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Ben Lerner's Big Feelings
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vulture.com
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| 10 points by
prismatic
1 hour ago
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Vercel April 2026 security incident
(
bleepingcomputer.com
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| 689 points by
colesantiago
16 hours ago
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Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)
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stripe.dev
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| 5 points by
tibbar
1 hour ago
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A Brief History of Fish Sauce
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legalnomads.com
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| 159 points by
vinhnx
9 hours ago
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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
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simonwillison.net
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| 63 points by
twapi
5 hours ago
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Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
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rolfmore.com
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| 148 points by
walterbell
10 hours ago
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The Bromine Chokepoint
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warontherocks.com
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| 189 points by
crescit_eundo
13 hours ago
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Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age
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phys.org
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| 29 points by
pseudolus
4 hours ago
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Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust
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medium.com
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×1.79
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| 19 points by
PaulHoule
3 hours ago
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Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
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sheets.works
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| 90 points by
akashwadhwani35
8 hours ago
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Knitout and Kniterate 3
(
agnescameron.info
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| 12 points by
surprisetalk
2 hours ago
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Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
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pcgamer.com
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| 194 points by
Brajeshwar
15 hours ago
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167 comments
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Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
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github.com/shivampkumar
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| 140 points by
shivampkumar
6 hours ago
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A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)
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github.com/esutcu
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| 22 points by
debugga
3 hours ago
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6 comments
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Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
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simonwillison.net
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| 279 points by
pretext
20 hours ago
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Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
(
swiss-ai.org
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| 51 points by
doener
7 hours ago
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2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
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mxmap.ch
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| 137 points by
doener
7 hours ago
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Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
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sciencedetective.org
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| 82 points by
jruohonen
11 hours ago
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The RAM shortage could last years
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theverge.com
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| 263 points by
omer_k
23 hours ago
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Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents
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browser-use.com
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| 86 points by
lukasec
11 hours ago
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Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)
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cssence.com
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| 71 points by
Akcium
12 hours ago
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Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage
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juanpabloaj.com
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juanpabloaj
6 hours ago
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6 comments
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I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language
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github.com/navid-m
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| 64 points by
pizza_man
11 hours ago
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15 comments
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Sudo for Windows (2024)
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github.com/microsoft
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| 64 points by
luispa
6 hours ago
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48 comments
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Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language
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nanopass.org
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| 128 points by
NordStreamYacht
19 hours ago
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Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics
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markrjohnsongames.com
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| 23 points by
Hooke
7 hours ago
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Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games
(
vincentgregoire.com
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| 111 points by
vcf
13 hours ago
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SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
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usenix.org
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| 174 points by
Eridanus2
22 hours ago
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A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017)
(
skmurphy.com
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| 10 points by
skmurphy
5 hours ago
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Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
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teamchong.github.io
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| 113 points by
teamchong
19 hours ago
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Google Gemini Is Scanning Your Photos – and the EU Said No
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vucense.com
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| 51 points by
anju-kushwaha
14 hours ago
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18 comments
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Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
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twitter.com/weezerOSINT
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| 360 points by
Tiberium
15 hours ago
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129 comments
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Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering
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github.com/outcomeops
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| 42 points by
linsys
8 hours ago
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4-bit floating point FP4
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johndcook.com
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| 80 points by
chmaynard
1 day ago
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Hot-wiring the Lisp machine
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scheatkode.com
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| 36 points by
spudlyo
13 hours ago
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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
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theverge.com
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| 208 points by
tambourine_man
16 hours ago
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158 comments
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PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption
(
hajo.me
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| 16 points by
fxtentacle
6 hours ago
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3 comments
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Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
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basement.studio
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| 143 points by
ragojose
20 hours ago
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Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages
(
wsj.com
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| 18 points by
Brajeshwar
4 hours ago
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KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode
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acs.org
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| 29 points by
PaulHoule
13 hours ago
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4 comments
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Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife
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github.com/coremaze
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| 61 points by
Bawoosette
15 hours ago
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8 comments
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A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)
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philosopher.eu
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| 79 points by
isomorphy
10 hours ago
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112 comments
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Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
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archive.org
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| 565 points by
DamnInteresting
21 hours ago
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147 comments
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The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
(
madhadron.com
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| 323 points by
helloplanets
23 hours ago
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128 comments
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Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader
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kevwe.com
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| 37 points by
kevwedotse
15 hours ago
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8 comments
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Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
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kotaku.com
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| 422 points by
speckx
1 day ago
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3D-Printing a Trombone
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unnamed.website
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| 23 points by
surprisetalk
10 hours ago
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They Went Abroad to Save Money. Moving Back Seems Unaffordable
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nytimes.com
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| 10 points by
toomanyrichies
3 hours ago
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It's cool to care (2025)
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alexwlchan.net
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| 102 points by
surprisetalk
1 day ago
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38 comments
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Show HN: Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries
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newsmaps.io
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| 10 points by
mkoh
9 hours ago
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College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
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sentinelcolorado.com
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| 468 points by
gnabgib
1 day ago
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416 comments
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To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (1996)
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dkeenan.com
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| 7 points by
pizza
7 hours ago
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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
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| 256 points by
modelcroissant
21 hours ago
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117 comments
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NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
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nist.gov
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| 414 points by
rbanffy
1 day ago
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Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure
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arstechnica.com
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| 70 points by
rbanffy
11 hours ago
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Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway
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mtc.com.au
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| 20 points by
abrax3141
11 hours ago
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Can your AI rewrite your code in assembly?
