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  1. How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF) (simonwillison.net)
    ×7.64 #58 | 2048 points by babelfish 2 days ago | 1317 comments | ??? ???
  2. Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week (cnbc.com)
    ×8.65 #78 | 1458 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 1826 comments | ??? ???
  3. Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon (reuters.com)
    ×7.87 #17 | 800 points by logicchains 18 hours ago | 1750 comments | ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
    ×4.53 | 740 points by sirobg 3 days ago | 334 comments | ??? ???
  5. Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured as devices explode (timesofisrael.com)
    ×6.41 | 699 points by FridayoLeary 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  6. Terence Tao on O1 (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.27 | 659 points by dselsam 3 days ago | 479 comments | ??? ???
  7. Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC (timculpan.substack.com)
    ×4.52 #1 | 616 points by colinprince 6 hours ago | 242 comments | ??? ???
  8. CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our process' (semafor.com)
    ×4.13 | 561 points by everybodyknows 4 days ago | 295 comments | ??? ???
  9. Boeing workers vote to strike (washingtonpost.com)
    ×4.00 | 560 points by isaacfrond 5 days ago | 538 comments | ??? ???
  10. OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought (twitter.com/SmokeAwayyy)
    ×6.41 | 509 points by jsheard 4 days ago | 295 comments | ??? ???
  11. Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra (downtowndougbrown.com)
    ×2.58 #46 | 486 points by miles 1 day ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  12. How America's universities became debt factories (anandsanwal.me)
    ×3.87 | 481 points by car 3 days ago | 540 comments | ??? ???
  13. OpenSCAD: The Programmer's Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
    ×2.16 | 471 points by LorenDB 3 days ago | 187 comments | ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: DanBC has died
    ×3.10 | 466 points by in_memoriam 2 days ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  15. Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned (theverge.com)
    ×3.69 | 460 points by nickcotter 5 days ago | 217 comments | ??? ???
  16. Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS (medium.com)
    ×2.35 | 457 points by jviide 4 days ago | 158 comments | ??? ???
  17. Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (brailleinstitute.org)
    ×3.36 #5 | 452 points by fanf2 12 hours ago | 124 comments | ??? ???
  18. Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.13 | 451 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 304 comments | ??? ???
  19. Nothing: Simply Do Nothing (usenothing.com)
    ×3.00 | 448 points by psvisualdesign 2 days ago | 189 comments | ??? ???
  20. Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn (blockchain.com)
    ×2.65 | 428 points by mrb 2 days ago | 384 comments | ??? ???
  21. macOS Sequoia 15 may bypass DNS encryption (obdev.at)
    ×2.17 #4 | 422 points by HelenePhisher 12 hours ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  22. My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures (louwrentius.com)
    ×2.14 | 419 points by louwrentius 4 days ago | 298 comments | ??? ???
  23. Why Scrum is stressing you out (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
    ×3.77 #81 | 416 points by aard 3 days ago | 438 comments | ??? ???
  24. Writing an OS in Rust (github.com/phil-opp)
    ×2.45 | 413 points by udev4096 3 days ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  25. Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch (tymoon.eu)
    ×1.67 | 411 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 80 comments | ??? ???
  26. One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016) (science.org)
    ×2.36 | 401 points by redbell 3 days ago | 255 comments | ??? ???
  27. Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc. (github.com/phiresky)
    ×2.44 #9 | 392 points by bukacdan 18 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  28. How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire (peterszasz.com)
    ×1.89 | 391 points by kiyanwang 2 days ago | 201 comments | ??? ???
  29. Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board (23andme.com)
    ×3.46 #3 | 383 points by LarsDu88 10 hours ago | 181 comments | ??? ???
  30. macOS Sequoia is available today (apple.com)
    ×3.59 | 380 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 592 comments | ??? ???
  31. Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech (ianbetteridge.com)
    ×4.12 | 379 points by rpgbr 3 days ago | 222 comments | ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Wordllama – Things you can do with the token embeddings of an LLM (github.com/dleemiller)
    ×1.91 | 365 points by deepsquirrelnet 3 days ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
    ×2.43 | 358 points by askHN2024 3 days ago | 316 comments | ??? ???
  34. Swift 6 (swift.org)
    ×4.03 #52 | 357 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 256 comments | ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative (github.com/voideditor)
    ×2.84 | 332 points by andrewpareles 1 day ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  36. g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains (github.com/bklieger-groq)
    ×1.81 | 332 points by gfortaine 2 days ago | 145 comments | ??? ???
  37. Launch HN: Silurian (YC S24) – Simulate the Earth
    ×1.33 #35 | 329 points by rejuvyesh 1 day ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  38. Plain Text Accounting (PTA) (plaintextaccounting.org)
    ×1.85 | 322 points by iscream26 2 days ago | 117 comments | ??? ???
  39. Linux 6.11 Released (lwn.net)
    ×3.03 | 292 points by jrepinc 2 days ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  40. D&D is Anti-Medieval (blogofholding.com)
    ×2.07 | 292 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 392 comments | ??? ???
  41. Lisp implemented in Rust macros (github.com/RyanWelly)
    ×1.45 | 292 points by quasigloam 4 days ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  42. Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash (indystar.com)
    ×2.98 | 291 points by Drunk_Engineer 1 day ago | 235 comments | ??? ???
  43. Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure? (hadijaveed.me)
    ×2.45 | 290 points by hjaveed 5 days ago | 386 comments | ??? ???
  44. LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This (arxiv.org)
    ×2.63 | 288 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 257 comments | ??? ???
  45. Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP (lwn.net)
    ×1.88 | 285 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 221 comments | ??? ???
