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Humanoid Robot Actuators
(
firgelli.com
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| 110 points by
ofrzeta
4 hours ago
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29 comments
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Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
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samcollins.blog
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| 181 points by
samcollins
8 hours ago
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52 comments
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BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
(
partyon.xyz
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| 353 points by
nullagent
14 hours ago
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114 comments
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DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
(
github.com/aattaran
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| 411 points by
alattaran
9 hours ago
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155 comments
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Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)
(
stuffedcow.net
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| 67 points by
TapamN
7 hours ago
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3 comments
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The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
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jdgr.net
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| 152 points by
jdgr
8 hours ago
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53 comments
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A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
(
quantamagazine.org
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| 21 points by
worldvoyageur
4 hours ago
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discuss
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A desktop made for one
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isene.org
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| 326 points by
xngbuilds
16 hours ago
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149 comments
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Southwest Headquarters Tour
(
katherinemichel.github.io
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| 238 points by
KatiMichel
15 hours ago
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73 comments
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OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
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theguardian.com
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| 383 points by
donsupreme
17 hours ago
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327 comments
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US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
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phys.org
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| 147 points by
leopoldj
14 hours ago
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59 comments
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K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
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github.com/alexellis
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| 46 points by
rickcarlino
8 hours ago
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13 comments
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Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)
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aruljohn.com
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| 92 points by
heresie-dabord
10 hours ago
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64 comments
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Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
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nhk.or.jp
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| 7 points by
o4c
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
(
tomshardware.com
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| 320 points by
oceansky
1 day ago
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192 comments
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Introduction to Atom
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w3.org
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| 87 points by
susam
10 hours ago
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28 comments
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Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors
(
citizenlab.ca
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| 142 points by
miohtama
15 hours ago
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New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
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smithsonianmag.com
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| 373 points by
dryadin
13 hours ago
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Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
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drive.com.au
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| 682 points by
teleforce
17 hours ago
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The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
(
xogium.me
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| 205 points by
SpyCoder77
8 hours ago
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86 comments
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Text-to-CAD
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github.com/earthtojake
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| 110 points by
softservo
15 hours ago
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30 comments
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Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions
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jim-nielsen.com
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| 30 points by
OuterVale
3 hours ago
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Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense
(
guille.site
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| 9 points by
LolWolf
3 hours ago
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discuss
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Why TUIs are back
(
alcidesfonseca.com
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| 322 points by
rickcarlino
13 hours ago
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334 comments
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I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]
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youtube.com
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| 99 points by
cyrc
14 hours ago
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24 comments
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Show HN: Ableton Live MCP
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github.com/bschoepke
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| 80 points by
bschoepke
14 hours ago
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52 comments
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Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91
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nytimes.com
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| 42 points by
ChrisArchitect
6 hours ago
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8 comments
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Security through obscurity is not bad
(
mobeigi.com
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| 152 points by
mobeigi
17 hours ago
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169 comments
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Let's Buy Spirit Air
(
letsbuyspiritair.com
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| 312 points by
bjhess
8 hours ago
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296 comments
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What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?
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hpcwire.com
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| 108 points by
rbanffy
18 hours ago
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37 comments
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Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web
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github.com/bring-shrubbery
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| 171 points by
bring-shrubbery
22 hours ago
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I built my own hair electrolysis machine
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scd31.com
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| 225 points by
y1n0
18 hours ago
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58 comments
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LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
(
lelanthran.com
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| 113 points by
lelanthran
14 hours ago
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104 comments
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Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study
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stanford.edu
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| 118 points by
hhs
23 hours ago
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35 comments
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Make your own microforest (2025)
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ambrook.com
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| 92 points by
bookofjoe
12 hours ago
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Agentic Coding Is a Trap
(
larsfaye.com
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| 343 points by
ayoisaiah
9 hours ago
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Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
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thegamer.com
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| 262 points by
rishabhd
15 hours ago
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122 comments
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Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)
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americanscientist.org
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| 58 points by
whycome
17 hours ago
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23 comments
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How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
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chromium-drift.pages.dev
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| 177 points by
skaul
15 hours ago
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59 comments
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Alert-driven monitoring
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simpleobservability.com
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| 112 points by
khazit
18 hours ago
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Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
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arstechnica.com
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| 50 points by
0in
17 hours ago
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31 comments
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Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
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sciencex.com
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| 119 points by
pseudolus
20 hours ago
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Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time
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reuters.com
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| 31 points by
thedebuglife
15 hours ago
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6 comments
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Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
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windows.com
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| 163 points by
jovial_cavalier
1 day ago
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489 comments
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DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
(
simonwillison.net
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| 634 points by
indigodaddy
2 days ago
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374 comments
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Buckets and objects are not enough
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sagi.org
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| 11 points by
sagiba
10 hours ago
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11 comments
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Cordouan Lighthouse
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wikipedia.org
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| 35 points by
Petiver
16 hours ago
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4 comments
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Supercollider
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supercollider.github.io
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| 21 points by
andyjohnson0
13 hours ago
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2 comments
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Automatic Brightness in Plasma
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zamundaaa.github.io
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| 19 points by
speckx
10 hours ago
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4 comments
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Talking to Transformers
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miraos.org
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| 35 points by
taylorsatula
13 hours ago
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3 comments
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A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
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haskell.org
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| 410 points by
unignorant
1 day ago
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208 comments
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Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
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porsche.com
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| 111 points by
Amorymeltzer
17 hours ago
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50 comments
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Dav2d
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videolan.org
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| 603 points by
dabinat
1 day ago
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174 comments
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Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes
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washingtonpost.com
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| 106 points by
brandonb
17 hours ago
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94 comments
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This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
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ladybird.org
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| 487 points by
richardboegli
1 day ago
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140 comments
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Unauthorized macOS port claiming Don Ho as an author?
