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  1. A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write (research.google)
    ×2.17 | 395 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. What's New in POSIX 2024 (toast.cafe)
    ×2.24 | 113 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell (dingdongdoorbell.com)
    ×1.53 | 16 points by dirkc 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? (theguardian.com)
    ×2.37 | 47 points by sandebert 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Survival Analysis Part I: Basic concepts and first analyses (2003) (nature.com)
    ×0.90 | 20 points by sebg 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How I write code using Cursor (arguingwithalgorithms.com)
    ×2.67 | 195 points by tomyedwab 6 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf] (unipv.it)
    ×0.96 | 37 points by teleforce 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. HTML Form Validation is underused (expressionstatement.com)
    ×2.26 | 224 points by stereoabuse 13 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation
    ×0.91 | 49 points by thangalin 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Dispelling Myths about Randomisation (bps.org.uk)
    ×0.91 | 14 points by domofutu 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Buy payphones and retire (computer.rip)
    ×2.08 | 401 points by cratermoon 18 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. We're forking Flutter (flutterfoundation.dev)
    ×4.34 | 664 points by alexzeitler 15 hours ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Improving Xwayland window resizing (vladzahorodnii.com)
    ×1.07 | 108 points by TangerineDream 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Building a better and scalable system for data migrations (yorickpeterse.com)
    ×0.68 | 41 points by YorickPeterse 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Trench – Open-source analytics infrastructure (github.com/FrigadeHQ)
    ×1.05 | 117 points by pancomplex 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Rescue Party (1946) (baen.com)
    ×0.66 | 48 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Minotaur: A SIMD-Oriented Synthesizing Superoptimizer [pdf] (utah.edu)
    ×0.78 | 38 points by luu 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Standardizing Automotive Connectivity (tesla.com)
    ×1.50 | 136 points by hardikgupta 15 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO (danluu.com)
    ×3.62 | 228 points by greggyb 12 hours ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Debian's "secret" sauce (lwn.net)
    ×2.02 | 166 points by signa11 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Study: DNA corroborates "Well-man" tale from Norse saga (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.72 | 86 points by LinuxBender 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945) [pdf] (kysq.org)
    ×1.39 | 86 points by kreyenborgi 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. New iMac with M4 (apple.com)
    ×3.34 | 471 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 1000 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance (yp.to)
    ×1.43 | 223 points by ibotty 19 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. High-resolution postmortem human brain MRI at 7 tesla (pulkit-khandelwal.github.io)
    ×1.15 | 98 points by pulks 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Evaluate Markdown code blocks within Vim (github.com/gpanders)
    ×0.74 | 38 points by pentestercrab 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. NASA's oldest active astronaut is also one of the most curious humans (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.77 | 5 points by andyjohnson0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 70% of meteorites from 3 collisions in asteroid belt within past 40M years (skyandtelescope.org)
    ×1.17 | 106 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Glass Health (YC W23) is hiring founding, senior and lead full-stack engineers (lever.co)
    13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. State-space models can learn in-context by gradient descent (arxiv.org)
    ×0.87 | 73 points by dsalaj 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read (shepherd.com)
    ×3.19 | 113 points by bwb 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Using reinforcement learning and $4.80 of GPU time to find the best HN post (openpipe.ai)
    ×1.76 | 177 points by kcorbitt 17 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Care Doesn't Scale (stevenscrawls.com)
    ×3.91 | 397 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Swift – A great language strangled by governance? (jacobstechtavern.com)
    ×2.58 | 90 points by Hashex129542 6 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How not to sort by average rating (2009) (evanmiller.org)
    ×1.09 | 58 points by notracks 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Can calculus be taught without differentiating or integrating by hand?
