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A Cool HTTP Feature for Simple Real-Time Updates (morsecodist.io)

×1.74 67 #67 | 9 points by morsecodist 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RK3588 – Implementing a Vectorscope for processing video in real time (jas-hacks.blogspot.com)

×0.65 56 #59 | 53 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free web "Form Builder" (TypeForm for free) (crafxdesign.com)

×1.29 64 #71 | 5 points by ssdesign 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Faster sorting with SIMD CUDA intrinsics (2024) (winwang.blog)

×0.74 53 #63 | 86 points by winwang 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Carolina Eyck, renowned superstar of the theremin (smh.com.au)

×0.77 53 #56 | 77 points by asdefghyk 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove (quantamagazine.org)

×1.15 48 #82 | 140 points by baruchel 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015) (cbc.ca)

×1.26 49 #50 | 118 points by thunderbong 23 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transform DOCX into LLM-ready data (contextgem.dev)

×0.48 51 #68 | 11 points by sergiishcherbak 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL (textquery.app)

×1.02 40 #81 | 155 points by shubhamjain 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025? (vin01.github.io)

×1.75 39 #66 | 257 points by vin10 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP Is Not Good, Yet (cra.mr)

×1.52 50 #75 | 5 points by coloneltcb 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vagus nerve stimulation therapy for treatment-resistant PTSD (brainstimjrnl.com)

×2.15 49 #43 | 8 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers? (thedial.world)

×1.46 37 #58 | 152 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're looking at (2024) (newscientist.com)

×0.83 43 #79 | 8 points by openquery 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MTerrain: Optimized terrain system and editor for Godot (github.com/mohsenph69)

×0.85 38 #39 | 77 points by klaussilveira 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database (vectorvfs.readthedocs.io)

×1.29 35 #73 | 257 points by perone 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Inchtuthil Nail Hoard (scottishhistory.org)

×0.88 36 #46 | 72 points by Luc 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Possibly a Serious Possibility (kucharski.substack.com)

×1.64 32 #65 | 249 points by samclemens 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Speed Radar Measure Music? [video] (youtube.com)

×0.58 42 #36 | 11 points by 1970-01-01 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust (educatedguesswork.org)

×1.42 32 #70 | 135 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt (huffpost.com)

×5.19 31 #55 | 530 points by dredmorbius 1 day ago | 788 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)

×0.79 32 #44 | 97 points by nill0 16 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo (cnbc.com)

×1.86 33 #25 | 84 points by mfiguiere 12 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Critical CSS (kigo.studio)

×1.67 30 #51 | 211 points by stevenpotts 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023) (smithsonianmag.com)

×0.93 31 #35 | 129 points by michalpleban 17 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will supercapacitors come to AI's rescue? (ieee.org)

×0.75 34 #31 | 37 points by mfiguiere 8 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B (upstartsmedia.com)

×1.73 28 #76 | 194 points by ko_pivot 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores (arxiv.org)

×1.37 28 #72 | 172 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML feed namespaces (github.com/macieklamberski)

×0.78 29 #34 | 49 points by macieklamberski 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012) (haacked.com)

×1.05 26 #64 | 102 points by Rygian 19 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt (github.com/plexe-ai)

×0.81 27 #26 | 92 points by vaibhavdubey97 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model (github.com/ace-step)

×0.70 26 #10 | 52 points by wertyk 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades (phys.org)

×0.63 30 #12 | 15 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System? (centauri-dreams.org)

×0.97 23 #23 | 78 points by JPLeRouzic 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms (northwestern.edu)

×1.83 21 #29 | 165 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse-engineering Fujitsu M7MU RELC hardware compression (op-co.de)

×0.77 24 #33 | 24 points by ge0rg 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man (staticrun.app)

×1.04 20 #54 | 61 points by Eagle64 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English (boldvoice.com)

×1.41 17 #16 | 186 points by ilyausorov 14 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“An independent journalist” who won't remain nameless (thehandbasket.co)

×2.08 14 #77 | 254 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

×1.51 15 #2 | 274 points by willbryk 11 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust (github.com/reubeno)

×1.03 13 #13 | 103 points by voxadam 9 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language (duobook.co)

×0.69 21 #22 | 7 points by celltalk 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts (github.com/dse)

×1.45 13 #11 | 82 points by dsevil 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An appeal to Apple from Anukari (anukari.com)

×3.30 10 #42 | 359 points by humbledrone 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pixels in Islamic Art: Square Kufic Calligraphy (2020) (wordpress.com)

×1.83 10 #78 | 154 points by fanf2 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals (variance.co)

×0.77 14 #4 | 31 points by karinemellata 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B (bloomberg.com)

×2.85 10 #3 | 416 points by swyx 14 hours ago | 400 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools (github.com/asgeirtj)

×3.34 10 #5 | 129 points by mike210 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sutton and Barto book implementation (github.com/ivanbelenky)

×0.75 10 #18 | 38 points by ivanbelenky 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows) (whippyterm.com)

×0.70 10 #15 | 40 points by SurvivorTed 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB (github.com/al13n321)

×1.39 8 #19 | 220 points by zX41ZdbW 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding effective type Aliasing in C [pdf] (open-std.org)

×1.14 8 #32 | 38 points by quelsolaar 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often (minimaxir.com)

×2.62 4 #83 | 372 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations (github.com/hookdeck)

×1.58 4 #89 | 60 points by alexbouchard 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024) (ieee.org)

×1.55 4 #8 | 72 points by kristianp 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs (felixrieseberg.github.io)

×3.11 3 #1 | 729 points by felixrieseberg 13 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses

×1.55 2 #27 | 153 points by kevinlinxc 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ (collabora.com)

×3.60 2 #9 | 317 points by LorenDB 10 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???