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lemire.me
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| 6 points by
signa11
1 hour ago
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2 comments
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The race to build the next WordPress
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opencomputer.dev
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| 16 points by
iacguy
5 hours ago
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11 comments
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What are skiplists good for?
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antithesis.com
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| 275 points by
mfiguiere
1 day ago
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66 comments
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Brussels pushes remote working to ease energy crisis
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ft.com
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| 8 points by
petethomas
2 hours ago
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4 comments
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Binary GCD
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algorithmica.org
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| 83 points by
tosh
22 hours ago
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Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
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lbc.co.uk
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| 265 points by
aa_is_op
17 hours ago
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172 comments
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Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
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billchambers.me
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anabranch
1 day ago
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SI Units for Request Rate (2024)
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entropicthoughts.com
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×1.38
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| 85 points by
fanf2
1 day ago
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Why Japan has such good railways
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worksinprogress.co
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| 553 points by
RickJWagner
1 day ago
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
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righto.com
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| 417 points by
NelsonMinar
1 day ago
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111 comments
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Minimal Viable Programs (2014)
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joearms.github.io
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bachmeier
18 hours ago
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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
(
samhenri.gold
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| 372 points by
cdrnsf
1 day ago
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239 comments
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Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data
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github.com/drasimwagan
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| 138 points by
drasim
1 day ago
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Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon
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abacusnoir.com
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| 112 points by
agambrahma
1 day ago
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Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
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sciencedaily.com
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| 118 points by
t-3
1 day ago
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Why one of the largest digital banks chose Clojure [video]
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youtube.com
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| 18 points by
amb135cm
6 hours ago
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Notes from the SF peptide scene
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12gramsofcarbon.com
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| 128 points by
theahura
16 hours ago
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134 comments
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UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive
(
up.codes
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1 day ago
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I learned Unity the wrong way
(
darkounity.com
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| 92 points by
lelanthran
12 hours ago
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39 comments
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AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis worse
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restofworld.org
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| 7 points by
i7l
2 hours ago
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2 comments
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Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On
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vlad.website
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| 50 points by
PaulHoule
1 day ago
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13 comments
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Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC
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github.com/riyaneel
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| 77 points by
riyaneel
1 day ago
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Claude Design
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anthropic.com
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| 1217 points by
meetpateltech
2 days ago
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Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage
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cnx-software.com
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type0
8 hours ago
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10 comments
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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
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bbc.com
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blondie9x
5 hours ago
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121 comments
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Bringing the Power of the Sun to Earth: Nuclear Fusion Reactors
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simonsfoundation.org
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ganitam
10 hours ago
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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
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apenwarr.ca
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signa11
1 day ago
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146 comments
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Metatextual Literacy
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jenn.site
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dado3212
1 day ago
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Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements
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morwenn.github.io
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ibobev
16 hours ago
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Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower
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smithsonianmag.com
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bookofjoe
1 day ago
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31 comments
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Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of iLearningEngines charged with fraud
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reuters.com
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| 152 points by
1vuio0pswjnm7
8 hours ago
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64 comments
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State of Kdenlive
(
kdenlive.org
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| 459 points by
f_r_d
1 day ago
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145 comments
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C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model
(
infoq.com
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×1.50
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| 34 points by
birdculture
9 hours ago
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3 comments
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Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Evolution
(
harvard.edu
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×1.07
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| 7 points by
consumer451
11 hours ago
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discuss
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