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  1. Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×7.40 | 425 points by DavideNL 3 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The impossible predicament of the death newts (crookedtimber.org)
    ×1.96 9 | 450 points by bdr 18 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Neuroscience How Much Energy Does It Take to Think? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.68 14 | 14 points by nsoonhui 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The bizarre story of a maths proof that is only true in Japan (newscientist.com)
    ×2.48 2 | 16 points by monksdream 43 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tokasaurus: An LLM inference engine for high-throughput workloads (stanford.edu)
    ×1.11 4 | 158 points by rsehrlich 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite (github.com/wey-gu)
    ×1.66 2 | 81 points by wey-gu 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Claude Composer (github.com/possibilities)
    ×1.08 7 | 99 points by mikebannister 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy (openai.com)
    ×2.32 5 | 158 points by BUFU 7 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What a developer needs to know about SCIM (tesseral.com)
    ×1.54 7 | 93 points by noleary 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024) (scharenbroch.dev)
    ×1.05 14 | 94 points by ofalkaed 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device (networkedartifacts.com)
    ×2.34 17 | 388 points by 256dpi 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally (countercraft.substack.com)
    ×0.68 18 | 28 points by benbreen 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations (masonyarbrough.com)
    ×1.30 8 | 75 points by echollama 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.39 25 | 110 points by bundie 15 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Seven Days at the Bin Store (defector.com)
    ×1.39 12 | 175 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. SkyRoof: New Ham Satellite Tracking and SDR Receiver Software (rtl-sdr.com)
    ×1.25 21 | 82 points by rmason 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Open Source Distilling (opensourcedistilling.com)
    ×1.40 8 | 36 points by nativeit 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Machine Learning: The Native Language of Biology (decodingbiology.substack.com)
    ×0.93 14 | 48 points by us-merul 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon (neowin.net)
    ×3.55 7 | 13 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024) (softwaredoug.com)
    ×2.06 34 | 64 points by softwaredoug 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Lambduck, a Functional Programming Brainfuck (imjakingit.github.io)
    ×0.89 27 | 33 points by jorkingit 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Converge (YC S23) Well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers (runconverge.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Universal Tech Tree (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.48 11 | 91 points by mitchbob 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I do not remember my life and it's fine (aethermug.com)
    ×3.99 20 | 177 points by mrcgnc 8 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Homeless but self taught full stack developer
    ×1.35 1 | 9 points by crlapples 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API (thescreentimenetwork.com)
    ×0.93 17 | 89 points by anteloper 14 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Programming language Dino and its implementation (github.com/dino-lang)
    ×0.70 41 | 47 points by 90s_dev 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How Common Is Multiple Invention? (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.10 28 | 38 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Eleven v3 (elevenlabs.io)
    ×3.17 16 | 223 points by robertvc 13 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Germany: Digital Minister wants open source etc. as guiding principle (heise.de)
    ×3.46 10 | 9 points by donutloop 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX (github.com/hyperdxio)
    ×2.27 16 | 210 points by mikeshi42 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first (tudelft.nl)
    ×1.77 33 | 329 points by picture 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Second ispace craft has probably crash-landed on Moon (nature.com)
    ×2.00 10 | 8 points by politelemon 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Container Use for Agents (github.com/dagger)
    ×1.64 24 | 59 points by aluzzardi 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. parrot.live (github.com/hugomd)
    ×1.76 40 | 220 points by jasonthorsness 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow? (zachdaniel.dev)
    ×1.80 36 | 235 points by uxcolumbo 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.34 18 | 298 points by robenkleene 18 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Phptop: Simple PHP ressource profiler, safe and useful for production sites (github.com/bearstech)
    ×0.67 41 | 99 points by kadrek 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. From tokens to thoughts: How LLMs and humans trade compression for meaning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.11 38 | 111 points by ggirelli 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation (usgs.gov)
    ×1.10 46 | 111 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: String Flux – Simplify everyday string transformations for developers (stringflux.io)
    ×0.43 48 | 14 points by eaglepeak 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones (dreamwidth.org)
    ×2.63 13 | 208 points by tabletcorry 18 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network (github.com/explainers-by-googlers)
    ×2.66 2 | 639 points by doener 1 day ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Prompt engineering playbook for programmers (addyo.substack.com)
