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The Cypherpunk Library
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cypherpunkbooks.com
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| 137 points by
yu3zhou4
3 hours ago
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Dopamine Fracking
(
igerman.cc
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| 430 points by
igmn
9 hours ago
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1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
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troyhunt.com
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| 184 points by
882542F3884314B
8 hours ago
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67 comments
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A Family Project (2022)
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bittersoutherner.com
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| 42 points by
surprisetalk
3 hours ago
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2 comments
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Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)
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andreashohmann.com
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| 18 points by
Tomte
2 hours ago
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Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
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gavinray97.github.io
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| 692 points by
gavinray
17 hours ago
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309 comments
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How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
(
reeserichardson.blog
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| 58 points by
mhrmsn
5 hours ago
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23 comments
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Spherical Voronoi Diagram
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jasondavies.com
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| 33 points by
marysminefnuf
4 hours ago
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9 comments
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APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs
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teenage.engineering
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| 230 points by
vthommeret
10 hours ago
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123 comments
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Richard Scolyer Has Died
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bbc.com
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| 89 points by
nicwilson
8 hours ago
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20 comments
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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
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ranpara.net
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| 214 points by
DevarshRanpara
11 hours ago
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39 comments
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Playing with Vision Embeddings
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prestonbjensen.com
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| 81 points by
prestoj
7 hours ago
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6 comments
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Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot
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safedep.io
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| 11 points by
signa11
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Amber Tree: A Middle Ground Between Rowan Red and Green Trees
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gplane.win
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| 5 points by
gplane
1 hour ago
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discuss
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The EU Open Source Strategy
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europa.eu
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| 98 points by
vrganj
4 hours ago
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64 comments
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New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections
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science.org
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| 198 points by
gmays
10 hours ago
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OneDrive data now has an expiry date
(
ms365news.com
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| 98 points by
taubek
4 hours ago
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75 comments
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Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring
(
algorithmichiring.github.io
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| 114 points by
drchiu
10 hours ago
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Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)
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nik.art
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| 252 points by
herbertl
18 hours ago
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Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation
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github.com/markusheimerl
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| 39 points by
markusheimerl
8 hours ago
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2 comments
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Show HN: I Derived a Pancake
(
absurdlyoptimized.com
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| 256 points by
bkazez
15 hours ago
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102 comments
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Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
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computerweekly.com
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| 72 points by
robtherobber
4 hours ago
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20 comments
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DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
(
runtimewire.com
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| 305 points by
yogthos
10 hours ago
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149 comments
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A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W
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github.com/melastmohican
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| 132 points by
melastmohican
11 hours ago
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20 comments
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A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm
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microsoft.com
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| 33 points by
soheilpro
9 hours ago
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11 comments
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What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)
(
stackexchange.com
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| 206 points by
tosh
20 hours ago
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71 comments
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Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
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github.com/devenjarvis
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| 331 points by
devenjarvis
1 day ago
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60 comments
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The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners
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ioccc.org
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| 401 points by
matt_d
1 day ago
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91 comments
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How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
(
performance.dev
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| 432 points by
howToTestFE
17 hours ago
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200 comments
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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
(
bearblog.dev
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| 1023 points by
poisonfountain
23 hours ago
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Splash Is a Colour Format
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todepond.com
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| 68 points by
tobr
1 day ago
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86 comments
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Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
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bearblog.dev
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| 68 points by
omblivion
2 hours ago
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91 comments
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Giant Floating Victorian Drydock
(
mastermariners.org.au
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| 30 points by
dtj1123
6 hours ago
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18 comments
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An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight
(
radioworld.com
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| 184 points by
pkaeding
1 day ago
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Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests
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reuters.com
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| 119 points by
1vuio0pswjnm7
10 hours ago
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83 comments
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Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack
(
brixit.nl
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| 133 points by
zdw
21 hours ago
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19 comments
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Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003)
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cam.ac.uk
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| 15 points by
userbinator
6 hours ago
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discuss
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Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
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righto.com
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| 88 points by
elpocko
18 hours ago
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28 comments
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I design with Claude more than Figma now
(
janestreet.com
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| 291 points by
MrBuddyCasino
1 day ago
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252 comments
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1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
(
1worldflag.com
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| 122 points by
davidbarker
10 hours ago
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107 comments
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Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex
(
ycombinator.com
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19 hours ago
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discuss
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My automated doubt development process
(
alexself.dev
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| 82 points by
aself101
17 hours ago
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22 comments
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Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider (1960)
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mit.edu
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| 42 points by
rballpug
10 hours ago
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4 comments
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Do agents.md files help coding agents?
