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  1. Moon (ciechanow.ski)
    ×11.01 #57 | 3062 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB (arcprize.org)
    ×5.90 #1 | 1295 points by maurycy 17 hours ago | 1230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study (york.ac.uk)
    ×3.89 | 1010 points by jonatron 6 days ago | 677 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. OpenERV (openerv.ca)
    ×3.90 | 829 points by graboy 5 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The era of open voice assistants (home-assistant.io)
    ×4.07 #9 | 794 points by _Microft 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced) (lfgss.com)
    ×3.91 | 782 points by buro9 4 days ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video] (brightonruby.com)
    ×4.12 | 716 points by vinnyglennon 3 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b) (futilitycloset.com)
    ×4.37 | 714 points by beardyw 5 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Map of GitHub (github.com/anvaka)
    ×3.22 | 710 points by vortex_ape 5 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022) (danluu.com)
    ×4.00 | 678 points by janandonly 4 days ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices (github.com/pwr-Solaar)
    ×2.89 #70 | 663 points by teekert 2 days ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices (cnbc.com)
    ×5.36 | 634 points by LordAtlas 3 days ago | 647 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A 10-Year Battery for AirTag (elevationlab.com)
    ×3.36 #21 | 632 points by dmd 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Veo 2: Our video generation model (deepmind.google)
    ×2.77 | 582 points by mvoodarla 4 days ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant (github.com/XiaoMi)
    ×2.28 | 557 points by coherence73 4 days ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Always go to the funeral (2005) (npr.org)
    ×3.87 | 550 points by NaOH 4 days ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file (github.com/apankrat)
    ×2.68 #24 | 534 points by smusamashah 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code (dylanhuang.com)
    ×4.92 | 534 points by gniting 3 days ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. GitHub Copilot is now available for free (github.com/features)
    ×6.80 | 528 points by ksec 2 days ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
    ×2.86 | 514 points by throwaway_43793 4 days ago | 976 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Making a watch from scratch (reddit.com)
    ×2.90 | 513 points by dcminter 6 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red (htmhell.dev)
    ×2.99 | 509 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ghost artists on Spotify (harpers.org)
    ×3.02 #18 | 487 points by greenie_beans 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tldraw Computer (tldraw.com)
    ×2.44 #12 | 482 points by duck 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Updates to H-1B (uscis.gov)
    ×3.09 | 444 points by sul_tasto 2 days ago | 1325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. They see your photos (theyseeyourphotos.com)
    ×3.71 | 437 points by vladyslavfox 6 days ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway (apnews.com)
    ×3.19 | 412 points by sohkamyung 5 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Grayjay Desktop App (grayjay.app)
    ×2.48 #4 | 406 points by pierrelf 18 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season (reuters.com)
    ×5.14 | 403 points by petethomas 2 days ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. ISO 8583: The language of credit cards (increase.com)
    ×2.12 | 402 points by ekmartin 3 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Clay – UI Layout Library (nicbarker.com)
    ×2.80 #28 | 397 points by ivmoreau 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Java in the Small (horstmann.com)
    ×2.58 #58 | 388 points by crummy 2 days ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.25 | 382 points by nsoonhui 1 week ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Dumb TVs deserve a comeback (makeuseof.com)
    ×5.50 | 378 points by znpy 5 days ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens (meta.com)
    ×2.09 | 378 points by zxexz 1 week ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Building Effective "Agents" (anthropic.com)
    ×3.15 #3 | 374 points by jascha_eng 16 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Kelly Can't Fail (win-vector.com)
    ×1.76 #20 | 371 points by jmount 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style (mit.edu)
    ×2.69 | 364 points by keepamovin 4 days ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. 1-800-ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×4.88 | 357 points by yzydserd 2 days ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018) (twobithistory.org)
    ×1.88 | 354 points by mitchbob 4 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. In Search of a Faster SQLite (avi.im)
    ×1.87 | 353 points by avinassh 4 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)
    ×5.90 | 345 points by mgh2 4 days ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) (andrewkchan.dev)
    ×2.15 | 341 points by homarp 6 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Replacement for BERT (huggingface.co)
    ×4.01 | 330 points by cubie 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (2021) (distill.pub)
    ×1.91 #17 | 327 points by misonic 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Preferring throwaway code over design docs (softwaredoug.com)
