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  1. Gemini AI (deepmind.google)
    ×7.52 #58 | 2079 points by dmotz 2 days ago | 1589 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android (beeper.com)
    ×5.47 | 1490 points by erohead 3 days ago | 863 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice (twitter.com/parmy)
    ×5.70 | 992 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 624 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications (reuters.com)
    ×5.00 | 826 points by ahiknsr 2 days ago | 599 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet (blog.google)
    ×4.85 | 777 points by tosh 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. JSONB has landed (sqlite.org)
    ×4.02 | 656 points by nalgeon 2 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: How did your computer reach my server? (how-did-i-get-here.net)
    ×3.29 | 647 points by archmaster 3 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking (badcyber.com)
    ×3.48 #48 | 624 points by GruHe 14 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. iMessage, explained (jjtech.dev)
    ×3.68 | 609 points by spoon16 3 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users (macrumors.com)
    ×4.95 | 561 points by marban 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The pro-Israel information war (jackpoulson.substack.com)
    ×9.09 #25 | 555 points by anigbrowl 6 hours ago | 862 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.94 #1 | 472 points by coloneltcb 4 hours ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Making noisy SVGs (daniel.do)
    ×2.09 #62 | 469 points by dimmke 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10? (ifixit.com)
    ×2.16 #90 | 467 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SVG Tutorial (svg-tutorial.com)
    ×2.73 | 466 points by HunorBorbely 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? (aphyr.com)
    ×2.08 | 463 points by manicennui 2 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. A lost X-Files song (twitter.com/laurenancona)
    ×2.35 #83 | 442 points by tptacek 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet] (twitter.com/MistralAI)
    ×4.63 #20 | 418 points by xyzzyrz 9 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020) (thehustle.co)
    ×2.54 #68 | 414 points by Vagantem 1 day ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget (kagi.com)
    ×3.01 | 402 points by mroche 20 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Mold Course (epa.gov)
    ×1.76 | 402 points by tosh 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.66 | 393 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Rethinking serverless with FLAME (fly.io)
    ×2.56 | 393 points by kiwicopple 2 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration (stackdiary.com)
    ×4.59 | 367 points by rdli 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Goodbye, clean code (2020) (overreacted.io)
    ×3.19 #61 | 360 points by kiyanwang 18 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Fine-tuning Mistral 7B on Magic the Gathering Draft (generallyintelligent.substack.com)
    ×1.74 | 354 points by dmakian 3 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price (ft.com)
    ×5.26 | 351 points by Turukawa 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Playstation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks (theverge.com)
    ×4.09 | 347 points by isaacfrond 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay (astralcodexten.com)
    ×2.57 #50 | 344 points by vwoolf 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. All my favorite tracing tools (thume.ca)
    ×1.91 | 342 points by trishume 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease (statnews.com)
    ×1.90 #2 | 341 points by divbzero 7 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI (meta.com)
    ×1.65 | 336 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.10 | 331 points by my12parsecs 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again (wolfstreet.com)
    ×2.59 | 323 points by passwordoops 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Common Voice (mozilla.org)
    ×1.81 | 319 points by oblib 3 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Data Engineering Design Patterns (dedp.online)
    ×1.86 #75 | 317 points by sebg 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Quad9 wins appeal against Sony (quad9.net)
    ×3.60 | 307 points by madspindel 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation (pythonafrica.blogspot.com)
    ×3.22 | 305 points by Vinnl 2 days ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. JC converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON (github.com/kellyjonbrazil)
    ×1.88 #34 | 299 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers (electrek.co)
    ×2.47 #70 | 297 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Choose your own IP (tailscale.com)
    ×1.99 | 296 points by darthShadow 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Wikifunctions (wikimediafoundation.org)
    ×1.86 | 291 points by edward 2 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. You are never taught how to build quality software (florianbellmann.com)
    ×2.79 #5 | 289 points by RunOrVeith 10 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Building end-to-end security for Messenger (fb.com)
    ×1.43 #87 | 288 points by contact9879 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework (rubyonjets.com)
    ×1.59 #71 | 286 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script? (drhyperion451.github.io)
