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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. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.37 #14 | 364 points by edsimpson 8 hours ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  2. What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)
    ×6.75 #31 | 679 points by doom2 12 hours ago | 417 comments | ??? ???
  3. Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison (cnn.com)
    ×6.82 #33 | 1153 points by misiti3780 16 hours ago | 1284 comments | ??? ???
  4. The race to replace Redis (lwn.net)
    ×3.62 #1 | 378 points by chmaynard 9 hours ago | 214 comments | ??? ???
  5. Facebook: We install a root CA on the device and MitM all SSL traffic (documentcloud.org)
    ×6.63 #55 | 93 points by typeofhuman 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  6. Doom Captcha (2021) (vivirenremoto.github.io)
    ×1.78 #3 | 263 points by EndXA 8 hours ago | 81 comments | ??? ???
  7. Arraymancer – Deep Learning Nim Library (github.com/mratsim)
    ×1.03 #2 | 90 points by archargelod 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  8. You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it (seancoates.com)
    ×2.40 #18 | 366 points by todsacerdoti 11 hours ago | 126 comments | ??? ???
  9. Capi Money (YC S23) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  10. The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL (infisical.com)
    ×2.67 #5 | 44 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  11. The rev.ng decompiler goes open source (rev.ng)
    ×1.51 #10 | 143 points by quic_bcain 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  12. Math writing is dull when it neglects the human dimension (utexas.edu)
    ×1.36 #15 | 87 points by mathgenius 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  13. Vultr Just Betrayed Us (mwl.io)
    ×4.85 #6 | 51 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  14. NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ (github.com/dail8859)
    ×2.38 #34 | 427 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | 264 comments | ??? ???
  15. Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay (hindenburgresearch.com)
    ×2.28 #23 | 57 points by hampelm 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  16. Deep Learning in JavaScript (github.com/eduardoleao052)
    ×1.41 #8 | 162 points by eduardoleao052 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  17. The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped (512pixels.net)
    ×1.13 #4 | 43 points by ttepasse 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  18. Using Graph Algorithms to Enhance Machine Learning for Cyber Threat Detection (memgraph.com)
    ×4.30 | 5 points by taubek 25 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  19. Money corrupts; Bitcoin corrupts absolutely (cynicusrex.com)
    ×3.33 | 9 points by CynicusRex 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  20. Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit (lwn.net)
    ×1.10 #7 | 8 points by jandeboevrie 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  21. Jamba: Production-grade Mamba-based AI model (maginative.com)
    ×1.57 #26 | 296 points by bubblehack3r 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ??? ???
  22. Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps? (thisismoney.co.uk)
    ×1.35 #27 | 130 points by gnabgib 10 hours ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  23. LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge (mit.edu)
    ×2.17 #36 | 342 points by CharlesW 17 hours ago | 123 comments | ??? ???
  24. Hay for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study (latimes.com)
    ×3.65 #87 | 30 points by voisin 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
    ×1.81 | 4 points by _kush 30 minutes ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  26. Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf] (sheldrake.org)
    ×1.52 #13 | 75 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  27. Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go (github.com/monogon-dev)
    ×1.27 #12 | 46 points by caust1c 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  28. Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust (dioxuslabs.com)
    ×2.30 #72 | 291 points by jkelleyrtp 17 hours ago | 103 comments | ??? ???
  29. I scraped all of OpenAI's Community Forum (julep-ai.github.io)
    ×2.01 #61 | 281 points by alt-glitch 17 hours ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  30. Edgar, build a Dyson swarm (playedgar.netlify.app)
    ×1.45 #25 | 182 points by whb101 14 hours ago | 107 comments | ??? ???
  31. Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here? (eth.limo)
    ×2.11 #42 | 242 points by bpierre 16 hours ago | 361 comments | ??? ???
  32. Amazon Bets $150B on Data Centers Required for AI Boom (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.52 #84 | 37 points by thelastgallon 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  33. The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source (modular.com)
    ×2.52 #58 | 138 points by melodyogonna 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  34. The Descent of Elon Musk (wheresyoured.at)
    ×3.38 | 7 points by LocutusOfBorges 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  35. Firearm-detecting body scanners are coming to NYC subway stations (secretnyc.co)
    ×2.52 | 3 points by geox 27 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  36. UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet (ieee.org)
    ×1.83 #30 | 248 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 141 comments | ??? ???
  37. The CIA's Cold War plan to use stray cats as spies (wordpress.com)
    ×0.94 #22 | 32 points by dxs 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Spice.ai – materialize, accelerate, and query SQL data from any source (github.com/spiceai)
    ×1.31 #24 | 137 points by lukekim 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  39. The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series (friesian.com)
    ×0.43 #11 | 6 points by drdee 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?
    ×4.36 | 331 points by aflip 23 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  41. New Redis Clone, Valkey, Has Linux Foundation Support (fossforce.com)
    ×3.36 #69 | 51 points by transpute 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  42. Can Xerox's PARC find new life with SRI? (nytimes.com)
    ×0.90 #19 | 110 points by mitchbob 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  43. Thirty Seven (thirty-seven.org)
    ×1.27 #16 | 38 points by samsullivan 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  44. Daniel Kahneman has died (washingtonpost.com)
    ×5.22 #86 | 974 points by mrjaeger 1 day ago | 298 comments | ??? ???
  45. Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content (fandom.ink)
    ×5.24 | 193 points by gcr 19 hours ago | 198 comments | ??? ???
