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  1. Meta Llama 3 (meta.com)
    ×6.99 #1 | 1655 points by bratao 13 hours ago | 700 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. This is a teenager (pudding.cool)
    ×5.61 | 1406 points by gmays 2 days ago | 792 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things (tonsky.me)
    ×6.92 #46 | 1279 points by tobr 1 day ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred (consumerfinance.gov)
    ×3.93 #66 | 723 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet (twitter.com/Snowden)
    ×10.10 | 670 points by croes 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer (bawolf.substack.com)
    ×2.68 #71 | 641 points by bryantwolf 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Stop Acting Like You're Famous (ajkprojects.com)
    ×5.08 | 587 points by ashleynewman 2 days ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii (github.com/loopj)
    ×2.43 #57 | 566 points by jorde 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? (johnhawks.net)
    ×2.10 #36 | 526 points by Luc 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mixtral 8x22B (mistral.ai)
    ×4.11 | 510 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. An electric new era for Atlas (bostondynamics.com)
    ×2.14 #39 | 447 points by colinramsay 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I keep a WTF notebook (2021) (simplermachines.com)
    ×3.53 #22 | 436 points by fanf2 12 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves (european-pirateparty.eu)
    ×4.68 | 407 points by Sami_Lehtinen 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly) (asciinema.org)
    ×2.04 #41 | 395 points by kolinko 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit (icode4.coffee)
    ×1.83 #9 | 364 points by campuscodi 15 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. We need to rewild the internet (noemamag.com)
    ×3.16 | 363 points by robin_reala 2 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.65 #24 | 316 points by sohkamyung 18 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG (github.com/spawnmason)
    ×2.32 #6 | 300 points by leijurv 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer (rmarcus.info)
    ×1.36 #65 | 286 points by samaysharma 2 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists (cutlefish.substack.com)
    ×2.61 | 281 points by jpn 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries (publiceye.ch)
    ×7.05 | 279 points by henriquenunez 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop (github.com/mitchellh)
    ×1.89 #52 | 275 points by tosh 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project (outsiderart.substack.com)
    ×1.53 #40 | 270 points by iafisher 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest (cbc.ca)
    ×4.03 | 266 points by luu 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A quick post on Chen's algorithm (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×1.40 | 265 points by feross 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The forgotten war on beepers (pessimistsarchive.org)
    ×1.51 #44 | 262 points by unsuspecting 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (theverge.com)
    ×2.00 #55 | 255 points by vinnyglennon 17 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023) (kguttag.com)
    ×2.02 #72 | 251 points by abhinavk 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Reddit is taking over Google (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.17 | 250 points by unclebucknasty 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available (stability.ai)
    ×2.12 | 240 points by roborovskis 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made (vox.com)
    ×2.97 | 238 points by crescit_eundo 2 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A Visual Guide to Vision Transformers (mdturp.ch)
    ×1.75 | 234 points by md2rp 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection (spice-space.org)
    ×1.37 | 227 points by sipofwater 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Redis is forked (vickiboykis.com)
    ×3.37 | 226 points by colton_padden 2 days ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Google DeepMind's Aloha Unleashed is pushing the boundaries of robot dexterity (twitter.com/tonyzzhao)
    ×2.12 | 225 points by modeless 2 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes (shkspr.mobi)
    ×3.33 | 214 points by edent 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Firefox 125 (mozilla.org)
    ×5.42 | 213 points by N19PEDL2 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Term Typer – Learn a language by typing (termtyper.com)
    ×1.45 | 211 points by jeanmayer 2 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs (research.google)
    ×1.26 #78 | 210 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Calculus Made Easy (calculusmadeeasy.org)
    ×3.31 #2 | 209 points by susam 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Goldene: A single atom layer of gold (liu.se)
    ×1.20 #60 | 208 points by peutetre 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available (tailscale.com)
    ×2.19 | 207 points by yarapavan 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984) (lettersofnote.com)
    ×2.21 #26 | 204 points by sohkamyung 16 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I nearly died drowning (longreads.com)
