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  1. The First Nolan Movie: The Odyssey and the world after men change it(firstrand.co.za ↗)
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  2. The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates(reason.com ↗)
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  4. Open-source AI PR reviewer that helps you ship(nitpicker.dev ↗)
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  5. An Agent's Breath. The Heart Beats by Itself, Breathing Is a Choice(piotrzientara.pl ↗)
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  6. If you are browsing in Chrome / Firefox in desktop you should try this extension(chromewebstore.google.com ↗)
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  8. Ternary-Bonsai-8B-Gguf(huggingface.co ↗)
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  9. How Efficient Is Each Type of EV Charger? (2024)(insideevs.com ↗)
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  10. Show Your Work(jagasantagostino.com ↗)
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  11. Tactile controls in a digital world (2024)(jenson.org ↗)
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  12. Ask HN: What to focus on in this age of AI
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  13. If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right(i-kh.net ↗)
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  14. Humans Are the Only Real Agents(aboard.com ↗)
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  15. velocity content marketing(briefiq.io ↗)
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  16. The Ma of a New Machine(jenson.org ↗)
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  17. Germany's green developers hit a wall: Insolvencies, tighter credit(briefs.co ↗)
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  18. Apache Cassandra 6 Accord transactions: What you need to know(instaclustr.com ↗)
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  19. Underclass: An OpenAI-compatible pooling proxy that pins sessions to one account(github.com/ghuntley ↗)
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  20. Romanian Crime Rings Are Draining U.S. Welfare Accounts(wsj.com ↗)
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  21. Scott Jenson: Are we going to use the same Desktop UX forever? [video](youtube.com ↗)
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  22. Post Messages via Get(swarmmemo.com ↗)
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  23. Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)(science.org ↗)
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  24. DQuic: Extending QUIC for P2P and Multipath Transport(dhttp.net ↗)
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  25. Ask HN: If frontier models were free, would we produce better or worse software?
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  26. I'm Tired of the AI Tone(sagivo.com ↗)
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  27. The Many Faces of Information Geometry [2023](chinougea.medium.com ↗)
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  28. Fastest Coding Agent (5x faster than Codex)(cotyper.com ↗)
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  29. Do you need a technical cofounder?(ivelum.com ↗)
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  30. A MySQL plugin that filters rows by meaning (built on TypeSafe Jev)(github.com/maayanlevy ↗)
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Ask HN: If frontier models were free, would we produce better or worse software?

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I was thinking about how AI has changed the way we contribute to open source. If everything were free, would we end up creating better or worse software overall? Would fragmentation be too high to be able to distribute anything?
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