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  1. FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (github.com/FFmpeg)
    ×2.81 #1 | 64 points by davikr 49 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time (indieblog.page)
    ×1.85 #2 | 87 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Americans Are Heading for the Exits (newrepublic.com)
    ×8.61 88 | 30 points by miles 42 minutes ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds (time.com)
    ×1.59 4 #8 | 47 points by haltingproblem 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Florida insurers steered money to investors while claiming losses, study says (tampabay.com)
    ×3.25 5 #10 | 96 points by howard941 4 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The $1.5B Bybit Hack: The Era of Operational Security Failures Has Arrived (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.97 3 #3 | 14 points by todsacerdoti 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. French nuclear plant consumes more power than it generates in first two months (energy-charts.info)
    ×2.66 84 | 19 points by 42lux 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised (theguardian.com)
    ×4.62 3 #5 | 272 points by zeristor 8 hours ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How people get rich now (2021) (paulgraham.com)
    ×2.18 7 #16 | 28 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: I Built a Visual Workflow Automation Platform – FlowRipple (flowripple.com)
    ×0.82 6 #4 | 59 points by shivsarthak34 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Brazil justice orders ban of video platform Rumble (dw.com)
    ×3.30 3 #14 | 53 points by adrian_mrd 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012) (dadgum.com)
    ×2.78 8 #20 | 115 points by debesyla 5 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row (bbc.com)
    ×5.72 7 #6 | 1554 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago | 960 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th (twitter.com/twitchsupport)
    ×2.16 8 #22 | 101 points by aestetix 7 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy (anandsanwal.me)
    ×1.62 8 #23 | 177 points by herbertl 10 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I found a backdoor into my bed (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×5.55 21 #37 | 867 points by riverdroid 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. We are the builders (wethebuilders.org)
    ×6.94 74 | 481 points by ChrisArchitect 19 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What Your Email Address Reveals About You: LLMs and Digital Footprints (maximepeabody.com)
    ×1.67 7 #11 | 19 points by peab 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. These years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review (lisp-journey.gitlab.io)
    ×1.34 12 #7 | 110 points by trocado 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. 20 years working on the same software product (successfulsoftware.net)
    ×3.53 24 #44 | 445 points by hermitcrab 20 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Dirty "Peaker Plants" Remain Essential to NYC's Power Grid (untappedcities.com)
    ×1.08 10 #31 | 10 points by geox 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Concurrency bugs in Lucene: How to fix optimistic concurrency failures (elastic.co)
    ×1.20 10 #12 | 24 points by aoli-al 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: LLM plugin to automatically generate Git commit messages (github.com/GNtousakis)
    ×2.91 68 | 4 points by gntousakis 34 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. As private equity invests in child care, Colorado lawmakers seek guardrails (denverpost.com)
    ×2.07 18 #42 | 9 points by ctoth 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Housing Crisis (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.22 16 #9 | 73 points by toomuchtodo 9 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988) (caltech.edu)
    ×2.27 13 #13 | 442 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Augurs demo (augu.rs)
    ×1.28 12 #15 | 149 points by weinzierl 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why Ruby on Rails still matters (contraption.co)
    ×2.58 10 #18 | 430 points by philip1209 23 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. We're recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes (theconversation.com)
    ×2.54 62 | 4 points by PaulHoule 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life (johnnydecimal.com)
    ×2.74 9 #21 | 493 points by debone 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you? (eql.com)
    ×2.28 35 #66 | 159 points by pdonelan 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A vending machine, on the internet (threekindwords.com)
    ×1.34 7 #25 | 160 points by EFFALO 16 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.25 25 #58 | 647 points by isaacfrond 1 day ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023) (startacomputer.club)
    ×2.19 16 #50 | 160 points by gnabgib 16 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset (arxiv.org)
    ×1.99 14 #49 | 338 points by joshwa 23 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Suckless.org: software that sucks less (suckless.org)
    ×2.49 10 #46 | 319 points by flykespice 23 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act (hexus.net)
    ×2.21 15 #52 | 12 points by jonatron 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. DigiKey's Tariff Resources (digikey.com)
    ×1.62 21 #17 | 104 points by nativeit 13 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days (github.com/deepseek-ai)
    ×4.18 52 | 738 points by ahsmha_ 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Chartbook 354: Of trains and tanks. Or does the German political class (adamtooze.substack.com)
    ×1.95 51 | 3 points by hackandthink 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Expectations (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 15 #26 | 70 points by jandrewrogers 11 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Bybit loses $1.5B in hack but can cover loss, CEO confirms (tradingview.com)
    ×2.92 23 #19 | 283 points by tuananh 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Why don't we all take care of ourselves?
