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Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective (macwright.com)

×0.93 | 1 points by yurivish 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crucial shutting down as Micron wants to sell RAM/SSDs to AI companies instead (theverge.com)

×0.85 | 1 points by kjhughes 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists Create Ultra Fast Memory Using Light (isi.edu)

×0.83 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year (washingtonpost.com)

×0.85 | 1 points by yawnxyz 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hedra

×0.83 | 1 points by bl4ckstack 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI (anthropic.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by miltava 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A secure cloud vault and usage-tracking service for all your LLM providers (mozilla.ai)

×1.84 | 2 points by mzlaai 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Games That Pushed the Limits of the Sony PlayStation (racketboy.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by tosh 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mental Models (2024) (reyes.sh)

×0.75 | 1 points by mooreds 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Snapchat and FaceTime Banned in Russia (themoscowtimes.com)

×1.75 | 2 points by defly 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled? (reason.com)

×4.46 12 #39 | 5 points by delichon 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xzone Malloc (github.com/apple-oss-distributions)

×0.78 | 1 points by gok 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibecession: More Than You Wanted to Know (astralcodexten.com)

×1.72 | 2 points by feross 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why PyTorch is an amazing place to work and Why I'm Joining Thinking Machines (thonking.ai)

×0.76 | 1 points by vrnvu 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How AI Is a Blessing and a Curse (productmind.co)

×0.77 | 1 points by okosisi 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Super-Flat ASTs (jhwlr.io)

×0.72 | 1 points by mmphosis 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia blocks Snapchat, RIA reports (reuters.com)

×0.72 | 1 points by schmuckonwheels 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LLM Debugging Traces (github.com/tomarrell)

×0.72 | 1 points by slicedbrandy 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ConvertDrop – Privacy-focused file converter in the browser (convertdrop.com)

×0.73 | 1 points by BadgerSlayer 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer [video] (youtube.com)

×1.72 | 2 points by ceving 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia blocks Roblox and FaceTime amid growing rebuke of foreign tech platforms (cbc.ca)

×0.74 | 1 points by schmuckonwheels 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas's Water Wars (newyorker.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by PaulHoule 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Han – A plugin marketplace for Claude Code built on Bushido principles (han.guru)

×0.69 | 1 points by jwaldrip 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ampcode / a Claude Code Alternative (ampcode.com)

×0.69 | 1 points by krystofee 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: After being laid off from a corporate job I built my first AI Startup (novichat.ai)

×1.57 | 2 points by antonio07c 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other (Ep. 263) (conversationswithtyler.com)

×0.66 | 1 points by paulpauper 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Innovations in Health Care (marginalrevolution.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by paulpauper 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Protestant Magic' Today (thefitzwilliam.com)

×0.66 | 1 points by paulpauper 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Travelers wear pajamas to airports in protest of government request (washingtonpost.com)

×1.35 38 | 3 points by bookofjoe 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AQUA – model agnostic lightweight command line agent coordinator (vignesh07.github.io)

×0.61 | 1 points by eigen-vector 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia blocks Apple's FaceTime in mounting push against foreign tech platforms (reuters.com)

×1.47 | 2 points by coloneltcb 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spotlight on the Artist/Producer (odoo.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by billboardbd 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A small group of women changed the UK law on deepfake porn (theguardian.com)

×2.35 34 | 3 points by robaato 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Look at the PowerVR Graphics Architecture: Tile-Based Deferred Rendering (imaginationtech.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by jakogut 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye to lead new Reality Labs studio (techcrunch.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by biglyburrito 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners (github.com/SJRiz)

×1.46 | 2 points by indigodaddy 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best way to start coding with tools available today?

×1.49 | 2 points by lepetitpenguin 33 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Built a Custom GPT to Improve Developer Resumes (relocateme.substack.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by andrewstetsenko 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Associated Press 100 Photos of 2025 (apnews.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by throw0101d 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We instrumented Claude Agent SDK using a tiny Rust proxy (laminar.sh)

×3.05 48 | 4 points by skull8888888 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google taps Replit in challenge to Anthropic and Cursor (cnbc.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by indigodaddy 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone said on Lemmy that he wanna kill "bad people" to protest agegating laws (lemmy.world)

×0.62 | 1 points by containersxllc 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unison: A new approach to Distributed programming (unison-lang.org)

×0.63 | 1 points by mooreds 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gihtub Wrapped 2025 (unwrapped.live)

×1.43 | 2 points by amawi 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Built ExoQuery (exoquery.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by SureshG 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Track Tasks. Track Interruptions (adrianhoward.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by adrianhoward 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ising-Conway Entropy Game (ICEg) (arxiv.org)

×1.45 | 2 points by northlondoner 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who let the dogs out? Beeple unleashes uncanny robot canines at Art Basel Miami (theartnewspaper.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by onemoresoop 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI toy meant for kids was happy to chat about sexual fetishes (cbc.ca)

×1.45 | 2 points by j45 41 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Redrawing the Poverty Line: Why America's Most Quoted Number Is Wrong (indieinvestor.substack.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by IndieInvestor 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do you have an AI companion?

