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  1. Jim Simons has died (simonsfoundation.org)
    ×4.05 | 456 points by fgblanch 3 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
    ×2.81 | 388 points by thedg 5 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager (github.com/MHNightCat)
    ×1.70 | 149 points by oidar 5 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024 (krystalgamer.github.io)
    ×0.85 | 10 points by krystalgamer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Life-like particle system (ventrella.com)
    ×1.45 | 112 points by NonZeroSumJames 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-directed CMEs (spaceweatherlive.com)
    ×3.71 | 83 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A Skeptic's Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space (ieee.org)
    ×1.09 | 24 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web (deno.com)
    ×1.67 | 56 points by avinassh 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Cylindrical Slide Rules (si.edu)
    ×0.76 | 22 points by Kye 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' (theverge.com)
    ×4.74 | 518 points by linguae 20 hours ago | 1171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time (bbc.com)
    ×1.03 | 156 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real or complex? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.05 | 133 points by jjgreen 9 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs (theregister.com)
    ×1.73 | 25 points by curmudgeon22 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints (fabianzeindl.com)
    ×0.93 | 30 points by fzeindl 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Laudatio Turiae (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.47 | 14 points by benbreen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Serial to Parallel Port Converter (bramblyhill.com)
    ×0.25 | 5 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tine Text Editor (github.com/travisdoor)
    ×0.93 | 67 points by bwidlar 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Popover API (mozilla.org)
    ×2.38 | 283 points by yonom 7 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (nytimes.com)
    ×3.55 | 11 points by mistersquid 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces (mit.edu)
    ×1.96 | 201 points by geox 16 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021) (melmagazine.com)
    ×1.25 | 128 points by jsnell 13 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Hexagonal Tiling Honeycomb (wordpress.com)
    ×0.77 | 34 points by chmaynard 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: A simple 2D fluid and gravity simulation with WASM and WebGL (aestuans.github.io)
    ×0.75 | 50 points by aestuans 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The world has probably passed peak pollution (sustainabilitybynumbers.com)
    ×2.62 | 218 points by robertn702 20 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Bloop (YC S21) Is Hiring AI Engineers. Devin for Legacy Code (London, Onsite) (ycombinator.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Swipos-GIS/GEO, nationwide GNSS RTK correction for centimeter accurate location (admin.ch)
    ×0.49 | 17 points by RedlineTriad 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Logicola 3 (medium.com)
    ×0.93 | 92 points by kotk 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Trip C++Now 2024 – think-cell (think-cell.com)
    ×0.72 | 53 points by coffeeaddict1 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Meemaw – Trustless and grandma-friendly wallet as a service (github.com/getmeemaw)
    ×1.01 | 15 points by marceaul 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Time in a Box (jstor.org)
    ×0.08 | 3 points by Caiero 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology (hakaimagazine.com)
    ×0.94 | 115 points by benbreen 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. CS388: Natural Language Processing (utexas.edu)
    ×1.58 | 139 points by gone35 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Taking Apple to Court: Their mistake wiped out our $33,680 MRR mobile business (reddit.com)
    ×2.79 | 4 points by oidar 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. It's always TCP_NODELAY (brooker.co.za)
    ×3.50 | 788 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Radient – vectorize many data types, not just text (github.com/fzliu)
    ×0.68 | 46 points by fzliu 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. ElevenLabs Music (twitter.com/elevenlabsio)
    ×2.43 | 5 points by GaggiX 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (nature.com)
    ×3.48 | 176 points by geox 21 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics due to blobs left by collision (phys.org)
    ×0.73 | 53 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications (github.com/wayland-transpositor)
    ×1.57 | 145 points by happy-dude 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Grace Version Control System (github.com/ScottArbeit)
    ×1.70 | 117 points by davedx 17 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell (elv.sh)
    ×1.55 | 149 points by bwidlar 12 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative (arxiv.org)
    ×1.03 | 108 points by benbreen 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OpenBSD Desktop (x61.ar)
    ×1.56 | 124 points by hggh 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Experience with SQLite as a Store of Files and Images (sqlite.org)
    ×1.26 | 11 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Object oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011) (lwn.net)
    ×1.41 | 108 points by archermarks 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005 (noaa.gov)
    ×1.51 | 64 points by jwjohnson314 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Energy-Efficient Llama 2 Inference on FPGAs via High Level Synthesis (arxiv.org)
