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  1. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia (miksovsky.com)
    ×7.16 | 2091 points by pabs3 6 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Onion buys Infowars (nytimes.com)
    ×9.46 | 1888 points by coloneltcb 6 days ago | 1227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome (bloomberg.com)
    ×8.45 | 1178 points by redm 2 days ago | 1380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties (lanparty.house)
    ×5.87 | 1068 points by kentonv 4 days ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple` (michaelcharl.es)
    ×4.77 | 876 points by thunderbong 4 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time (virginmediao2.co.uk)
    ×3.56 | 706 points by ortusdux 6 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development (pikuma.com)
    ×2.86 | 693 points by atan2 1 week ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess (dynomight.substack.com)
    ×3.85 | 688 points by crescit_eundo 6 days ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.20 | 617 points by lukebennett 1 week ago | 602 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Thomas E. Kurtz has died (computerhistory.org)
    ×3.20 | 613 points by 1986 6 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver (theo.io)
    ×3.58 | 590 points by consumer451 4 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted (cnn.com)
    ×3.69 | 575 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 1001 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
    ×2.05 | 572 points by huntaub 2 days ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update (half-life.com)
    ×5.45 | 565 points by Philpax 5 days ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (stackexchange.com)
    ×2.27 #5 | 523 points by napolux 16 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot (naehrdine.blogspot.com)
    ×2.47 | 510 points by moonsword 3 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Biological Miracle – Wood Frog (nps.gov)
    ×2.18 | 500 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (frost.kiwi)
    ×2.73 #32 | 496 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)
    ×4.44 #53 | 491 points by perihelions 23 hours ago | 623 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson (sportingnews.com)
    ×3.83 | 490 points by storf45 5 days ago | 924 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now (letsencrypt.org)
    ×6.05 | 486 points by gslin 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles (marksblogg.com)
    ×2.80 #84 | 475 points by marklit 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science (reason.com)
    ×3.69 | 473 points by Bostonian 2 days ago | 956 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (mit.edu)
    ×7.00 #14 | 469 points by gnabgib 13 hours ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AI makes tech debt more expensive (gauge.sh)
    ×2.74 | 464 points by 0x63_Problems 6 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (techdirt.com)
    ×4.65 | 462 points by chocmake 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100 (elliott-king.github.io)
    ×3.99 | 461 points by thunderbong 6 days ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010) (simondobson.org)
    ×2.53 | 460 points by pieterr 4 days ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Maybe Bluesky has "won" (anderegg.ca)
    ×5.47 | 457 points by GavinAnderegg 5 days ago | 791 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank (github.com/circlemind-ai)
    ×1.77 | 446 points by liukidar 2 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.71 | 424 points by benchmarkist 2 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Lessons from my first exit (mtlynch.io)
    ×2.35 | 408 points by saeedesmaili 6 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 20 years of Google Scholar (blog.google)
    ×1.93 | 406 points by thepuppet33r 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023) (michaels.world)
    ×4.28 | 404 points by blindgeek 2 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates (lancaster.ac.uk)
    ×4.17 | 395 points by gmays 3 days ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month (gamediscover.co)
    ×2.21 | 393 points by TaurenHunter 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023) (researchgate.net)
    ×1.72 #75 | 392 points by seanhunter 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs (arxiv.org)
    ×3.39 | 391 points by JSeymourATL 6 days ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP (ezzeriesa.notion.site)
    ×1.93 | 389 points by kurinikku 3 days ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# (github.com/BAndysc)
    ×2.31 | 377 points by porterde 6 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Francois Chollet is leaving Google (googleblog.com)
    ×2.44 | 376 points by xnx 1 week ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux (github.com/epasveer)
    ×1.77 | 375 points by turrini 5 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. FireDucks: Pandas but Faster (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.55 #37 | 369 points by sebg 21 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Good Software Development Habits (zarar.dev)
    ×3.15 | 360 points by mmphosis 3 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Reactive HTML Notebooks (maxbo.me)
    ×2.03 | 355 points by california-og 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity (thedebrief.org)
    ×1.97 | 354 points by jchanimal 4 days ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe (legiscope.com)
    ×3.25 | 332 points by vegasbrianc 6 days ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×3.14 | 323 points by timbilt 1 week ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Yggdrasil Network (yggdrasil-network.github.io)
    ×1.87 | 322 points by BSDobelix 4 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200 (relativty.com)
    ×2.15 | 322 points by LorenDB 6 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design (zach.be)
    ×2.37 | 317 points by laserduck 4 days ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We are shutting down Ondsel (ondsel.com)
    ×2.65 | 315 points by pabs3 3 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera (apple.com)
    ×1.44 | 313 points by yunyu 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data (nianticlabs.com)
    ×2.21 #1 | 312 points by bookstore-romeo 10 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Interview with gwern (dwarkeshpatel.com)
    ×2.27 | 308 points by synthmeat 6 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. When did estimates turn into deadlines? (domainanalysis.io)
    ×3.22 #82 | 303 points by alexzeitler 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? (microsoft.com)
    ×3.09 | 302 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SQLite Index Visualization (mrsuh.com)
    ×1.46 | 294 points by mrsuh 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor (joshtumath.uk)
    ×1.55 | 293 points by ulrischa 2 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds (roadandtrack.com)
    ×8.36 | 293 points by MBCook 5 days ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server (mailcatcher.me)
    ×1.59 | 292 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown (llamaocr.com)
    ×2.31 | 292 points by lapnect 5 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure (fbi.gov)
    ×2.14 | 286 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 1 week ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.75 | 285 points by joegibbs 6 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017) (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.27 | 283 points by IdealeZahlen 6 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.97 | 283 points by belter 1 week ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (emschwartz.me)
    ×1.79 #66 | 282 points by rrampage 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming (tips.io)
    ×1.88 | 282 points by TIPSIO 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Is Chrome the New IE? (2023) (magiclasso.co)
    ×2.66 | 280 points by bentocorp 3 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Against Best Practices (arp242.net)
    ×2.17 | 276 points by ingve 2 days ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs (closingwtf.com)
    ×1.59 | 273 points by aaln 5 days ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF (redhat.com)
    ×2.20 | 272 points by twelvenmonkeys 6 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens (phys.org)
    ×1.36 | 268 points by wglb 4 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.15 | 267 points by nradov 2 days ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine (github.com/trynova)
    ×1.63 | 267 points by aapoalas 3 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code (flightglobal.com)
    ×1.70 | 265 points by basilesimon 6 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing (twitter.com/spacex)
    ×1.99 | 264 points by alach11 1 day ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. James Gleick's Chaos: The Software (github.com/rudyrucker)
    ×1.68 | 264 points by signa11 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls (onair.io)
    ×1.53 | 263 points by bigmicro 5 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Using Erlang hot code updates (underjord.io)
    ×1.66 | 262 points by lawik 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots (voyageai.com)
    ×1.37 | 261 points by fzliu 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app (htmx.org)
    ×3.23 | 259 points by gherkinnn 3 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems (securityweek.com)
    ×4.15 | 258 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.48 | 258 points by JumpCrisscross 1 week ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The tragedy of running an old Node project (abdisalan.com)
    ×2.06 #79 | 257 points by abdisalan 2 days ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Please stop the coding challenges (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.62 | 257 points by CrazyEmi 5 days ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems (github.com/oracle)
    ×1.47 | 256 points by BSDobelix 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Why I hate the index finger (1980) (nih.gov)
    ×1.55 #90 | 253 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast (helix.ml)
    ×1.87 | 250 points by lewq 6 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan (axios.com)
    ×4.13 | 249 points by jaboutboul 1 week ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???