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Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (wordonfire.org) story
by danielam • 50 points • 17 comments • 2 hours ago
John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 (twitter.com) story
by tosh • 286 points • 154 comments • 8 hours ago
The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch (slate.com) story
by prawn • 42 points • 7 comments • 21 May 2025
KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data (kumo.ai) story
by cliffly • 62 points • 9 comments • 6 hours ago
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by marklit • 47 points • 7 comments • 21 May 2025
Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine (modvion.com) story
by Bluestein • 91 points • 72 comments • 19 May 2025
Quantum Picturalism (quantuminpictures.org) story
by mathgenius • 24 points • 1 comments • 20 May 2025
Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability (github.com) story
by kepano • 320 points • 53 comments • 16 hours ago
That fractal that's been up on my wall for years (chriskw.xyz) story
by chriskw • 480 points • 34 comments • 21 hours ago
'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys (quantamagazine.org) story
by pseudolus • 30 points • 9 comments • 19 May 2025
Claude 4 (anthropic.com) story
by meetpateltech • 1831 points • 1044 comments • 21 hours ago
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by imurray • 240 points • 71 comments • 18 hours ago
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by phantomathkg • 1036 points • 642 comments • 21 hours ago
A Formal Mathematical Investigation on the Validity of Kellogg's Glaze Claims (old.reddit.com) story
by ZeroCool2u • 47 points • 8 comments • 19 May 2025
OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level (pixelstech.net) story
by thunderbong • 98 points • 44 comments • 3 hours ago
32 bits that changed microprocessor design (spectrum.ieee.org) story
by mdp2021 • 104 points • 29 comments • 14 hours ago
Sketchy Calendar (inkandswitch.com) story
by surprisetalk • 105 points • 25 comments • 14 hours ago
Sugar-Coated Poison: Benign Generation Unlocks LLM Jailbreaking (arxiv.org) story
by favoboa • 3 points • 0 comments • 21 May 2025
Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 (railsatscale.com) story
by tekknolagi • 236 points • 59 comments • 23 hours ago
How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017) (izbicki.me) story
by jxmorris12 • 124 points • 102 comments • 19 hours ago
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by todsacerdoti • 282 points • 98 comments • 22 May 2025
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by alexbilbie • 105 points • 116 comments • 22 May 2025
Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later) (github.com) story
by rhgraysonii • 7 points • 2 comments • 3 hours ago
A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce (theguardian.com) story
by n1b0m • 186 points • 145 comments • 21 May 2025
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by js4ever • 140 points • 89 comments • 20 hours ago
I Built My Own Audio Player (nexo.sh) story
by nexo-v1 • 238 points • 143 comments • 23 hours ago
Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured (nytimes.com) story
by LAsteNERD • 65 points • 24 comments • 19 May 2025
When a team is too big (blog.alexewerlof.com) story
by gpi • 100 points • 101 comments • 19 May 2025
Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript (github.com) story
by marcobambini • 180 points • 51 comments • 22 May 2025
Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory (pythonspeed.com) story
by itamarst • 113 points • 43 comments • 19 hours ago
Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts story
by digitaltzar • 69 points • 54 comments • 22 hours ago
Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon (tomshardware.com) story
by Tuldok • 14 points • 3 comments • 2 hours ago
When good pseudorandom numbers go bad (blog.djnavarro.net) story
by chewxy • 63 points • 27 comments • 19 May 2025
Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol (stephendiehl.com) story
by freediver • 109 points • 29 comments • 23 hours ago
Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene (iquilezles.org) story
by federicoponzi • 317 points • 28 comments • 18 May 2025
ESP32 MCP Server story
by horw • 3 points • 1 comments • 2 hours ago
The Future of Flatpak (lwn.net) story
by dxs • 269 points • 201 comments • 13 hours ago
A 2030 Morning Routine (marginalia.nu) story
by LorenDB • 60 points • 21 comments • 1 hour ago
Problems in AI alignment: A scale model (muldoon.cloud) story
by hamburga • 44 points • 28 comments • 18 hours ago
Four years of sight reading practice (sandrock.co.za) story
by chthonicdaemon • 149 points • 68 comments • 19 May 2025
Gemini Diffusion (simonwillison.net) story
by mdp2021 • 848 points • 230 comments • 22 May 2025
Lockheed Martin and IBM combine quantum computing with HPC in new research (ibm.com) story
by donutloop • 63 points • 6 comments • 9 hours ago
Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (2009) (papers.ssrn.com) story
by NaOH • 43 points • 13 comments • 17 hours ago
“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place (modernagejournal.com) story
by rufus_foreman • 96 points • 56 comments • 15 hours ago
Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time (theverge.com) story
by LorenDB • 5 points • 0 comments • 1 hour ago
Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code (github.com) story
by todsacerdoti • 164 points • 115 comments • 22 May 2025
The scientific “unit” we call the decibel (lcamtuf.substack.com) story
by Ariarule • 600 points • 473 comments • 22 May 2025
1,145 pull requests per day (saile.it) story
by sailE • 102 points • 77 comments • 18 hours ago
Async from scratch 3: Pinned against the wall (natkr.com) story
by todsacerdoti • 37 points • 0 comments • 17 hours ago
Practicing graphical debugging using visualizations of the Hilbert curve (akkartik.name) story
by akkartik • 30 points • 1 comments • 19 hours ago

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Claude 4 (anthropic.com) story
