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  1. Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones (ericmigi.com)
    ×6.46 38 | 1671 points by griffinli 6 days ago | 1102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Two new PebbleOS watches (ericmigi.com)
    ×5.99 39 | 1653 points by griffinli 6 days ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GIMP 3.0 (gimp.org)
    ×6.62 60 | 1308 points by wicket 6 days ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Claude can now search the web (anthropic.com)
    ×4.50 16 | 1213 points by meetpateltech 4 days ago | 724 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. France rejects backdoor mandate (eff.org)
    ×5.97 2 | 1012 points by hn_acker 2 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks (theguardian.com)
    ×14.40 51 | 984 points by n1b0m 5 days ago | 828 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (thelibre.news)
    ×6.79 26 | 967 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 613 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The Burnout Machine (unionize.fyi)
    ×5.10 29 | 811 points by flxfxp 4 days ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted (reuters.com)
    ×4.23 74 | 762 points by rvz 6 days ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) (ericdraken.com)
    ×3.48 82 | 754 points by udev4096 6 days ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Frontend Treadmill (polotek.net)
    ×3.35 40 | 744 points by Kerrick 4 days ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' (github.com/sharkdp)
    ×3.46 64 | 701 points by tosh 5 days ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Pain That Is GitHub Actions (feldera.com)
    ×3.38 53 | 696 points by qianli_cs 4 days ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. OpenAI Audio Models (openai.fm)
    ×3.39 43 | 651 points by KuzeyAbi 4 days ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How fast the days are getting longer (2023) (joe-antognini.github.io)
    ×2.46 68 | 606 points by antognini 5 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Google to buy Wiz for $32B (reuters.com)
    ×2.74 89 | 605 points by uncertainrhymes 6 days ago | 837 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president (reuters.com)
    ×5.96 84 | 603 points by perihelions 5 days ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Moving away from US cloud services (martijnhols.nl)
    ×6.10 97 | 575 points by MartijnHols 6 days ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding (ezyang.github.io)
    ×2.93 72 | 571 points by rahimnathwani 5 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Boycott IETF 127 (boycott-ietf127.org)
    ×8.07 36 | 566 points by randompeach 3 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008) (oncontracts.com)
    ×2.71 13 | 553 points by wallflower 2 days ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them (github.com/jwbee)
    ×2.51 87 | 540 points by jeffbee 5 days ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol (github.com/Devolutions)
    ×2.30 25 | 535 points by mikece 3 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015) (kellblog.com)
    ×2.44 30 | 535 points by AnhTho_FR 3 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Rippling sues Deel over spying (twitter.com/parkerconrad)
    ×2.86 106 | 534 points by amacneil 1 week ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date (bluemigrate.com)
    ×2.14 96 | 518 points by nols05 6 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Lost Art of Research as Leisure (kasurian.com)
    ×2.24 83 | 497 points by altilunium 5 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers (github.com/Zouuup)
    ×2.68 11 #83 | 493 points by Zoup 2 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Worst Programmer I Know (2023) (dannorth.net)
    ×3.92 10 #47 | 485 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different (arxiv.org)
    ×2.19 110 | 483 points by wuubuu 1 week ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself (reuters.com)
    ×5.21 31 #59 | 462 points by healsdata 16 hours ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust (crates.io)
    ×2.41 17 | 460 points by klaussilveira 5 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Crew-9 Returns to Earth (spacex.com)
    ×2.58 92 | 460 points by saikatsg 5 days ago | 657 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers (ca.gov)
    ×4.63 | 458 points by thoughtpeddler 2 days ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud (theregister.com)
    ×3.59 99 | 455 points by johnshades 6 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing? (plausible.io)
    ×7.85 77 | 451 points by themeaningist 12 hours ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow (freedom.press)
    ×3.80 102 | 447 points by healsdata 6 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns (onether.com)
    ×2.76 36 #26 | 442 points by wesz 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PyTorch Internals: Ezyang's Blog (ezyang.com)
    ×1.93 22 #76 | 430 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.83 31 | 409 points by ibobev 3 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union (engadget.com)
    ×4.47 88 | 409 points by ksec 5 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs (eugeneyan.com)
    ×2.03 23 #57 | 392 points by 7d7n 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The little book about OS development (littleosbook.github.io)
    ×2.39 35 | 363 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Archival Storage (dshr.org)
    ×1.65 121 | 361 points by rbanffy 1 week ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops (crates.io)
    ×2.56 1 #3 | 351 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Liberapay (liberapay.com)
    ×2.41 47 | 351 points by nanna 6 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×2.38 45 | 346 points by adrian_mrd 5 days ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?
