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MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia (jan.miksovsky.com) story
by pabs3 • 1103 points • 135 comments • 11 hours ago
The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017) (mathoverflow.net) story
by IdealeZahlen • 174 points • 66 comments • 6 hours ago
Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE (codeium.com) story
by fortenforge • 19 points • 3 comments • 13 November 2024
Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# (github.com) story
by porterde • 39 points • 13 comments • 1 hour ago
The Internet Gopher from Minnesota (abortretry.fail) story
by rbanffy • 32 points • 6 comments • 11 November 2024
Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time (news.virginmediao2.co.uk) story
by ortusdux • 431 points • 162 comments • 6 hours ago
My simple knowledge management and time tracking system (henrikwarne.com) story
by henrik_w • 21 points • 5 comments • 9 November 2024
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI (bloomberg.com) story
by lukebennett • 293 points • 345 comments • 13 November 2024
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess (dynomight.substack.com) story
by crescit_eundo • 67 points • 22 comments • 6 hours ago
In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024 (computerhistory.org) story
by 1986 • 14 points • 4 comments • 1 hour ago
InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring for AI in Construction (ycombinator.com) job
by shuangly • 1 points • 0 comments • 2 hours ago
AI makes tech debt more expensive (gauge.sh) story
by 0x63_Problems • 279 points • 163 comments • 7 hours ago
SQLite Index Visualization (mrsuh.com) story
by mrsuh • 164 points • 17 comments • 12 hours ago
PyPI now supports digital attestations (blog.pypi.org) story
by miketheman • 114 points • 65 comments • 8 hours ago
A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework (obdev.at) story
by chmaynard • 146 points • 31 comments • 9 hours ago
The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury (nature.com) story
by gmays • 137 points • 68 comments • 10 November 2024
Implementing Signal's Double Ratchet algorithm (2020) (nfil.dev) story
by todsacerdoti • 7 points • 0 comments • 7 November 2024
The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank (theguardian.com) story
by robaato • 50 points • 14 comments • 12 November 2024
The Onion buys Infowars (nytimes.com) story
by coloneltcb • 1293 points • 788 comments • 9 hours ago
Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF (redhat.com) story
by twelvenmonkeys • 191 points • 57 comments • 5 hours ago
Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe (legiscope.com) story
by vegasbrianc • 154 points • 122 comments • 58 minutes ago
Bad science as genre fiction (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu) story
by nabla9 • 16 points • 6 comments • 8 November 2024
Lessons from my first exit (mtlynch.io) story
by saeedesmaili • 324 points • 95 comments • 15 hours ago
Origin private file system (developer.mozilla.org) story
by thunderbong • 46 points • 23 comments • 6 hours ago
SqueakJS: A modern and practical Smalltalk that runs in any browser (2014) [pdf] (freudenbergs.de) story
by DonHopkins • 76 points • 12 comments • 16 hours ago
Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle (davidlattimore.github.io) story
by tempaccount420 • 85 points • 53 comments • 3 hours ago
The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast (blog.helix.ml) story
by lewq • 173 points • 140 comments • 8 hours ago
Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes (support.apple.com) story
by 9woc • 86 points • 36 comments • 11 November 2024
OpenMP 6.0 (openmp.org) story
by mshachkov • 68 points • 6 comments • 4 hours ago
An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016) (gq.com) story
by coloneltcb • 49 points • 145 comments • 18 hours ago
The Median Researcher Problem (lesswrong.com) story
by surprisetalk • 21 points • 12 comments • 9 November 2024
BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners (arxiv.org) story
by fzliu • 99 points • 25 comments • 15 hours ago
Beelink mini-PC docking station supports desktop GPU (liliputing.com) story
by heresie-dabord • 12 points • 8 comments • 1 hour ago
The geometry of data: the missing metric tensor and the Stein score [Part II] (blog.christianperone.com) story
by perone • 37 points • 2 comments • 11 hours ago
S/Sed/Ed (aartaka.me) story
by thunderbong • 4 points • 0 comments • 3 hours ago
Fault Injection – Down the Rabbit Hole (security.humanativaspa.it) story
by voxadam • 59 points • 2 comments • 13 November 2024
Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge (arxiv.org) story
by rntn • 39 points • 15 comments • 3 hours ago
Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux (oldvcr.blogspot.com) story
by rbanffy • 3 points • 0 comments • 2 hours ago
Interview with gwern (dwarkeshpatel.com) story
by synthmeat • 250 points • 205 comments • 14 hours ago
Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world (news.mit.edu) story
by gmays • 19 points • 5 comments • 8 hours ago
DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration (deepl.com) story
by doener • 99 points • 52 comments • 13 hours ago
Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World (lattice.xyz) story
by bpierre • 36 points • 8 comments • 9 hours ago
Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation (snyk.io) story
by saltypal • 140 points • 60 comments • 13 November 2024
NSO – not government clients – operates its spyware, legal documents reveal (theguardian.com) story
by uxhacker • 13 points • 0 comments • 1 hour ago
The Pythonic Emptiness (blog.codingconfessions.com) story
by todsacerdoti • 33 points • 38 comments • 10 November 2024
The Corpus of United States State Statutes–Design, Construction and Use (papers.ssrn.com) story
