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  1. The paper computer (jsomers.net)
    291 points 58
  2. Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (blog.janestreet.com)
    317 points 15
  3. A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (2023) (newyorker.com)
    2 points 0
  4. I design with Claude more than Figma now (blog.janestreet.com)
    1 points 1
  5. A coder considers the waning days of the craft (2023) (newyorker.com)
    2 points 0
  6. The Case That A.I. Is Thinking (newyorker.com)
    5 points 3
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  8. The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction (jsomers.net)
    199 points 31
  9. Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

    I’ve long thought that the Word of the Day was a wasted genre. The goal should be to give you words you can use; to enrich your understanding of words you already know; or at least to use words to tell you something…

    82 points 21
  10. An experiment that turned back biological time (nehalslearnings.substack.com)
    31 points 2
  11. Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction] (jsomers.net)

    I thought the HN crowd would appreciate this story I wrote about the keeper of a university's lab animals. In reporting articles about science, and being a biology-watcher generally, I’ve had an uneasy time squaring my…

    71 points 20
  12. I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any doc's keystrokes (2014) (features.jsomers.net)
    1 points 1
  13. A Revolution in How Robots Learn (newyorker.com)
    82 points 23
  14. The Coming Software Apocalypse (2017) (theatlantic.com)
    3 points 0
  15. The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis (jsomers.net)
    511 points 224
  16. More people should write (2012) (jsomers.net)
    160 points 87
  17. A coder considers the waning days of the craft (newyorker.com)
    778 points 1129
  18. A poet’s guide to product management – Jane Street podcast (signalsandthreads.com)
    4 points 0
  19. Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off due to software bug (adn.com)
    3 points 1
  20. “Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session (blog.janestreet.com)
    138 points 92
  21. An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020) (robinsloan.com)
    186 points 52
  22. A Journey to the Center of Our Cells (newyorker.com)
    2 points 0
  23. Snow Science Against the Avalanche (2020) (newyorker.com)
    18 points 13
  24. The quest to build a general-purpose thought decoder (newyorker.com)
    95 points 37
  25. Should we cool it with the historical present? (jsomers.net)
    2 points 0