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  1. I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag (ntnbr.com)
    ×2.15 | 61 points by ntnbr 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Free, Linux Capable, Self-Hosting 64bit RISC-V Computer on an FPGA (cmu.edu)
    ×2.12 | 30 points by caned 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A word game I built to understand semantic distance (itch.io)
    ×0.77 | 30 points by celestiallylvd1 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI [pdf] (publishing.service.gov.uk)
    ×1.13 | 19 points by jdkee 51 minutes ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Gio UI – Cross-Platform GUI for Go (gioui.org)
    ×1.53 | 220 points by gjvc 9 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. OpenProject – open-source project management software (openproject.org)
    ×1.67 | 49 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. BenQ RD280UA: a 3:2 aspect ratio "programming monitor" (benq.com)
    ×2.95 | 32 points by LorenDB 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check (berthub.eu)
    ×2.62 | 213 points by edent 8 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk? (vox.com)
    ×6.03 | 1046 points by fnbr 23 hours ago | 812 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is black the new green for Japan's flagging tea farmers? (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×1.41 | 7 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Noi: an AI-enhanced, customizable browser (github.com/lencx)
    ×1.09 | 14 points by Bluestein 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2) (github.com/HigherOrderCO)
    ×3.87 | 929 points by LightMachine 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Malleable software in the age of LLMs (2023) (geoffreylitt.com)
    ×0.81 | 61 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure (tonsky.me)
    ×1.33 | 51 points by zonotope 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway? (noahpinion.blog)
    ×2.18 | 7 points by paulpauper 17 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games (pkh.me)
    ×1.08 | 25 points by ux 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp (theguardian.com)
    ×2.28 | 33 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video] (ccc.de)
    ×2.59 | 543 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely (github.com/google)
    ×1.42 | 237 points by nequo 22 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Zoraxy: Open-Source, All in one homelab network routing solution (arozos.com)
    ×1.09 | 122 points by thunderbong 15 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective (toon3d.studio)
    ×1.61 | 390 points by lnyan 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Truemetrics (YC S23) is hiring a back end engineer (ycombinator.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email (gabrielsieben.tech)
    ×2.55 | 329 points by gjsman-1000 23 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Working with jumbo/unity builds in C/C++ (austinmorlan.com)
    ×0.91 | 20 points by sph 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black holes in space (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.92 | 58 points by carbocation 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The New 'Dream Chaser' Spacecraft Prepares to Visit the ISS (scientificamerican.com)
    ×0.63 | 37 points by Anon84 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening 1000s of Americans' homes (npr.org)
    ×3.78 | 14 points by rntn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017) (dolphin-emu.org)
    ×1.49 | 195 points by Grognak 22 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API (github.com/metaskills)
    ×1.44 | 206 points by metaskills 18 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online (useequityval.com)
    ×1.56 | 246 points by trevzercap 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. ADSL works over wet string (2017) (revk.uk)
    ×1.68 | 258 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less (arxiv.org)
    ×1.06 | 169 points by wolecki 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count (quantamagazine.org)
    ×4.01 | 918 points by jasondavies 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.74 | 84 points by nobody9999 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI Is Taking over Accounting Jobs as People Leave the Profession (forbes.com)
    ×1.65 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Exact binary vector search for RAG in 100 lines of Julia (domluna.com)
    ×1.21 | 157 points by lunaticd 22 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Googlers paid so well paid it would take decades for ordinary people to catch up (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.54 | 3 points by cebert 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Third Time: a better way to work (2022) (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.89 | 97 points by FigurativeVoid 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. wxHexEditor — a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or Devices (wxhexeditor.org)
    ×0.86 | 39 points by Lammy 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans (dukehealth.org)
    ×2.01 | 254 points by geox 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Beauty of Concrete (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.22 | 125 points by jger15 22 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018) (datawrapper.de)
    ×1.21 | 135 points by Leftium 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights' (bbc.com)
    ×1.11 | 109 points by onemoresoop 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. HMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Long Context Language Processing (arxiv.org)
    ×0.64 | 83 points by jasondavies 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Drivr – VR with real vehicles [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.88 | 87 points by greghgradwell 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020) (bdtechtalks.com)