by meetpateltech • 1831 points • 1044 comments • 21 hours ago
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by pentagrama • 1592 points • 1168 comments • 19 May 2025
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot (support.mozilla.org) story
by phantomathkg • 1036 points • 642 comments • 21 hours ago
Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane (old.reddit.com) story
by laiysb • 1013 points • 540 comments • 21 May 2025
Spaced repetition systems have gotten better (domenic.me) story
by domenicd • 1010 points • 503 comments • 18 May 2025
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by LorenDB • 862 points • 300 comments • 19 May 2025
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by mdp2021 • 848 points • 230 comments • 22 May 2025
Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow (blog.google) story
by youssefarizk • 813 points • 524 comments • 20 May 2025
OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive (bloomberg.com) story
by minimaxir • 811 points • 1105 comments • 21 May 2025
Zod 4 (zod.dev) story
by bpierre • 778 points • 253 comments • 19 May 2025
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by S0y • 775 points • 820 comments • 20 hours ago
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by bradgessler • 708 points • 436 comments • 16 May 2025
Devstral (mistral.ai) story
by mfiguiere • 674 points • 141 comments • 21 May 2025
DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage (micahflee.com) story
by micahflee • 663 points • 185 comments • 20 May 2025
Don't guess my language (vitonsky.net) story
by e-topy • 661 points • 365 comments • 19 May 2025
France Endorses UN Open Source Principles (social.numerique.gouv.fr) story
by bzg • 612 points • 215 comments • 18 May 2025
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by Ariarule • 600 points • 473 comments • 22 May 2025
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by goranmoomin • 563 points • 197 comments • 17 May 2025
Making video games (without an engine) in 2025 (noelberry.ca) story
by selvan • 560 points • 244 comments • 20 May 2025
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent (github.blog) story
by net01 • 557 points • 356 comments • 19 May 2025
By default, Signal doesn't recall (signal.org) story
by feross • 556 points • 475 comments • 21 May 2025
Jules: An asynchronous coding agent (jules.google) story
by travisennis • 524 points • 231 comments • 19 May 2025
Ground control to Major Trial (virtualize.sh) story
by plam503711 • 522 points • 190 comments • 16 May 2025
A Research Preview of Codex (openai.com) story
by meetpateltech • 510 points • 449 comments • 16 May 2025
Deep Learning Is Applied Topology (theahura.substack.com) story
by theahura • 496 points • 180 comments • 20 May 2025
Getting AI to write good SQL (cloud.google.com) story
by richards • 495 points • 355 comments • 16 May 2025
Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law (techradar.com) story
by taubek • 490 points • 219 comments • 17 May 2025
InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel (techcrunch.com) story
by LorenDB • 482 points • 425 comments • 18 May 2025
That fractal that's been up on my wall for years (chriskw.xyz) story
by chriskw • 480 points • 34 comments • 21 hours ago
Ditching Obsidian and building my own (amberwilliams.io) story
by williamsss • 468 points • 552 comments • 18 May 2025
Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge (yle.fi) story
by axelfontaine • 457 points • 444 comments • 20 May 2025
Claude Code SDK (docs.anthropic.com) story
by sync • 451 points • 194 comments • 19 May 2025
Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden (thewrap.com) story
by dale_huevo • 451 points • 605 comments • 19 May 2025
Litestream: Revamped (fly.io) story
by usrme • 447 points • 96 comments • 20 May 2025
Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game (ncase.me) story
by felineflock • 441 points • 71 comments • 19 May 2025
Mystical (suberic.net) story
by mmphosis • 440 points • 45 comments • 17 May 2025
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by meetpateltech • 436 points • 160 comments • 20 May 2025
Building my own solar power system (medium.com) story
by JKCalhoun • 433 points • 338 comments • 18 May 2025
MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery (economics.mit.edu) story
by carabiner • 384 points • 201 comments • 16 May 2025
Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure (github.com) story
by brig90 • 381 points • 131 comments • 18 May 2025
After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain (albertofortin.com) story
by a7fort • 363 points • 221 comments • 16 May 2025
AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected (understandingai.org) story
by qianli_cs • 362 points • 295 comments • 20 May 2025
AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model (komiko.app) story
by PaulineGar • 356 points • 217 comments • 17 May 2025
If nothing is curated, how do we find things (tadaima.bearblog.dev) story
by nivethan • 354 points • 252 comments • 17 May 2025
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models (ollama.com) story
by LorenDB • 353 points • 84 comments • 16 May 2025
Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web (90s.dev) story
by 90s_dev • 348 points • 111 comments • 20 May 2025
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call (mastdatabase.co.uk) story
by kragniz • 343 points • 73 comments • 17 May 2025
BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024) (zverok.space) story
by beeburrt • 343 points • 318 comments • 16 May 2025
Planetfall (somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com) story
by milliams • 332 points • 96 comments • 22 May 2025
For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time (quantamagazine.org) story
by makira • 332 points • 126 comments • 21 May 2025

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Designing for intent: a concept for AI-aware OS interaction (clearcut.work) story
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Recreating a video from raw captured network traffic (2023) (thesloth.me) story
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