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1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
(
hypertalking.com
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| 423 points by
stephen-hill
8 hours ago
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74 comments
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The Free Universal Construction Kit
(
fffff.at
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| 109 points by
robinhouston
4 hours ago
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22 comments
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Hokusai and Tesselations
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ndl.go.jp
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| 48 points by
srean
2 hours ago
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10 comments
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New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
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jeffgeerling.com
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×2.39
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| 472 points by
calcifer
14 hours ago
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277 comments
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Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games
(
github.com/MartinGalway
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×1.28
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| 130 points by
ingve
9 hours ago
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16 comments
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Desmond Morris has died
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bbc.com
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×1.86
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| 46 points by
martey
5 hours ago
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7 comments
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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
(
fabiensanglard.net
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| 102 points by
adunk
8 hours ago
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14 comments
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Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)
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parl.ai
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| 27 points by
jxmorris12
4 hours ago
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1 comments
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It's OK to Use Agentic to Revive the Projects You Never Were Going to Finish
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matthewbrunelle.com
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| 18 points by
speckx
3 hours ago
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2 comments
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GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty
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openai.com
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×1.39
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| 88 points by
Murfalo
5 hours ago
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76 comments
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A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
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github.com/nakagami
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×1.11
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| 90 points by
mariuz
9 hours ago
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37 comments
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Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI
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victortaelin.github.io
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×1.20
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| 104 points by
marvinborner
8 hours ago
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32 comments
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Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
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sciencedirect.com
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| 34 points by
wslh
6 hours ago
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9 comments
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Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay
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aresluna.org
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×1.88
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| 230 points by
rbanffy
18 hours ago
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118 comments
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Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
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github.com/niri-wm
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| 167 points by
nickjj
4 hours ago
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44 comments
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Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
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github.com/yuvadm
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| 296 points by
pigeons
19 hours ago
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42 comments
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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
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kevinlynagh.com
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| 498 points by
alcazar
1 day ago
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125 comments
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Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
(
boilingsteam.com
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×4.33
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| 115 points by
ekianjo
3 hours ago
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90 comments
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A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU
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clad.you
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| 123 points by
arkadiuss
15 hours ago
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24 comments
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HEALPix
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wikipedia.org
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| 34 points by
hyperific
6 hours ago
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5 comments
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Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x
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wordpress.com
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| 56 points by
keepamovin
8 hours ago
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39 comments
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The mail sent to a video game publisher
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gamefile.news
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| 121 points by
colinprince
15 hours ago
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4 comments
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Humpback whales are forming super-groups
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bbc.com
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| 190 points by
andsoitis
19 hours ago
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100 comments
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My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
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hhh.hn
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| 300 points by
hhh
1 day ago
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89 comments
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Paraloid B-72
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wikipedia.org
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| 255 points by
Ariarule
18 hours ago
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59 comments
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Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
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thehistoryblog.com
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| 237 points by
wise_blood
23 hours ago
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83 comments
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Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
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github.com/nex-crm
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| 213 points by
najmuzzaman
11 hours ago
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97 comments
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Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
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bloomberg.com
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| 777 points by
elffjs
23 hours ago
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763 comments
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Education must go beyond the mere production of words
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ncregister.com
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| 129 points by
signor_bosco
19 hours ago
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77 comments
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Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
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alash3al.github.io
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| 155 points by
alash3al
18 hours ago
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65 comments
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There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
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arxiv.org
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| 329 points by
jamie-simon
1 day ago
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146 comments
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Email could have been X.400 times better
(
buttondown.com
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| 223 points by
maguay
1 day ago
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191 comments
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DeepSeek v4
(
deepseek.com
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| 2015 points by
impact_sy
1 day ago
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How to Implement an FPS Counter
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vplesko.com
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| 115 points by
vplesko
12 hours ago
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19 comments
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Work with the garage door up (2024)
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andymatuschak.org
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| 179 points by
jxmorris12
1 day ago
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124 comments
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Cosmology with Geometry Nodes
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blender.org
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| 99 points by
shankysingh
18 hours ago
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5 comments
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PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology
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nikomc.com
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| 75 points by
mailyk
14 hours ago
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12 comments
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Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs
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reclaimthenet.org
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| 8 points by
Cider9986
1 hour ago
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1 comments
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The Classic American Diner
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loc.gov
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| 256 points by
NaOH
1 day ago
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151 comments
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GPT-5.5
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openai.com
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| 1557 points by
rd
2 days ago
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Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
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itsfoss.com
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| 359 points by
nreece
18 hours ago
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209 comments
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Commenting and Approving Pull Requests
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jakeworth.com
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| 63 points by
jwworth
7 hours ago
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53 comments
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Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port
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github.com/magiblot
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| 187 points by
andsoitis
15 hours ago
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53 comments
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Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations
