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  1. Should we be positioned for Feudalism? (pracap.com)
    4 points 1
  2. How the Witch of November Doomed the 'Edmund Fitzgerald' (popsci.com)
    3 points 0
  3. No space, no time, no particles: a vision of quantum reality (newscientist.com)
    4 points 0
  4. Amazon reportedly plans up to 30k layoffs in one of tech's biggest job cuts (sfchronicle.com)
    3 points 1
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  6. The 1938 Experiment That Could Open the Door to a Nuclear Fusion Boom (oilprice.com)
    4 points 2
  7. Ask HN: Engineering hiring managers, what do you consider a good cover letter?

    I feel like my cover letters are uninteresting. Searching google for guidance just gets me templates and reddit flame wars. Was there a cover letter that stood out for you? Do you prefer longer or shorter letters? Thanks

    1 points 1
  8. Ask HN: Opinions on latest crop of "nootropic" compounds – TrkB agonist etc.?

    I know about 5 years ago Scott Alexander did a survey of nootropic compounds and found unsurprisingly that stimulants and caffeine were the only things that moved the needle when it came to learning and cognition. Now…

    1 points 0
  9. The Sigma BF Is Weird and I Love That About It (petapixel.com)
    2 points 1
  10. Prehistorically, as many as 19M acres burned in California [pdf] (waterboards.ca.gov)
    2 points 1
  11. Ask HN: Have any good self-hacks for finding motivation to start projects?

    I have a couple projects and self-improvement things I would like to start / continue on, but I find I'm lacking the motivation. I'm a bit high inertia, once I'm going on something I usually keep going, but getting…

    1 points 2
  12. Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?

    From what I gather, much of AI is gradient descent, which appear to be matrices of PDEs. I took calculus/linear algebra/PDEs decades ago, but remember little of it. Are there any resources for relearning the parts…

    10 points 6
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  14. Steve Bannon Sees the Future (nytimes.com)
    5 points 2
  15. The John Malkovich movie that will be released in 100 years (faroutmagazine.co.uk)
    3 points 3
  16. Tesla Model 3 vs. BYD Seal [video] (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  17. Stop Trying to Turn Film Cameras into Digital Cameras (2022) (casualphotophile.com)
    3 points 0
  18. Search pattern of plane searching for missing F-35 (old.reddit.com)
    2 points 0
  19. Target Knew a High School Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Parents Did (2012) (techland.time.com)
    15 points 1
  20. Ask HN: What was the Data Engineering book recently recommend in HN comments?

    There was a book that people in the comments seem to overwhelmingly recommend but I can no longer find. The bits I remember were it was written in 2017, possibly O'Reilly, maybe 375 pages long

    3 points 6
  21. The Big Fix – How the union's bosses rule by fraud and intimidation. (1999) (villagevoice.com)
    3 points 0
  22. Ask HN: What are some of the most impactful novel inventions in the past 20 yrs?

    Things that were completely new that had a big impact on society or science or medicine or technology.

    9 points 11
  23. How, Mathematically, We’re Fucked: Exponential growth on a finite planet (indica.medium.com)
    21 points 42
  24. An Inside Look at Covid’s Lasting Damage to the Lungs (nytimes.com)
    7 points 1
  25. Health effects associated with consumption of unprocessed red meat (2022) (healthdata.org)
    10 points 2