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  1. Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×7.74 | 274 points by DavideNL 2 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tokasaurus: An LLM inference engine for high-throughput workloads (stanford.edu)
    ×1.12 6 | 150 points by rsehrlich 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The impossible predicament of the death newts (crookedtimber.org)
    ×1.96 7 | 442 points by bdr 17 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite (github.com/wey-gu)
    ×1.78 3 | 68 points by wey-gu 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy (openai.com)
    ×2.47 3 | 145 points by BUFU 6 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Claude Composer (github.com/possibilities)
    ×1.09 6 | 91 points by mikebannister 8 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations (masonyarbrough.com)
    ×1.37 8 | 70 points by echollama 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally (countercraft.substack.com)
    ×0.81 14 | 27 points by benbreen 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024) (scharenbroch.dev)
    ×1.05 10 | 87 points by ofalkaed 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What a developer needs to know about SCIM (tesseral.com)
    ×1.50 4 | 80 points by noleary 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device (networkedartifacts.com)
    ×2.34 13 | 380 points by 256dpi 23 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Seven Days at the Bin Store (defector.com)
    ×1.42 9 | 173 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.44 25 | 98 points by bundie 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SkyRoof: New Ham Satellite Tracking and SDR Receiver Software (rtl-sdr.com)
    ×1.32 17 | 79 points by rmason 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Machine Learning: The Native Language of Biology (decodingbiology.substack.com)
    ×0.99 13 | 45 points by us-merul 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network (github.com/explainers-by-googlers)
    ×2.64 25 | 633 points by doener 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Lambduck, a Functional Programming Brainfuck (imjakingit.github.io)
    ×0.96 19 | 31 points by jorkingit 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) (tiddlywiki.com)
    ×2.36 15 | 16 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Universal Tech Tree (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.52 11 | 87 points by mitchbob 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I do not remember my life and it's fine (aethermug.com)
    ×4.13 16 | 163 points by mrcgnc 7 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Open Source Distilling (opensourcedistilling.com)
    ×1.33 4 | 25 points by nativeit 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024) (softwaredoug.com)
    ×2.16 24 | 57 points by softwaredoug 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Converge (YC S23) Well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers (runconverge.com)
    10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Programming language Dino and its implementation (github.com/dino-lang)
    ×0.73 32 | 46 points by 90s_dev 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API (thescreentimenetwork.com)
    ×0.92 10 | 86 points by anteloper 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Eleven v3 (elevenlabs.io)
    ×3.24 15 | 214 points by robertvc 12 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX (github.com/hyperdxio)
    ×2.30 14 | 206 points by mikeshi42 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How Common Is Multiple Invention? (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.10 22 | 33 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first (tudelft.nl)
    ×1.78 28 | 328 points by picture 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Container Use for Agents (github.com/dagger)
    ×1.71 19 | 57 points by aluzzardi 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. parrot.live (github.com/hugomd)
    ×1.76 35 | 218 points by jasonthorsness 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.39 16 | 296 points by robenkleene 17 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow? (zachdaniel.dev)
    ×1.80 31 | 234 points by uxcolumbo 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: String Flux – Simplify everyday string transformations for developers (stringflux.io)
    ×0.45 41 | 14 points by eaglepeak 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Phptop: Simple PHP ressource profiler, safe and useful for production sites (github.com/bearstech)
    ×0.67 35 | 98 points by kadrek 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. From tokens to thoughts: How LLMs and humans trade compression for meaning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.11 31 | 110 points by ggirelli 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation (usgs.gov)
    ×1.11 39 | 111 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones (dreamwidth.org)
    ×2.61 12 | 204 points by tabletcorry 17 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Prompt engineering playbook for programmers (addyo.substack.com)
    ×2.41 16 | 420 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization (seve.blog)
    ×1.11 23 | 198 points by seveibar 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.78 21 | 340 points by marklit 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cursor 1.0 (cursor.com)
    ×3.72 3 | 587 points by ecz 1 day ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old (cbc.ca)
    ×1.97 14 | 130 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud (iop.org)
    ×0.79 36 | 135 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Understanding the PURL Specification (Package URL) (fossa.com)
    ×0.74 6 | 71 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Aurora, a foundation model for the Earth system (nytimes.com)