(
gigazine.net
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| 137 points by
gslin
1 day ago
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48 comments
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Jumping into cold water can stop your heart
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jorgenmelau.substack.com
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| 73 points by
fanf2
5 hours ago
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33 comments
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Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS
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asklandd.dk
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| 168 points by
Zta77
22 hours ago
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60 comments
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I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
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kalzumeus.com
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| 192 points by
claxo
1 day ago
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198 comments
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California Coastal Community Must Reject CBP's AI-Powered Surveillance Tower
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eff.org
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| 6 points by
Brajeshwar
1 hour ago
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discuss
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A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)
(
allbrainsbelong.org
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| 58 points by
AndrewDucker
6 hours ago
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47 comments
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I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
(
nickyreinert.de
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| 926 points by
y42
1 day ago
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557 comments
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Escrow Security for iCloud Keychain
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apple.com
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×1.31
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| 37 points by
gurjeet
13 hours ago
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10 comments
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What Async Promised and What It Delivered
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causality.blog
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| 82 points by
zdw
6 hours ago
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67 comments
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Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task
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github.com/browser-use
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| 117 points by
gregpr07
1 day ago
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57 comments
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MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
(
craigmod.com
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| 304 points by
jen729w
1 day ago
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186 comments
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Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
(
wheelfront.com
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| 2282 points by
Kaibeezy
3 days ago
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774 comments
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$8800 house design helps prevent fatal diseases in African children
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science.org
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| 50 points by
gmays
21 hours ago
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25 comments
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Larry McMurtry's Tall Tales
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thenation.com
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| 19 points by
samclemens
11 hours ago
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1 comments
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What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role
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mnot.net
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| 55 points by
ingve
4 hours ago
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53 comments
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US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
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cnn.com
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| 677 points by
nkrisc
1 day ago
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730 comments
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A Man Who Invented the Future
(
hedgehogreview.com
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| 56 points by
apollinaire
10 hours ago
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14 comments
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The Overtom Chess Computer Museum
(
xs4all.nl
)
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| 39 points by
semyonsh
21 hours ago
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10 comments
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Google Search to classify 'back button hijacking' as spam
(
9to5google.com
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| 6 points by
thunderbong
1 hour ago
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1 comments
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SDL Now Supports DOS
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github.com/libsdl-org
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| 277 points by
Jayschwa
1 day ago
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109 comments
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Hear your agent suffer through your code
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github.com/AndrewVos
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| 207 points by
AndrewVos
1 day ago
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88 comments
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CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code
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github.com/delta-hq
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| 64 points by
tejpalv
1 day ago
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29 comments
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Different language models learn similar number representations
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arxiv.org
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| 112 points by
Anon84
1 day ago
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47 comments
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Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock
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phys.org
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| 62 points by
wglb
1 day ago
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10 comments
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MiniZinc, constraint modelling language solve discrete optimisation problems
(
minizinc.org
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×1.35
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| 50 points by
Alifatisk
1 day ago
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discuss
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Social media is no longer social
(
bsky.app
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| 29 points by
frereubu
6 hours ago
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14 comments
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How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
(
leaflet.pub
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| 367 points by
calcifer
1 day ago
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341 comments
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Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
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jeroen.github.io
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| 125 points by
datajeroen
1 day ago
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39 comments
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The longest train journey in the EU
(
jonworth.eu
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| 9 points by
fanf2
2 hours ago
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1 comments
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Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
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socket.dev
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| 861 points by
tosh
2 days ago
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417 comments
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Using the internet like it's 1999
(
joshblais.com
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| 251 points by
joshuablais
1 day ago
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186 comments
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
(
anthropic.com
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| 927 points by
mfiguiere
2 days ago
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715 comments
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Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels
(
furrtek.org
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×0.70
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| 40 points by
pabs3
17 hours ago
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6 comments
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CSS as a Query Language
(
evdc.me
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×0.91
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| 79 points by
evnc
1 day ago
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27 comments
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Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
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github.com/matz
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| 340 points by
dluan
1 day ago
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87 comments
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Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go
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github.com/NV404
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×1.09
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| 136 points by
aliezsid
1 day ago
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27 comments
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The operating cost of adult and gambling startups
(
orchidfiles.com
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| 130 points by
theorchid
1 day ago
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208 comments
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Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance"
(
pluralistic.net
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| 3 points by
hn_acker
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers
(
recurse.com
)
×1.09
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| 75 points by
nicholasjbs
1 day ago
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10 comments
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ML supports existence of unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena
(
arxiv.org
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| 71 points by
solarist
1 day ago
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54 comments
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UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub
(
rocher.lc
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| 195 points by
Cynddl
2 days ago
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56 comments
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TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale
(
googleblog.com
)
×1.33
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| 198 points by
mji
1 day ago
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18 comments
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SFO Quiet Airport (2025)
(
viewfromthewing.com
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×1.43
| 149 points by
CaliforniaKarl
1 day ago
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94 comments
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Why Not Venus?
(
mceglowski.substack.com
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| 149 points by
zdw
1 day ago
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93 comments
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
(
openai.com
)
×2.40
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| 252 points by
arabicalories
1 day ago
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150 comments
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Is Italy the new tax haven for the global rich?
(
bbc.com
)
×1.55
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| 21 points by
andsoitis
19 hours ago
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11 comments
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ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing
(
ieee.org
)
×0.48
53
| 17 points by
sohkamyung
15 hours ago
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1 comments
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