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  1. The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed (honest-broker.com)
    ×9.91 90 | 145 points by LordAtlas 4 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB (arcprize.org)
    ×5.91 1 #1 | 1305 points by maurycy 17 hours ago | 1245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Kannel: Open-Source WAP and SMS Gateway (kannel.org)
    ×1.58 1 #2 | 16 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp (reuters.com)
    ×6.95 29 #33 | 207 points by o999 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust (haxx.se)
    ×7.39 86 | 9 points by hnarn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. UK Gov Open Consultation: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (www.gov.uk)
    ×3.45 85 | 20 points by nickcotter 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized (arxiv.org)
    ×1.79 4 #3 | 213 points by love2read 12 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Building Effective "Agents" (anthropic.com)
    ×3.16 4 #4 | 380 points by jascha_eng 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Grayjay Desktop App (grayjay.app)
    ×2.51 4 #5 | 414 points by pierrelf 18 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The day I canceled my Spotify subscription (raed.dev)
    ×4.60 48 #58 | 12 points by Raed667 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Christmas story of one tube station's 'Mind the Gap' voice (2019) (theguardian.com)
    ×1.35 8 #19 | 15 points by taubek 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A Raycaster in Bash (github.com/izabera)
    ×1.49 6 #6 | 164 points by izabera 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.80 18 #31 | 185 points by my123 14 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you backup your Emails?
    ×3.77 77 | 5 points by michidk 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now. (nytimes.com)
    ×1.86 35 #50 | 45 points by marban 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. BonkysInferno (rec.net)
    ×0.60 37 #53 | 11 points by akkartik 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader (jamesg.blog)
    ×1.44 8 #9 | 260 points by zerojames 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The era of open voice assistants (home-assistant.io)
    ×4.08 8 #10 | 797 points by _Microft 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. FDA Rewrites Rules of 'Healthy' Foods for First Time in 30 Years (sciencealert.com)
    ×2.81 72 | 3 points by XzetaU8 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.13 13 #7 | 239 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tldraw Computer (tldraw.com)
    ×2.44 10 #11 | 483 points by duck 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red (htmhell.dev)
    ×2.99 69 | 509 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany's far right (politico.eu)
    ×4.86 68 | 9 points by peutetre 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. DOS APPEND (os2museum.com)
    ×1.28 4 #28 | 104 points by SeenNotHeard 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why are UK electricity bills so expensive? (benjames.io)
    ×2.27 21 #46 | 176 points by chmaynard 19 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher (nautil.us)
    ×0.55 3 #23 | 37 points by HR01 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript (github.com/boardgameio)
    ×1.84 14 #13 | 297 points by freetonik 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. We don't know how many birds die in structural collisions (robertvanwey.substack.com)
    ×1.06 20 #8 | 22 points by chmaynard 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A bestiary of exotic hadrons (cerncourier.com)
    ×0.85 17 #12 | 139 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Nimbo: A Nimble Offline Kanban Board (github.com/sereneblue)
    ×2.18 61 | 3 points by jskherman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ghost artists on Spotify (harpers.org)
    ×3.03 15 #16 | 490 points by greenie_beans 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (2021) (distill.pub)
    ×1.91 17 #15 | 329 points by misonic 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Moon (ciechanow.ski)
    ×11.01 24 #57 | 3062 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Outrage as Elon Musk claims 'only AfD can save Germany' (theguardian.com)
    ×4.00 57 | 5 points by xerp2914 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How to lose a fortune with one bad click (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.58 9 #26 | 289 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Google's counteroffer to govt trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps (theverge.com)
    ×2.60 55 | 11 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A 10-Year Battery for AirTag (elevationlab.com)
    ×3.36 15 #22 | 634 points by dmd 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help
    ×1.57 53 | 53 points by anjneymidha 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference? (liblab.com)
    ×1.08 3 #36 | 30 points by mbastos 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Kelly Can't Fail (win-vector.com)
    ×1.76 19 #21 | 371 points by jmount 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN:Free Online Tool to Experience Microsoft's MarkItdown (markitdown.pro)
    ×1.23 50 | 14 points by kianworkk 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: celine/bibhtml: a Web Components referencing system for HTML documents (maxbo.me)
    ×1.08 28 #14 | 62 points by mbo 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. When Is Insurance Worth It? (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×3.07 41 #84 | 27 points by kqr 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google ads unofficial API for AI agents (twitter.com/safwaankay)
    ×1.63 47 | 4 points by gabe_younessi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file (github.com/apankrat)
    ×2.68 21 #24 | 535 points by smusamashah 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Squirrels hunting and eating meat (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.60 41 #87 | 49 points by ulrischa 14 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide (doctorswithoutborders.org)
    ×18.59 44 | 282 points by lr0 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gauntlet AI (YC S17) is training AI engineers and hiring them in Austin ($200k/yr) (gauntletai.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.47 18 #67 | 35 points by rntn 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.58 23 #27 | 132 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ascending Mount FujiNet (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.79 31 #20 | 70 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64 (github.com/markmoxon)
    ×1.55 12 #40 | 182 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Clay – UI Layout Library (nicbarker.com)
    ×2.81 24 #29 | 400 points by ivmoreau 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Best programming talks you have watched in 2024?
