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  1. Guile Lab Notebook: On the Move (wingolog.org)
    ×0.71 70 #64 | 10 points by bwidlar 11 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  2. What goes wrong when we write ghazals in English (theparisreview.org)
    ×1.64 63 #81 | 41 points by ishita159 1 day ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  3. LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping (disneyresearch.com)
    ×0.74 59 #88 | 127 points by jw1224 1 day ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  4. Zorin OS (zorin.com)
    ×2.57 60 #35 | 163 points by oldfuture 1 day ago | 145 comments | ??? ???
  5. Swahili on the Road (historytoday.com)
    ×0.63 62 #51 | 39 points by Thevet 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  6. François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.16 55 #86 | 223 points by sandslash 2 days ago | 200 comments | ??? ???
  7. Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion (nature.com)
    ×0.82 57 #57 | 76 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  8. New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation (newscientist.com)
    ×0.87 57 #61 | 46 points by jnord 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  9. Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers (berry-lang.github.io)
    ×0.81 54 #82 | 98 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  10. Show HN: Pyhoff – Connect Python ML Models to Beckhoff/WAGO IO Hardware (github.com/Nonannet)
    ×0.50 64 #69 | 5 points by Saloc 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  11. Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth (arxiv.org)
    ×0.72 54 #50 | 94 points by bikenaga 1 day ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  12. Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future (steveblank.com)
    ×1.59 52 #55 | 128 points by ArmageddonIt 1 day ago | 152 comments | ??? ???
  13. Ceramic: A cross-platform and open-source 2D framework in Haxe (ceramic-engine.com)
    ×1.02 52 #63 | 83 points by -yukari 1 day ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  14. Running a Certificate Transparency log (filippo.io)
    ×1.49 50 #90 | 157 points by Metalnem 1 day ago | 58 comments | ??? ???
  15. On The Meaning of Ritual (alicemaz.substack.com)
    ×0.83 51 #78 | 71 points by jger15 1 day ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  16. Why are there no good dinosaur films? (briannazigler.substack.com)
    ×1.63 48 #84 | 194 points by fremden 2 days ago | 450 comments | ??? ???
  17. Epanet-JS (macwright.com)
    ×1.35 48 #71 | 211 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  18. Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems (xenharmlib.readthedocs.io)
    ×1.04 49 #48 | 80 points by retooth 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  19. Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. (ieee.org)
    ×1.00 72 #26 | 4 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  20. Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world (github.com/openvenues)
    ×1.14 49 #38 | 81 points by nateb2022 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  21. iPod Linux (2017) (ipodlinux.org)
    ×1.40 49 #45 | 64 points by nickysielicki 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  22. When Figma starts designing us (designsystems.international)
    ×1.57 44 #80 | 295 points by bravomartin 2 days ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  23. Show HN: I rewrote an outdated React Native map clustering library (github.com/suwi-lanji)
    ×0.46 49 #47 | 28 points by hadat 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  24. The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry (futureecologies.net)
    ×1.47 43 #83 | 228 points by zeristor 2 days ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  25. Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection (ericdaigle.ca)
    ×1.57 44 #44 | 231 points by mtlynch 1 day ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  26. Surfing on a Matchbox (1999) (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.63 45 #67 | 33 points by TMWNN 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  27. Why I'm skeptical of Ground News (sjodle.com)
    ×3.34 47 #43 | 32 points by blowenopdestoep 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  28. Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app (offchess.com)
    ×1.83 42 #42 | 344 points by avadhesh18 1 day ago | 156 comments | ??? ???
  29. Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024) (dolthub.com)
    ×1.07 42 #68 | 46 points by gm678 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  30. Bug Stories (500mile.email)
    ×0.61 44 #49 | 33 points by thinkingemote 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  31. The Tradeoffs of SSMs and Transformers (goombalab.github.io)
    ×0.93 40 #77 | 65 points by jxmorris12 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  32. Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby (naildrivin5.com)
    ×1.55 38 #40 | 195 points by onnnon 1 day ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  33. Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music (forgetoolz.com)
    ×1.22 36 #72 | 94 points by ShadowUnknown 1 day ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  34. Radium Music Editor (notam02.no)
    ×1.50 33 #39 | 245 points by ofalkaed 1 day ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  35. Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? (tedunangst.com)
    ×1.90 32 #54 | 308 points by zdw 1 day ago | 121 comments | ??? ???
