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)

448 points by rzk 10 hours ago | 389 comments

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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (sankalp.bearblog.dev)

410 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 90 comments

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

382 points by randycupertino 12 hours ago | 267 comments

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Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding (allen.bargi.org)

286 points by allenb 17 hours ago | 185 comments

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

235 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 82 comments

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

199 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 143 comments

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A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)

195 points by sensanaty 13 hours ago | 65 comments

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

162 points by jeffreyrogers 11 hours ago | 75 comments

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

147 points by madrox 6 hours ago | 99 comments

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

130 points by dgellow 9 hours ago | 74 comments

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

117 points by Bowes-Lyon 11 hours ago | 54 comments

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

116 points by AnodicElegy 9 hours ago | 59 comments

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Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)

115 points by chatchan 23 hours ago | 53 comments

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

115 points by felixbraun 7 hours ago | 28 comments

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Cloudflare's AI Psychosis (opensauce.it)

106 points by gregzeng95 14 hours ago | 88 comments

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

103 points by blondie9x 11 hours ago | 94 comments

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

97 points by Jimmc414 5 hours ago | 75 comments

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I Remain a Skeptic (blog.jsbarretto.com)

96 points by lproven 11 hours ago | 78 comments

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Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (uecker.codeberg.page)

89 points by uecker 20 hours ago | 45 comments

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

83 points by ogundipeore 15 hours ago | 61 comments

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

80 points by firefax 6 hours ago | 19 comments

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Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

78 points by simonebrunozzi 22 hours ago | 131 comments

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

78 points by statenjason 14 hours ago | 35 comments

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Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case (arstechnica.com)

76 points by jnord 21 hours ago | 56 comments

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

68 points by sinab 12 hours ago | 66 comments

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

66 points by m-i-l 14 hours ago | 70 comments

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Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions (lists.debian.org)