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1.		The collapse of the econ PhD job market (chrisbrunet.com)
		190 points by Ozarkian 1 day ago \| 302 comments
2.		The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows (nicolasbustamante.com)
		284 points by nbstme 3 days ago \| 178 comments
3.		Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations (abuseofnotation.github.io)
		216 points by boris_m 3 days ago \| 82 comments
4.		Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining (si.inc)
		408 points by nee1r 3 days ago \| 273 comments
5.		Announcing Tinker (thinkingmachines.ai)
		150 points by pr337h4m 3 days ago \| 89 comments
6.		More Speculations on Arenas in C++ (nullprogram.com)
		8 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago \| discuss
7.		Show HN: WebRTC LAN Baby Monitor for iOS and iPadOS (apps.apple.com)
		52 points by ryan-a 5 days ago \| 12 comments
8.		Show HN: Automatically set real iOS alarms for calendar events (apps.apple.com)
		26 points by jiffydiffy 6 days ago \| 13 comments
9.		Extract-0: A specialized language model for document information extraction (arxiv.org)
		195 points by henriquegodoy 4 days ago \| 58 comments
10.		How has mathematics gotten so abstract? (lcamtuf.substack.com)
		138 points by thadt 4 days ago \| 206 comments
11.		Deml: Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language (github.com/mcmartelle)
		73 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago \| 9 comments
12.		Dgsh – Directed graph shell (aueb.gr)
		157 points by pabs3 4 days ago \| 60 comments
13.		DeepSeek-v3.2-Exp (github.com/deepseek-ai)
		307 points by meetpateltech 5 days ago \| 50 comments
14.		We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4 (modal.com)
		134 points by birdculture 7 days ago \| 48 comments
15.		A fast, strong, topologically meaningful and fun knot invariant (arxiv.org)
		52 points by bikenaga 9 days ago \| 7 comments
16.		Game over for pure LLMs. Even Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus (garymarcus.substack.com)
		76 points by zdw 8 days ago \| 47 comments
17.		How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets (riskvest.io)
		144 points by rrjjww 8 days ago \| 42 comments
18.		TopoLang: An Esolang Based on Topological Pattern Matching (github.com/tneukom)
		7 points by akkartik 9 days ago \| 1 comment
19.		ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps (metalhearf.fr)
		1100 points by Metalhearf 9 days ago \| 630 comments
20.		Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners (video-zero-shot.github.io)
		104 points by meetpateltech 9 days ago \| 17 comments
21.		Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly (mathstodon.xyz)
		1060 points by bertman 10 days ago \| 565 comments
22.		Is life a form of computation? (mitpress.mit.edu)
		222 points by redeemed 11 days ago \| 143 comments
23.		Obscure feature + obscure feature + obscure feature = compiler bug (antithesis.com)
		33 points by jonstewart 14 days ago \| 10 comments
24.		Markov chains are the original language models (elijahpotter.dev)
		452 points by chilipepperhott 15 days ago \| 174 comments
25.		A Generalized Algebraic Theory of Directed Equality (jacobneu.phd)
		63 points by matt_d 16 days ago \| 26 comments
26.		Claude can sometimes prove it (galois.com)
		219 points by lairv 17 days ago \| 69 comments
27.		Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces (weberdominik.com)
		353 points by domysee 18 days ago \| 179 comments
28.		Keeping SSH sessions alive with systemd-inhibit (kd8bny.com)
		65 points by kd8bny 19 days ago \| 19 comments
29.		Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey (connorboyle.io)
		95 points by signa11 16 days ago \| 33 comments
30.		Automatic differentiation can be incorrect (stochasticlifestyle.com)
		74 points by abetusk 16 days ago \| 51 comments
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