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  1. Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
    ×6.72 47 | 2428 points by dang 1 week ago | 905 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GCP Outage (google.com)
    ×7.77 33 | 1455 points by thanhhaimai 5 days ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure (tailscale.com)
    ×4.72 36 | 1260 points by ingve 5 days ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com)
    ×4.56 41 | 1231 points by laurieherault 5 days ago | 598 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.95 95 | 955 points by swyx 1 week ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket (global.honda)
    ×4.15 2 #4 | 952 points by LorenDB 15 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
    ×3.49 68 | 937 points by meetpateltech 1 week ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) (joshworth.com)
    ×4.26 38 | 919 points by sdoering 4 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc (apple.com)
    ×3.14 78 | 858 points by thm 1 week ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Working on databases from prison (turso.tech)
    ×4.53 49 | 831 points by dvektor 1 day ago | 525 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Jemalloc Postmortem (jasone.github.io)
    ×3.46 48 | 791 points by jasone 5 days ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS (github.com/apple)
    ×3.07 81 | 768 points by gok 1 week ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole (port.ac.uk)
    ×3.52 60 | 766 points by zaik 6 days ago | 603 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Apple introduces a universal design across platforms (apple.com)
    ×3.61 88 | 737 points by meetpateltech 1 week ago | 1201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists (apnews.com)
    ×5.03 52 | 728 points by 01-_- 5 days ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests (cnn.com)
    ×6.27 87 | 706 points by sapphicsnail 1 week ago | 1679 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. WhatsApp introduces ads in its app (nytimes.com)
    ×5.20 46 | 680 points by greenburger 1 day ago | 937 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it (philmckinney.substack.com)
    ×4.03 42 | 676 points by AndrewDucker 4 days ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Grug Brained Developer (2022) (grugbrain.dev)
    ×3.59 #1 | 668 points by smartmic 9 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Chatterbox TTS (github.com/resemble-ai)
    ×2.66 65 | 665 points by pinter69 6 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub (github.com/AasishPokhrel)
    ×4.69 66 | 623 points by petercooper 6 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user (brutecat.com)
    ×2.87 100 | 613 points by brutecat 1 week ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How I program with agents (crawshaw.io)
    ×3.00 74 | 610 points by bumbledraven 1 week ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. "Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B (zeropartydata.es)
    ×6.93 90 | 587 points by donohoe 1 week ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
    ×2.19 84 | 578 points by charleszyong 1 week ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Start your own Internet Resiliency Club (bowshock.nl)
    ×3.58 22 | 565 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Kagi Reaches 50k Users (kagi.com)
    ×5.67 111 | 553 points by tigroferoce 1 week ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) (dierks.org)
    ×3.31 12 | 538 points by Bogdanp 2 days ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80% (twitter.com/sama)
    ×3.70 93 | 515 points by mfiguiere 1 week ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.20 44 | 502 points by achristmascarl 5 days ago | 881 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard (theguardian.com)
    ×4.31 70 | 498 points by Gud 5 days ago | 581 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own (ssp.sh)
    ×2.50 136 | 498 points by articsputnik 1 week ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch (github.com/yousef-rafat)
    ×2.20 40 | 477 points by yousef_g 3 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab (nytimes.com)
    ×2.32 54 | 467 points by RyanShook 4 days ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. We’re secretly winning the war on cancer (vox.com)
    ×3.83 98 | 459 points by lr0 1 week ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers (kianbradley.com)
    ×2.85 #6 | 458 points by k-ian 12 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Joining Apple Computer (2018) (folklore.org)
    ×1.98 138 | 456 points by tosh 1 week ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy (helentoner.substack.com)
    ×3.50 126 | 452 points by rbanffy 1 week ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice (heise.de)
    ×5.27 72 | 450 points by jlpcsl 5 days ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Convert photos to Atkinson dithering (gazs.github.io)
    ×2.06 142 | 436 points by nvahalik 1 week ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU (osor.io)
    ×2.57 64 | 418 points by ibobev 5 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone (tsungxu.com)
    ×2.02 103 | 416 points by tsungxu 1 week ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. FSE meets the FBI (freespeechextremist.com)
    ×2.50 129 | 414 points by 1337p337 1 week ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination (jgc.org)
