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The Art of Lisp and Writing (dreamsongs.com)

42 points by Bogdanp 3h ago 5 comments

Q-learning is not yet scalable (seohong.me)

133 points by jxmorris12 9h ago 22 comments

CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide (signoz.io)

45 points by ankit01-oss 3d ago 10 comments

Infinite Grid of Resistors (mathpages.com)

163 points by niklasbuschmann 12h ago 67 comments

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch (github.com)

411 points by yousef_g 20h ago 69 comments

The Algebra of an Infinite Grid of Resistors (mathpages.com)

17 points by gone35 4h ago 2 comments

Breaking My Security Assignments (akpain.net)

48 points by surprisetalk 2d ago 8 comments

Dance Captcha (dance-captcha.vercel.app)

47 points by edwinarbus 2d ago 16 comments

Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway (techcrunch.com)

363 points by achristmascarl 2d ago 618 comments

Chicken Eyeglasses (en.wikipedia.org)

108 points by thomassmith65 4d ago 35 comments

AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios' (morethanmoore.substack.com)

80 points by rbanffy 13h ago 39 comments

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles (esa.int)

227 points by sohkamyung 3d ago 29 comments

Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) (righto.com)

147 points by zdw 18h ago 27 comments

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask” (news.mit.edu)

66 points by WithinReason 2d ago 42 comments

Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity (typesanitizer.com)

28 points by ingve 1d ago 5 comments

How multiplication is defined in Peano arithmetic (devlinsangle.blogspot.com)

14 points by nill0 1d ago 2 comments

Bioprospectors mine microbial genomes for antibiotic gold (cen.acs.org)

12 points by bryanrasmussen 3d ago 1 comments

Debunking HDR [video] (yedlin.net)

93 points by plastic3169 3d ago 49 comments

Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances (inria.hal.science)

196 points by teleforce 1d ago 61 comments

Cray versus Raspberry Pi (aardvark.co.nz)

106 points by flyingkiwi44 4d ago 79 comments

Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess (jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)

37 points by tibbar 10h ago 22 comments

Endometriosis is an interesting disease (owlposting.com)

356 points by crescit_eundo 1d ago 239 comments

Root Cause of the June 12, 2025 Google Cloud Outage (twitter.com)

19 points by thunderbong 3h ago 8 comments

The Many Sides of Erik Satie (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

149 points by anarbadalov 6d ago 32 comments

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016) (0x80.pl)

212 points by Rendello 1d ago 33 comments

Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models (arxiv.org)

128 points by kordlessagain 22h ago 18 comments

How to Build Conscious Machines (osf.io)

84 points by hardmaru 23h ago 90 comments

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short (garymarcus.substack.com)

292 points by spwestwood 14h ago 219 comments

TimeGuessr (timeguessr.com)

296 points by stefanpie 5d ago 58 comments

Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs (lwn.net)

84 points by jwilk 4d ago 15 comments

Clinical knowledge in LLMs does not translate to human interactions (arxiv.org)

87 points by insistent 12h ago 33 comments

Self-Adapting Language Models (arxiv.org)

218 points by archon1410 1d ago 70 comments

Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman (wvutoday.wvu.edu)

181 points by zafka 4d ago 139 comments

Sperm are very different from all other cells (bbc.com)

55 points by viewtransform 9h ago 39 comments

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation (math.stackexchange.com)

228 points by btilly 1d ago 119 comments

Flies grow their gyroscopes: Study reveals how flight stabilizers take shape (phys.org)

9 points by wglb 2d ago 1 comments

We investigated Amsterdam's attempt to build a 'fair' fraud detection model (lighthousereports.com)

73 points by troelsSteegin 2d ago 58 comments

How the Final Cartridge III Freezer Works (pagetable.com)

68 points by ingve 17h ago 15 comments

Iconic icons to showcase your skills (github.com)

27 points by Yuhesh 2d ago 15 comments

Implementing Logic Programming (btmc.substack.com)

194 points by sirwhinesalot 1d ago 59 comments

Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far (luu.io)

84 points by luuio 2d ago 62 comments

Solidroad (YC W25) Is Hiring (solidroad.com)

1 points by pjfin 22h ago 0 comments

Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask (github.com)

124 points by todsacerdoti 1d ago 14 comments

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) (joshworth.com)

871 points by sdoering 2d ago 252 comments

The international standard for identifying postal items (akpain.net)

112 points by surprisetalk 2d ago 25 comments

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure (tailscale.com)

1215 points by ingve 2d ago 498 comments

SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH (github.com)

107 points by thunderbong 18h ago 12 comments

Peeling the Covers Off Germany's Exascale "Jupiter" Supercomputer (nextplatform.com)

38 points by rbanffy 3d ago 4 comments

Beware the Intention Economy: Collection and Commodification of Intent via LLMs (hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu)

16 points by yoonseokang 16h ago 1 comments

Jemalloc Postmortem (jasone.github.io)

767 points by jasone 2d ago 231 comments

Ask HN: Did You Em Dash?

11 ramoz 4 6/13/2025, 10:05:02 PM didyouemdash.com ↗

Comments (4)

armchairhacker · 1d ago
I went through a phase where I used lots of em-dashes. Now I use lots of semicolons. If LLMs start using lots of semicolons I may be in trouble.
ramoz · 1d ago
Little app in response to the em dash identity crisis

Em dash of various forms:

https://didyouemdash.com/?username=pg

Actual em dash:

https://didyouemdash.com/?username=dang&strict=true

rednafi · 1d ago
Yes—and before AI slop started ruining writing for everyone.
JohnFen · 1d ago
Me too — and I'm not going to change the way I write because of genAI slop. GenAI is already ruining too much else.