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991.

Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup (duplicity.us)

143 points by GTP on Jan 24, 2024 | 101 comments

992.

How a baker survived the Titanic by getting drunk (2022) (nationalpost.com)

143 points by b0ner_t0ner on Jan 21, 2024 | 99 comments

993.

Why Prince Changed His Name to an Symbol 30 Years Ago, and What Happened Next (variety.com)

143 points by thunderbong on Jan 10, 2024 | 97 comments

994.

Why use strace in 2023? [video] (media.ccc.de)

143 points by r4um on Jan 8, 2024 | 92 comments

995.

Origins of J (github.com)

143 points by tosh on Jan 4, 2024 | 72 comments

996.

How different languages laugh online (restofworld.org)

143 points by justanotherdot on Jan 20, 2024 | 61 comments

997.

TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model (arxiv.org)

143 points by matt1 on Jan 5, 2024 | 44 comments

998.

The Beirut Port Explosion Forensic Investigation (2020) (forensic-architecture.org)

143 points by throwup238 on Jan 23, 2024 | 24 comments

999.

Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training (arxiv.org)

143 points by mfiguiere on Jan 12, 2024 | 17 comments

1000.

The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy? (physiqonomics.com)

142 points by paulpauper on Jan 10, 2024 | 276 comments

1001.

Paradise Lost (1667) (milton.host.dartmouth.edu)

142 points by Frummy on Jan 5, 2024 | 55 comments

1002.

Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

142 points by rasbt on Jan 14, 2024 | 11 comments

1003.

30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland (bristol.ac.uk)

141 points by clouddrover on Jan 4, 2024 | 117 comments

1004.

First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power (newscientist.com)

141 points by rmason on Jan 6, 2024 | 116 comments

1005.

X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation (vice.com)

141 points by greenie_beans on Jan 9, 2024 | 98 comments

1006.

Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in 'company reset' continuation (reuters.com)

141 points by nycdatasci on Jan 8, 2024 | 94 comments

1007.

A Guide for Prospective Tea Monks (peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com)

141 points by edward on Jan 8, 2024 | 49 comments

1008.

Crusty, the Indestructible Mac (geocities.ws)

141 points by reaperducer on Jan 25, 2024 | 42 comments

1009.

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] (ias.edu)

141 points by jkuria on Jan 6, 2024 | 41 comments

1010.

Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators (the74million.org)

140 points by andygcook on Jan 20, 2024 | 198 comments

1011.

NASA selects a plan to "swarm" Proxima Centauri with tiny probes (sciencealert.com)

140 points by Brajeshwar on Jan 10, 2024 | 133 comments

1012.

John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000) (amnh.org)

140 points by mikequinlan on Jan 13, 2024 | 99 comments

1013.

k on pdp11 (ktye.github.io)

140 points by tosh on Jan 8, 2024 | 91 comments

1014.

Surveillance-by-Design in Proposed Amendments to the UK Investigatory Powers Act (lawfaremedia.org)

140 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 19, 2024 | 56 comments

1015.

Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection (lostfilearchives.github.io)

140 points by davikr on Jan 28, 2024 | 30 comments

1016.

The Biggest Smallest PNG (belkadan.com)

140 points by ingve on Jan 8, 2024 | 11 comments

1017.

Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead (riotgames.com)

139 points by raydev on Jan 22, 2024 | 165 comments

1018.

There has never been a better time to game on Linux (tildes.net)

139 points by PaulHoule on Jan 12, 2024 | 111 comments

1019.

Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality (oneusefulthing.org)

139 points by CharlesW on Jan 16, 2024 | 105 comments

1020.

Z – Jump around (github.com)

139 points by lovestaco on Jan 15, 2024 | 75 comments