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github.com/notepad-plus-plus
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| 25 points by
jethronethro
7 hours ago
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1 comments
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The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
(
mendral.com
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| 169 points by
shad42
1 day ago
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113 comments
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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
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clojuriststogether.org
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| 135 points by
dragandj
1 day ago
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16 comments
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Do_not_track
(
donottrack.sh
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| 518 points by
RubyGuy
1 day ago
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162 comments
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A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
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lwn.net
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| 119 points by
signa11
1 day ago
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38 comments
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Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake
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c3-lang.org
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| 111 points by
lerno
1 day ago
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140 comments
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First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line
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electrek.co
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| 63 points by
m463
8 hours ago
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74 comments
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Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
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david-smith.org
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| 430 points by
valzevul
1 day ago
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115 comments
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Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM
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github.com/lalitshankarch
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| 39 points by
Flex247A
20 hours ago
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1 comments
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A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
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easel.games
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| 117 points by
BSTRhino
1 day ago
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39 comments
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Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
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github.com/EnterpriseDB
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| 180 points by
nateb2022
1 day ago
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24 comments
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How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude
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claude.com
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| 41 points by
eddiehammond
13 hours ago
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22 comments
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Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
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acai.sh
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| 266 points by
brendanmc6
1 day ago
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279 comments
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AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share
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fshot.org
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| 75 points by
victorkulla
1 day ago
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6 comments
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Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
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github.com/nexu-io
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| 221 points by
steveharing1
1 day ago
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91 comments
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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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| 203 points by
proberts
2 days ago
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Because it doesn't have to
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computationalcomplexity.org
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| 75 points by
zdw
1 day ago
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13 comments
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Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
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arxiv.org
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| 114 points by
fagnerbrack
1 day ago
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45 comments
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People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia
(
theconversation.com
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| 37 points by
debo_
12 hours ago
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28 comments
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Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)
(
universiteitleiden.nl
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| 282 points by
andsoitis
1 day ago
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155 comments
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Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
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github.com/dotcl
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| 177 points by
reikonomusha
1 day ago
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44 comments
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
(
microsoft.com
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| 208 points by
ankitg12
1 day ago
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92 comments
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Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
(
noctua.at
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| 757 points by
buildbot
2 days ago
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296 comments
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Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death
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jamiesimon.io
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| 9 points by
jamie-simon
12 hours ago
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1 comments
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Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding
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frequal.com
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| 14 points by
TeaVMFan
15 hours ago
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2 comments
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Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK
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osec.io
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| 34 points by
deut-erium
1 day ago
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4 comments
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Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case
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arxiv.org
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| 152 points by
mrtz
20 hours ago
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156 comments
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Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters
(
hnup.date
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| 149 points by
yunusabd
1 day ago
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83 comments
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Interview with Josh Fisher – Inventing VLIW, Multiflow, Itanium, VLIW's Success [video]
(
youtube.com
)
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| 5 points by
tambourine_man
3 hours ago
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discuss
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Minimal Fab Promoting Organization
(
minimalfab.com
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| 7 points by
nz
13 hours ago
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1 comments
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Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work
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github.com/systalyze
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| 47 points by
nateb2022
22 hours ago
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11 comments
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NetHack 5.0.0
(
nethack.org
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| 507 points by
rsaarelm
1 day ago
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169 comments
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Little magazines are back
(
wsjfreeexpression.substack.com
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| 109 points by
prismatic
1 day ago
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39 comments
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Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician
(
science.org
)
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| 6 points by
kakoni
11 hours ago
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1 comments
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Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
(
epo.org
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| 240 points by
JeanKage
1 day ago
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42 comments
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