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)

505 points by rzk 16 hours ago | 425 comments

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

433 points by randycupertino 18 hours ago | 304 comments

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

422 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 91 comments

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

267 points by theanonymousone 13 hours ago | 204 comments

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

258 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 95 comments

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

253 points by dgellow 15 hours ago | 154 comments

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A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)

230 points by sensanaty 20 hours ago | 86 comments

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

180 points by felixbraun 13 hours ago | 46 comments

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

175 points by jeffreyrogers 18 hours ago | 75 comments

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

157 points by madrox 12 hours ago | 103 comments

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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)

155 points by ingve 12 hours ago | 96 comments

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

143 points by AnodicElegy 15 hours ago | 76 comments

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

124 points by Bowes-Lyon 17 hours ago | 57 comments

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

123 points by porridgeraisin 3 hours ago | 82 comments

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

113 points by blondie9x 17 hours ago | 110 comments

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I Remain a Skeptic (blog.jsbarretto.com)

112 points by lproven 18 hours ago | 100 comments

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Cloudflare's AI Psychosis (opensauce.it)

109 points by gregzeng95 20 hours ago | 90 comments

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

109 points by Jimmc414 12 hours ago | 79 comments

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

95 points by maxutility 8 hours ago | 41 comments

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

88 points by statenjason 20 hours ago | 42 comments

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

84 points by firefax 13 hours ago | 20 comments

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

83 points by ogundipeore 21 hours ago | 65 comments

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

77 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 29 comments

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

71 points by birdculture 16 hours ago | 23 comments

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

70 points by sinab 18 hours ago | 66 comments

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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com)

70 points by schmorptron 16 hours ago | 11 comments

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

70 points by Jimmc414 13 hours ago | 4 comments

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

68 points by m-i-l 20 hours ago | 70 comments

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

68 points by computerliker 15 hours ago | 27 comments

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The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (breck.lol)

62 points by cjlm 6 hours ago | 18 comments