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  1. Whatever became of holography? (2011) (americanscientist.org)
    ×0.79 6 | 86 points by cainxinth 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)
    ×2.02 6 | 397 points by jttnr 9 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Fingerprints are the new cookies (royfish.dev)
    ×2.01 3 | 138 points by royfish 4 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Cartographers of North Korea (2019) (wonyoung.so)
    ×1.56 9 | 201 points by edent 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×3.21 1 | 283 points by albertzeyer 7 hours ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tattoos you can turn on and off (livescience.com)
    ×1.07 19 | 18 points by MortyDev 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Illustration Beyond Proof (wordpress.com)
    ×0.91 15 | 40 points by smilelamp 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers (theguardian.com)
    ×4.90 5 | 210 points by heyimada 4 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Vectorized CLZ and CTZ (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.81 22 | 18 points by zX41ZdbW 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
    ×2.28 17 | 336 points by Anon84 14 hours ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage (tedhaley.ca)
    ×1.09 8 | 37 points by TedHaley 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence (sakana.ai)
    ×1.15 5 | 78 points by hardmaru 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Passkeys are a trap (nonfunctional.substack.com)
    ×6.73 11 | 344 points by laurex 5 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)
    ×1.40 21 | 11 points by subset 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos (cell.com)
    ×1.14 11 | 32 points by Bluestein 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion? (theonion.com)
    ×2.69 6 | 266 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972) (ways-of-seeing.com)
    ×0.76 28 | 83 points by rafael859 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (nyc.gov)
    ×3.73 9 | 383 points by gregsadetsky 9 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)
    ×1.19 25 | 86 points by Brajeshwar 9 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com/shaongitbd)
    ×1.48 23 | 13 points by acley 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter (momo5502.com)
    ×1.83 58 | 177 points by davikr 17 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME (disconnect3d.pl)
    ×1.38 25 | 222 points by arusekk 15 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside (shnatsel.github.io)
    ×0.90 39 | 47 points by ravenical 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com/rogerbinns)
    ×0.73 50 | 73 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo (github.com/hashicorp)
    ×1.64 10 | 49 points by vmatsiiako 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE (tommyb3ll.github.io)
    ×0.70 59 | 35 points by jgx0 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
    ×1.43 41 | 166 points by kartik017 15 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect (epestr.com)
    ×1.09 38 | 108 points by epestr 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her (inc.com)
    ×3.22 18 | 175 points by bhrlady 6 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol (github.com/ClickHouse)
    ×0.62 82 | 10 points by saisrirampur 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking (verdagon.dev)
    ×1.15 46 | 145 points by verdagon 15 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries (pydantic.dev)
    ×0.73 95 | 10 points by acossta 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab (github.com/swimmingbrain)
    ×1.07 28 | 18 points by swimmingbrain 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (ashbyhq.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes (github.com/plimsollmark)
    ×0.47 45 | 12 points by cagster 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.94 87 | 65 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (economist.com)
    ×2.06 25 | 76 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
    ×2.43 5 | 363 points by basilikum 17 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal (github.com/clainstone)
    ×1.03 97 | 21 points by epestr 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs (medium.com)
    ×0.84 57 | 58 points by peter_d_sherman 11 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS (kammel.dev)
    ×1.02 29 | 47 points by datosh 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things (playgrnd.tools)
    ×0.92 62 | 50 points by eustoria 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I paid people to try and follow my README (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.04 14 | 375 points by edent 15 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I'm sorry, but you still have to think (itsallaboutthebit.com)
    ×4.41 23 | 332 points by drogus 12 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (yandex.cloud)
    ×4.93 13 | 558 points by defly 19 hours ago | 682 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused (opencampus.org)
    ×4.81 3 | 32 points by DeepLogin 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests (phys.org)
    ×1.79 84 | 63 points by optimalsolver 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused (suntimes.com)