    ×0.79 48 | 3 points by devinc_heyo 59 minutes ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine (renpy.org)
    ×1.35 12 #32 | 200 points by Tomte 21 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Posh (YC W22) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
    ×1.65 19 #27 | 335 points by lis 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. SystemV filesystem being removed from the Linux kernel (phoronix.com)
    ×2.76 44 | 5 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Porous plastic sheets can cool buildings by radiating light to space (techxplore.com)
    ×2.21 43 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
    ×3.08 7 #56 | 786 points by akanet 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical pollination (mit.edu)
    ×2.19 41 | 4 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450 (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.87 13 #64 | 412 points by 9woc 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Surface-Stable Fractal Dither on Playdate (aras-p.info)
    ×1.08 24 #28 | 118 points by atan2 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch (patentlyapple.com)
    ×3.19 22 #75 | 443 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1 (docker.com)
    ×2.57 6 #60 | 397 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Wine 10.2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS (winehq.org)
    ×1.68 36 | 3 points by neustradamus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. DeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementation (github.com/therealoliver)
    ×1.22 27 #29 | 196 points by therealoliver 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Every .gov Domain (flatgithub.com)
    ×1.56 6 #63 | 319 points by KoftaBob 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Where are all the Rewrite Rules? (philipzucker.com)
    ×0.79 18 #40 | 49 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Paxlovid: You'd have expected more (science.org)
    ×1.42 8 #67 | 81 points by helloworld 16 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How Do I Get Rid of 'Chicken Skin' (Keratosis Pilaris) on My Arms and Legs? (nytimes.com)
    ×2.27 31 | 4 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Japanese City Name Generator – Using a Simple 3-Layer MLP (freemanjiang.com)
    ×1.24 30 | 3 points by freemanjiang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images (vpetersson.com)
    ×0.87 24 #38 | 140 points by mvip 22 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices (github.com/abeisgoat)
    ×0.88 28 #35 | 127 points by abeisgreat 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Brazilian city in Amazon declares emergency after sinkholes appear (theguardian.com)
    ×1.47 22 #86 | 5 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Ex-Rationalist Society Members Tied to a Killing Spree (wsj.com)
    ×1.61 6 #71 | 12 points by HR01 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Web on Mobile (adactio.com)
    ×1.65 25 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Accessing the Qualcomm Modem over USB on the RAK5010 (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.56 43 #24 | 8 points by hasheddan 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Almost Time for Tom to Close (paperblogging.com)
    ×1.68 23 | 3 points by spking 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. February storms offer some relief from dry Colorado River conditions (coloradosun.com)
    ×1.66 22 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-Time High-Fidelity Radiance Field Rendering (svraster.github.io)
    ×0.94 36 #34 | 105 points by jasondavies 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. PEP 486 – Make the Python Launcher aware of virtual environments (2015) (python.org)
    ×0.36 41 #30 | 10 points by okl 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com)
    ×8.26 19 | 857 points by perihelions 2 days ago | 1640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models (modal.run)
    ×1.99 6 #79 | 446 points by sshh12 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Hypership – 1-Click Deploy Next.js Apps with Auth, Dashboard, and More (hypership.dev)
    ×1.16 17 | 3 points by upmostly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v' (science.org)
    ×0.97 32 #43 | 157 points by NoRagrets 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment (frankhecker.com)
    ×0.86 3 #73 | 71 points by gmays 19 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Cot: The Rust web framework for lazy developers (cot.rs)
    ×1.08 26 #51 | 100 points by hyperbrainer 22 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Can you lose your native tongue? (2024) (nytimes.com)
    ×1.06 39 #39 | 92 points by Thevet 21 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker (github.com/Edu4rdSHL)
    ×1.61 38 #41 | 215 points by edu4rdshl 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023) (9news.com.au)
    ×1.39 11 #69 | 173 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Internet's longest-serving PC email system, still being updated (pmail.com)
    ×1.66 45 #36 | 10 points by francescovaglia 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developers (pyspur.dev)
    ×2.15 9 | 353 points by t55 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock (livescience.com)
    ×1.05 7 #76 | 74 points by Brajeshwar 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards (wired.com)
    ×6.88 7 | 366 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 681 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SVDQuant+NVFP4: 4× Smaller, 3× Faster FLUX with 16-bit Quality on Blackwell GPUs (mit.edu)
    ×0.74 30 #55 | 49 points by lmxyy 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code (github.com/ValveSoftware)
    ×1.17 5 | 1836 points by davikr 3 days ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 'Event Scripts' Structure Our Personal Memories (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.39 7 #80 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end (ssloy.github.io)
    ×1.70 3 | 309 points by sebg 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. General Reasoning: Free, open resource for building large reasoning models (gr.inc)
    ×0.83 28 #61 | 78 points by rglover 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Running Pong in 240 browser tabs (eieio.games)
    ×1.63 42 #48 | 330 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???