ago | 66 comments

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Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions (politico.com)

69 points by computerliker 17 hours ago | 30 comments

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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (tinkerings.org)

69 points by Eridanus2 11 hours ago | 19 comments

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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? (bbc.co.uk)

68 points by m-i-l 22 hours ago | 71 comments

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Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)

63 points by johnsillings 11 hours ago | 28 comments