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  1. DeepSeek-R1 (github.com/deepseek-ai)
    ×6.07 #39 | 1626 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 604 comments | ??? ???
  2. No Calls (keygen.sh)
    ×1.85 | 1588 points by ezekg 5 days ago | 516 comments | ??? ???
  3. David Lynch has died (variety.com)
    ×1.92 | 1182 points by wut42 5 days ago | 377 comments | ??? ???
  4. TikTok goes dark in the US (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.91 | 1175 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 2435 comments | ??? ???
  5. 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms (github.com/hackermondev)
    ×4.88 #4 | 1133 points by hackermondev 15 hours ago | 365 comments | ??? ???
  6. Nobody cares (grantslatton.com)
    ×3.30 | 1048 points by fzliu 1 week ago | 969 comments | ??? ???
  7. Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam (romanzipp.com)
    ×4.02 | 1046 points by romanzipp 4 days ago | 642 comments | ??? ???
  8. I Met Paul Graham Once (okayfail.com)
    ×11.67 | 1023 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 736 comments | ??? ???
  9. Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline (cnbc.com)
    ×3.72 | 957 points by kjhughes 4 days ago | 2553 comments | ??? ???
  10. FFmpeg by Example (ffmpegbyexample.com)
    ×1.85 | 901 points by piyushsthr 1 week ago | 246 comments | ??? ???
  11. Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon (twitter.com/Free_Ross)
    ×6.05 #1 | 789 points by Ozarkian 6 hours ago | 818 comments | ??? ???
  12. Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.22 | 780 points by HelloUsername 5 days ago | 970 comments | ??? ???
  13. I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research (hindenburgresearch.com)
    ×1.78 | 770 points by toomuchtodo 6 days ago | 414 comments | ??? ???
  14. TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users (nbcnews.com)
    ×3.19 | 742 points by Leary 2 days ago | 2432 comments | ??? ???
  15. I ditched the algorithm for RSS (joeyehand.com)
    ×1.84 | 732 points by DearNarwhal 5 days ago | 273 comments | ??? ???
  16. TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday (reuters.com)
    ×0.79 | 685 points by xnhbx 6 days ago | 1782 comments | ??? ???
  17. It's time to make computing personal again (vintagecomputing.com)
    ×3.85 | 683 points by mariuz 2 days ago | 339 comments | ??? ???
  18. Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers (zadzmo.org)
    ×1.38 | 683 points by blendergeek 5 days ago | 262 comments | ??? ???
  19. Starship Flight 7 (spacex.com)
    ×0.99 | 672 points by chinathrow 5 days ago | 721 comments | ??? ???
  20. I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back (howtogeek.com)
    ×5.75 | 624 points by Vinnl 1 week ago | 519 comments | ??? ???
  21. UK's hardware talent is being wasted (josef.cn)
    ×3.18 | 620 points by sebg 2 days ago | 1118 comments | ??? ???
  22. Mixxx: GPL DJ Software (mixxx.org)
    ×2.57 #65 | 613 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 130 comments | ??? ???
  23. Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited? (mattsayar.com)
    ×0.77 | 603 points by MattSayar 6 days ago | 356 comments | ??? ???
  24. Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable (xeiaso.net)
    ×5.71 | 602 points by OptionOfT 3 days ago | 241 comments | ??? ???
  25. So you want to build your own data center (railway.com)
    ×3.06 | 587 points by dban 4 days ago | 276 comments | ??? ???
  26. Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers (apnews.com)
    ×3.97 #2 | 567 points by tedsanders 8 hours ago | 604 comments | ??? ???
  27. VS Code Pets (github.com/tonybaloney)
    ×2.92 | 536 points by vortex_ape 3 days ago | 132 comments | ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units (isd-project.github.io)
    ×2.36 | 534 points by kai-tub 3 days ago | 203 comments | ??? ???