    ×2.23 106 | 408 points by jgrahamc 1 week ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application
    ×2.11 108 | 406 points by xiange 1 week ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×3.34 114 | 404 points by MaysonL 1 week ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps (github.com/FossifyOrg)
    ×3.11 20 #45 | 398 points by jalict 22 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
    ×2.38 58 | 393 points by jupiterglimpse 4 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Brian Wilson has died (pitchfork.com)
    ×4.79 91 | 392 points by coloneltcb 6 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Endometriosis is an interesting disease (owlposting.com)
    ×2.67 53 | 390 points by crescit_eundo 4 days ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Finding Shawn Mendes (2019) (wordpress.com)
    ×2.01 130 | 387 points by jzwinck 1 week ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU (github.com/ChefKissInc)
    ×1.74 75 | 386 points by 71bw 5 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me (miguelgrinberg.com)
    ×4.33 32 #75 | 380 points by nomdep 1 day ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.89 76 | 380 points by zdw 5 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Sly Stone has died (go.com)
    ×2.16 123 | 379 points by brudgers 1 week ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js (sparkjs.dev)
    ×1.68 96 | 377 points by dmarcos 6 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser (chawan.net)
    ×1.87 16 #71 | 375 points by shiomiru 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git (danielsada.tech)
    ×1.71 89 | 364 points by dshacker 6 days ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router (olegkutkov.me)
    ×2.10 28 | 358 points by LorenDB 2 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude (diwank.space)
    ×2.75 147 | 351 points by diwank 1 week ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety (cam.ac.uk)
    ×2.95 101 | 349 points by Improvement 6 days ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown (huggingface.co)
    ×2.29 5 #90 | 348 points by PixelPanda 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023) (jordemort.dev)
    ×1.47 141 | 348 points by goodburb 1 week ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. LLMs are cheap (snellman.net)
    ×1.90 133 | 343 points by Bogdanp 1 week ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×3.93 43 | 341 points by spwestwood 3 days ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Cloudflare was down (cloudflarestatus.com)
    ×4.09 77 | 340 points by datadrivenangel 5 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. What happens when clergy take psilocybin (nautil.us)
    ×1.61 2 #55 | 338 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy
    ×2.07 132 | 334 points by lakshikag 1 week ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Android 16 is here (blog.google)
    ×3.39 115 | 333 points by nsriv 1 week ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Building Effective AI Agents (anthropic.com)
    ×2.83 2 #10 | 328 points by Anon84 12 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh (omc345.substack.com)
    ×3.02 61 | 330 points by lightningcable 4 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. TimeGuessr (timeguessr.com)
    ×2.53 55 | 326 points by stefanpie 1 week ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Canyon.mid (canyonmid.com)
    ×1.90 31 | 324 points by LorenDB 2 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Datalog in Rust (github.com/frankmcsherry)
    ×1.69 34 | 324 points by brson 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Mikeal Rogers has died (h4x.zip)
    ×2.58 119 | 322 points by neom 1 week ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Denuvo Analysis (connorjaydunn.github.io)
    ×1.87 122 | 320 points by StefanBatory 1 week ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Snorting the AGI with Claude Code (kadekillary.work)
    ×2.42 18 #84 | 318 points by beigebrucewayne 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing (github.com/Askannz)
    ×1.44 135 | 313 points by Gazoche 1 week ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust (tritium.legal)
    ×1.78 80 | 312 points by piker 5 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future (latimes.com)
    ×7.71 82 | 311 points by voxadam 5 days ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language. (oxcaml.org)
    ×1.76 69 | 309 points by lairv 4 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes (github.com/czhu12)
    ×1.67 #72 | 308 points by czhu12 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract (cnbc.com)
    ×3.03 3 #57 | 306 points by erikrit 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime (github.com/apple)
    ×2.27 134 | 304 points by jzelinskie 1 week ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable (ourworldindata.org)
    ×1.87 35 | 303 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning (meta.com)
    ×1.36 107 | 303 points by mfiguiere 6 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task (arxiv.org)
    ×4.16 18 | 300 points by stephen_g 2 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.18 23 | 300 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application (kenrick95.org)
    ×1.53 110 | 300 points by kenrick95 6 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine) (honeycomb.io)
    ×2.11 116 | 300 points by gpi 1 week ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???