    ×2.42 20 | 424 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization (seve.blog)
    ×1.10 26 | 199 points by seveibar 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.77 23 | 341 points by marklit 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cursor 1.0 (cursor.com)
    ×3.70 3 | 587 points by ecz 1 day ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud (iop.org)
    ×0.79 43 | 135 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old (cbc.ca)
    ×1.96 16 | 131 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Understanding the PURL Specification (Package URL) (fossa.com)
    ×0.74 11 | 71 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (ffmpeg.org)
    ×3.22 16 | 846 points by Sean-Der 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision (softwareheritage.org)
    ×0.98 51 | 145 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Aurora, a foundation model for the Earth system (nytimes.com)
    ×1.43 11 | 76 points by rmason 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How we reduced the impact of zombie clients (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.38 43 | 174 points by jaas 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Who wrote the Bible? A pioneering new algorithm may shatter scholarly certitude (timesofisrael.com)
    ×2.60 19 | 6 points by names_are_hard 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. SP80 Breaks the 100kph (sailing) Barrier (sp80.ch)
    ×1.07 73 | 9 points by gnabgib 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. IRS Direct File on GitHub (chrisgiven.com)
    ×4.47 11 | 709 points by nickthegreek 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.47 51 | 92 points by jawns 7 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Authentication with Axum (mattrighetti.com)
    ×0.70 56 | 77 points by mattrighetti 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights (newyorker.com)
    ×1.21 42 | 129 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.33 37 | 125 points by dbreunig 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 (deepmind.google)
    ×4.60 52 | 319 points by jcuenod 15 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Reproducing the deep double descent paper (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.63 55 | 13 points by stpn 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AGI is not multimodal (thegradient.pub)
    ×1.38 37 | 172 points by danielmorozoff 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Machine Code Isn't Scary (jimmyhmiller.com)
    ×1.69 49 | 206 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: GPT image editing, but for 3D models (adamcad.com)
    ×1.15 33 | 170 points by zachdive 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A practical guide to building agents [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×1.80 21 | 232 points by tosh 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Grab a Random ArXiv Paper (jepedersen.dk)
    ×0.74 59 | 11 points by jegp 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas (texastribune.org)
    ×1.80 19 | 13 points by 1659447091 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?
    ×1.66 40 | 268 points by june3739 2 days ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Doubling Down on Open Source (langfuse.com)
    ×1.41 46 | 130 points by clemo_ra 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Helium Giants Return: LTA Research Airship over SF Bay (ieee.org)
    ×1.06 62 | 11 points by cratermoon 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia (science.org)
    ×2.04 10 | 349 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Not all tokens are meant to be forgotten (arxiv.org)
    ×0.52 59 | 48 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Foam: A free Roam alternative for VSCode (github.com/foambubble)
    ×1.35 53 | 56 points by AbuAssar 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State (eff.org)
    ×3.20 10 | 421 points by doener 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.69 59 | 1088 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 893 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Consider Knitting (stuffwithstuff.com)
    ×1.48 45 | 192 points by ingve 2 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Dr. Sbaitso (classicreload.com)
    ×0.89 67 | 32 points by bovermyer 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Create LLM graders and run evals in JavaScript with one file (github.com/bolt-foundry)
    ×2.74 16 | 27 points by randall 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cysteine depletion triggers adipose tissue thermogenesis and weight loss (nature.com)
    ×1.37 28 | 89 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Merlin Bird ID (allaboutbirds.org)
    ×3.19 6 | 607 points by twitchard 2 days ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone (google.com)
    ×1.67 7 | 312 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Redesigned Swift.org is now live (swift.org)
    ×1.86 8 | 169 points by lawgimenez 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format (diffx.org)
    ×1.69 8 | 369 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. If you're in Walnut Creek for 2 hours, the city is tracking you (mercurynews.com)
    ×2.78 1 | 24 points by gnabgib 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A critical look at NetBSD’s installer (wordpress.com)
    ×0.80 54 | 108 points by jaypatelani 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics (ieee.org)
    ×1.03 49 | 48 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. VectorSmuggle: Covertly Exfiltrate Data in Embeddings (github.com/jaschadub)
    ×0.47 66 | 33 points by smugglereal 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Neuromorphic computing (lanl.gov)
    ×1.19 31 | 52 points by LAsteNERD 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???