    ×1.91 108 | 343 points by gremlinsinc 6 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options (theregister.com)
    ×5.57 78 | 334 points by rippeltippel 4 days ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web (github.com/smparsons)
    ×1.80 69 | 332 points by ingve 3 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri (yahoo.com)
    ×2.52 59 | 331 points by bbzjk7 3 days ago | 558 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The High Heel Problem (simonschreibt.de)
    ×2.40 122 | 330 points by lehi 6 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Sync Engines Are the Future (instantdb.com)
    ×2.33 63 | 327 points by GarethX 6 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Leaking Passwords and more on macOS (wts.dev)
    ×2.10 75 | 321 points by nmgycombinator 4 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans (theatlantic.com)
    ×109.06 89 | 316 points by _tk_ 4 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. George Foreman has died (variety.com)
    ×2.60 33 | 315 points by wallflower 2 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one (heyopenspot.com)
    ×2.92 36 #22 | 309 points by fliellerjulian 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The indieweb doesn't need to “take off” (susam.net)
    ×2.19 65 | 309 points by susam 3 days ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder (eff.org)
    ×3.11 46 | 308 points by healsdata 3 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies (wired.com)
    ×3.67 111 | 306 points by gnabgib 6 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Memory safety for web fonts (chrome.com)
    ×1.67 101 | 304 points by mmmrk 5 days ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision (mozilla.ai)
    ×1.53 11 | 302 points by Brysonbw 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers (x.company)
    ×1.82 129 | 302 points by tadeegan 1 week ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset (righto.com)
    ×1.45 35 #30 | 299 points by zdw 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Origin of the Pork Taboo (archaeology.org)
    ×1.88 105 | 298 points by diodorus 5 days ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model (tencent.com)
    ×1.70 14 | 293 points by marban 2 days ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds (szymanowiczs.github.io)
    ×1.41 98 | 290 points by jasondavies 4 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Use Long Options in Scripts (matklad.github.io)
    ×2.63 49 | 288 points by OptionOfT 3 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS (windows.com)
    ×1.36 91 | 285 points by SigmundurM 4 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Designing Electronics That Work (hscott.net)
    ×1.59 118 | 285 points by teleforce 6 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Calibre 8.0 (calibre-ebook.com)
    ×4.15 62 | 284 points by thawawaycold 3 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.84 131 | 282 points by jgrahamc 1 week ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store) (apple.com)
    ×2.13 20 #33 | 281 points by rooster117 23 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon (fastcall.dev)
    ×1.42 95 | 276 points by fastcall 4 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction (turing.ac.uk)
    ×1.46 26 #20 | 275 points by bentobean 20 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor (luj.fr)
    ×1.82 12 | 275 points by birdculture 2 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly (techstartups.com)
    ×6.30 130 | 265 points by 05bmckay 6 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The polar vortex is hitting the brakes (climate.gov)
    ×1.63 15 | 264 points by bryanrasmussen 2 days ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Powers of 2 with all even digits (oeis.org)
    ×1.32 90 | 264 points by Hbruz0 4 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies (zacharyhuang.substack.com)
    ×1.77 103 | 263 points by zh2408 4 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Understanding Solar Energy (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.54 94 | 259 points by chmaynard 4 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The SeL4 Microkernel: An Introduction [pdf] (sel4.systems)
    ×1.35 36 #39 | 254 points by snvzz 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Konva.js - Declarative 2D Canvas for React, Vue, and Svelte (konvajs.org)
    ×1.54 109 | 252 points by lavrton 5 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming (github.com/sinclairtarget)
    ×1.64 120 | 252 points by weebst 6 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face (drewdevault.com)
    ×8.41 126 | 250 points by Tomte 6 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why (reason.com)
    ×4.71 67 | 247 points by pseudolus 3 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist (github.com/mortdeus)
    ×1.70 22 #11 | 245 points by diginova 13 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table (wired.com)
    ×2.76 134 | 244 points by robin_reala 1 week ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests (theintercept.com)
    ×2.49 133 | 243 points by jbegley 1 week ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. CVE-2024-9956 – PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers (mastersplinter.work)
    ×2.49 114 | 242 points by rbanffy 5 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???