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Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
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wordpress.com
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| 23 points by
ColinWright
29 minutes ago
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discuss
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LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
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cringebot3000.com
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| 204 points by
theanonymousone
4 hours ago
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78 comments
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Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation
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ad-si.com
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| 20 points by
adius
27 minutes ago
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discuss
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Dutch Train Map Simulator
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zaza.dev
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| 31 points by
zazaalaza
1 hour ago
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10 comments
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Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
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abc.net.au
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| 56 points by
robtherobber
58 minutes ago
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18 comments
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Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
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ox.ac.uk
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| 69 points by
robtherobber
1 hour ago
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54 comments
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The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
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aresluna.org
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| 210 points by
dcminter
9 hours ago
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37 comments
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Compression is prediction
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ngrok.com
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| 542 points by
nikolay
14 hours ago
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219 comments
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Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today
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worm.net
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| 47 points by
doener
3 hours ago
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16 comments
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Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials
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discoveredmaterials.com
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| 17 points by
advaith08
2 hours ago
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5 comments
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llama.cpp
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llama.app
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| 237 points by
kristianpaul
5 hours ago
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100 comments
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A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
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refp.se
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| 78 points by
refp
6 hours ago
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31 comments
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High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons
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petapixel.com
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| 4 points by
bookofjoe
1 hour ago
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discuss
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WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
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tencent-hunyuan.github.io
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| 228 points by
EwanG
12 hours ago
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69 comments
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
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stolen-thoughts.com
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| 626 points by
quantumgarbage
21 hours ago
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283 comments
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Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
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nvidia.com
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| 232 points by
droidjj
14 hours ago
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119 comments
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OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
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ft.com
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| 438 points by
ilamont
22 hours ago
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Mojo 1.0
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modular.com
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| 390 points by
dayanruben
17 hours ago
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198 comments
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The Human Is the Loop
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brentfitzgerald.com
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| 113 points by
burnto
8 hours ago
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52 comments
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Grok Bot
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x.ai
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| 291 points by
rvz
17 hours ago
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254 comments
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DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio
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dronexl.co
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| 44 points by
daau
7 hours ago
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28 comments
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The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood
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whdh.com
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| 86 points by
andsoitis
8 hours ago
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25 comments
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Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
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photosynthesis.camera
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| 292 points by
sajomes
18 hours ago
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268 comments
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Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?
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cbc.ca
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| 14 points by
empressplay
3 hours ago
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13 comments
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Making holograms with a pen plotter
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matelsky.com
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| 166 points by
DemiGuru
15 hours ago
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17 comments
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Retire the Abstractions
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stanford.edu
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| 54 points by
convexstrictly
10 hours ago
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57 comments
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London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
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btp.police.uk
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| 341 points by
BlueBerry2001
1 day ago
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393 comments
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Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux
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github.com/yikerman
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| 70 points by
xiaoyu2006
12 hours ago
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6 comments
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Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths
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science.org
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| 35 points by
surprisetalk
7 hours ago
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1 comments
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Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
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jolt-lang.github.io
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| 197 points by
mark_l_watson
19 hours ago
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66 comments
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Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
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googleblog.com
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| 383 points by
0xedb
17 hours ago
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441 comments
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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
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bbc.com
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| 542 points by
stevekemp
21 hours ago
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385 comments
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Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout
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line9.ai
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| 74 points by
jumpalongjim
11 hours ago
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20 comments
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Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
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quantamagazine.org
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| 47 points by
rbanffy
9 hours ago
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2 comments
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Manus will return to operating as an independent company
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manus.im
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| 163 points by
thm
20 hours ago
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82 comments
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CSS properties you should know for better text designs
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master.dev
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| 118 points by
ibobev
17 hours ago
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19 comments
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Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
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github.com/TheRealYT
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| 154 points by
YonathanTesfaye
19 hours ago
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99 comments
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Ethical Cold Outreach
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val.town
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| 47 points by
stevekrouse
11 hours ago
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59 comments
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Nvidia's Risky Business
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stratechery.com
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jonbaer
1 day ago
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166 comments
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How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
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ironicsans.ghost.io
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speckx
16 hours ago
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120 comments
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What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy
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lighthousenewsletter.com
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| 182 points by
j0selit0
23 hours ago
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25 comments
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As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
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thewalrus.ca
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| 904 points by
awnird
1 day ago
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pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries
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clickhouse.com
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| 59 points by
saisrirampur
12 hours ago
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5 comments
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Crew, a multiplayer workspace for humans and AI agents to work together
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github.com/JamelHammoud
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| 7 points by
alihammoud21
7 hours ago
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discuss
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Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
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writemd.app
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| 94 points by
danielbilekq
21 hours ago
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74 comments
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RSI Simulator
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paradigm.xyz
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| 43 points by
ckraeuter
13 hours ago
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18 comments
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How Claude marks AI-generated content
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claude.com
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| 434 points by
mfiguiere
1 day ago
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396 comments
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OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1
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openssh.org
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| 113 points by
voxadam
16 hours ago
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35 comments
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Single-pixel width legible LCD font – Subpixel Text Encoding
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msarnoff.org
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| 5 points by
adunk
2 hours ago
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To save C, we must save ABI (2022)
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thephd.dev
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| 124 points by
gurjeet
1 day ago
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148 comments
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Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything
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trykeet.com
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| 46 points by
zackashen
19 hours ago
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45 comments
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LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models
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huggingface.co
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| 165 points by
nateb2022
1 day ago
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40 comments
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The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics
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momath.org
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| 24 points by
vismit2000
13 hours ago
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3 comments
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Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models
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arxiv.org
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| 60 points by
doener
13 hours ago
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30 comments
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Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
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meta.ai
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| 1191 points by
riordan
2 days ago
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637 comments
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Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting
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smithsonianmag.com
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| 38 points by
pseudolus
18 hours ago
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9 comments
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Congressional Letter to Sam Altman demanding HuggingFace incident transparency [pdf]
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house.gov
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| 9 points by
reasonableklout
3 hours ago
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Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?
