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  1. Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time (bbc.com)
    ×1.22 | 37 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell (elv.sh)
    ×1.45 | 17 points by bwidlar 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. It's always TCP_NODELAY (brooker.co.za)
    ×3.18 | 631 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 | 47 points by benbreen 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Object oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011) (lwn.net)
    ×1.52 | 42 points by archermarks 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021) (melmagazine.com)
    ×1.49 | 23 points by jsnell 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Logicola 3 (medium.com)
    ×1.12 | 15 points by kotk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Bloop (YC S21) Is Hiring AI Engineers. Devin for Legacy Code (London, Onsite) (ycombinator.com)
    58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces (mit.edu)
    ×2.06 | 59 points by geox 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
    ×1.12 | 204 points by lele0108 16 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales long industrial technology (hakaimagazine.com)
    ×1.04 | 79 points by benbreen 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Energy-Efficient Llama 2 Inference on FPGAs via High Level Synthesis (arxiv.org)
    ×1.45 | 32 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers (github.com/ahrm)
    ×1.70 | 207 points by simonpure 10 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' (theverge.com)
    ×6.36 | 75 points by linguae 9 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. CS388: Natural Language Processing (utexas.edu)
    ×1.85 | 61 points by gone35 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Radient – vectorize many data types, not just text (github.com/fzliu)
    ×0.96 | 10 points by fzliu 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Grace Version Control System (github.com/ScottArbeit)
    ×1.67 | 54 points by davedx 6 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of SDI (mit.edu)
    ×1.11 | 56 points by sklargh 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes (ellipsis.dev)
    ×0.80 | 94 points by hunterbrooks 15 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. ESP32 Drum Synth Machine (github.com/zircothc)
    ×1.46 | 201 points by peteforde 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The poetic science of how cicadas sing (themarginalian.org)
    ×0.77 | 8 points by tintinnabula 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Selling 'Ghost in the Shell' (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.86 | 17 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications (github.com/wayland-transpositor)
    ×1.54 | 85 points by happy-dude 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. In-Car Hydration and Urination Systems for Race Car Drivers (core77.com)
    ×0.46 | 4 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun (wilsonl.in)
    ×2.48 | 410 points by wilsonzlin 19 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Chips and Cheese State of the Union (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.83 | 30 points by brian_herman 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car (dezeen.com)
    ×2.30 | 29 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres (github.com/tembo-io)
    ×1.56 | 215 points by chuckhend 19 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Algebraic Data Types for C99 (github.com/Hirrolot)
    ×1.73 | 339 points by bondant 20 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. RTK Experiments (n1vux.github.io)
    ×1.01 | 20 points by luu 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Weaver: An ergonomic CLI parsing library for Roc lang (sammohr.dev)
    ×0.52 | 5 points by rtfeldman 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. In medieval England, leprosy spread btwn red squirrels/people, genome evidence (phys.org)
    ×0.97 | 33 points by wglb 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Estimating Pi with Kafka streams (fredrikmeyer.net)
    ×0.48 | 5 points by FredrikMeyer 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Boeing whistleblower says he was pressured to hide defects (thehill.com)
    ×5.03 | 11 points by rokkitmensch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants (slate.com)
    ×0.71 | 41 points by Petiver 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021) (filippo.io)
    ×2.99 | 109 points by takoid 4 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial (independent.co.uk)
    ×6.75 | 610 points by belter 20 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A Record of Old Kashgar (chinabooksreview.com)
    ×0.78 | 15 points by Thevet 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Logarithmic Scales (briefer.cloud)
    ×0.92 | 73 points by lucasfcosta 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The world has probably passed peak pollution (sustainabilitybynumbers.com)
    ×2.82 | 149 points by robertn702 9 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy? (leonarddavid.com)
    ×1.51 | 96 points by belter 11 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Xilinx HBM2 Internals (2023) (lovehindpa.ws)
    ×0.67 | 81 points by hasheddan 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software (github.com/alefore)
    ×0.99 | 127 points by afc 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001) (yp.to)
    ×1.04 | 136 points by enz 23 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding (research.google)
    ×0.87 | 102 points by kmdupree 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023) (temporal.io)
    ×1.36 | 191 points by metadat 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C (hereket.com)
