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  • 0 6

    School Discipline Makes a Comeback (www.wsj.com)
  • 5 18

    'It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost (www.ipolitics.ca)
  • 9 6

    The Right Way to Embed an LLM in a Group Chat (blog.tripjam.app)
  • 1 4

    The Hell of Tetra Master (xvw.lol)
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  • 8 36

    Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights? (arxiv.org)
  • 5 23

    What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)
  • 3 34

    How to Network as an Introvert (aginfer.bearblog.dev)
  • 42 104

    Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability (interactions.acm.org)
  • 24 31

    7-Zip 25.00 (github.com)
  • 53 50

    RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry (www.livescience.com)
  • 8 33

    Operators, Not Users and Programmers (jyn.dev)
  • 3 14

    Yet Another Zip Trick (hackarcana.com)
  • 2 9

    Solve high degree polynomials using Geode numbers (www.tandfonline.com)
  • 11 45

    Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming (viksit.substack.com)
  • 5 39

    WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator (www.winuae.net)
  • 4 24

    The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015) (www.vintagecalculators.com)
  • 2 12

    Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation (docs.pasteurlabs.ai)
  • 35 103

    Cod Have Been Shrinking for Decades, Scientists Say They've Solved Mystery (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 68 47

    Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules (www.latimes.com)
  • 158 168

    The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon (blog.thenewoil.org)
  • 11 56

    Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX (1947) (toytales.ca)
  • 17 59

    Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types (www.nature.com)
  • 3 16

    Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials (nautil.us)
  • 51 133

    macOS Icon History (basicappleguy.com)
  • 103 101

    How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently (mrsteinberg.com)
  • 87 73

    A new law in Sweden makes it illegal to buy custom adult content (www.euronews.com)
  • 4 12

    AI winter is well on its way (2018) (blog.piekniewski.info)
  • 7 9

    Two years ago today, Meta launched Threads. Does the world need this app? (stylestitches.substack.com)
  • 8 41

    Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing (mattwills.bearblog.dev)
  • 55 108

    Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban (www.lemonde.fr)
  • 16 90

    Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots (xata.io)
  • 2 26

    Optimizing typography of insect labels using free fonts and free software (2012) [pdf] (www.akentsoc.org)
  • 71 160

    Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale (elijahpotter.dev)
  • 60 82

    Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 27 53

    ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services (www.taler.net)
  • 3 32

    Just Ask for Generalization (2021) (evjang.com)
  • 25 72

    Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI (www.lawfaremedia.org)
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  • 72 73

    Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be (www.vox.com)
  • 26 17

    How U.S. Tourists Are Dealing with a New Animosity Overseas (www.wsj.com)
  • 118 162

    'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers (asia.nikkei.com)
  • 8 20

    Numerical Electromagnics Code (NEM) (www.nec2.org)
  • 3 8

    Musk and co should ask AI what defines intelligence. They may learn something (observer.co.uk)
  • 7 80

    Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today (www.gamingonlinux.com)
  • 45 13

    Tell HN: You owe it to yourself to understand nutrition
  • 188 583

    Local-first software (2019) (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 22 57

    QSBS Limits Raised (www.mintz.com)
  • 35 161

    Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched (www.eumetsat.int)
  • 9 14

    Will Scaling Solve Robotics? (nishanthjkumar.com)
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  • 0 7

    AI Hallucinations: ChatGPT Created a Fake Child Murderer (noyb.eu)
  • 40 76

    The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 (www.techradar.com)
  • 9 26

    What I learned building an AI coding agent for a year (jamesgrugett.com)
  • 67 44

    What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate (blog.alexoglou.com)
  • 16 73

    Build Systems à la Carte (2018) [pdf] (www.microsoft.com)
  • 43 202

    X-Clacks-Overhead (xclacksoverhead.org)
  • 13 60

    Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019) (www.gecode.org)
  • 43 43

    Large language models are improving exponentially? (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 7 21

    Go, PET, Let Hen - Curious adventures in (Commodore) BASIC tokenizing (www.masswerk.at)
  • 95 76

    We're all CTO now (jamie.ideasasylum.com)
  • 11 17

    Cars' Forward Blind Zones Are Worse Now Than 25 Years Ago (www.caranddriver.com)
  • 2 33

    How AI on microcontrollers works: Operators and kernels (danielmangum.com)
  • 189 174

    Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately (www.thealgorithmicbridge.com)
  • 1 14

    Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth (www.bbc.com)
  • 22 55

    French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft (news.itsfoss.com)
  • 17 40

    Impact of PCIe 5.0 Bandwidth on GPU Content Creation and LLM Performance (www.pugetsystems.com)
  • 49 30

    The only time HN is this interested in Bitcoin is when there's a bubble (2017) (incoherency.co.uk)
  • 2 12

    Making My Own Hacktoberfest T-Shirts (shkspr.mobi)
  • 146 146

    A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science (initcoder.com)
  • 130 174

    Stop Killing Games (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 0 19

    Show HN: Semcheck – AI Tool for checking implementation follows spec (github.com)
  • 2 31

    Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action (phys.org)
  • 22 74

    A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab (venturebeat.com)
  • 66 98

    The messy reality of SIMD (vector) functions (johnnysswlab.com)
  • 20 77

    N-Back – A Minimal, Adaptive Dual N-Back Game for Brain Training (n-back.net)
  • Telli (YC F24) Is Hiring Engineers [On-Site Berlin] (hi.telli.com)
  • 69 125

    Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing (www.theguardian.com)
  • 83 81

    Clarifying our pricing (cursor.com)
  • 2 14

    Operating system kernels could return multiple values from system calls (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 51 24

    I could not convince my k8s team to go AWS serverless (medium.com)
  • 18 35

    Amiga Linux (1993) (groups.google.com)
  • 38 111

    The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001) (www.openculture.com)
  • 78 151

    Why AO3 Was Down (www.reddit.com)
  • 11 25

    Vortex (Véhicule Orbital Réutilisable de Transport Et D'Exploration) (www.dassault-aviation.com)
  • 50 245

    Baba Is Eval (fi-le.net)
  • 4 55

    ADXL345 (2024) (www.tinytransistors.net)
  • 149 346

    The Moat of Low Status (usefulfictions.substack.com)
  • 7 41

    Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking (privateisland.tech)
  • 23 22

    Version Control for AI Coding (branching.app)
  • 0 8

    Homotopies in multiway (nondeterministic) rewriting systems as n-fold categories (arxiv.org)
  • 322 398

    OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D (www.kbkg.com)
  • 12 49

    The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor (blog.nelhage.com)
  • 2 13

    Show HN: Flint – Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency (github.com)
  • 4 23

    Show HN: Tinykv – Minimal file-backed key-value store for Rust (crates.io)