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  1. Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)
    ×5.13 9 #8 | 1288 points by bob_theslob646 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com/EnriqueLop)
    ×3.70 5 #43 | 783 points by enriquelop 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (stanford.edu)
    ×3.30 17 #17 | 739 points by oldfrenchfries 1 day ago | 580 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
    ×8.43 9 | 728 points by vmg12 1 day ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem (stanford.edu)
    ×2.84 12 #71 | 605 points by mazieres 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)
    ×3.57 6 #31 | 602 points by amarcheschi 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Make macOS consistently bad unironically (lr0.org)
    ×2.20 13 #86 | 528 points by speckx 1 day ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)
    ×2.43 13 #19 | 450 points by msephton 21 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.25 24 #34 | 439 points by msephton 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Say No to Palantir in Europe (wemove.eu)
    ×5.88 26 #27 | 436 points by Betelbuddy 2 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables (iamkate.com)
    ×3.59 27 | 403 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics (umich.edu)
    ×2.72 5 #2 | 396 points by giuliomagnifico 8 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots (reutersconnect.com)
    ×3.14 25 #56 | 347 points by _____k 18 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.72 2 #11 | 322 points by hrncode 8 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering (theopenreader.org)
    ×1.86 22 #70 | 318 points by TORcicada 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com/J-x-Z)
    ×1.82 17 #69 | 316 points by OJFord 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.74 20 #85 | 308 points by zdw 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (theregister.com)
    ×3.93 18 | 276 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.29 31 | 264 points by sebastian_z 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com/BoWang87)
    ×1.40 27 #32 | 247 points by mean_mistreater 23 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Linux is an interpreter (astrid.tech)
    ×1.38 32 #42 | 231 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. ISBN Visualization (annas-archive.gd)
    ×1.50 41 | 222 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The first 40 months of the AI era (lzon.ca)
    ×1.96 5 #66 | 205 points by jpmitchell 23 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit (github.com/austin-weeks)
    ×1.87 3 #9 | 203 points by LucidLynx 7 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing (bbc.com)
    ×3.36 47 | 193 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser (github.com/davidmonterocrespo24)
    ×1.26 48 | 193 points by dmcrespo 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (bmj.com)
    ×1.59 24 #23 | 191 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs (theguardian.com)
    ×3.65 21 #82 | 178 points by mordechai9000 20 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (github.com/rajko-horvat)
    ×1.65 48 #37 | 178 points by caminanteblanco 23 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most (twitchroulette.net)
    ×1.22 51 | 175 points by ellg 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial (bbc.com)
    ×3.70 42 | 162 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND (cnn.com)
    ×2.99 2 #6 | 151 points by ourmandave 3 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math? (adlrocha.substack.com)
    ×2.63 17 #40 | 145 points by adlrocha 9 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Treason in the Futures Markets (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×6.64 27 | 137 points by Gasp0de 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices (androidauthority.com)
    ×1.61 50 #39 | 134 points by croemer 21 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting (coloradonewsline.com)
    ×1.95 68 | 126 points by jprs 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging (fraunhofer.de)
    ×1.32 48 #36 | 117 points by gnabgib 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention (independent.co.uk)
    ×18.24 34 | 113 points by ghd_ 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine (gladeart.com)
    ×2.41 18 #20 | 110 points by ohjeez 1 hour ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't? (johnjwang.com)
    ×3.82 72 | 97 points by johnjwang 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia (theguardian.com)
    ×4.26 25 | 96 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them (psychologytoday.com)
    ×5.81 55 | 93 points by ndr42 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Solar is winning the energy race (dw.com)
    ×6.39 61 | 91 points by doener 9 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight (icao.int)
    ×1.08 70 #58 | 87 points by phantomathkg 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.96 49 | 85 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Telnyx package compromised on PyPI (aikido.dev)
    ×2.06 78 | 85 points by overflowy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Undroidwish – A single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms (androwish.org)