  29. Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect (rossmanngroup.com)
    ×2.55 | 528 points by pabs3 2 days ago | 353 comments | ??? ???
  30. I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts (rongarret.info)
    ×2.57 #73 | 510 points by lisper 1 day ago | 303 comments | ??? ???
  31. Is the world becoming uninsurable? (charleshughsmith.substack.com)
    ×2.06 | 507 points by spking 5 days ago | 1210 comments | ??? ???
  32. Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×2.31 | 505 points by zdw 4 days ago | 169 comments | ??? ???
  33. Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf] (tiiny.site)
    ×1.93 | 505 points by late 5 days ago | 515 comments | ??? ???
  34. In the belly of the MrBeast (kevinmunger.substack.com)
    ×2.80 | 505 points by stafford_beer 1 week ago | 397 comments | ??? ???
  35. Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×0.97 | 503 points by simiones 1 week ago | 285 comments | ??? ???
  36. Take the pedals off the bike (fortressofdoors.com)
    ×1.60 | 492 points by bemmu 1 week ago | 446 comments | ??? ???
  37. Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat (ssno.cc)
    ×2.25 #51 | 490 points by deverton 1 day ago | 197 comments | ??? ???
  38. Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×4.71 #67 | 489 points by vincent_s 20 hours ago | 374 comments | ??? ???
  39. Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.52 | 487 points by rbanffy 1 week ago | 471 comments | ??? ???
  40. Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture (ij.org)
    ×1.06 | 472 points by greyface- 1 week ago | 276 comments | ??? ???
  41. FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI (lesswrong.com)
    ×3.79 | 471 points by wujerry2000 2 days ago | 186 comments | ??? ???
  42. Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza (reuters.com)
    ×1.47 | 460 points by dnsbty 6 days ago | 1296 comments | ??? ???
  43. Oh Shit, Git? (ohshitgit.com)
    ×2.58 | 458 points by Anon84 5 days ago | 261 comments | ??? ???
  44. I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.23 | 455 points by emschwartz 4 days ago | 238 comments | ??? ???
  45. Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? (gitbutler.com)
    ×2.52 | 436 points by birdculture 2 days ago | 243 comments | ??? ???
  46. Don't use cosine similarity carelessly (migdal.pl)
    ×1.06 | 436 points by stared 1 week ago | 96 comments | ??? ???
  47. Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023) (apnews.com)
    ×0.62 | 425 points by redbell 6 days ago | 322 comments | ??? ???
  48. US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.91 | 424 points by toomuchtodo 6 days ago | 565 comments | ??? ???
  49. Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M (claudio.uk)
    ×0.79 | 420 points by csantini 6 days ago | 246 comments | ??? ???
  50. Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies (build-your-own.org)
    ×2.80 | 417 points by not_a_boat 5 days ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  51. 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.40 | 417 points by belter 1 week ago | 406 comments | ??? ???
  52. Home Loss File System (google.com)
    ×0.71 | 412 points by borski 1 week ago | 105 comments | ??? ???
  53. A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon (mcsweeneys.net)
    ×0.70 | 408 points by ohjeez 6 days ago | 234 comments | ??? ???
  54. Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge (forgejo.org)
    ×2.14 | 384 points by thunderbong 3 days ago | 267 comments | ??? ???
  55. Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×1.95 #86 | 383 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 218 comments | ??? ???
  56. Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.49 | 376 points by johnneville 5 days ago | 265 comments | ??? ???
  57. Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? (goodtechthings.com)
    ×2.18 | 372 points by forrestbrazeal 1 week ago | 1344 comments | ??? ???
  58. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.64 #81 | 361 points by proberts 1 day ago | 375 comments | ??? ???
  59. GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search (github.blog)
    ×2.66 | 361 points by julius-fx 5 days ago | 205 comments | ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
    ×2.87 #36 | 359 points by recvonline 17 hours ago | 343 comments | ??? ???