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twitter.com/rasbt
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| 46 points by
smushback
6 hours ago
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37 comments
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Doing Nothing at Work
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seangoedecke.com
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| 14 points by
Sukram21
3 hours ago
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3 comments
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Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)
(
podman.io
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| 119 points by
daesorin
22 hours ago
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6 comments
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Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs (2024)
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ydb.tech
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| 81 points by
b-man
16 hours ago
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51 comments
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Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
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github.com/anthropics
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| 504 points by
predkambrij
23 hours ago
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283 comments
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7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible
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yahoo.com
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| 96 points by
mikhael
10 hours ago
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28 comments
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Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas
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github.com/yukiyokotani
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| 137 points by
maxloh
18 hours ago
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53 comments
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Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
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| 705 points by
andrehacker
2 days ago
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Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup
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github.com/garethgeorge
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| 97 points by
flexagoon
20 hours ago
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History of CentOS
(
theregister.com
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| 7 points by
sohkamyung
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust
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symbolica.io
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| 157 points by
mmastrac
1 day ago
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22 comments
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Win16 Memory Management
(
os2museum.com
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| 142 points by
supermatou
1 day ago
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77 comments
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A visual introduction to kernel functions
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kelvinpaschal.com
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| 45 points by
Kelvinidan
18 hours ago
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11 comments
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Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding
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phoronix.com
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| 113 points by
Bender
13 hours ago
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19 comments
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Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×
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fergusfinn.com
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| 148 points by
kkm
1 day ago
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35 comments
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How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
(
hyperallergic.com
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| 186 points by
zeech
1 day ago
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105 comments
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Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
(
knowablemagazine.org
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| 165 points by
gscott
1 day ago
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84 comments
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Technical details of the attack described by Markoff in NYT
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kohala.com
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| 9 points by
jruohonen
8 hours ago
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1 comments
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Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
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arxiv.org
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| 171 points by
Anon84
1 day ago
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68 comments
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Back end is full of hidden workflows
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unmeshed.io
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| 16 points by
jusonchan81
11 hours ago
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4 comments
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Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries
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github.com/ValveSoftware
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| 273 points by
babuskov
1 day ago
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Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
(
mashable.com
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| 221 points by
thisislife2
1 day ago
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141 comments
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Show HN: Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE
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github.com/ninoxAI
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| 23 points by
egorferber
15 hours ago
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9 comments
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Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math
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alvaro-videla.com
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| 115 points by
old_sound
1 day ago
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38 comments
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The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview)
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theamphour.com
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| 70 points by
ChrisGammell
1 day ago
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7 comments
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Boron Buckyballs: B80 cages in the lab
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acs.org
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| 123 points by
crescit_eundo
1 day ago
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35 comments
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My Software North Star
(
kristoff.it
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| 212 points by
kristoff_it
1 day ago
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The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
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bbc.com
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| 141 points by
Brajeshwar
19 hours ago
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143 comments
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Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
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openai.com
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| 291 points by
pramodbiligiri
1 day ago
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199 comments
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KNN early termination in Manticore Search
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manticoresearch.com
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| 12 points by
snikolaev
13 hours ago
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discuss
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Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers
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kyushu.dev
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| 77 points by
le_chuck
1 day ago
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33 comments
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sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3
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gitlab.com
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| 54 points by
tosh
22 hours ago
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37 comments
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There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes
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safia.rocks
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| 41 points by
ankitg12
21 hours ago
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16 comments
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Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
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natesilver.net
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| 83 points by
7777777phil
16 hours ago
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247 comments
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Tech sell-off widens as South Korea index plunges
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ft.com
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| 56 points by
JumpCrisscross
10 hours ago
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23 comments
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Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction
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github.com/a-yiorgos
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| 51 points by
nextos
1 day ago
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5 comments
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Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
(
ntsc.rs
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| 411 points by
gregsadetsky
1 day ago
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123 comments
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How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible?
(
kdab.com
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| 35 points by
jandeboevrie
1 day ago
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Public Domain Image Archive
(
pdimagearchive.org
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| 251 points by
davidbarker
1 day ago
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33 comments
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Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
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cnbc.com
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| 309 points by
toephu2
2 days ago
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897 comments
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SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students
(
reclaimthenet.org
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| 45 points by
iamnothere
8 hours ago
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13 comments
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Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models
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arxiv.org
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| 51 points by
yorwba
1 day ago
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discuss
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The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
(
andersmurphy.com
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| 175 points by
emschwartz
2 days ago
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105 comments
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Vim Classic 8.3 Released
(
vim-classic.org
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| 51 points by
tempodox
1 day ago
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7 comments
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Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk
(
uonr.github.io
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×1.37
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| 184 points by
uonr
1 day ago
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32 comments
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How LLMs work
(
0xkato.xyz
)
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| 928 points by
0xkato
2 days ago
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264 comments
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The new bibliomaniacs
(
engelsbergideas.com
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| 82 points by
RickJWagner
2 days ago
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80 comments
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