    ×1.45 14 | 76 points by rmason 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.54 41 | 88 points by jawns 6 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (ffmpeg.org)
    ×3.22 15 | 844 points by Sean-Der 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision (softwareheritage.org)
    ×0.99 46 | 145 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How we reduced the impact of zombie clients (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.38 38 | 173 points by jaas 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. IRS Direct File on GitHub (chrisgiven.com)
    ×4.48 9 | 708 points by nickthegreek 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SP80 Breaks the 100kph (sailing) Barrier (sp80.ch)
    ×1.08 73 | 7 points by gnabgib 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas (texastribune.org)
    ×1.85 19 | 12 points by 1659447091 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 (deepmind.google)
    ×4.62 45 | 317 points by jcuenod 14 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Authentication with Axum (mattrighetti.com)
    ×0.70 53 | 77 points by mattrighetti 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Reproducing the deep double descent paper (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.66 47 | 13 points by stpn 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.34 30 | 125 points by dbreunig 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights (newyorker.com)
    ×1.21 35 | 128 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AGI is not multimodal (thegradient.pub)
    ×1.39 33 | 172 points by danielmorozoff 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Grab a Random ArXiv Paper (jepedersen.dk)
    ×0.77 56 | 11 points by jegp 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Machine Code Isn't Scary (jimmyhmiller.com)
    ×1.70 46 | 205 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: GPT image editing, but for 3D models (adamcad.com)
    ×1.15 27 | 170 points by zachdive 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A practical guide to building agents [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×1.81 14 | 232 points by tosh 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Helium Giants Return: LTA Research Airship over SF Bay (ieee.org)
    ×1.12 57 | 11 points by cratermoon 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Doubling Down on Open Source (langfuse.com)
    ×1.41 44 | 130 points by clemo_ra 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?
    ×1.67 35 | 268 points by june3739 2 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia (science.org)
    ×2.04 7 | 349 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Not all tokens are meant to be forgotten (arxiv.org)
    ×0.52 55 | 48 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Foam: A free Roam alternative for VSCode (github.com/foambubble)
    ×1.36 49 | 56 points by AbuAssar 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cysteine depletion triggers adipose tissue thermogenesis and weight loss (nature.com)
    ×1.36 26 | 88 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State (eff.org)
    ×3.21 11 | 421 points by doener 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.69 55 | 1086 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 890 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Dr. Sbaitso (classicreload.com)
    ×0.90 63 | 32 points by bovermyer 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Consider Knitting (stuffwithstuff.com)
    ×1.49 39 | 192 points by ingve 2 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Merlin Bird ID (allaboutbirds.org)
    ×3.18 7 | 606 points by twitchard 2 days ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone (google.com)
    ×1.67 3 | 312 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. If you're in Walnut Creek for 2 hours, the city is tracking you (mercurynews.com)
    ×2.91 5 | 24 points by gnabgib 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Redesigned Swift.org is now live (swift.org)
    ×1.86 3 | 169 points by lawgimenez 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format (diffx.org)
    ×1.69 3 | 368 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Create LLM graders and run evals in JavaScript with one file (github.com/bolt-foundry)
    ×2.75 3 | 26 points by randall 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Neuromorphic computing (lanl.gov)
    ×1.20 34 | 52 points by LAsteNERD 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A critical look at NetBSD’s installer (wordpress.com)
    ×0.81 50 | 108 points by jaypatelani 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics (ieee.org)
    ×1.03 44 | 47 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. VectorSmuggle: Covertly Exfiltrate Data in Embeddings (github.com/jaschadub)
    ×0.47 63 | 33 points by smugglereal 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Statement on California State Senate Advancing Dangerous Surveillance Bill (eff.org)
    ×2.55 14 | 31 points by noptd 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. From Steam to Silicon: Patterns of Technological Revolutions (ianreppel.org)
    ×0.48 57 | 48 points by hbartab 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 'Bohemian Rhapsody': The Story Behind Queen's Rule-Breaking Classic Song (udiscovermusic.com)
    ×1.18 61 | 29 points by susam 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Why I wrote the BEAM book (happihacking.com)
    ×2.35 34 | 592 points by lawik 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Writing a postmortem: an interview exercise I like (2017) (danielputtick.com)
    ×0.80 52 | 80 points by wonger_ 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure (reuters.com)
    ×4.83 53 | 495 points by kklisura 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???