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)

533 points by rzk 20 hours ago | 458 comments

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

448 points by randycupertino 22 hours ago | 336 comments

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

315 points by dgellow 18 hours ago | 205 comments

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

294 points by theanonymousone 17 hours ago | 247 comments

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A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)

245 points by sensanaty 23 hours ago | 97 comments

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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)

220 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 142 comments

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

210 points by felixbraun 17 hours ago | 50 comments

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

192 points by porridgeraisin 6 hours ago | 157 comments

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

183 points by jeffreyrogers 21 hours ago | 79 comments

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

163 points by madrox 16 hours ago | 106 comments

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

158 points by AnodicElegy 19 hours ago | 84 comments

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

147 points by maxutility 12 hours ago | 102 comments

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

129 points by Bowes-Lyon 21 hours ago | 57 comments

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I Remain a Skeptic (blog.jsbarretto.com)

118 points by lproven 21 hours ago | 112 comments

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

116 points by blondie9x 20 hours ago | 117 comments

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

112 points by Jimmc414 15 hours ago | 82 comments

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

98 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 38 comments

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

90 points by statenjason 23 hours ago | 45 comments

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

88 points by firefax 16 hours ago | 21 comments

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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (tinkerings.org)

82 points by Eridanus2 12 hours ago | 20 comments

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Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)

76 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 31 comments

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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com)

74 points by schmorptron 19 hours ago | 11 comments

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

72 points by hebelehubele 8 hours ago | 42 comments

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

72 points by birdculture 20 hours ago | 25 comments

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

72 points by Jimmc414 16 hours ago | 4 comments

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

70 points by sinab 22 hours ago | 67 comments

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

69 points by computerliker 18 hours ago | 30 comments

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

69 points by johnsillings 13 hours ago | 29 comments

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

66 points by Alifatisk 1 hour ago | 29 comments

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

62 points by antipurist 3 hours ago | 87 comments