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  1. Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter (continueandpersist.org)
    ×5.97 | 1394 points by adnanaga 4 days ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
    ×5.64 #72 | 1328 points by thinkingemote 2 days ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230 (github.com/xairy)
    ×3.98 | 1027 points by xairy 6 days ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials (icc-cpi.int)
    ×6.55 | 889 points by runarberg 1 week ago | 1014 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger (intel.com)
    ×5.03 #89 | 885 points by tybulewicz 1 day ago | 697 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Model Context Protocol (anthropic.com)
    ×2.55 | 871 points by benocodes 1 week ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines (markwhen.com)
    ×4.32 #87 | 842 points by koch 2 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023) (5snb.club)
    ×4.06 | 812 points by zkldi 1 week ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone (google.com)
    ×3.39 | 811 points by jarko27 6 days ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Frosted glass from games to the web (tyleo.com)
    ×3.56 | 788 points by tyleo 1 week ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (mit.edu)
    ×5.68 | 736 points by gnabgib 1 week ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Starlink Direct to Cell (starlink.com)
    ×3.46 | 720 points by tosh 1 week ago | 798 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. This website is hosted on Bluesky (danielmangum.com)
    ×3.06 | 711 points by hasheddan 1 week ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch (koenvh.nl)
    ×3.45 | 696 points by Koenvh 4 days ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking (quantamagazine.org)
    ×3.22 | 668 points by sonabinu 1 week ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest (apnews.com)
    ×4.20 | 666 points by geox 1 week ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic (cnbc.com)
    ×4.20 | 664 points by swyx 1 week ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (stackexchange.com)
    ×2.45 | 628 points by napolux 1 week ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases (sqlitestudio.pl)
    ×2.51 | 626 points by thunderbong 1 week ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify (netlify.com)
    ×2.44 | 616 points by franck 1 week ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (frost.kiwi)
    ×2.82 | 602 points by todsacerdoti 1 week ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Phased Array Microphone (2023) (benwang.dev)
    ×2.24 | 600 points by bglazer 1 week ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)
    ×3.99 | 588 points by perihelions 1 week ago | 730 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders (github.com/PaulPauls)
    ×2.33 | 579 points by PaulPauls 1 week ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers (alvaroduran.com)
    ×2.79 | 576 points by fagnerbrack 4 days ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA (nullpt.rs)
    ×2.55 | 568 points by hazebooth 4 days ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020) (interactionmagic.com)
    ×2.36 | 558 points by rcdemski 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The two factions of C++ (herecomesthemoon.net)
    ×2.71 | 554 points by cyclopeanutopia 1 week ago | 653 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Handling cookies is a minefield (grayduck.mn)
    ×2.35 | 545 points by todsacerdoti 1 week ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now (letsencrypt.org)
    ×5.33 | 543 points by gslin 1 week ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory (downtowndougbrown.com)
    ×2.57 | 533 points by zdw 6 days ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com/privastead)
    ×3.00 | 527 points by arrdalan 2 days ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap) (amazon.com)
    ×1.91 | 524 points by Sirupsen 1 week ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now (dynomight.net)
    ×3.64 | 524 points by dmazin 1 week ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.19 | 518 points by Brajeshwar 1 week ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?