    ×0.91 37 | 6 points by lawgimenez 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope (camras.nl)
    ×1.64 25 #30 | 303 points by ForHackernews 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The "Winkel" Bunker – Arcanum Urbex (arcanumurbex.de)
    ×0.95 17 #39 | 13 points by ZeljkoS 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A Replacement for BERT (huggingface.co)
    ×4.01 34 | 330 points by cubie 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential (research.google)
    ×1.55 17 #75 | 260 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How concurrecy works: A visual guide (wyounas.github.io)
    ×1.58 4 #55 | 157 points by simplegeek 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes (nullprogram.com)
    ×1.12 35 #25 | 40 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: openai-realtime-embedded-SDK Build AI assistants on microcontrollers (github.com/openai)
    ×0.80 20 #41 | 49 points by Sean-Der 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices (github.com/pwr-Solaar)
    ×2.89 9 #71 | 663 points by teekert 2 days ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to Now for Rewilding in Ireland? (worldsensorium.com)
    ×1.73 45 #18 | 4 points by dnetesn 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Jank: Programming Language (compiler-research.org)
    ×2.67 27 | 5 points by xiaodai 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Collections: On Bread and Circuses (acoup.blog)
    ×1.04 21 #86 | 54 points by Tomte 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360 (github.com/kooscode)
    ×1.42 15 #51 | 201 points by nazgulsenpai 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Process Creation in Io_uring (lwn.net)
    ×1.21 35 #32 | 51 points by semiquaver 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season (reuters.com)
    ×5.14 23 | 403 points by petethomas 2 days ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Wayland Protocols 1.39 Released with Data Control and Workspace Additions (phoronix.com)
    ×1.60 22 | 3 points by laktak 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Conda: A package management disaster? (pyherald.com)
    ×1.97 35 #35 | 143 points by osdotsystem 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Japan's $100B Plan to Disaster Proof Tokyo [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.66 20 | 3 points by ksec 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering (mizu.sh)
    ×1.11 28 #44 | 207 points by lowlighter 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art (apple.com)
    ×0.57 18 | 39 points by pcybr 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace (github.com/huggingface)
    ×0.84 22 #52 | 80 points by burningion 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. GitHub Copilot is now available for free (github.com/features)
    ×6.79 16 | 528 points by ksec 2 days ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ten Thousand Years (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×1.29 22 #54 | 114 points by program 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How Boston City Hall was born (bostonglobe.com)
    ×0.69 32 #45 | 64 points by goles 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014) (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.82 13 | 243 points by doener 3 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales (roelsworld.eu)
    ×1.15 32 #47 | 189 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Testing for Thermal Issues Becomes More Difficult (semiengineering.com)
    ×0.37 63 #17 | 4 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Population Density Maps: R/MapPorn (reddit.com)
    ×1.36 10 | 3 points by xbmcuser 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Anti-hype LLM reading list (github.com/veekaybee)
    ×2.03 9 | 4 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Using GPS satellites to detect tsunamis via ionospheric ionization waves (nasa.gov)
    ×1.17 45 #38 | 112 points by Gedxx 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How to Become a 37 Year Old Broke Loser [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.92 1 #85 | 8 points by onemoresoop 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Alignment faking in large language models (anthropic.com)
    ×1.99 6 | 296 points by adultorata 2 days ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro (macrumors.com)
    ×1.63 44 #42 | 271 points by tosh 2 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How an Indian startup hacked the world (2023) (reuters.com)
    ×1.97 19 #68 | 161 points by xncbxmc 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: City Summit – buildings data visualization project (streamlit.app)
    ×0.92 3 | 3 points by RaczeQ 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Java in the Small (horstmann.com)
    ×2.58 30 #59 | 388 points by crummy 2 days ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Night Watch [pdf] (2013) (harvard.edu)
    ×1.62 7 #83 | 164 points by isaiahwp 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???