    ×2.94 2 | 26 points by smurda 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. LineageOS 24 (lineageos.org)
    ×2.27 2 | 414 points by timschumi 21 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists (mit.edu)
    ×0.44 89 | 24 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things (berkeley.edu)
    ×3.43 75 | 81 points by giuliomagnifico 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Things that don't bother me as your manager (twitter.com/EmmaBostian)
    ×1.77 11 | 13 points by LouisLazaris 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)
    ×3.30 23 | 422 points by ForHackernews 16 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×1.15 30 | 47 points by Ixander 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Multi-agent harnesses need separate message channels (harshalgajjar.com)
    ×1.04 113 | 7 points by harshalgajjar 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: LLMxRay an open-source observability tool for LLMs (github.com/LogneBudo)
    ×0.43 136 | 4 points by lognebudo 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Fetching AMD SEV Reports (With Zig) (bschaatsbergen.com)
    ×0.43 113 | 7 points by peterpanhead 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R (adolfoalvarez.cl)
    ×0.70 83 | 54 points by sinnsro 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4 (theverge.com)
    ×2.10 37 | 271 points by 1potato 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 Released (sqlalchemy.org)
    ×1.16 28 | 19 points by kbumsik 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. "Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot (robotgirlgang.com)
    ×1.19 96 | 48 points by birdculture 16 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How big is a Git commit? (ratfactor.com)
    ×0.70 100 | 82 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Your IP Has Been Reset (olliegreen.info)
    ×0.97 101 | 8 points by Oarch 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
    ×2.65 26 | 608 points by Michelangelo11 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Rat's Register Allocator (hexrat.cc)
    ×0.67 96 | 59 points by mpweiher 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Linux on iPhone 11 (patreon.com)
    ×2.54 7 | 21 points by nullagent 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Eye Cells May Have Been Rejuvenated for the First Time in People (time.com)
    ×2.55 13 | 7 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't (over.pizza)
    ×2.84 16 | 530 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust (github.com/storytold)
    ×4.85 68 | 84 points by espeed 1 hour ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline? (mdelcaro.substack.com)
    ×1.49 17 | 30 points by fathermarz 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CIA World Factbook is dead – Here is an attempt at recreation (worldfacts.app)
    ×1.74 104 | 60 points by yegortk 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
    ×2.19 10 | 454 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Arena Allocators in C (eliasebner.com)
    ×1.43 127 | 6 points by dimonomid 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
    ×3.19 26 | 581 points by oskarth 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less (0xff.nu)
    ×2.26 16 | 62 points by hxii 11 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. TeX Preview in VSCode with Overleaf Sync (visualstudio.com)
    ×1.34 62 | 6 points by Hyena0 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait (a16z.com)
    ×1.32 71 | 33 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.50 120 | 4 points by austinallegro 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Cloudflare acquires Deno (deno.com)
    ×4.87 46 | 1370 points by ilreb 2 days ago | 713 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Bot traffic from Yandex (cloudflare.com)
    ×5.05 60 | 593 points by walrus01 16 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Google Data Centers around the world (datacenters.google)
    ×1.44 58 | 49 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. But how to get to that European cloud? (berthub.eu)
    ×1.07 52 | 10 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Triple-A Minesweeper (mikelacher.com)
    ×5.94 34 | 1416 points by robin_reala 2 days ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A college tried to cancel its Flock Safety contract and it refused (theverge.com)
    ×3.38 26 | 14 points by sbulaev 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel (copilot.travel)
    ×1.32 60 | 49 points by heikkikalliokos 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. There's No "Going Back": On the receding horizons of the AI transition (thelastwave.substack.com)
    ×1.62 46 | 12 points by johanam 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Elon Musk's PAC is spreading inaccurate voting info, election officials say (cnn.com)
    ×7.48 71 | 23 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. European Alternatives (buy-european.net)
    ×3.92 56 | 131 points by doener 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.86 31 | 63 points by mathgenius 13 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)
    ×0.97 99 | 93 points by speckx 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???