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)

536 points by rzk 21 hours ago | 463 comments

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

453 points by randycupertino 23 hours ago | 347 comments

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

339 points by dgellow 19 hours ago | 229 comments

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

300 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago | 257 comments

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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)

241 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 149 comments

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

223 points by felixbraun 18 hours ago | 54 comments

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

211 points by porridgeraisin 7 hours ago | 183 comments

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

185 points by jeffreyrogers 22 hours ago | 79 comments

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

165 points by madrox 17 hours ago | 108 comments

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

163 points by AnodicElegy 20 hours ago | 84 comments

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Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)

162 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 70 comments

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

157 points by maxutility 13 hours ago | 107 comments

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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)

135 points by Alifatisk 2 hours ago | 56 comments

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

131 points by Bowes-Lyon 22 hours ago | 57 comments

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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)

125 points by pentagrama 2 hours ago | 39 comments

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I Remain a Skeptic (blog.jsbarretto.com)

118 points by lproven 22 hours ago | 114 comments

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

116 points by blondie9x 21 hours ago | 121 comments

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

114 points by Jimmc414 16 hours ago | 83 comments

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

106 points by ingve 17 hours ago | 38 comments

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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)

89 points by Eridanus2 13 hours ago | 22 comments

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

89 points by firefax 17 hours ago | 22 comments

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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com)

77 points by schmorptron 20 hours ago | 12 comments

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The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (politico.com)

75 points by hebelehubele 9 hours ago | 50 comments

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Banned Words List (pen.org)

75 points by structuredPizza 2 hours ago | 38 comments

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

72 points by johnsillings 14 hours ago | 33 comments

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

72 points by computerliker 19 hours ago | 30 comments

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

72 points by birdculture 21 hours ago | 25 comments

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

72 points by Jimmc414 17 hours ago | 4 comments

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

70 points by sinab 23 hours ago | 68 comments

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Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

65 points by antipurist 4 hours ago | 92 comments