    ×3.21 | 515 points by prathameshgh 2 days ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it (apnews.com)
    ×8.20 #20 | 490 points by Inocez 7 hours ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (techdirt.com)
    ×4.11 | 488 points by chocmake 1 week ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PHP 8.4 (php.net)
    ×3.05 | 486 points by theThree 1 week ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Facebook's Little Red Book (map.cv)
    ×5.21 #68 | 478 points by heshiebee 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Rails is better low code than low code (radanskoric.com)
    ×3.47 | 474 points by thunderbong 6 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017) (theparisreview.org)
    ×2.05 | 471 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. You can use C-Reduce for any language (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×2.04 | 470 points by Tomte 6 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com (agwa.name)
    ×5.33 | 468 points by sanqui 2 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
    ×2.63 | 459 points by hyperknot 5 days ago | 683 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image (worldlabs.ai)
    ×2.60 #36 | 456 points by dmarcos 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Engineering Sleep (minjunes.ai)
    ×2.47 | 443 points by amin 3 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How I configure my Git identities (benji.dog)
    ×2.91 | 439 points by 8organicbits 1 week ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM (qwenlm.github.io)
    ×3.00 | 426 points by amrrs 6 days ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.95 | 419 points by hn_acker 1 week ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones (latimes.com)
    ×5.15 | 410 points by tafda 1 week ago | 525 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month (gamediscover.co)
    ×2.15 | 409 points by TaurenHunter 1 week ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired (weskao.com)
    ×2.58 | 407 points by RobinHirst11 1 week ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The meme-ification of the “Demon Core” (doomsdaymachines.net)
    ×2.10 | 400 points by SaberTail 1 week ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015) (github.com/p8952)
    ×2.23 | 398 points by emersonrsantos 1 week ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs (github.com/maharmstone)
    ×1.80 | 397 points by Sami_Lehtinen 3 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal (opb.org)
    ×2.72 | 396 points by gmays 1 week ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Lessons I learned working at an art gallery (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×2.11 #15 | 394 points by bkudria 17 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What will enter the public domain in 2025? (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×2.38 | 393 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering (jvns.ca)
    ×2.19 | 389 points by tanelpoder 4 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.57 | 389 points by isaacfrond 1 week ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Don't Fuck with Scroll (dontfuckwithscroll.com)
    ×9.58 | 376 points by a_siekierski 4 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021) (medium.com)
    ×1.71 | 375 points by fanf2 1 week ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The tech utopia fantasy is over (avas.space)
    ×5.62 | 375 points by mooreds 1 week ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The deterioration of Google (baldurbjarnason.com)
    ×4.97 | 371 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells (ualberta.ca)
    ×2.26 | 371 points by Eumenes 1 week ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The size of BYD's factory (twitter.com/taylorogan)
    ×2.35 | 367 points by elsewhen 1 week ago | 615 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75% (bilbof.com)
    ×3.81 | 365 points by BillFranklin 2 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The 'Return to Office' Lies (avas.space)
    ×5.49 | 363 points by speckx 1 week ago | 497 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch (steelph0enix.github.io)
    ×2.53 | 362 points by zarekr 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse (lithub.com)
    ×2.50 | 362 points by bertman 5 days ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. If not React, then what? (infrequently.org)
    ×4.91 | 361 points by pier25 3 days ago | 730 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Borgo Programming Language (borgo-lang.github.io)
    ×2.03 | 361 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 week ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A career-ending mistake (bitfieldconsulting.com)
    ×2.87 | 360 points by gus_leonel 1 week ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018) (wordpress.com)
    ×2.39 | 360 points by itronitron 1 week ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city (jhu.edu)
    ×1.65 | 359 points by Someone 1 week ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either (benhouston3d.com)
    ×3.60 | 353 points by bhouston 6 days ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
    ×1.42 | 353 points by dhorthy 1 week ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
    ×1.72 #30 | 351 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.88 | 349 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre (seriouseats.com)
    ×3.10 | 347 points by haunter 3 days ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022) (fasterthanli.me)
    ×4.23 | 342 points by reillyse 1 week ago | 510 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (macchaffee.com)
    ×2.95 | 340 points by todsacerdoti 1 week ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.06 | 336 points by mmh0000 1 week ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Marshall Brain has died (wral.com)
    ×2.96 | 333 points by bsagdiyev 1 week ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.78 | 330 points by luyu_wu 3 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed? (timdellinger.substack.com)
    ×2.93 | 328 points by timdellinger 1 week ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.74 | 327 points by GavCo 1 week ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration (sloonz.github.io)
    ×2.21 | 326 points by yamrzou 1 week ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript (electrobun.dev)
    ×1.84 | 323 points by CharlesW 1 week ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???