    ×1.02 | 32 points by amichail 9 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub (github.com/github)
    ×1.56 | 93 points by LorenDB 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance (github.com/pretzelhammer)
    ×2.69 | 368 points by amatheus 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why so few Matt Levines? (gwern.net)
    ×3.27 | 214 points by iNic 14 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Scott Fitzgerald's Last Act (city-journal.org)
    ×0.45 | 40 points by samclemens 18 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Don't implement unification by recursion (philipzucker.com)
    ×0.90 | 70 points by mathgenius 16 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Critique of Freakonomics interview with psychologist Ellen Langer (columbia.edu)
    ×1.53 | 86 points by nabla9 17 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala (mill-build.org)
    ×1.50 | 168 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator (github.com/rochacbruno)
    ×1.15 | 89 points by rochacbruno 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade (fau.edu)
    ×2.21 | 98 points by geox 20 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia (kentik.com)
    ×3.47 | 42 points by vladyslavfox 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Psychological safety vs. high standards: A misunderstood dynamic (leadingsapiens.com)
    ×1.50 | 96 points by sherilm 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 418 I’m a teapot (mozilla.org)
    ×2.34 | 230 points by csomar 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Robert Downey Jr. Refuses to Let Hollywood Create His AI Digital Replica (variety.com)
    ×2.92 | 10 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Minor degree of hypohydration adversely influences cognition (nih.gov)
    ×2.51 | 6 points by domofutu 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Excel Turing Machine (2013) (felienne.com)
    ×0.48 | 11 points by pabs3 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. NY Times gets 230 wrong again (techdirt.com)
    ×2.30 | 135 points by hn_acker 17 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Delidded Ryzen 7 9800X3D showcases next-gen 3D V-Cache tech – OC3D (overclock3d.net)
    ×0.99 | 9 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Insiders Stealing Instagram Usernames? (javier.computer)
    ×4.72 | 11 points by edent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Python PGP proposal poses packaging puzzles (lwn.net)
    ×0.74 | 40 points by jwilk 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
    ×2.10 | 380 points by david927 1 day ago | 1054 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Oriental hornets can't get drunk (economist.com)
    ×0.56 | 26 points by ioblomov 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Event Horizon Telescope image might need a correction (oup.com)
    ×1.17 | 52 points by niemandhier 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars (wired.com)
    ×2.69 | 18 points by walterbell 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Finstruments - Financial instrument library built with Python (github.com/kyleloomis)
    ×0.80 | 64 points by kyleloomis 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How Gothic architecture became spooky (architecturaldigest.com)
    ×0.96 | 166 points by teleforce 23 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nested Loops Revisited Again (2023) (ieee.org)
    ×0.60 | 36 points by feeblefakie 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said (scrippsnews.com)
    ×1.72 | 19 points by croes 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. TI expands internal manufacturing for gallium nitride (GAN) semiconductors (ti.com)
    ×0.93 | 57 points by sandwichsphinx 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: What's your favorite text-based adventure game?
    ×1.59 | 65 points by ranuzz 17 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.60 | 174 points by nesarkvechnep 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Amazon Leaks New Mac Mini with M4 and M4 Pro Chip (macrumors.com)
    ×2.92 | 22 points by mfiguiere 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. "Bush hid the facts" bug (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.15 | 32 points by aduffy 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. GoLic, injects license into source code files (github.com/AbsaOSS)
    ×0.42 | 25 points by kure256 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Great Exhibition unveils the only office roller coaster in Stockholm (creativeboom.com)
    ×1.06 | 24 points by microflash 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ford sees another $1B EV loss, lowers guidance and its stock falls 6% (marketwatch.com)
    ×2.35 | 12 points by ivewonyoung 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Shenzhou-18 crew records video showcasing life, work in space [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.30 | 72 points by hunglee2 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism (maa.org)
    ×0.88 | 87 points by hhs 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Research reveals new clues to the mysteries of long Covid (ualberta.ca)
    ×2.04 | 28 points by amichail 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Coming Technological Singularity (1993) (mindstalk.net)
    ×0.97 | 79 points by RyanShook 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. It is fine not to like a piece of free software (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×0.98 | 48 points by edent 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022) (lww.com)
    ×2.23 | 173 points by mgh2 2 days ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Visualizing the Nucleus [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 | 22 points by sandebert 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How we didn't find product market fit (medium.com)
    ×1.13 | 33 points by withoutshape 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition (theverge.com)
    ×2.78 | 28 points by belter 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Using SQLite as storage for web server static content (clace.io)
    ×2.41 | 260 points by ajayvk 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. In some scientific papers, words expressing uncertainty have decreased (2023) (science.org)
    ×1.29 | 97 points by lapnect 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. DMA: Litigation Against Apple (fsfe.org)
    ×2.65 | 20 points by yazzku 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation (scitechdaily.com)
    ×1.38 | 165 points by wglb 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Millions may rely on groundwater contaminated with PFAS for drinking water (phys.org)
    ×2.29 | 88 points by wglb 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced? (stylewarning.com)
    ×0.88 | 34 points by lispybanana 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Crossing the USA by Train (blinry.org)
    ×2.65 | 342 points by chmaynard 2 days ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: There is an open-source alternative to almost any SaaS, what do you use?
    ×1.69 | 5 points by gitroom 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Serious fun (scattered-thoughts.net)
    ×0.90 | 72 points by luu 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS (jvns.ca)
    ×1.20 | 135 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???