  46. Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy? (commondreams.org)
    ×7.33 | 229 points by robtherobber 21 hours ago | 281 comments | ??? ???
  47. Sunken Ships of the Second World War (arcgis.com)
    ×1.05 #17 | 53 points by alakra 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  48. Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom (ieee.org)
    ×1.11 #63 | 138 points by mfiguiere 17 hours ago | 111 comments | ??? ???
  49. Mojo language goes open source (github.com/modularml)
    ×1.95 | 3 points by polyrand 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  50. Writing Gnome Apps with Swift (swift.org)
    ×2.48 | 542 points by msk-lywenn 1 day ago | 270 comments | ??? ???
  51. Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.20 #85 | 245 points by elsewhen 23 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  52. One Satellite Signal Rules Modern Life. What If Someone Knocks It Out? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.92 | 3 points by marban 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  53. Putin's Next Escalation Is Coming (nytimes.com)
    ×3.40 | 7 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  54. Utah Passes Artificial Intelligence Legislation (jdsupra.com)
    ×0.96 #49 | 32 points by yellow_postit 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  55. Oregon's New Right to Repair Law Bans 'Parts Pairing' Restrictions (macrumors.com)
    ×2.00 #35 | 7 points by divbzero 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  56. DBRX: A new open LLM (databricks.com)
    ×3.23 #40 | 822 points by jasondavies 1 day ago | 335 comments | ??? ???
  57. Canada Sought to Be a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up (wsj.com)
    ×1.80 #37 | 17 points by voisin 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I built a web app to open source travel itineraries (tripgeeks.app)
    ×1.16 #41 | 117 points by onounoko 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  59. Traffic jams, AirTags and GPS darts are ways NY, NJ are trying to stop car theft (gothamist.com)
    ×1.54 #32 | 47 points by DamnInteresting 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  60. Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it (nature.com)
    ×1.95 | 197 points by birriel 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  61. Faintest known star system orbiting the Milky Way discovered (phys.org)
    ×0.83 #39 | 21 points by dnetesn 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  62. Babylon 7.0 Is Out (medium.com)
    ×1.10 #44 | 51 points by deltakosh 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  63. Maersk names first vessel of its large methanol-enabled fleet "Ane Maersk" (maersk.com)
    ×1.87 | 3 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?
    ×5.61 | 128 points by typeofhuman 18 hours ago | 183 comments | ??? ???
  65. Former exec given death sentence for poisoning founder of Chinese gaming company (apnews.com)
    ×1.92 | 3 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  66. Lars Bergstrom: Rust teams at Google twice as productive as teams using C++ (reddit.com)
    ×1.98 | 5 points by ubj 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  67. "It never gets easier, you just go faster." (2020) (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
    ×1.66 #57 | 6 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  68. Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.62 #45 | 46 points by hammock 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  69. Family of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett speaks out following his death (cbsnews.com)
    ×2.68 #46 | 23 points by hotdailys 8 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  70. Your Car Is Trackable by Law (medium.com)
    ×2.02 | 4 points by defrost 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  71. Created a differentiable/computable variant of Predictive Coding Theory
    ×5.34 | 11 points by ramimmo 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  72. The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore collapse (vox.com)
    ×3.91 | 9 points by davidbarker 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  73. Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters
    ×0.52 #20 | 74 points by samplank2 16 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  74. What do you do if a hacker takes control of your ship? (2023) (maritime-executive.com)
    ×0.84 #47 | 77 points by transpute 16 hours ago | 100 comments | ??? ???
  75. America Made a Bet on Sports Gambling. The Backlash Is Here (wsj.com)
    ×1.65 #67 | 9 points by JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  76. Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data
    ×0.47 #21 | 56 points by ellenfkh 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  77. Dell tells remote workers that they won't be eligible for promotion (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.50 #80 | 43 points by Plasmoid 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  78. ST-DOS (sininenankka.dy.fi)
    ×1.13 #52 | 200 points by snvzz 1 day ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  79. Endlessh-go: a Golang SSH tarpit that traps bots/scanners (github.com/shizunge)
    ×1.30 #48 | 169 points by fastily 1 day ago | 58 comments | ??? ???
  80. EpiPen For Heart Attacks? Idorsia Launches Phase III Study Of Selatogrel (2021) (citeline.com:443)
    ×0.88 #56 | 95 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  81. Linux Text Manipulation (yusuf.fyi)
    ×1.23 #71 | 98 points by zerojames 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  82. MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan (nytimes.com)
    ×3.77 | 388 points by jaredwiener 1 day ago | 782 comments | ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: How do I improve my emotional intelligence
    ×0.84 | 38 points by user0x1d 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  84. Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works (birchtree.me)
    ×2.18 | 271 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 255 comments | ??? ???
  85. New Proposed CISA Mandate Would Require Critical Infrastructure to Report Ransom (socket.dev)
    ×1.17 #43 | 10 points by feross 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  86. A Drug Half as Good as Ozempic for One-30th the Price (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.75 #70 | 10 points by thelastgallon 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  87. Tiddlywiki: A Database for Your Notes (2022) (rpdillon.net)
    ×1.55 | 3 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  88. The Chandler Visual Programming Model (github.com/EternityForest)
    ×1.19 #29 | 6 points by eternityforest 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I made a binary enigma machine for manual encryption (makerworld.com)
    ×0.49 #66 | 71 points by chjh 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  90. Acetate Revisited: A Key Biomolecule at the Nexus of Metabolism, Epigenetics (frontiersin.org)
    ×0.43 #28 | 35 points by flipchart 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???