  36. Splice: Cable Harness Design Made Simple (splice-cad.com)
    ×0.47 50 #23 | 6 points by nateb2022 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  37. Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE (dgl.cx)
    ×1.66 29 #22 | 354 points by dgl 1 day ago | 147 comments | ??? ???
  38. Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM (huggingface.co)
    ×2.04 25 #31 | 359 points by kashifr 1 day ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  39. Using MPC for Anonymous and Private DNA Analysis (vishakh.blog)
    ×0.51 30 #25 | 27 points by vishakh82 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  40. A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator Written in COBOL (github.com/ghuntley)
    ×0.52 31 #19 | 23 points by ghuntley 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  41. AI, power and sociolinguistics (2024) (researchgate.net)
    ×0.77 27 #62 | 33 points by AntonioBarthes 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  42. I'm Building LLM for Satellite Data EarthGPT.app (earthgpt.app)
    ×1.07 25 #34 | 91 points by sabman 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  43. Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 (aresluna.org)
    ×1.52 24 #30 | 174 points by K7PJP 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  44. Helm local code execution via a malicious chart (github.com/helm)
    ×0.87 25 #14 | 145 points by irke882 12 hours ago | 72 comments | ??? ???
  45. Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? (greatwavetoday.com)
    ×1.27 24 #28 | 117 points by colinprince 15 hours ago | 88 comments | ??? ???
  46. Galiliean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh (mpg.de)
    ×0.35 30 #33 | 12 points by gone35 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  47. Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×2.30 22 #16 | 189 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 134 comments | ??? ???
  48. Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale (bentasker.co.uk)
    ×1.00 41 #20 | 4 points by gm678 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing (jukeboxhq.com)
    ×1.16 19 #87 | 115 points by skeptrune 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  50. GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS (mips.com)
    ×2.06 17 #60 | 227 points by mshockwave 1 day ago | 143 comments | ??? ???
  51. Rules of good writing (2007) (typepad.com)
    ×1.29 16 #75 | 104 points by santiviquez 20 hours ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  52. RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor (github.com/CyberTimon)
    ×1.54 15 #21 | 229 points by l8rlump 16 hours ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  53. The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt (beam.cloud)
    ×1.45 23 #5 | 13 points by Mernit 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  54. 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression (7-zip.org)
    ×1.99 14 #13 | 211 points by doener 13 hours ago | 141 comments | ??? ???
  55. US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.38 13 #12 | 447 points by gausswho 19 hours ago | 427 comments | ??? ???
  56. Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.38 15 #6 | 53 points by neversaydie 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  57. Jank Programming Language (jank-lang.org)
    ×2.16 22 #8 | 10 points by akkad33 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  58. Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know (prateekcodes.dev)
    ×1.24 8 #7 | 167 points by thomas_witt 9 hours ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  59. Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left (medium.com)
    ×0.97 8 #4 | 137 points by gabiteodoru 7 hours ago | 84 comments | ??? ???
  60. SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)
    ×4.51 6 #65 | 488 points by cantdutchthis 1 day ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  61. Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops 1k facial recognition arrests (theregister.com)
    ×1.45 7 #73 | 14 points by rntn 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  62. Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (florian-kraemer.net)
    ×2.05 6 #11 | 227 points by BerislavLopac 11 hours ago | 353 comments | ??? ???
  63. PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download (php.net)
    ×2.29 6 #79 | 36 points by jeroenpeters 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  64. Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)
    ×3.78 5 #15 | 714 points by jonkuipers 23 hours ago | 182 comments | ??? ???
  65. I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow (github.com/oisee)
    ×1.29 5 #9 | 92 points by weinzierl 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  66. Is the doc bot docs, or not? (robinsloan.com)
    ×1.25 2 #17 | 171 points by tobr 11 hours ago | 95 comments | ??? ???
  67. ESIM Security (security-explorations.com)
    ×1.17 2 #24 | 103 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  68. Tree Borrows (ethz.ch)
    ×1.84 2 #1 | 233 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  69. Evolution Mail Users Easily Trackable (grepular.com)
    ×1.70 2 #3 | 29 points by mike-cardwell 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  70. Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone (github.com/lraton)
    ×2.28 2 #2 | 38 points by iraton 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???