📰 Today's Top 23 Hacker News Stories (Sorted by Score) 📰
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🔖 Title: A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
🔗 URL: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/12/15/tidy-2/
👍 Score: [316]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423409
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🔖 Title: When a Crystal Ball Isn't Enough to Make You Rich
🔗 URL: https://elmwealth.com/crystal-ball/
👍 Score: [210]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42422077
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🔖 Title: Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups
🔗 URL: https://irrationalanalysis.substack.com/p/tenstorrent-and-the-state-of-ai-hardware
👍 Score: [201]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42421157
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🔖 Title: In-Depth Ruby Concurrency: Navigating the Ruby Concurrency Landscape
🔗 URL: https://jpcamara.com/2024/12/14/my-rubyconf-talk.html
👍 Score: [122]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42422942
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🔖 Title: SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer
🔗 URL: https://github.com/JanNeuendorf/SVC16
👍 Score: [107]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424370
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🔖 Title: Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game
🔗 URL: https://smarthome.steviep.xyz
👍 Score: [81]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424508
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🔖 Title: Preferring throwaway code over design docs
🔗 URL: https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/12/14/throwaway-prs-not-design-docs
👍 Score: [59]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42417478
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🔖 Title: Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)
🔗 URL: https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/yalm.html
👍 Score: [56]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42417857
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🔖 Title: Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance
🔗 URL: https://railgunlabs.com/unicorn/
👍 Score: [49]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423988
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🔖 Title: Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?
🔗 URL: https://milescole.dev/data-engineering/2024/12/12/Should-You-Ditch-Spark-DuckDB-Polars.html
👍 Score: [38]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419224
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🔖 Title: Isomorphic Web Components
🔗 URL: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/isomorphic-web-components/
👍 Score: [33]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415298
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🔖 Title: Animals as Chemical Factories
🔗 URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/animals-as-chemical-factories/
👍 Score: [25]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411655
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🔖 Title: Program Synthesis and Large Language Models
🔗 URL: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/on-program-synthesis-and-large-language-models/
👍 Score: [24]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42397478
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🔖 Title: Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in Plain Sight
🔗 URL: https://boydrinksink.com/eyes-wide-shut-hidden-in-plain-sight
👍 Score: [23]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42406063
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🔖 Title: Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)
🔗 URL: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1868368310024462791
👍 Score: [19]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425348
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🔖 Title: The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio
🔗 URL: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/12/the-antikythera-mechanism/
👍 Score: [18]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425139
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🔖 Title: Reflections on building with Model Context Protocol
🔗 URL: https://outlore.dev/blog/model-context-protocol/
👍 Score: [14]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415654
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🔖 Title: Why Dumb TVs Deserve a Comeback
🔗 URL: https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-why-dumb-tvs-deserve-a-comeback/
👍 Score: [12]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425398
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🔖 Title: Programmers want flow. when programming, light turns RED
🔗 URL: https://www.scannedinavian.com/programmers-want-flow-when-programming-light-turns-red.html
👍 Score: [11]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42405364
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🔖 Title: Proof of Concept showcasing WASM program access files outside node:wasi's dir
🔗 URL: https://github.com/humodz/node-wasi-preopens-escape
👍 Score: [10]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424597
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🔖 Title: Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
🔗 URL: https://thebaffler.com/latest/kicking-an-open-door-robbins
👍 Score: [9]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42421387
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