    ×2.83 | 285 points by colinprince 3 days ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source MAC layer (ugent.be)
    ×1.51 | 281 points by redfast00 2 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Fake chips, I got stung (linuxjedi.co.uk)
    ×1.69 #82 | 276 points by tosh 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Judge allows major 'right to repair' lawsuit against John Deere to move forward (techdirt.com)
    ×4.46 #52 | 272 points by rntn 9 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.45 | 267 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic (arxiv.org)
    ×1.71 #78 | 264 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in (theregister.com)
    ×5.79 | 260 points by rntn 1 day ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Gordon Freeman at the Olympic Games (moonbase.lgbt)
    ×1.87 | 259 points by xena 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year (bloomberg.com)
    ×7.08 | 256 points by helsinkiandrew 10 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive (googleblog.com)
    ×1.39 | 253 points by r00tbeer 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. MLX: An array framework for Apple Silicon (github.com/ml-explore)
    ×2.29 | 233 points by jacobkahn 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design (spacetimedb.com)
    ×2.12 | 228 points by cloutiertyler 2 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Long context prompting for Claude 2.1 (anthropic.com)
    ×1.36 | 226 points by typest 2 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com Domain as Spam (tuta.com)
    ×4.19 | 226 points by grammers 2 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021) (macaulaylibrary.org)
    ×1.31 #66 | 224 points by _xerces_ 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.59 | 222 points by derstander 3 days ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links shared off-platform (twitter.com/OldRowSwig)
    ×3.13 | 221 points by hammock 3 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Just about every Windows/Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.81 | 220 points by AdmiralAsshat 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study (theguardian.com)
    ×4.62 | 218 points by safaa1993 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Norway Joins Denmark in Swedish Tesla Strike/Blockade (svt.se)
    ×4.05 | 214 points by thecopy 2 days ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An update on Twitch in Korea (twitch.tv)
    ×3.63 | 214 points by zeroCalories 3 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
    ×2.22 | 212 points by vanschelven 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python (github.com/DropbaseHQ)
    ×1.37 | 202 points by jimmyechan 3 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. W3C Leaves Twitter (w3c.social)
    ×6.32 | 201 points by gaius_baltar 2 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. We investigated France's mass profiling machine (lighthousereports.com)
    ×1.80 | 197 points by sebg 23 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. World of Goo 2 (worldofgoo2.com)
    ×8.13 | 194 points by NOWHERE_ 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles (bluebird.sh)
    ×1.61 | 193 points by anjakefala 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: CopilotKit- Build in-app AI chatbots and AI-powered textareas (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×0.98 | 193 points by swiftlyTyped 2 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022) (sts10.github.io)
    ×1.03 #55 | 186 points by indigodaddy 20 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards (nytimes.com)
    ×4.63 | 184 points by bibanez 17 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS (sol-1.org)
    ×1.27 #63 | 183 points by pconst167 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates” (pgpkeys.eu)
    ×1.83 | 179 points by AlbertVAustin 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Magicoder: Source Code Is All You Need (arxiv.org)
    ×1.33 | 179 points by tosh 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Go Testing by Example [video] (swtch.com)
    ×1.53 | 177 points by ash 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.33 #7 | 172 points by digital55 7 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling (scarletink.com)
    ×2.33 | 170 points by jseliger 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cloud TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer (google.com)
    ×1.24 | 169 points by treesciencebot 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? (nerology.substack.com)
    ×3.04 | 167 points by NeroVanbierv 15 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Electric eel’s zap can transfer genes to nearby animals (nagoya-u.ac.jp)
    ×1.11 #65 | 165 points by geox 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Spoofing DNS records by abusing DHCP DNS dynamic updates (akamai.com)
    ×1.09 #13 | 161 points by Terretta 10 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up (newatlas.com)
    ×1.85 | 161 points by clouddrover 2 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. MLX: NumPy like framework for Apple Silicon by Apple (ml-explore.github.io)
    ×1.86 | 159 points by dagmx 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via Dynamic Gaussians (yuelangx.github.io)
    ×1.19 #47 | 158 points by phil9l 16 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web (bikobatanari.art)
    ×1.42 | 157 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox (mastodon.social)
    ×2.05 | 153 points by Wowfunhappy 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???