    ×2.47 | 201 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now (mastodon.social)
    ×2.39 | 200 points by HelenePhisher 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Future of Humanity Institute shuts down (futureofhumanityinstitute.org)
    ×2.00 | 200 points by rdl 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. LXQt 2.0.0 (lxqt-project.org)
    ×1.85 #89 | 200 points by jrepinc 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features (system76.com)
    ×1.99 | 199 points by pantalaimon 19 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. MKBHDs for Everything (stratechery.com)
    ×3.58 | 191 points by eric_khun 2 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals (wsj.com)
    ×2.03 #62 | 188 points by marban 16 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A framework to help B2B founders find product-market fit (firstround.com)
    ×1.51 | 186 points by yarapavan 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir (seanmoriarity.com)
    ×1.45 #56 | 179 points by ac_alejos 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Math Puzzles (jrmf.org)
    ×1.39 #59 | 176 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021) (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.24 | 175 points by ianai 19 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing (microsoft.com)
    ×1.78 | 174 points by signa11 2 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.04 | 172 points by marban 2 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Use Your Potions and Scrolls (jerry.wtf)
    ×2.48 | 168 points by personjerry 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. David Lynch presents 'A Thinking Room' (wallpaper.com)
    ×0.98 | 168 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool (github.com/WINSDK)
    ×1.10 #69 | 166 points by winsdk 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 | 163 points by amichail 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019) (neverwasmag.com)
    ×0.97 #63 | 160 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract (nypost.com)
    ×16.42 | 157 points by HiroProtagonist 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How Antithesis finds bugs (antithesis.com)
    ×1.53 | 157 points by wwilson 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.40 | 154 points by rickdeckard 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Rust calling convention we deserve (mcyoung.xyz)
    ×1.92 #5 | 153 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components (github.com/EasyFrontend-com)
    ×1.24 | 147 points by santush 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Distributed Authorization (osohq.com)
    ×0.99 | 147 points by AnhTho_FR 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Acid Test Clause (2017) (stimmel-law.com)
    ×1.73 | 145 points by VHRanger 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Multi-tenant queues in Postgres (hatchet.run)
    ×1.90 #14 | 144 points by abelanger 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs (github.com/facebookexperimental)
    ×0.97 #12 | 144 points by PaulHoule 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize (nlnet.nl)
    ×1.57 #25 | 142 points by oever 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI
    ×4.48 | 140 points by MountainMan1312 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language (fosscomics.com)
    ×1.21 | 137 points by cubix4u 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 (csvbase.com)
    ×1.12 | 137 points by calpaterson 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince buys local paper, feuds over mansion build (archive.ph)
    ×6.78 | 136 points by only_an_egg 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable (trustworthy.systems)
    ×1.31 #86 | 133 points by snvzz 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web
    ×2.06 | 132 points by jacquesm 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Everything we can't describe in music (hazlitt.net)
    ×0.97 #73 | 132 points by anarbadalov 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input (undeadly.org)
    ×1.46 | 127 points by peter_hansteen 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Effort – a possibly new algorithm for LLM Inference (kolinko.github.io)
    ×2.39 | 127 points by stared 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.06 | 124 points by adif_sgaid 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys (statecraft.pub)
    ×1.37 | 123 points by Michelangelo11 2 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating correctly (2022) [pdf] (benthamsgaze.org)
    ×1.39 | 121 points by zinekeller 2 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account (neowin.net)
    ×5.56 | 119 points by croes 11 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.82 | 119 points by fckgw 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.63 | 117 points by davej 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code (vapi.ai)
    ×1.26 #15 | 116 points by jordandearsley 11 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Insatiable: A life without eating (longreads.com)
    ×1.47 #28 | 114 points by samclemens 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel (washingtonpost.com)
    ×7.25 | 114 points by greyface- 2 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
    ×2.27 | 112 points by terabytest 11 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???