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Imec demonstrates electrical yield for 20nm lines High NA EUV single patterning (imec-int.com)

×0.37 84 #90 | 29 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Recommendarr – AI Driven Recommendations Based on Sonarr/Radarr Media (github.com/fingerthief)

×0.84 70 #83 | 82 points by fingerthieff 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: pdfdark.com – view pdf's in "dark mode" all on client (pdfdark.com)

×0.66 83 #59 | 6 points by iamdan 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it (nytimes.com)

×0.83 67 #85 | 86 points by danso 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turning my ESP32 into a DNS sinkhole to fight doomscrolling (amanvir.com)

×0.89 64 #66 | 100 points by venusgirdle 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Prompting LLMs in Bash scripts (elijahpotter.dev)

×0.70 62 #71 | 72 points by chilipepperhott 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We in-housed our data labelling (ericbutton.co)

×0.72 62 #58 | 62 points by EricButton 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ninjavis – generate visualization from ninja build logs (github.com/chagui)

×0.54 61 #56 | 38 points by gjvc 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Raspberry Pi Pico audio player (lucstechblog.blogspot.com)

×0.96 56 #69 | 151 points by zdw 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008) (mattcutts.com)

×1.15 55 #74 | 153 points by gigaArpit 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Towards a test suite for TOTP codes (shkspr.mobi)

×1.06 55 #88 | 99 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development (helloanselm.com)

×1.70 53 #84 | 194 points by tipiirai 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Matt's Script Archive (1995) (scriptarchive.com)

×1.10 51 #65 | 135 points by huang_chung 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Few of the Birds I Love (wordpress.com)

×1.02 51 #62 | 93 points by moultano 20 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours to Mnemonic Systems (susam.net)

×0.58 58 #40 | 26 points by susam 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS Cat Qubits Make Quantum Error Correction Effective, Affordable (nextplatform.com)

×0.55 53 #52 | 33 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phlex for Rails Emails: Action Mailer Without ERB (camillovisini.com)

×0.84 51 #50 | 64 points by camillovisini 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CSS Custom Functions are coming (bram.us)

×1.32 48 #76 | 82 points by Fudgel 23 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Virtual museum of socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria (socmus.com)

×1.53 48 #41 | 124 points by NaOH 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tangled – Git collaboration platform built on atproto (tangled.sh)

×1.19 47 #43 | 148 points by icy 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ACCESS.bus: The Forgotten USB Competitor (tedium.co)

×0.91 44 #87 | 66 points by PaulHoule 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics (arxiv.org)

×1.26 61 #54 | 5 points by ksec 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Schools reviving shop class (wsj.com)

×2.21 40 #64 | 270 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water (sheffield.ac.uk)

×1.36 41 #38 | 165 points by gnabgib 18 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives (downtowndougbrown.com)

×1.59 35 #51 | 272 points by zdw 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Regulatory gridlock in the U.S. risks losing the drone arms race (seanobannon.substack.com)

×1.19 41 #27 | 37 points by seanobannon 5 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud (bbc.com)

×1.51 33 #37 | 204 points by tartoran 16 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The quest to find and save the Vasa (2019) (mentalfloss.com)

×0.69 35 #46 | 22 points by areoform 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Urban Dead is shutting down (urbandead.com)

×2.37 39 #30 | 15 points by ColinWright 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thought Leader (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.98 33 #45 | 23 points by howsilly 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet (zetier.com)

×1.76 24 #67 | 349 points by chc4 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data (kaspersky.com)

×1.70 24 #82 | 165 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Losing a 5-year-long Illinois FOIA lawsuit for database schemas (mchap.io)

×2.24 24 #79 | 130 points by chaps 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do we have both CSRF protection and CORS? (smagin.fyi)

×1.72 21 #86 | 247 points by smagin 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evals are not all you need (marble.onl)

×0.87 28 #24 | 28 points by amarble 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Firebender, a simple coding agent for Android Engineers (firebender.com)

