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  1. What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (stackexchange.com)
    ×2.37 1 | 422 points by napolux 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers (blog.google)
    ×1.17 5 | 71 points by roboboffin 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pokémon Go player data (nianticlabs.com)
    ×3.27 7 | 40 points by bookstore-romeo 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (frost.kiwi)
    ×2.79 2 | 407 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems (philipzucker.com)
    ×1.07 6 | 93 points by xlinux 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How good are American roads? (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.75 8 | 142 points by chmaynard 7 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. La Basilica Di San Pietro (microsoft.com)
    ×1.38 5 | 104 points by geox 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (mit.edu)
    ×8.66 3 | 139 points by gnabgib 5 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Head of Marketing (B2B) (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs
    ×1.92 5 | 20 points by jonasnelle 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM (acm.org)
    ×1.11 15 | 40 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot (msgtn.xyz)
    ×0.64 12 | 38 points by psychomugs 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies (hackaday.com)
    ×3.29 12 | 52 points by iancmceachern 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)
    ×4.48 6 | 412 points by perihelions 15 hours ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client (cardo-podcast.github.io)
    ×1.26 6 | 62 points by n0vella 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope (zed.dev)
    ×2.29 | 34 points by misternugget 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies" (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.02 13 | 25 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment (nytimes.com)
    ×3.79 22 | 30 points by tysone 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.35 16 | 39 points by cratermoon 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints (github.com/greymattergames)
    ×0.73 11 | 77 points by BrainBacon 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. FireDucks: Pandas but Faster (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.60 2 | 339 points by sebg 13 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (emschwartz.me)
    ×1.80 15 | 266 points by rrampage 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool (sonnet.io)
    ×0.81 20 | 48 points by rpastuszak 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts (cloudflare.com)
    ×4.14 16 | 9 points by hampus 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021) (abebooks.com)
    ×0.79 20 | 79 points by MrVandemar 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships (lbl.gov)
    ×0.64 28 | 16 points by gnabgib 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About (catonmat.net)
    ×2.65 9 | 47 points by lnyan 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs) (github.com/dbohdan)
    ×0.74 32 | 62 points by networked 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost (newstatesman.com)
    ×0.59 24 | 44 points by drdee 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion (toronto.edu)
    ×0.78 17 | 41 points by croes 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released (artanis.dev)
    ×1.88 14 | 118 points by nalaginrut 7 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Lush: My favorite small programming language (wordpress.com)
    ×1.54 19 | 105 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts (ripe.net)
    ×2.03 43 | 6 points by voytec 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python (sandimetz.com)
    ×1.65 34 | 229 points by mattcollins 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 1-Bit AI Infrastructure (arxiv.org)
    ×1.26 21 | 141 points by galeos 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess (nytimes.com)
    ×1.45 8 | 65 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why I hate the index finger (1980) (nih.gov)
    ×1.56 40 | 249 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner's Research Page (mpg.de)
    ×1.48 6 | 74 points by zardinality 8 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. SpaceX just got what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.66 10 | 5 points by TMWNN 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tiling with Three Polygons Is Undecidable (arxiv.org)
    ×1.00 39 | 128 points by denvaar 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork (github.com/OpenRiak)
    ×1.20 26 | 211 points by amarsahinovic 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Hand Tracking for Mouse Input (2023) (chernando.com)
    ×1.28 32 | 216 points by wonger_ 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Query Your Python Lists (github.com/mkalioby)
    ×0.84 41 | 78 points by mkalioby 21 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Talks Showroom Bots into 'Quitting Their Jobs' (latintimes.com)
    ×2.40 22 | 11 points by harambae 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. SOYO – Stream on Your Own (github.com/fal3n-4ngel)
    ×1.70 41 | 6 points by jason1610 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ukraine fires UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at Russia for first time (bbc.com)
    ×5.94 33 | 11 points by pelasaco 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.49 18 | 3 points by JohnHammersley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland (nytimes.com)