    ×1.79 | 247 points by libcheet 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. NOAA Forecasts Solar Storm (G4) (noaa.gov)
    ×2.76 | 40 points by geerlingguy 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted (itnews.com.au)
    ×1.92 | 4 points by siganakis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. C2PA from the Attacker's Perspective (hackerfactor.com)
    ×0.57 | 15 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Hymn for Walpurgisnacht (themillions.com)
    ×0.53 | 59 points by commspam 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. DNSecure – a configuration tool of DoT and DoH for iOS and iPadOS (github.com/kkebo)
    ×0.98 | 52 points by conductor 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The history of 'OK' (2023) (howstuffworks.com)
    ×1.53 | 98 points by goles 11 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Symbolica Computer Algebra System (symbolica.io)
    ×1.34 | 143 points by weinzierl 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data (arxiv.org)
    ×1.86 | 167 points by zerojames 18 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A Brief History of the First Planetarium (ieee.org)
    ×0.50 | 38 points by Brajeshwar 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness (researchsquare.com)
    ×2.02 | 225 points by rendx 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine" (chromakode.com)
    ×4.40 | 715 points by chromakode 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet (nasa.gov)
    ×1.03 | 15 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Huawei breaks free from Google ecosystem with homegrown HarmonyOS (nikkei.com)
    ×3.28 | 25 points by ilamont 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Microsoft's $1M Vote of Confidence in Rust's Future (thenewstack.io)
    ×3.36 | 45 points by weinzierl 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT (grafychat.com)
    ×2.52 | 428 points by setnone 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed (outsideonline.com)
    ×1.10 | 95 points by rtrunck 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Apple introduces M4 chip (apple.com)
    ×5.53 | 1547 points by excsn 2 days ago | 1967 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How the ADHD Brain Processes Sugar Differently (finallyfocused.org)
    ×3.44 | 24 points by yamrzou 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. New capacitor with 19-times energy density (livescience.com)
    ×1.68 | 90 points by tromp 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Birth of Parquet (sympathetic.ink)
    ×1.22 | 136 points by whinvik 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x (hao-ai-lab.github.io)
    ×1.99 | 449 points by zhisbug 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Strfry() Gives Skewed Distributions (sourceware.org)
    ×1.38 | 9 points by lopkeny12ko 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries (ifesunmola.com)
    ×1.09 | 203 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day (grumpyolddev.com)
    ×3.52 | 476 points by mundanerality 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1B – report (theguardian.com)
    ×4.71 | 6 points by barnoka 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Does the Universe expand by stretching or creating space? (bigthink.com)
    ×1.87 | 6 points by pokolovsky 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. ppstep: Interactive C/C++ preprocessor macro debugger (github.com/notfoundry)
    ×1.79 | 10 points by fanf2 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?" (core77.com)
    ×1.65 | 237 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Bringing psql’s \d to your web browser (neon.tech)
    ×0.67 | 76 points by gmac 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Using AirPods as a Morse Transmitter (github.com/EtherDream)
    ×1.23 | 169 points by etherdream 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. OpenAI: Model Spec (openai.com)
    ×1.63 | 143 points by georgehill 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (nature.com)
    ×4.15 | 146 points by geox 10 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Sony Wearable Thermal Device (sony.com.hk)
    ×2.26 | 81 points by superasn 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Securing Git Repositories with Gittuf (lwn.net)
    ×1.02 | 80 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: SimBricks – Modular Full-System Simulation for HW-SW Systems (simbricks.github.io)
    ×0.62 | 62 points by antoine-kaufm 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Muse Book laptop features SpacemiT K1 octa-core RISC-V AI processor, up to 16GB (cnx-software.com)
    ×3.31 | 9 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pulley system composition – a systematic approach (2020) (kiipeilytuomas.fi)
    ×0.54 | 63 points by timjver 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Fobos SDR: 14-bit, 100 kHz to 6 GHz SDR, up to 50-MHz bandwidth, receive only (rigexpert.com)
    ×3.36 | 18 points by obscurious 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed (newatlas.com)
    ×3.78 | 522 points by peutetre 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Pair Your Compilers at the ABI Café (faultlore.com)
    ×1.03 | 123 points by nrabulinski 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Launch HN: Baselit (YC W23) – Automatically Reduce Snowflake Costs
    ×0.44 | 46 points by sahil_singla 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack AI's premium features (github.com/meetbryce)
    ×1.08 | 64 points by meetbryce 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Secure Randomness in Go 1.22 (go.dev)
    ×1.58 | 283 points by rsc 3 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???