×0.63 27 #31 | 27 points by kevo1ution 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Send Data with Sound (github.com/solst-ice)

×0.60 30 #35 | 14 points by amrrs 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Cuckoo (YC W25) – Real-time AI translator for global teams

×0.59 28 #6 | 36 points by yonghee 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet (newyorker.com)

×1.58 19 #75 | 285 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Nabataeans Are Coming (historytoday.com)

×0.89 35 #22 | 10 points by diodorus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs (github.com/wild-card-ai)

×0.96 24 #15 | 57 points by yompal 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FlakeUI (github.com/tearflake)

×1.03 20 #36 | 99 points by tearflake 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-Source Windows AI assistant that uses Word, Excel through COM (github.com/Alkali-Sim)

×1.24 21 #32 | 50 points by edmgood 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking Back at Speculative Decoding (research.google)

×0.77 26 #23 | 17 points by veryluckyxyz 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes (simonwillison.net)

×2.24 16 #68 | 351 points by ulrischa 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three (righto.com)

×2.14 15 #72 | 360 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS (github.com/deepseek-ai)

×1.46 15 #77 | 303 points by overflowcat 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers (sonauto.ai)

×0.93 18 #13 | 62 points by zaptrem 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models (mit.edu)

×2.24 14 #33 | 314 points by __rito__ 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure Go (github.com/takara-ai)

×1.27 16 #21 | 65 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of Code (arxiv.org)

×1.06 17 #29 | 33 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C (nullprogram.com)

×0.84 13 #89 | 60 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AgenticMemory: Zettelkasten inspired agentic memory system (github.com/WujiangXu)

×1.32 14 #26 | 37 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Socrates is a state machine: sans IO with async Rust (sminez.dev)

×1.55 14 #81 | 8 points by fanf2 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nomadic infrastructure design for AI workloads (tigrisdata.com)

×1.04 22 #10 | 11 points by xena 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Attempt to Catch Up with JIT Compilers (arxiv.org)

×0.99 11 #14 | 96 points by mfiguiere 6 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One Logo, Three Companies (estilofilos.blogspot.com)

×1.15 12 #9 | 44 points by ghc 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First flat telescope lens that captures color, detecting light from stars (phys.org)

×1.05 10 #25 | 77 points by wglb 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread (apnews.com)

×1.82 10 #12 | 58 points by geox 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DARPA Project Reveals One Person Can Control Dozens of Robots (ieee.org)

×1.47 10 #8 | 54 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022) (tmm.cx)

×1.63 10 #20 | 39 points by wibbily 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BYD cars now have an on-vehicle DJI drone launch platform (theverge.com)

×1.84 9 #63 | 20 points by nickthegreek 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citi group accidentally sends someone $81T (bloomberg.com)

×2.27 9 #73 | 10 points by hurrell 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)

×1.53 5 #5 | 214 points by whoishiring 6 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

×1.36 5 #19 | 101 points by whoishiring 6 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects (wired.com)

×1.61 6 #70 | 11 points by jonbaer 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SQLite-on-the-Server Is Misunderstood: Better at Hyper-Scale Than Micro-Scale (rivet.gg)

×1.56 4 #7 | 129 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video] (fosdem.org)

×1.84 6 #2 | 28 points by bestorworse 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TSMC will reportedly invest $100B to expand US chip fab buildouts (arstechnica.com)

×1.69 4 #47 | 14 points by whiteboardr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The power of interning: making a time series database smaller (gendignoux.com)

×1.39 3 #4 | 189 points by todsacerdoti 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon (cnn.com)

×3.00 2 #42 | 730 points by complexpass 23 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs (theophilecantelob.re)

×1.00 2 #18 | 123 points by theophilec 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967 (stlartsupply.com)

×2.72 2 #11 | 153 points by apokryptein 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit (icode4.coffee)

×1.17 2 #3 | 138 points by kevincox 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???