×1.44 | 2 points by sarbak 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? (ploum.net)

×1.41 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Takes over Boring Code: Is Software Engineering Losing Its Soul? (interviewquery.com)

×1.43 | 2 points by birdculture 43 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Effects of microgravity on edible and model insects for spaceflight food system (frontiersin.org)

×0.63 | 1 points by PaulHoule 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China (tomshardware.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by 01-_- 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terminally ill baby ants emit chemical signal prompting adult ants to kill them (gizmodo.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by gmays 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open security analytics for your product (github.com/tirrenotechnologies)

×0.60 | 1 points by reconnecting 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Has Meta "Poached" Apple's Top Interface Design Executive? (comuniq.xyz)

×0.62 | 1 points by 01-_- 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Been building a for 3 years now it's ready to use, kinda

×0.93 | 2 points by iwedmak 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fuzzy Filter Bash Completions (github.com/mnalli)

×0.63 | 1 points by mnalli 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PostgreSQL copy-patch JIT, episode III (pinaraf.info)

×0.63 | 1 points by pinaraf 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour, Thanks to AI (wsj.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by Bostonian 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Physicists overcome fundamental limitation of acoustic levitation (phys.org)

×0.62 | 1 points by stevenjgarner 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
$0 MRR how we did it? (markmepresent.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by swupel 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Abusive Founders at Haize Labs (twitter.com/brianryhuang)

×0.64 | 1 points by meandering_blob 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
India's Tight Grip on Bhutan (mondediplo.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cross-platform network monitoring system (mohy.dev)

×0.66 | 1 points by mohyware 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Repetition vs. Iteration (himanshusinghbisht.substack.com)

×0.67 | 1 points by gilfoyle_7 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FreeBSD 15.0 Benchmarks Versus FreeBSD 14.3 (phoronix.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by doener 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Launches Interviewer (claude.ai)

×1.54 | 2 points by ryanvogel 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How does one get involved in FPGA development?

×1.06 | 2 points by meifun 51 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Economic Nihilism (palladiummag.com)

×1.46 | 2 points by 0x79de 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ASRock adds DDR4 slots on DDR5 H610M COMBO motherboard (videocardz.com)

×2.24 25 | 3 points by walterbell 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: StructOpt – new adaptive first-order optimization method (github.com/Alex256-core)

×0.63 | 1 points by Alex1Morgan 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS Graviton 5 (aboutamazon.com)

×1.51 | 2 points by techprotocol 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
POTUS wants Asia's 'cute' kei cars to be made and sold in US (bloomberg.com)

×3.08 39 | 4 points by schmuckonwheels 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trackers rank: the most frequent trackers on the web (ghostery.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by sundarurfriend 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pushing the kernel forward at Linux Plumbers 2025 (collabora.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by losgehts 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopes' images (nature.com)

×1.29 | 2 points by croes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spatial and Agentic (>AGI) (lasi.uno)

×0.56 | 1 points by maieuticagent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Plugin Marketplaces (claude.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by franze 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tracksy – a minimalist time-tracking tool I built for my freelance work (tracksy.me)

×0.56 | 1 points by miguelboka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple?

×0.56 33 | 4 points by edwin2 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Connection Machine (1985) [pdf] (mit.edu)

×2.93 32 | 4 points by internetter 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zimbabwe's forest and energy projects reveal the downside of carbon credits (theconversation.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Sights and Sounds of Bhutan (waitbutwhy.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Constraints That Create Autonomy (davidpoll.com)

×1.28 | 2 points by depoll 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sigma Runtime ERI (v0.1) – Open benchmark for attractor-based LLMs (github.com/sigmastratum)

×0.54 | 1 points by teugent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ehtml (e-html.org)

×1.22 | 2 points by edtech_dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Feeling Old: 44 Is the First Big Aging Cliff for Millennials (thecut.com)

×1.18 | 2 points by ryan_j_naughton 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???