    ×0.84 47 | 71 points by mykowebhn 23 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Grant Sanderson: Visualizing transformers and attention [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.08 3 | 20 points by skadamat 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg (semiengineering.com)
    ×1.16 38 | 169 points by yatrios 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A People Search Engine with Face Recognition (introthem.com)
    ×1.19 27 | 17 points by vignesh_warar 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023) (researchgate.net)
    ×1.72 11 | 388 points by seanhunter 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. David Heinemeier Hansson joins Shopify's board (shopify.com)
    ×1.98 58 | 37 points by doppp 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Disassembling Crossroads, Part 1 (m65digest.substack.com)
    ×0.45 36 | 12 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nominal for Storing, Structural for Manipulating (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.56 49 | 40 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Nickel Plating Handbook [pdf] (nickelinstitute.org)
    ×0.81 41 | 52 points by nativeit 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers (andreinc.net)
    ×0.82 51 | 102 points by nomemory 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The tragedy of running an old Node project (abdisalan.com)
    ×2.08 57 | 254 points by abdisalan 2 days ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Large-Scale Dimension Reduction with Both Global and Local Structure (2021) [pdf] (jmlr.org)
    ×0.60 64 | 38 points by chaosprint 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles (marksblogg.com)
    ×2.79 1 | 466 points by marklit 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Foursquare Open Source (foursquare.com)
    ×2.49 12 | 6 points by kripy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Postiz – open-source social media scheduling tool (postiz.com)
    ×2.08 23 | 12 points by gitroom 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Rust library for numerical integration of real-valued functions (github.com/mtantaoui)
    ×0.71 37 | 122 points by mtantaoui 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Fortran II Hypersource (texdraft.github.io)
    ×0.55 57 | 76 points by texdraft 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail (obrhubr.org)
    ×0.99 34 | 131 points by xlinux 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Chemistry Breakthrough Might Change Everything from Medicine to Farming (scitechdaily.com)
    ×2.02 4 | 13 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts
    ×3.40 3 | 124 points by IAmGraydon 21 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways (cnn.com)
    ×1.95 27 | 55 points by peutetre 8 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science (reason.com)
    ×3.68 13 | 464 points by Bostonian 2 days ago | 940 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future (the-analog-thing.org)
    ×0.98 28 | 108 points by cgeier 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
    ×2.05 12 | 572 points by huntaub 2 days ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A subtle layout bug in Google Search: When CJK text-wrapping meets float (likang.dev)
    ×0.66 44 | 80 points by kang_li 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted (cnn.com)
    ×3.69 14 | 567 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 995 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera (apple.com)
    ×1.43 13 | 310 points by yunyu 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences (github.com/charmbracelet)
    ×0.81 65 | 98 points by linsomniac 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question (math-gpt.org)
    ×2.02 63 | 69 points by yannigk 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Dumbo – Hono inspired framework for PHP (github.com/notrab)
    ×0.78 78 | 75 points by notrab 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Foursquare Open Source Places Data (foursquare.com)
    ×1.89 15 | 4 points by lucidhss 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. When did estimates turn into deadlines? (domainanalysis.io)
    ×3.16 24 | 290 points by alexzeitler 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?
    ×1.67 | 232 points by aml183 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I designed my website to look like a chat log (ypson.com)
    ×1.73 21 | 49 points by AlexDragusin 21 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components (ieee.org)
    ×0.63 21 | 44 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank (github.com/circlemind-ai)
    ×1.77 8 | 445 points by liukidar 2 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Latest graphics driver for your Surface devices powered by Snapdragon X Elite (qualcomm.com)
    ×1.35 77 | 6 points by xgdgsc 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022) (wordpress.com)
    ×2.45 14 | 165 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 20 years of Google Scholar (blog.google)
    ×1.92 8 | 404 points by thepuppet33r 2 days ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Waiting for many things at once with io_uring (mazzo.li)
    ×0.83 62 | 111 points by ashvardanian 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business (theregister.com)
    ×2.06 13 | 9 points by rntn 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Amazon introduces Echo Show 21, its largest smart display ever (aboutamazon.com)
    ×1.77 16 | 11 points by marban 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: AI Infographic Generator (ezygraph.com)
    ×1.34 58 | 6 points by 0xcoder_cn 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???