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Article URL: https://dwest.web.illinois.edu/grammar.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45039662

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https://dwest.web.illinois.edu/grammar.html

I wanted to briefly share my experience as a senior engineer with 15 years of experience trying to find work in this market, because it was exhausting for me and i'm sure others will appreciate the perspective.

As the title says, I have applied to over 450 positions. Most companies did not even send me a rejection. Ghost jobs are a thing, so are fake roles to get you to signup/join some rando job board.

I interviewed for a director of engineering role, and all interviews went well, but t

Article URL: https://everton.xyz/i-sat-down-with-werner-vogels/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071847

Points: 16

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https://everton.xyz/i-sat-down-with-werner-vogels/

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/science/synthid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071677

Points: 24

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https://deepmind.google/science/synthid/

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/accelerating-life-sciences-research-with-retro-biosciences/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071703

Points: 31

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https://openai.com/index/accelerating-life-sciences-research-with-retro-biosciences/

Article URL: https://keybara.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071838

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https://keybara.io

Article URL: https://vinithavn.medium.com/from-multi-head-to-latent-attention-the-evolution-of-attention-mechanisms-64e3c0505f24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072160

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Article URL: https://eli.li/to-the-surprise-of-literally-no-one-im-working-on-implementing-a-programming-language-all-my-own

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041744

Points: 35

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The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himself comes in number 2—by a very slim margin.

Credit to Claude Code for showing me how to search the HN database through Google BigQuery and for writing the HTML for the leaderboard.

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Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/rune-elmqvist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068548

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/rune-elmqvist