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Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
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openai.com
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| 914 points by
minimaxir
12 hours ago
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557 comments
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Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
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stackexchange.com
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| 161 points by
ProxyTracer
6 hours ago
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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
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sfwriter.com
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| 16 points by
droidjj
1 hour ago
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9 comments
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U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
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semafor.com
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| 320 points by
bobrenjc93
6 hours ago
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325 comments
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AI in mathematics is forcing big questions
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ieee.org
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| 89 points by
rbanffy
6 hours ago
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52 comments
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MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
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amazon.com
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| 299 points by
justincormack
14 hours ago
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165 comments
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Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board
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quickish.space
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| 38 points by
PaybackTony
4 hours ago
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8 comments
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Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression
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korins.ky
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| 24 points by
zX41ZdbW
4 hours ago
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2 comments
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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
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doubleword.ai
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| 166 points by
kkm
8 hours ago
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129 comments
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U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
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washingtonpost.com
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| 926 points by
alain94040
10 hours ago
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990 comments
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Fusion Programming Language
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fusion-lang.org
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| 23 points by
efrecon
3 hours ago
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Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres
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github.com/dbos-inc
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| 40 points by
KraftyOne
6 hours ago
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A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing
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github.com/Tessil
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| 80 points by
gjvc
8 hours ago
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13 comments
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Om
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daringfireball.net
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| 242 points by
throw0101a
5 hours ago
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14 comments
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We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
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eff.org
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| 307 points by
hn_acker
8 hours ago
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111 comments
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Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research
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utexas.edu
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hhs
5 hours ago
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6 comments
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Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram
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nsspot.herokuapp.com
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jupr
2 hours ago
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Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack
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grack.com
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signa11
2 hours ago
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Ultrasound imaging of the brain
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alephneuro.com
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| 258 points by
rossant
17 hours ago
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Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf]
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foster77.co.uk
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| 23 points by
surprisetalk
5 hours ago
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6 comments
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Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor
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github.com/workweave
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| 158 points by
adchurch
12 hours ago
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91 comments
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Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off
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bbc.com
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| 73 points by
speckx
10 hours ago
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Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
(
hightouch.com
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8 hours ago
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discuss
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A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels
(
healeycodes.com
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| 32 points by
healeycodes
7 hours ago
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4 comments
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What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?
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lefakkomies.github.io
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| 100 points by
Eridanus2
11 hours ago
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The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum
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svpow.com
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surprisetalk
11 hours ago
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7 comments
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Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It
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acoup.blog
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| 74 points by
jfoucher
11 hours ago
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14 comments
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A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage
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ngrok.com
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| 49 points by
EndEntire
9 hours ago
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PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
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kotaku.com
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| 225 points by
ortusdux
9 hours ago
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128 comments
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Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
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| 17 points by
mzubairtahir
2 hours ago
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30 comments
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My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
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matthewbrunelle.com
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| 185 points by
speckx
22 hours ago
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171 comments
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Modern GPU Programming for MLSys
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mlc.ai
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| 69 points by
crowwork
12 hours ago
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LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers
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swiftlatex.com
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| 95 points by
theanonymousone
16 hours ago
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33 comments
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Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification
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github.com/neospe
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leschak
9 hours ago
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Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory
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gossamer-lang.org
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mwheeler
10 hours ago
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68 comments
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Kamod Hooks – a Preact hooks library ported from ahooks
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kamod-ch.github.io
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zahir777
3 hours ago
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1 comments
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Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial
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evmar.github.io
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| 22 points by
joecobb
8 hours ago
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discuss
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
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scrollprize.org
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| 1642 points by
verditelabs
1 day ago
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Om Malik has died
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om.co
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| 1299 points by
minimaxir
1 day ago
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163 comments
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The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
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| 80 points by
gcanyon
7 hours ago
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Bipartite Matching Is in NC
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scottaaronson.blog
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| 114 points by
amichail
20 hours ago
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17 comments
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Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter
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github.com/DDecoene
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| 88 points by
ddecoene
19 hours ago
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27 comments
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Lippmann Photography
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jonhilty.com
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andsoitis
8 hours ago
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1 comments
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AgentKits – 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with guardrails
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agent-kits.com
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stoicstoic
8 hours ago
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discuss
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Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)
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github.com/skx
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stevekemp
10 hours ago
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3 comments
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Jolla Phone (October 2026)
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jolla.com
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| 282 points by
mrbn100ful
14 hours ago
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155 comments
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Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck
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science.org
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| 360 points by
adharmad
15 hours ago
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175 comments
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Incident CVE-2026-LGTM
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nesbitt.io
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| 526 points by
mooreds
16 hours ago
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86 comments
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Data centers trigger voter backlash
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newsweek.com
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| 176 points by
randycupertino
11 hours ago
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326 comments
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The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths
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outsideonline.com
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LostMyLogin
8 hours ago
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OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO
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nytimes.com
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mfiguiere
1 day ago
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138 comments
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We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
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akrites.org
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| 443 points by
dhruv3006
23 hours ago
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214 comments
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Libre Barcode Project
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graphicore.github.io
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| 278 points by
luu
1 day ago
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59 comments
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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
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fernandoi.cl
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| 356 points by
cuchoi
1 day ago
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160 comments
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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
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jeffgeerling.com
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| 313 points by
Alupis
1 day ago
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178 comments
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What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?