    ×1.18 | 68 points by PaulHoule 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The lie of expired food and the disastrous truth of America's food waste problem (vox.com)
    ×2.49 | 36 points by gsky 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std:string (microsoft.com)
    ×1.25 | 3 points by tyoma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Selling 'Ghost in the Shell' (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.68 | 49 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NSO vs. Citizen Lab: U.S. Court Battles over Pegasus Spyware Investigations (theintercept.com)
    ×2.08 | 24 points by clwg 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception (theguardian.com)
    ×2.15 | 75 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 'Vampire drone' can leech electricity from power lines to live forever (bgr.com)
    ×2.97 | 53 points by Eduard 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Chips and Cheese State of the Union (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.28 | 52 points by brian_herman 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features (fosstodon.org)
    ×4.71 | 146 points by CuriousIndian 3 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. EA CEO: "Real hunger" among developers to use AI to speed up development (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×2.01 | 16 points by jarsin 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia's water (grist.org)
    ×1.86 | 31 points by rntn 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Weaver: An ergonomic CLI parsing library for Roc lang (sammohr.dev)
    ×0.82 | 26 points by rtfeldman 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants (slate.com)
    ×0.78 | 56 points by Petiver 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial (independent.co.uk)
    ×6.46 | 675 points by belter 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. There's a Solar Storm Coming (qz.com)
    ×0.71 | 4 points by mikece 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers (github.com/ahrm)
    ×1.92 | 295 points by simonpure 21 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of SDI (mit.edu)
    ×0.95 | 78 points by sklargh 18 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Astrophysics Data System (harvard.edu:443)
    ×0.35 | 6 points by keepamovin 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The poetic science of how cicadas sing (themarginalian.org)
    ×0.60 | 23 points by tintinnabula 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. OpenAI demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates on 13 May (openai.com)
    ×2.79 | 37 points by bguberfain 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
    ×1.17 | 240 points by lele0108 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 100k Stars (chromeexperiments.com)
    ×1.52 | 9 points by sans_souse 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. In medieval England, leprosy spread btwn red squirrels/people, genome evidence (phys.org)
    ×0.85 | 42 points by wglb 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. You Can Hear the Temperature of Water (nytimes.com)
    ×2.22 | 31 points by mhb 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Debian Sid No-Feature KeePassXC Package (github.com/keepassxreboot)
    ×1.86 | 16 points by Sami_Lehtinen 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The future of logistics is in the neighbourhood (packsmith.io)
    ×0.84 | 8 points by mnming 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Searching for Lost Cities (archaeology.org)
    ×0.68 | 16 points by Thevet 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 200+ People With Diabetes Injured After Software Drained Insulin Pump Batteries (cnn.com)
    ×4.83 | 29 points by sizzle 52 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. RTK Experiments (n1vux.github.io)
    ×0.67 | 24 points by luu 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes (ellipsis.dev)
    ×0.80 | 111 points by hunterbrooks 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun (wilsonl.in)
    ×2.68 | 478 points by wilsonzlin 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. HiFi-DRAM: Enabling High-Fidelity DRAM Research by Uncovering Sense Amplifiers (ethz.ch)
    ×0.45 | 17 points by matt_d 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Logarithmic Scales (briefer.cloud)
    ×0.90 | 81 points by lucasfcosta 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. ESP32 Drum Synth Machine (github.com/zircothc)
    ×1.45 | 222 points by peteforde 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software (github.com/alefore)
    ×0.95 | 129 points by afc 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Symbolica Computer Algebra System (symbolica.io)
    ×1.29 | 147 points by weinzierl 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×0.71 | 7 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. DKIM, SPF, SpamAssassin Email Validator (dkimvalidator.com)
    ×1.26 | 55 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness (researchsquare.com)
    ×1.99 | 233 points by rendx 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine" (chromakode.com)
    ×4.36 | 727 points by chromakode 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Hymn for Walpurgisnacht (themillions.com)
    ×0.52 | 61 points by commspam 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding (research.google)
    ×0.85 | 104 points by kmdupree 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. World told to brace for 'severe geomagnetic storm' today (dailymail.co.uk)
    ×1.71 | 16 points by chankstein38 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Apple introduces M4 chip (apple.com)
    ×5.54 | 1554 points by excsn 3 days ago | 1997 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???