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  1. Open source AI is the path forward (fb.com)
    ×8.49 | 2336 points by atgctg 3 days ago | 886 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×7.46 | 1940 points by __0x1__ 2 days ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level (deepmind.google)
    ×4.90 #63 | 1321 points by ocfnash 1 day ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript (github.com/nodejs)
    ×4.53 | 1170 points by magnio 2 days ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Every company should be owned by its employees (elysian.press)
    ×5.99 | 939 points by ellegriffin 2 days ago | 1022 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii (bitbuilt.net)
    ×2.87 | 740 points by realslimjd 4 days ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Copying is the way design works (matthewstrom.com)
    ×3.24 | 731 points by innerzeal 4 days ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Large Enough (mistral.ai)
    ×3.24 | 622 points by davidbarker 2 days ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow (bloomberg.com)
    ×5.00 #70 | 597 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 546 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
    ×2.71 #81 | 583 points by treve 2 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Reverse Engineering for Everyone (0xinfection.github.io)
    ×2.83 | 581 points by udev4096 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park (jhnewsandguide.com)
    ×2.30 | 556 points by jandrewrogers 3 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas (haystackeditor.com)
    ×2.53 #74 | 506 points by akshaysg 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal (404media.co)
    ×6.33 | 489 points by turkeytotal 2 days ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands (janiczek.cz)
    ×2.74 | 469 points by mjaniczek 3 days ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions (wsj.com)
    ×2.37 | 469 points by marban 4 days ago | 832 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Apple Maps on the web launches in beta (apple.com)
    ×3.24 | 446 points by ingve 2 days ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Llama 3.1 (meta.com)
    ×14.36 | 427 points by luiscosio 3 days ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Intent to end OCSP service (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.82 | 412 points by soheilpro 3 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux (github.com/linuxmint)
    ×1.74 | 369 points by gballan 4 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects (github.com/igrek51)
    ×1.90 | 368 points by igrek51 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community (wilsonl.in)
    ×3.24 | 359 points by robg 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018) (rcoh.me)
    ×1.71 | 358 points by skanderbm 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text (ericwbailey.website)
    ×1.69 | 355 points by ohjeez 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit (tn1ck.com)
    ×1.86 | 345 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What Is Entropy? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.95 | 342 points by ainoobler 4 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent (thehftguy.com)
    ×4.05 | 326 points by charlieirish 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. OpenAI Announces SearchGPT (chatgpt.com)
    ×6.01 | 323 points by notyouralias 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency (fas.org)
    ×2.42 | 323 points by philipkglass 4 days ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs (intel.com)
    ×2.14 | 322 points by acrispino 4 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage (techcrunch.com)
    ×9.35 | 307 points by LordAtlas 2 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware (twitter.com/moo9000)
    ×4.24 | 305 points by miohtama 2 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×1.93 | 303 points by vquemener 4 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017) (culture.pl)
    ×2.06 | 301 points by janisz 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
    ×3.18 | 297 points by zer0sand0nes 4 days ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs (thinkst.com)
    ×2.06 | 295 points by mh_ 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial (databasedesignbook.com)
    ×2.58 | 290 points by fagnerbrack 4 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Elegance of the ASCII Table (danq.me)
    ×1.79 | 283 points by thewub 4 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers
    ×1.33 #84 | 279 points by jramette 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. You can opt out of airport face scans (vox.com)
    ×3.01 | 279 points by rntn 3 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (nature.com)
    ×2.54 | 267 points by rntn 2 days ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Unix Pipe Card Game (punkx.org)
    ×1.71 | 266 points by Shugyousha 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs (briefer.cloud)
    ×1.38 | 261 points by lucasfcosta 3 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Button Stealer (anatolyzenkov.com)
    ×1.90 | 260 points by kickofline 4 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence (foreignpolicy.com)
    ×4.89 #33 | 259 points by paulpauper 13 hours ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. You got a null result. Will anyone publish it? (nature.com)