  61. UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% (fortune.com)
    ×1.25 | 359 points by this_weekend 6 days ago | 307 comments | ??? ???
  62. Kalman Filter Tutorial (kalmanfilter.net)
    ×1.91 | 351 points by ColinWright 3 days ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  63. Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021) (subanima.org)
    ×2.05 | 341 points by ohjeez 3 days ago | 238 comments | ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
    ×3.35 #20 | 336 points by prettyblocks 11 hours ago | 151 comments | ??? ???
  65. Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace (theverge.com)
    ×0.94 | 334 points by lars_francke 6 days ago | 458 comments | ??? ???
  66. 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem (cerebras.ai)
    ×0.59 | 330 points by jwan584 6 days ago | 178 comments | ??? ???
  67. I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again (ninkovic.dev)
    ×2.84 #85 | 322 points by nemwiz 1 day ago | 267 comments | ??? ???
  68. Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996) (amasci.com)
    ×1.92 #10 | 317 points by Simon_O_Rourke 13 hours ago | 160 comments | ??? ???
  69. Brood War Korean Translations (sourcedive.net)
    ×1.60 | 313 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 102 comments | ??? ???
  70. Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers (collegetowns.substack.com)
    ×2.97 | 310 points by raybb 1 week ago | 443 comments | ??? ???
  71. Learn Yjs Interactively (yjs.dev)
    ×1.01 | 309 points by paulgb 5 days ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  72. Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? (jpost.com)
    ×51.70 | 301 points by sundaeofshock 1 day ago | 146 comments | ??? ???
  73. Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds (johnwalker.nl)
    ×2.81 | 292 points by rekl 2 days ago | 106 comments | ??? ???
  74. Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation (wiley.com)
    ×2.11 #40 | 291 points by freddier 17 hours ago | 278 comments | ??? ???
  75. 417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make (petapixel.com)
    ×1.72 #64 | 288 points by wallflower 1 day ago | 93 comments | ??? ???
  76. Thoughts on a month with Devin (answer.ai)
    ×1.29 | 279 points by swyx 5 days ago | 187 comments | ??? ???
  77. WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) (wtfhappenedin1971.com)
    ×0.46 | 276 points by lr0 6 days ago | 267 comments | ??? ???
  78. Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm (marian42.de)
    ×1.79 | 276 points by klaussilveira 1 week ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  79. Haskell: A Great Procedural Language (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.66 | 274 points by kqr 3 days ago | 201 comments | ??? ???
  80. Please don't force dark mode (iamvishnu.com)
    ×4.15 | 269 points by vishnuharidas 2 days ago | 251 comments | ??? ???
  81. Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×1.70 | 268 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 125 comments | ??? ???
  82. Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study (nutraingredients-asia.com)
    ×2.20 | 266 points by hilux 4 days ago | 180 comments | ??? ???
  83. Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas (theautopian.com)
    ×0.49 | 266 points by colinprince 1 week ago | 199 comments | ??? ???
  84. PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024 (db-engines.com)
    ×2.42 | 263 points by plaur782 1 week ago | 106 comments | ??? ???
  85. Some things to expect in 2025 (lwn.net)
    ×0.86 | 258 points by signa11 5 days ago | 180 comments | ??? ???
  86. Using coding skills to make passive income (coryzue.com)
    ×2.94 | 258 points by czue 1 week ago | 141 comments | ??? ???
  87. People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research (science.org)
    ×2.26 #45 | 257 points by XzetaU8 18 hours ago | 419 comments | ??? ???
  88. Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.77 | 257 points by lemonberry 4 days ago | 251 comments | ??? ???
  89. We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky (technologyreview.com)
    ×2.17 #87 | 255 points by srameshc 3 days ago | 297 comments | ??? ???
  90. Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram (chrisalemany.ca)
    ×18.83 | 254 points by vool 21 hours ago | 166 comments | ??? ???