    ×0.83 59 #60 | 83 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 (yahoo.com)
    ×3.51 33 | 81 points by dvfjsdhgfv 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem (github.com/openyak)
    ×1.47 31 | 80 points by wangzhangwu 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents (standupforme.app)
    ×2.75 79 | 79 points by borealis-dev 2 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. rpg.actor Game Jam (rpg.actor)
    ×0.90 50 #76 | 77 points by Kye 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown (github.com/1st1)
    ×1.46 14 #50 | 76 points by doppp 8 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023) (gwern.net)
    ×1.11 46 #49 | 76 points by gggscript 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147 (ft.com)
    ×4.40 15 | 73 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD (lwn.net)
    ×1.54 81 | 72 points by corbet 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
    ×1.78 43 | 71 points by acmerfight 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry
    ×4.20 74 | 70 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Framework Becomes a KDE Patron (kde.org)
    ×3.22 82 | 70 points by TangerineDream 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder (techfixated.com)
    ×1.49 2 #1 | 65 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Canadian man says U.S. border officers made him give DNA sample (cbc.ca)
    ×3.63 46 | 67 points by geox 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters (washingtonpost.com)
    ×4.16 78 | 64 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities (redox-os.org)
    ×0.75 83 | 63 points by ejplatzer 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it (stateofutopia.com)
    ×5.81 86 | 62 points by logicallee 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference (scientificamerican.com)
    ×5.05 21 | 61 points by nickcotter 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar (theregister.com)
    ×3.07 85 | 56 points by amarant 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time (theguardian.com)
    ×2.67 10 #15 | 54 points by onei 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them (audreywatters.com)
    ×4.89 63 | 55 points by MindGods 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Gulf Countries' Frustration with the US Grows as War Wears On (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.00 77 | 55 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Sylve – Proxmox Alternative by FreeBSD (sylve.io)
    ×2.04 56 #74 | 54 points by imbobbytables 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland (apnews.com)
    ×3.83 19 | 53 points by petethomas 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
    ×1.50 59 | 53 points by philjohnson 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Byte Magazine Archive 1975 to 1995 (worldradiohistory.com)
    ×1.68 88 | 53 points by oldnetguy 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Circuit-level PDP-11/34 emulator (github.com/dbrll)
    ×0.67 70 #78 | 52 points by elvis70 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data (successfulsoftware.net)
    ×1.42 42 #48 | 51 points by hermitcrab 1 hour ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East (blitzortung.org)
    ×2.04 83 | 51 points by 0ut0flin3 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders (sheetninja.io)
    ×1.07 40 #67 | 51 points by sxa001 6 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust? (ft.com)
    ×4.61 9 | 51 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Stop picking my Go version for me (howardjohn.info)
    ×1.67 30 | 50 points by ingve 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The road to electric in charts and data (rac.co.uk)
    ×1.26 24 | 49 points by zeristor 10 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents (github.com/outworked)
    ×1.23 91 | 48 points by ZeidJ 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Wikipedia officially bans AI-generated content (nypost.com)
    ×2.78 6 | 46 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Gaza toddler released from Israeli custody with 'cigarette burn' wounds (middleeasteye.net)
    ×8.31 71 | 45 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts (bigthink.com)
    ×1.31 65 | 43 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Byte Interviews Chuck Peddle, Father of the MOS 6502 and Commodore PET (1982) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
    ×1.24 73 | 42 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history (publictransit.systems)
    ×0.66 31 #46 | 38 points by qwertykb 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II (deepdelver.substack.com)
    ×4.10 61 | 38 points by spk_ 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ötzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Years Later (familytreedna.com)
    ×1.92 50 | 37 points by ilamont 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Om Malik – 'Astound'ed. Google Flips Its Fiber to PE (om.co)
    ×2.29 94 | 36 points by rmason 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: PeriodicTableOfElements.org (periodictableofelements.org)
    ×0.94 32 | 35 points by nadermx 16 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Anthropic's Mythos leak: 3k files in a public CMS, and what the docs revealed (medium.com)
    ×4.24 38 | 34 points by Aedelon 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???