    ×2.15 | 326 points by softwaredoug 6 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003) (historylink.org)
    ×2.29 | 325 points by psc 2 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19 (reuters.com)
    ×5.29 | 325 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 732 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
    ×2.24 | 307 points by leros 5 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Modelica (modelica.org)
    ×1.61 | 305 points by v9v 4 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope (camras.nl)
    ×1.64 #29 | 303 points by ForHackernews 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How I used linear algebra to build an interactive diagramming editor (medium.com)
    ×1.75 | 297 points by binshu 4 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Alignment faking in large language models (anthropic.com)
    ×1.99 | 296 points by adultorata 2 days ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript (github.com/boardgameio)
    ×1.84 #13 | 296 points by freetonik 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How to lose a fortune with one bad click (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.59 #25 | 288 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go (github.com/ergochat)
    ×2.00 | 288 points by OuterVale 3 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API (go.dev)
    ×1.52 | 287 points by secure 4 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? (cell.com)
    ×1.83 | 286 points by sebg 3 days ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences (rubyvideo.dev)
    ×1.86 | 286 points by faebi 5 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 25 Years of Dillo (dillo-browser.github.io)
    ×1.63 | 283 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide (doctorswithoutborders.org)
    ×18.61 | 282 points by lr0 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping (veryfront.com)
    ×1.59 | 279 points by kojiwakayama 1 week ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro (macrumors.com)
    ×1.63 #41 | 271 points by tosh 2 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1 (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.83 | 269 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game (steviep.xyz)
    ×1.70 | 268 points by scyclow 5 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps (archaeologymag.com)
    ×1.68 | 266 points by secretmark 3 days ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential (research.google)
    ×1.55 #73 | 260 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader (jamesg.blog)
    ×1.44 #8 | 259 points by zerojames 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Palm’s CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007) (twitter.com/TechEmails)
    ×3.59 | 255 points by mfiguiere 5 days ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Crystal Ball Trading Game (elmwealth.com)
    ×1.43 | 253 points by EvgeniyZh 6 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022) (opsbros.com)
    ×1.43 | 252 points by hackertux 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Among LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.18 | 244 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014) (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.82 | 243 points by doener 3 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Apple Watch with Android (abishekmuthian.com)
    ×1.79 | 243 points by Abishek_Muthian 4 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 3D-Printed Dune Chess Set (parametric-architecture.com)
    ×1.75 | 240 points by gnabgib 5 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.16 #7 | 237 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application (github.com/gsidhu)
    ×2.08 | 228 points by thatgurjot 6 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013) (mascontext.com)
    ×1.30 #50 | 227 points by hyperific 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups (irrationalanalysis.substack.com)
    ×1.12 | 224 points by zdw 6 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The XOR Texture (2004) (lodev.org)
    ×1.40 | 223 points by doener 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts (irata.online)
    ×1.07 | 216 points by Bluestein 6 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions (yottanami.com)
    ×1.49 | 215 points by yottanami 1 week ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps (github.com/langfuse)
    ×1.09 | 214 points by mdeichmann 3 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized (arxiv.org)
    ×1.81 #2 | 211 points by love2read 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. UK's Online Safety Act comes into force (ofcom.org.uk)
    ×2.01 | 209 points by AndrewDucker 5 days ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering (mizu.sh)
    ×1.11 #43 | 207 points by lowlighter 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer (github.com/JanNeuendorf)
    ×1.05 | 207 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp (reuters.com)
    ×7.02 #31 | 206 points by o999 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed" (twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz)
    ×5.80 | 206 points by BIackSwan 4 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. CDC confirms first severe human case of bird flu in U.S. (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.18 | 205 points by perihelions 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???