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LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 antirez.com \| points: 385 \| comments: 249

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After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video] youtube.com \| points: 334 \| comments: 114

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A Canadian payroll dependency chart daemonology.net \| points: 268 \| comments: 231

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What I’ve learned about flow fields so far damoonrashidi.me \| points: 241 \| comments: 43

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) news.ycombinator.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 165

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uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results github.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 83

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New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC) hydrogenaud.io \| points: 206 \| comments: 146

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The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023 updown.io \| points: 175 \| comments: 80

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PyPy has moved to Git, GitHub pypy.org \| points: 166 \| comments: 72

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