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jtekt.co.jp
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| 44 points by
ksec
13 hours ago
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26 comments
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The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car
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wsj.com
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| 36 points by
JumpCrisscross
7 hours ago
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6 comments
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How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File
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sqlite.org
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| 16 points by
tosh
11 hours ago
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2 comments
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Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients
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github.com/tau-org
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| 11 points by
modinfo
11 hours ago
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2 comments
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The unbearable cheapness of open weight models
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jamesoclaire.com
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| 189 points by
ddxv
2 days ago
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176 comments
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FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works
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github.com/naver
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| 101 points by
birdculture
17 hours ago
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6 comments
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Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
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| 55 points by
oscgam1
13 hours ago
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68 comments
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Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100
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apache.org
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dr-jia-yu
10 hours ago
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1 comments
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Malware Insights: macOS Phexia Campaign
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cookie.engineer
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| 14 points by
speckx
11 hours ago
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2 comments
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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
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fire.org
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| 1106 points by
bilsbie
1 day ago
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A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
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github.com/plbrault
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exploraz
1 day ago
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79 comments
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AI Erodes a Legacy of Reading
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molochinations.substack.com
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| 10 points by
domhudson
3 hours ago
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4 comments
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Record type inference for dummies
(
haskellforall.com
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| 75 points by
g0xA52A2A
1 day ago
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4 comments
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Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
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trakkr.ai
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| 168 points by
mektrik
1 day ago
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303 comments
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OpenTag: An open-source alternative to Claude in Slack
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github.com/CopilotKit
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| 8 points by
davidmckayv
7 hours ago
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discuss
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Parallel Parentheses Matching
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williamdue.github.io
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| 116 points by
Athas
1 day ago
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17 comments
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The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023)
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gchandbook.org
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| 229 points by
teleforce
1 day ago
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52 comments
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Murmur: Shared communication bus for your coding agents
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github.com/instavm
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| 12 points by
handfuloflight
11 hours ago
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3 comments
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Endive 1.0: WebAssembly on the JVM, Now a Bytecode Alliance Project
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endive.run
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| 10 points by
dustingetz
13 hours ago
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discuss
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Scaling Laws, Carefully
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lilianweng.github.io
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| 9 points by
tehnub
11 hours ago
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4 comments
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IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
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ibm.com
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| 385 points by
porridgeraisin
1 day ago
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201 comments
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Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies
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science.org
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| 179 points by
rndsignals
2 days ago
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93 comments
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Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
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reuters.com
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| 792 points by
htrp
2 days ago
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Mixing Visual and Textual Code
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arxiv.org
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| 83 points by
doppioandante
1 day ago
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43 comments
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Thomas Salme
(
wikipedia.org
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| 12 points by
st_goliath
6 hours ago
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discuss
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GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11
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github.com/GloriousEggroll
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| 95 points by
d3Xt3r
1 day ago
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47 comments
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A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice
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arstechnica.com
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| 108 points by
jonbaer
15 hours ago
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79 comments
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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
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techcrunch.com
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| 818 points by
jamdesk
2 days ago
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463 comments
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32bit Apple app running on M4 natively
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reddit.com
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| 17 points by
carlosjobim
8 hours ago
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1 comments
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Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
(
hackernewstrends.com
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| 769 points by
ytkimirti
1 day ago
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152 comments
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Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs
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github.com/decrazyo
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| 126 points by
zdw
1 day ago
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34 comments
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Show HN: Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
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| 100 points by
spidy__
1 day ago
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61 comments
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Half-Life 2 in a Browser
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slqnt.dev
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| 674 points by
panza
1 day ago
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270 comments
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The annotated PyTorch training loop
(
idlemachines.co.uk
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| 78 points by
smaddrellmander
1 day ago
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19 comments
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Reed-Solomon for OCR: error correction for messy printed codes
(
github.com/chasangchual
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| 8 points by
chasangchual
9 hours ago
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2 comments
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