    ×0.83 | 121 points by DeathArrow 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ideas and Creativity (2019) (rieck.me)
    ×0.62 | 101 points by Pseudomanifold 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F# (github.com/m4rs-mt)
    ×1.20 | 141 points by neonsunset 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research (arxiv.org)
    ×0.66 | 80 points by snats 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Unusual Evolutionary Journey of the Baobab Tree (nytimes.com)
    ×0.54 | 37 points by Petiver 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A Man with an Impossible Memory (newyorker.com)
    ×1.23 | 57 points by DeathArrow 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A transport protocol's view of Starlink (potaroo.net)
    ×1.26 | 185 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene (restofworld.org)
    ×1.22 | 160 points by palingvel 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How to read C type declarations (2003) (unixwiz.net)
    ×1.01 | 140 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Make a game with Hoot for the Lisp Game Jam (spritely.institute)
    ×0.87 | 97 points by paroneayea 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Gemini 1.5 Model Family: Technical Report [pdf] (storage.googleapis.com)
    ×1.97 | 44 points by panabee 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant: Finished in 1978 but never used (atlasobscura.com)
    ×1.21 | 115 points by onnimonni 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The evolution of a Scheme programmer (2020) (erkin.party)
    ×1.28 | 139 points by ducktective 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. N-Dimensional Gaussians for Fitting of High Dimensional Functions (sdiolatz.info)
    ×0.58 | 65 points by jasondavies 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial (thenameless.net)
    ×1.21 | 23 points by thenameless7741 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. If you’re seeing this, I’m in jail [video] (youtube.com)
    ×5.58 | 324 points by mnming 6 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates (centauri-dreams.org)
    ×1.86 | 77 points by sohkamyung 7 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Smart Pointers in (GNU) C (snai.pe)
    ×1.23 | 136 points by indigoabstract 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting (smudge.ai)
    ×2.32 | 354 points by seabass 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy (likejazz.com)
    ×2.02 | 464 points by orixilus 2 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Welcome to the Parallel Future of Computation (hvm-page.pages.dev)
    ×1.83 | 163 points by Epholys 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Glewbot scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles (arduino.cc)
    ×0.33 | 29 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later (pewresearch.org)
    ×3.11 | 198 points by Kye 8 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Myth of Panic (2021) (palladiummag.com)
    ×0.60 | 7 points by apsec112 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile (nature.com)
    ×1.68 | 344 points by gumby 2 days ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Downfall of DeviantArt (slate.com)
    ×1.83 | 274 points by jfryusef 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Students invent quieter leaf blower (jhu.edu)
    ×1.42 | 97 points by perpil 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Six charts help to explain 2024's freakish temperatures (economist.com)
    ×2.02 | 42 points by doener 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow" (railtarget.eu)
    ×2.01 | 324 points by metters 1 day ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Farfalle – Open-source AI-powered search engine (farfalle.dev)
    ×1.38 | 56 points by stanislavb 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Exercises to Learn Rust (rust-exercises.com)
    ×4.02 | 708 points by sebg 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf] (acm.org)
    ×0.76 | 86 points by secwang 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Japan: The Land That Doesn't Need Ozempic (time.com)
    ×4.64 | 42 points by throw0101c 2 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Growing sodium chloride crystals at home (crystalverse.com)
    ×1.50 | 195 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013) (computerhistory.org)
    ×2.48 | 625 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone (photobox.dev)
    ×1.37 | 91 points by colbyfayock 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Chrome DevTools now uses Gemini to help with JavaScript Errors in the console (chrome.com)
    ×1.90 | 93 points by ssahoo 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. D3 in Depth (d3indepth.com)
    ×2.18 | 368 points by lobo_tuerto 2 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020) (thecentercolumn.com)
    ×1.46 | 165 points by pwnna 2 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. iOS 17.5 deleted photos reappearing bug alleged to extend to wiped devices (macrumors.com)
    ×5.78 | 28 points by ComputerGuru 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. We are removing 'years of experience' as a requirement for jobs at Remote (remote.com)
    ×1.58 | 31 points by cnkk 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Slack AI Training with Customer Data (slack.com)
    ×4.40 | 738 points by mlhpdx 1 day ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. ChatGPT-4o vs. Math (sabrina.dev)
    ×2.47 | 299 points by zen_lava 2 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language (fstar-lang.org)
    ×1.24 | 233 points by montyanderson 2 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Commuter train window cleaning conundrum in NJ (nj.com)
    ×0.82 | 7 points by savrajsingh 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???