  46. Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi (github.com/TzuHuanTai)
    ×1.86 | 281 points by Sean-Der 2 days ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  47. Show HN: FlowTracker – Track data flowing through Java programs (github.com/coekie)
    ×1.50 | 279 points by coekie 4 days ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  48. Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI (abc.net.au)
    ×3.49 | 271 points by elashri 4 days ago | 250 comments | ??? ???
  49. The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999) (bjash.com)
    ×1.89 | 270 points by newswasboring 3 days ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  50. Who Owns Nebula? (medium.com)
    ×3.49 | 269 points by mintplant 5 days ago | 103 comments | ??? ???
  51. Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption (synacktiv.com)
    ×1.62 | 267 points by alxjsn 4 days ago | 81 comments | ??? ???
  52. Intel lost the Sony Playstation business to AMD (reuters.com)
    ×2.51 | 266 points by arcanus 1 day ago | 186 comments | ??? ???
  53. Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat (mirror.xyz)
    ×1.59 | 265 points by noch 3 days ago | 207 comments | ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Bullshit Remover (bullshitremover.com)
    ×5.22 | 262 points by adrian-dzieg 3 days ago | 141 comments | ??? ???
  55. Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough (quoteinvestigator.com)
    ×1.44 #38 | 260 points by sohkamyung 18 hours ago | 112 comments | ??? ???
  56. Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript (javascript.tm)
    ×5.23 | 260 points by jeremiahlee 1 day ago | 122 comments | ??? ???
  57. Chain of Thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems (arxiv.org)
    ×1.65 #73 | 257 points by krackers 1 day ago | 170 comments | ??? ???
  58. LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat (github.com/resiliencetheatre)
    ×2.02 | 257 points by exfil 2 days ago | 216 comments | ??? ???
  59. Learn Git Branching (learngitbranching.js.org)
    ×2.20 | 254 points by dsego 2 days ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  60. Why Gauss wanted a heptadecagon on his tombstone (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.61 #20 | 246 points by sohkamyung 21 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  61. GraalPy – A high-performance embeddable Python 3 runtime for Java (graalvm.org)
    ×1.31 #7 | 239 points by fniephaus 13 hours ago | 108 comments | ??? ???
  62. The centrality of stupidity in mathematics (mathforlove.com)
    ×1.36 #28 | 237 points by ColinWright 20 hours ago | 141 comments | ??? ???
  63. Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.69 #37 | 234 points by asimpletune 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  64. Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)
    ×1.99 #76 | 232 points by telotortium 1 day ago | 196 comments | ??? ???
  65. Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links (gizmodo.com)
    ×5.60 | 230 points by f_allwein 3 days ago | 113 comments | ??? ???
  66. uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store (reddit.com)
    ×9.94 | 228 points by sharno 2 days ago | 123 comments | ??? ???
  67. Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode" (reddit.com)
    ×9.60 | 222 points by neerajdotname2 3 days ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  68. Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography (amazon.science)
    ×1.25 | 218 points by lemaudit 5 days ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  69. A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell (arcan-fe.com)
    ×1.34 #90 | 215 points by JNRowe 1 day ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  70. The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out (theconversation.com)
    ×3.32 | 215 points by enopod_ 3 days ago | 149 comments | ??? ???
  71. Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly (github.com/satmihir)
    ×1.12 | 210 points by ngaut 3 days ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  72. The Lego Great Ball Contraption (kottke.org)
    ×1.45 #11 | 208 points by mhb 13 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  73. Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) (microsoft.com)
    ×2.03 | 203 points by mellonaut 4 days ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone (github.com/pencilresearch)
    ×1.31 #13 | 201 points by ductionist 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  75. Bluesky Reaches 10M Accounts (bsky.app)
    ×2.74 | 197 points by Kye 2 days ago | 114 comments | ??? ???
  76. Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? (stephenfry.substack.com)
    ×3.32 | 193 points by lordleft 1 day ago | 159 comments | ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome (github.com/thomastschurtschenthaler)
    ×1.58 #50 | 193 points by thomastsch 1 day ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  78. Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.30 | 192 points by croes 2 days ago | 129 comments | ??? ???
  79. Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker (10maurycy10.github.io)
    ×1.22 | 190 points by pabs3 3 days ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  80. The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning (2023) (ppml.dev)
    ×1.88 | 190 points by rramadass 4 days ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  81. OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub (arcprize.org)
    ×3.05 | 187 points by z7 4 days ago | 118 comments | ??? ???
  82. The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy (conversableeconomist.com)
    ×2.05 #23 | 186 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 151 comments | ??? ???
  83. I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription (kateva.org)
    ×3.31 | 185 points by leotravis10 4 days ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  84. Rio: Web apps in pure Python (github.com/rio-labs)
    ×1.83 #71 | 182 points by doppp 17 hours ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  85. Paraguay Loves Mickey, the Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn't (nytimes.com)
    ×1.05 | 177 points by howard941 2 days ago | 123 comments | ??? ???
  86. What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy
    ×2.91 | 175 points by aws_throwaway 1 day ago | 181 comments | ??? ???
  87. Do Not Sign the Qt License Agreement Unchanged (burkhardstubert.substack.com)
    ×3.60 | 174 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  88. Rainfrog – a database management TUI for Postgres (github.com/achristmascarl)
    ×1.92 #56 | 173 points by achristmascarl 1 day ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  89. Y Combinator is predicated on startups that require low capitalization (twitter.com/bradneuberg)
    ×2.98 | 173 points by Apocryphon 1 day ago | 113 comments | ??? ???
  90. Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.25 | 171 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago | 140 comments | ??? ???