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These are the current stories on the Hacker News Front page ranked by the raw score produced by the HN formula, with no moderation penalties or bonuses applied. This makes the impact of moderation on the HN frontpage visible (e.g. off-topic/non-tech stories are ranked higher).
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  1. Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.81 #1 | 551 points by coloneltcb 4 hours ago | 551 comments | ??? ???
  2. The pro-Israel information war (jackpoulson.substack.com)
    ×8.99 #26 | 588 points by anigbrowl 7 hours ago | 946 comments | ??? ???
  3. Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns (reuters.com)
    ×4.68 #45 | 59 points by dev_tty01 1 hour ago | 60 comments | ??? ???
  4. 'Greedflation' study finds many companies were lying to you about inflation (fortune.com)
    ×5.52 #59 | 71 points by safaa1993 2 hours ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  5. Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.53 #12 | 72 points by Shank 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  6. FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease (statnews.com)
    ×1.93 #2 | 361 points by divbzero 8 hours ago | 181 comments | ??? ???
  7. Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet] (twitter.com/MistralAI)
    ×4.52 #19 | 429 points by xyzzyrz 10 hours ago | 191 comments | ??? ???
  8. E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules with Landmark New Law (nytimes.com)
    ×2.45 #21 | 66 points by localhost 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  9. EVE Online – Down the Rabbit Hole [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.63 #27 | 48 points by MrJagil 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  10. Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B (together.ai)
    ×1.49 #4 | 140 points by minimaxir 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  11. American Chestnut Foundation Ceasing Distribution of Blight-Resistant Seeds (tacf.org)
    ×1.65 #6 | 127 points by cnntth 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  12. QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs (cornell-relaxml.github.io)
    ×1.65 #3 | 42 points by jasondavies 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  13. Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking (badcyber.com)
    ×3.48 #81 | 625 points by GruHe 15 hours ago | 270 comments | ??? ???
  14. You are never taught how to build quality software (florianbellmann.com)
    ×2.77 #5 | 311 points by RunOrVeith 11 hours ago | 322 comments | ??? ???
  15. Judge allows major 'right to repair' lawsuit against John Deere to move forward (techdirt.com)
    ×4.39 #54 | 273 points by rntn 10 hours ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  16. 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.34 #7 | 181 points by digital55 8 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  17. The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year (bloomberg.com)
    ×7.06 | 256 points by helsinkiandrew 11 hours ago | 323 comments | ??? ???
  18. JC converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON (github.com/kellyjonbrazil)
    ×1.89 #36 | 301 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 131 comments | ??? ???
  19. WigglyPaint: A juicy, jiggly drawing program (itch.io)
    ×1.31 #10 | 53 points by RodgerTheGreat 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  20. Memray: Python memory profiler (bloomberg.github.io)
    ×1.57 #23 | 149 points by bx376 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  21. High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can proceed (technollama.co.uk)
    ×1.93 #8 | 14 points by AndrewDucker 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  22. Want to apply for YC W24? We’re opening some last-minute spots
    8 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  23. IA Writer in Paper (ia.net)
    ×1.74 #31 | 145 points by scop 9 hours ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  24. GPS-Gaussian: Generalizable Pixel-wise 3D Gaussian Splatting for Human Synthesis (shunyuanzheng.github.io)
    ×0.77 #9 | 48 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  25. Spoofing DNS records by abusing DHCP DNS dynamic updates (akamai.com)
    ×1.10 #15 | 167 points by Terretta 11 hours ago | 76 comments | ??? ???
  26. Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations (vice.com)
    ×2.12 #65 | 118 points by manicennui 9 hours ago | 73 comments | ??? ???
  27. Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic (2011) (kernel.org)
    ×1.47 #14 | 91 points by josephcsible 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  28. Cooler Master's Framework case gives your laptop a second life (engadget.com)
    ×1.73 #41 | 9 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  29. Google shares sink following reports that some of their AI demo was faked (cnbc.com)
    ×3.92 #38 | 33 points by donsupreme 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  30. Show HN: WarpBuild – x86-64 and arm GitHub Action runners for 30% faster builds (warpbuild.com)
    ×1.13 #28 | 121 points by suryao 10 hours ago | 60 comments | ??? ???
  31. Evernote Free accounts will have fifty notes and one notebook (evernote.com)
    ×3.03 | 4 points by tempestn 26 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  32. MIDI Editor (midieditor.org)
    ×0.96 #17 | 69 points by brudgers 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  33. ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors (reconfusion.github.io)
    ×0.87 #37 | 101 points by GaggiX 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  34. Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative (theintrinsicperspective.com)
    ×2.54 #43 | 27 points by snewman 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  35. The Morgan XP-1 is an eccentric English electric vehicle (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.80 #11 | 17 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  36. U.S. payrolls rose 199,000 in November, unemployment rate falls to 3.7% (cnbc.com)
    ×1.70 #47 | 11 points by safaa1993 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  37. Goodbye, clean code (2020) (overreacted.io)
    ×3.20 #63 | 363 points by kiyanwang 19 hours ago | 292 comments | ??? ???
  38. Ancient stars made extraordinarily heavy elements, researchers find (phys.org)
    ×0.91 #16 | 99 points by wglb 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  39. Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice (twitter.com/parmy)
    ×5.71 | 994 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 624 comments | ??? ???
  40. Tech Management Has Bestowed Glory Upon Me (mataroa.blog)
    ×2.67 #51 | 32 points by jpurnell 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What fuel for my data furnace?
    ×0.83 #52 | 25 points by heartag 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  42. Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget (kagi.com)
    ×3.02 | 403 points by mroche 21 hours ago | 227 comments | ??? ???
