Happy New Year 2025
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562750
Hacker News 100
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The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)
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Bloomberg.com
The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for t...
The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018) | Hacker News
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know
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Quanta Magazine
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’...
What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know | Hacker News
Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-government-4-day-workweek-intl-hnk/index.html
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Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees | Hacker News
Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03817-0
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Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite | Hacker News
Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival
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CNBC
Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival
Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research...
Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic | Hacker News
WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208964
arXiv.org
WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition
Integrating named entity recognition (NER) with automatic speech recognition (ASR) can significantly enhance transcription accuracy and informative...
Emacs Code Conversion Language
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Emacs Ninja - Code Conversion Language
Code Conversion Language (2019) | Hacker News
Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems
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SecurityWeek
Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems
Apple rushes out out major macOS and iOS security updates to cover a pair of vulnerabilities already being exploited in the wild.
Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems | Hacker News
Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713
Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)
Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes
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Apple Support
Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes
On iPhone, you can use Eye Tracking to control your device with the movement of your eyes.
Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes | Hacker News
Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
Link: https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/fulltext/2023/02000/a_short_history_of_saturated_fat__the_making_and.10.aspx
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957637
USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas
Link: https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/unlocking-arkansas-hidden-treasure-usgs-uses-machine-learning-show-large
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916322
Don't Publish with IEEE
Link: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html
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Don't Publish with IEEE (2005) | Hacker News
Why pay for a search engine
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The real cost of "free" search | Kagi's Docs
Kagi Search Help
Why pay for a search engine | Hacker News
America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs
Link: https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/plumbers-hvac-skilled-trades-millionaires-2b62bf6c
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America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs | Hacker News
Leonard Cohen: The Anti-Rock Star
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594510
The Atlantic
The Anti–Rock Star
Leonard Cohen’s battle against shameless male egoism