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)

473 points by rzk 12 hours ago | 406 comments

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

415 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 91 comments

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

408 points by randycupertino 15 hours ago | 284 comments

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

296 points by allenb 20 hours ago | 188 comments

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

248 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 86 comments

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

229 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 168 comments

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A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)

209 points by sensanaty 16 hours ago | 71 comments

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

181 points by dgellow 11 hours ago | 99 comments

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

166 points by jeffreyrogers 14 hours ago | 78 comments

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

152 points by madrox 9 hours ago | 102 comments

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

149 points by felixbraun 10 hours ago | 34 comments

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

129 points by AnodicElegy 11 hours ago | 66 comments

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

121 points by Bowes-Lyon 14 hours ago | 55 comments

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

108 points by blondie9x 13 hours ago | 98 comments

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Cloudflare's AI Psychosis (opensauce.it)

107 points by gregzeng95 17 hours ago | 90 comments

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I Remain a Skeptic (blog.jsbarretto.com)

105 points by lproven 14 hours ago | 91 comments

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

104 points by Jimmc414 8 hours ago | 77 comments

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

92 points by uecker 23 hours ago | 45 comments

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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)

88 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 26 comments

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

83 points by ogundipeore 17 hours ago | 63 comments

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

81 points by statenjason 16 hours ago | 36 comments

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

81 points by firefax 9 hours ago | 19 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 23 hours ago | 56 comments

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

71 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 22 comments

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

69 points by sinab 15 hours ago | 66 comments

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

68 points by Jimmc414 9 hours ago | 4 comments

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

67 points by m-i-l 16 hours ago | 70 comments

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