How to be a -10x Engineer — System76 Open Firmware — and Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO

Issue #1092 — April 05, 2023

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How to be a -10x Engineer taylor.town \| points: 654 \| comments: 418

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System76 Open Firmware github.com \| points: 394 \| comments: 73

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Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO nato.int \| points: 365 \| comments: 439

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Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died dicebreaker.com \| points: 332 \| comments: 61

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Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy petapixel.com \| points: 329 \| comments: 66

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Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud biorxiv.org \| points: 319 \| comments: 190

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Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 315 \| comments: 754

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Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94 news.ycombinator.com \| points: 306 \| comments: 160

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Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive twitter.com \| points: 296 \| comments: 160

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Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI github.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 142

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Circuit.js – Electronic circuit simulator on the web lushprojects.com \| points: 267 \| comments: 49

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State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights twitter.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 128

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Even if you can’t write assembly, you can read disassembly wordsandbuttons.online \| points: 249 \| comments: 122

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An LLM playground you can run on your laptop github.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 53

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If parrots can talk, why can’t monkeys? english.elpais.com \| points: 226 \| comments: 194

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The electric vehicles we need now are e-bikes (2022) bloomberg.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 238

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Sugihara’s Dog twitter.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 21

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How to pack a stereo signal in one record groove vinylrecorder.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 73

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We need a more sophisticated debate about AI ft.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 432

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Stanford just released a 386-page report on the state of AI twitter.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 106

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