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$1M prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old Indus Valley script (archaeologymag.com)

×1.98 75 #77 | 24 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cardan grille (wikipedia.org)

×0.38 68 #73 | 44 points by Vigier 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Preserves: An Expressive Data Language (preserves.dev)

×0.51 64 #72 | 77 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ötzi the Lyme Mummy (2019) (illinois.edu)

×0.49 64 #62 | 76 points by speckx 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Detecting edges of images at the speed of light (phys.org)

×0.88 60 #35 | 82 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance (ebpf.foundation)

×1.13 53 #51 | 166 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research (mahaloz.re)

×1.32 53 #38 | 120 points by matt_d 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Soviet Shoe Factory Principle (c2.com)

×1.56 51 #46 | 167 points by dccoolgai 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TinyJs React like framework in 35 lines of code

×0.58 52 #68 | 38 points by atum47 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keymapper: A cross-platform context-aware key remapper (github.com/houmain)

×0.92 49 #66 | 83 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When the Sackler brothers studied LSD (resobscura.substack.com)

×0.79 50 #67 | 43 points by passing 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices (airflow.app)

×1.81 48 #44 | 200 points by tiagod 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mcp-Agent – Build effective agents with Model Context Protocol (github.com/lastmile-ai)

×0.87 47 #76 | 72 points by saqadri 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind (wordpress.com)

×1.39 47 #31 | 182 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Classic Duck Hunt game made in JavaScript and Kaplay (itch.io)

×0.89 47 #59 | 80 points by JSLegendDev 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight (definite.app)

×0.69 44 #88 | 90 points by mritchie712 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime (instantdb.com)

×1.70 44 #42 | 235 points by stopachka 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Permission to Practise Medicine (bl.uk)

×0.51 47 #27 | 42 points by pepys 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer (utoronto.ca)

×1.08 41 #71 | 188 points by epakai 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes (publicdomainreview.org)

×0.26 45 #57 | 19 points by prismatic 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Society for Technical Communication to permanently close its doors (stc.org)

×0.68 40 #82 | 84 points by Sgt_Apone 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss (hirundo.io)

×1.80 40 #78 | 95 points by nicolevin 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch (github.com/Om-Alve)

×1.81 40 #24 | 388 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust (chriis.dev)

×1.42 40 #54 | 173 points by bustylasercanon 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom (wilderutopia.com)

×0.91 42 #37 | 83 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data (github.com/mathesar-foundation)

×1.55 40 #29 | 211 points by gjvc 22 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From C++ to Clojure: Jank language promises best of both (thenewstack.io)

×1.84 38 #39 | 242 points by Jeaye 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automating Git Bisect with Ephemeral Environments (qckfx.com)

×0.68 40 #43 | 32 points by chw9e 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000 (celso.io)

×0.89 34 #75 | 144 points by doener 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021 (components.one)

×1.15 34 #28 | 148 points by vednig 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×1.17 31 #18 | 214 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Teemoji: Like Tee but with Emojis (github.com/willswire)

×1.12 31 #25 | 113 points by willswire 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Distr – open-source distribution platform for on-prem deployments (github.com/glasskube)

×1.05 31 #22 | 42 points by louis_w_gk 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

×2.17 25 #36 | 299 points by jger15 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch (andrewchilds.com)

×2.66 24 #23 | 531 points by andrewchilds 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal? (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

×0.87 27 #17 | 59 points by SchwKatze 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression (science.org)

×1.44 23 #65 | 425 points by Luc 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] (youtube.com)

×0.71 20 #79 | 694 points by rayhaanj 2 days ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs (predictors.fail)

×0.84 20 #61 | 1060 points by cylo 2 days ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do I get good at math as a 42yo with kids?

×1.04 20 #85 | 27 points by goshatch 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dead Games (garry.net)

×1.66 17 #81 | 165 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1 (arcprize.org)

×2.69 16 #26 | 672 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Signs Of Life In A Desert (noemamag.com)

×0.51 26 #20 | 9 points by mindingnever 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy (nasa.gov)

×3.31 15 #56 | 485 points by 2-3-7-43-1807 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A history of APL in the USSR (1991) (acm.org)

×0.76 17 #14 | 71 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer (workflow86.com)

×0.56 19 #13 | 18 points by taaron 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"We're building a new static type checker for Python" (twitter.com/charliermarsh)

×3.48 13 #63 | 331 points by shlomo_z 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Iterm-Mcp – AI Terminal/REPL Control for iTerm2 (github.com/ferrislucas)

×0.45 15 #21 | 26 points by deathmonger5000 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017) (plos.org)

×0.89 12 #45 | 126 points by thunderbong 15 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Find the oldest line in your repo (milofultz.com)

×1.14 13 #15 | 52 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally

×0.77 13 #6 | 62 points by Shasnani 5 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours (tomshardware.com)

×2.35 10 #74 | 360 points by 6581 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The story of my home made pipe organ (2000) (sentex.ca)

×1.56 9 #12 | 208 points by ynac 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do Insects Feel Pain? (newyorker.com)

×1.05 13 #9 | 11 points by Hooke 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making the video that made Gorillaz (animationobsessive.substack.com)

×1.89 7 #80 | 207 points by darekkay 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Cat Mii (theparisreview.org)

×1.82 7 #5 | 118 points by lermontov 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio (audiocube.app)

×1.24 6 #11 | 132 points by noahfk 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update (androidcentral.com)

×2.63 5 #84 | 290 points by bmaupin 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optical Frequency Combs (nist.gov)

×1.02 6 #7 | 46 points by zafka 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar (github.com/exelban)

×2.74 3 #2 | 93 points by LeoPanthera 3 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JavaScript Temporal is coming (mozilla.org)

×4.17 2 #1 | 925 points by SigmundurM 11 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What makes a great mocktail? (2018) (seriouseats.com)

×2.71 5 #4 | 17 points by amarcheschi 50 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reactive Signals for Python – inspired by Angular's reactivity model (github.com/buiapp)

×0.73 2 #48 | 15 points by buibuibui 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???