    ×1.90 | 254 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee (theconversation.com)
    ×1.78 | 251 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Origin of Emacs in 1976 (onlisp.co.uk)
    ×1.43 | 250 points by rhabarba 3 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A Gentle Introduction to SAML (ssoready.com)
    ×1.75 | 244 points by ned_at_codomain 4 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping” (ieee.org)
    ×1.29 | 243 points by belter 3 days ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO (cnbc.com)
    ×2.25 | 243 points by uger 4 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini (github.com/getomni-ai)
    ×1.81 | 241 points by themanmaran 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What "consent" looks like for the DEA and TSA (papersplease.org)
    ×3.53 | 240 points by greyface- 3 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures (columbia.edu)
    ×1.25 #10 | 236 points by luu 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy (lemonsqueezy.com)
    ×3.17 #43 | 223 points by drecoe 15 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Defense of Lisp macros: The automotive field as a case in point (mihaiolteanu.me)
    ×1.22 | 221 points by molteanu 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A multimodal dataset with one trillion tokens (github.com/mlfoundations)
    ×1.10 | 221 points by kulikalov 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI crawlers need to be more respectful (readthedocs.com)
    ×3.64 | 219 points by pneff 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.12 | 218 points by LinuxBender 2 days ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A free tool to quickly detect counterfeit flash (2017) (fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io)
    ×1.15 | 217 points by popol12 3 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Llama 3.1 in C (github.com/trholding)
    ×1.70 | 210 points by AMICABoard 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?
    ×1.40 | 207 points by hersko 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I built a tool to expand your network (that introverts will love) (moreoverlap.com)
    ×2.77 #65 | 207 points by jbrueck 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Warsaw came close to never being rebuilt (2015) (culture.pl)
    ×1.31 | 205 points by danielam 3 days ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups? (smbc-comics.com)
    ×4.65 | 205 points by BerislavLopac 4 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The New Internet (tailscale.com)
    ×3.30 #13 | 204 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The workers have spoken: They're staying home (computerworld.com)
    ×4.93 | 204 points by CrankyBear 4 days ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border (reason.com)
    ×5.26 #26 | 201 points by mhb 8 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.24 | 200 points by tagyro 2 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 (newscientist.com)
    ×1.17 | 200 points by _Microft 2 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Preliminary Post Incident Review (crowdstrike.com)
    ×1.82 | 200 points by cavilatrest 3 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog? (lars-christian.com)
    ×2.23 | 199 points by 8organicbits 4 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks (eieio.games)
    ×3.49 #56 | 193 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Scrapscript: A functional, content-addressable programming language (github.com/tekknolagi)
    ×1.37 | 191 points by luu 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only (cloudbsd.xyz)
    ×1.73 #34 | 190 points by jaypatelani 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.83 #8 | 189 points by matt_d 13 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Pnut: A C to POSIX shell compiler you can trust (pnut.sh)
    ×1.32 | 189 points by feeley 3 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that? (jlongster.com)
    ×1.69 #15 | 187 points by samwillis 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.00 | 186 points by cmsefton 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hiding Linux Processes with Bind Mounts (righteousit.com)
    ×1.14 | 178 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Biological Circuit Design (biocircuits.github.io)
    ×1.15 | 177 points by drones 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony (lemonde.fr)
    ×4.07 | 175 points by Kuinox 1 day ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm (emojipedia.org)
    ×4.42 | 175 points by donohoe 2 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4B (theguardian.com)
    ×3.87 | 174 points by Terretta 2 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016) (rein.pk)
    ×2.04 #51 | 173 points by sebg 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A Clone of Deluxe Paint II Written in Python (github.com/mriale)
    ×1.34 #90 | 168 points by luismedel 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source (zdnet.com)
    ×8.93 | 165 points by speckx 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control (jamesbvaughan.com)
    ×1.47 #5 | 159 points by jamesbvaughan 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Types as Interfaces (two-wrongs.com)
    ×1.06 | 158 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: We made glhf.chat – run almost any open-source LLM, including 405B (glhf.chat)
    ×1.54 | 157 points by reissbaker 3 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???