  43. TXR Lisp (nongnu.org)
    ×1.02 #20 | 134 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  44. The valve at the end of the world (dirt.fyi)
    ×0.70 #18 | 31 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  45. Homes need to be built for better internet (theverge.com)
    ×1.49 #58 | 86 points by rntn 10 hours ago | 230 comments | ??? ???
  46. Record U.S. oil output challenges Saudi mastery (reuters.com)
    ×2.79 | 8 points by marifi 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  47. The Onyx Programming Language (onyxlang.io)
    ×1.34 #76 | 106 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  48. Gaussian Explosion (aras-p.info)
    ×0.73 #13 | 7 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  49. Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser (supabase.com)
    ×1.51 #25 | 141 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  50. Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts (2017) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 #46 | 51 points by georgehill 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  51. X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? (nerology.substack.com)
    ×3.04 | 167 points by NeroVanbierv 16 hours ago | 179 comments | ??? ???
  52. 'Excess profits' at big energy and consumer companies pushed up inflation,report (cnbc.com)
    ×2.84 #42 | 7 points by marifi 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  53. Double Standards (raspberrypi.com)
    ×1.42 #34 | 95 points by _Microft 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  54. Problems on the Galaxy Store (samsung.com)
    ×1.10 #86 | 115 points by SSNLF 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ??? ???
  55. Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via Dynamic Gaussians (yuelangx.github.io)
    ×1.20 #44 | 160 points by phil9l 16 hours ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  56. Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed (archlinux.org)
    ×1.66 #72 | 111 points by Foxboron 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  57. Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards (nytimes.com)
    ×4.63 | 184 points by bibanez 18 hours ago | 214 comments | ??? ???
  58. Hunter Scott (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.90 | 3 points by thunderbong 47 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  59. Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10? (ifixit.com)
    ×2.15 | 467 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 469 comments | ??? ???
  60. Gemini AI (deepmind.google)
    ×7.52 #56 | 2080 points by dmotz 2 days ago | 1589 comments | ??? ???
  61. Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.65 | 393 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 164 comments | ??? ???
  62. World of Goo 2 (worldofgoo2.com)
    ×8.11 | 194 points by NOWHERE_ 20 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  63. 5Ghoul: Unleashing Chaos on 5G Edge Devices (asset-group.github.io)
    ×1.12 #53 | 125 points by rho138 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  64. A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay (astralcodexten.com)
    ×2.57 #50 | 346 points by vwoolf 1 day ago | 140 comments | ??? ???
  65. Making noisy SVGs (daniel.do)
    ×2.09 #62 | 470 points by dimmke 1 day ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  66. The Story (mazzzystar.github.io)
    ×0.61 #35 | 21 points by mazzystar 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  67. Practical ways to increase product velocity (staysaasy.com)
    ×0.98 #40 | 78 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  68. Hetzner is terminating contracts with all users who had a Russian postal address
    ×6.52 | 68 points by cybice 12 hours ago | 115 comments | ??? ???
  69. Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022) (sts10.github.io)
    ×1.04 #55 | 187 points by indigodaddy 21 hours ago | 104 comments | ??? ???
  70. Una-Cybertron-7B (huggingface.co)
    ×1.02 #57 | 14 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  71. A lost X-Files song (twitter.com/laurenancona)
    ×2.35 #82 | 443 points by tptacek 1 day ago | 159 comments | ??? ???
  72. The Case of the Missing Vega AVUM Propellant Tanks (europeanspaceflight.com)
    ×0.27 #24 | 8 points by georgecmu 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  73. Capability Maturity Model for Software (1993) [pdf] (cmu.edu)
    ×1.48 | 3 points by bradleyankrom 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  74. The EU Just Agreed Sweeping New Rules for AI (wired.com)
    ×1.54 | 3 points by virgildotcodes 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  75. We investigated France's mass profiling machine (lighthousereports.com)
    ×1.80 | 198 points by sebg 23 hours ago | 103 comments | ??? ???
  76. Show HN: We've built an Open Source plugin to make using AI easier for VFX (deepmake.com)
    ×0.68 #30 | 11 points by bryanlyon 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  77. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020) (thehustle.co)
    ×2.56 #68 | 419 points by Vagantem 1 day ago | 397 comments | ??? ???
  78. No distributed quantum advantage for approximate graph coloring (arxiv.org)
    ×0.49 #32 | 67 points by nabla9 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  79. Microsoft says it does not own any portion of OpenAI (reuters.com)
    ×1.19 #60 | 5 points by dev_tty01 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  80. SVG Tutorial (svg-tutorial.com)
    ×2.73 | 467 points by HunorBorbely 1 day ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  81. The Right Chemistry: Reflections on the manufacture of mirrors (2022) (montrealgazette.com)
    ×0.29 #29 | 30 points by curiousObject 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  82. Fun Cryptic Clues (onwords.substack.com)
    ×0.32 #49 | 19 points by Caiero 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  83. Western startups seek to break China's grip on rare earths refining (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×1.44 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS (sol-1.org)
    ×1.27 #64 | 183 points by pconst167 1 day ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  85. Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic (arxiv.org)
    ×1.71 #79 | 264 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 98 comments | ??? ???
  86. Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study (theguardian.com)
    ×4.61 | 218 points by safaa1993 1 day ago | 172 comments | ??? ???
  87. Telling young people to work-life balance is actively harmful (twitter.com/Swizec)
    ×1.42 | 3 points by lopkeny12ko 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  88. Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework (rubyonjets.com)
    ×1.58 #70 | 286 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  89. To a Man with `Jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON (ishan.page)
    ×1.98 #33 | 23 points by ishandotpage 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  90. Choose your own IP (tailscale.com)
    ×1.99 | 296 points by darthShadow 1 day ago | 162 comments | ??? ???