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s-1.vercel.app
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| 57 points by
Taikhoom10
6 hours ago
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90 comments
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H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
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github.com/antirez
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| 430 points by
swyx
1 day ago
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95 comments
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Faster floating point math with Rust's new API
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pythonspeed.com
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| 108 points by
subset
1 day ago
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49 comments
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Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp
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github.com/trycua
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| 292 points by
frabonacci
19 hours ago
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43 comments
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US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
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cbsnews.com
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| 117 points by
shagie
11 hours ago
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99 comments
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Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
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anthropic.com
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| 270 points by
tosh
1 day ago
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173 comments
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Nokia Design Archive
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aalto.fi
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| 16 points by
structuredPizza
13 hours ago
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Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
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ft.com
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| 634 points by
root-parent
1 day ago
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France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
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lemonde.fr
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| 1028 points by
aziaziazi
1 day ago
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486 comments
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Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
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cactuscompute.com
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| 517 points by
HenryNdubuaku
1 day ago
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172 comments
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Recycle – Floppydisks
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floppydisk.com
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| 118 points by
calvinmorrison
1 day ago
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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
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krebsonsecurity.com
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| 12 points by
DemiGuru
12 hours ago
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2 comments
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Europe is the fastest warming continent. What is to blame?
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theguardian.com
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| 3 points by
ndsipa_pomu
2 hours ago
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The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
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effort.news
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| 651 points by
slowin
1 day ago
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Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline
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github.com/AntigmaLabs
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| 160 points by
ubermon
1 day ago
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88 comments
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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
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arstechnica.com
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| 40 points by
dangle1
9 hours ago
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15 comments
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Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client
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github.com/activeing123
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| 71 points by
mcptokensaver
1 day ago
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45 comments
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Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word
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medium.com
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| 115 points by
extralongdivisi
1 day ago
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29 comments
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Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
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arachnoid.com
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| 169 points by
AntiRush
1 day ago
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60 comments
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Closing Canario Terminal source code
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rapha.land
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atan2
1 day ago
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54 comments
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Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
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arstechnica.com
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| 26 points by
Gaishan
9 hours ago
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39 comments
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Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers
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arstechnica.com
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| 8 points by
joozio
3 hours ago
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Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt
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github.com/xoreaxeaxeax
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| 182 points by
WhiteDawn
1 day ago
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78 comments
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Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
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bbc.com
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| 403 points by
RickJWagner
1 day ago
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590 comments
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Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI
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404media.co
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| 178 points by
Anon84
8 hours ago
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39 comments
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50k Boat Names
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beautifulpublicdata.com
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| 190 points by
jonathanmkeegan
1 day ago
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111 comments
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Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week
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bbc.com
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| 137 points by
dijksterhuis
2 days ago
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Chicken Scheme 6.0
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call-cc.org
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| 296 points by
eatonphil
1 day ago
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56 comments
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Show HN: TermDOM – HTML, CSS and JavaScript (With a Real DOM) for TUIs and CLIs
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github.com/bikeshaving
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bikeshaving
16 hours ago
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discuss
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Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
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| 207 points by
BoxOfRain
1 day ago
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72 comments
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Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
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openai.com
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| 124 points by
hackerBanana
1 day ago
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229 comments
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New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner
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newbedfordlight.org
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| 178 points by
newsomix9xl
8 hours ago
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83 comments
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Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
(
docker.com
)
×3.21
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| 684 points by
etoxin
2 days ago
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392 comments
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