by cwmoore • 15 points • 3 comments • 6 hours ago
Python, C++ inspired language that transpiles to C and can be embedded within C (github.com) story
by thunderbong • 46 points • 25 comments • 8 November 2024
Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess (dynomight.net) story
by gregorymichael • 111 points • 44 comments • 6 hours ago
Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software (theregister.com) story
by clcaev • 4 points • 1 comments • 36 minutes ago
Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly" (mathstodon.xyz) story
by bertman • 41 points • 8 comments • 14 hours ago

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IMG_0416 (ben-mini.github.io) story
by bewal416 • 2238 points • 321 comments • 10 November 2024
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by koolba • 1794 points • 9231 comments • 6 November 2024
Passport Photos (maxsiedentopf.com) story
by gaws • 1534 points • 228 comments • 6 November 2024
How I ship projects at big tech companies (seangoedecke.com) story
by gfysfm • 1359 points • 375 comments • 11 November 2024
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by coloneltcb • 1293 points • 788 comments • 9 hours ago
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by pabs3 • 1103 points • 135 comments • 11 hours ago
No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains (blog.transitapp.com) story
by dotcoma • 998 points • 308 comments • 13 November 2024
Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities (weiyen.net) story
by yen223 • 833 points • 232 comments • 6 November 2024
I Don't Have Spotify (github.com) story
by sjdonado • 752 points • 369 comments • 11 November 2024
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by empressplay • 743 points • 451 comments • 6 November 2024
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by kaathewise • 720 points • 225 comments • 9 November 2024
Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab (nature.com) story
by dataminer • 681 points • 247 comments • 9 November 2024
QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image (blackberry.qnx.com) story
by JohnAtQNX • 656 points • 356 comments • 7 November 2024
The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development (pikuma.com) story
by atan2 • 635 points • 305 comments • 13 November 2024
Mitochondria Are Alive (asimov.press) story
by mailyk • 635 points • 389 comments • 8 November 2024
Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output (github.com) story
by nateb2022 • 634 points • 92 comments • 8 November 2024
Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough (swapnilchauhan.com) story
by swapxstar • 626 points • 273 comments • 10 November 2024
OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models (opencoder-llm.github.io) story
by pil0u • 615 points • 77 comments • 9 November 2024
Leaving and Waving (deannadikeman.com) story
by Duke_Pixie • 597 points • 92 comments • 12 November 2024
All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs (jero.zone) story
by noleary • 586 points • 178 comments • 6 November 2024
Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos (jamcorder.com) story
by chipweinberger • 585 points • 187 comments • 7 November 2024
Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities (jhftss.github.io) story
by transpute • 579 points • 190 comments • 8 November 2024
Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages (lagrangepoint.substack.com) story
by rithvikvibhu • 575 points • 189 comments • 12 November 2024
Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize (yourhackernews.com) story
by nimbusega • 563 points • 137 comments • 6 November 2024
M4 Mac mini's efficiency (jeffgeerling.com) story
by marinesebastian • 558 points • 593 comments • 12 November 2024
Title drops in movies (titledrops.net) story
by gaws • 551 points • 167 comments • 6 November 2024
Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017) (forums.tigsource.com) story
by CharlesW • 525 points • 114 comments • 8 November 2024
Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 (reuters.com) story
by robbiet480 • 522 points • 543 comments • 6 November 2024
AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space (tomshardware.com) story
by baal80spam • 498 points • 161 comments • 5 November 2024
New images of Jupiter (missionjuno.swri.edu) story
by 0xFACEFEED • 483 points • 79 comments • 6 November 2024
Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux (ttimo.typepad.com) story
by Venn1 • 470 points • 144 comments • 11 November 2024
98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs (jdan.github.io) story
by OuterVale • 469 points • 92 comments • 6 November 2024
Learning not to trust the All-In podcast (passingtime.substack.com) story
by paulpauper • 460 points • 279 comments • 6 November 2024
Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin (32bits.substack.com) story
by bbayles • 456 points • 133 comments • 7 November 2024
What I wish someone told me about Postgres (challahscript.com) story
by todsacerdoti • 455 points • 190 comments • 12 November 2024
Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser (bandysc.github.io) story
by thunderbong • 451 points • 223 comments • 11 November 2024
I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100 (elliott-king.github.io) story
by thunderbong • 433 points • 268 comments • 16 hours ago
Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time (news.virginmediao2.co.uk) story
by ortusdux • 431 points • 162 comments • 6 hours ago
Visualizing World War II (nathangoldwag.wordpress.com) story
by gaws • 430 points • 89 comments • 11 November 2024
Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git (mergiraf.org) story
by p4bl0 • 427 points • 87 comments • 9 November 2024
I sent an Ethernet packet (github.com) story
by todsacerdoti • 416 points • 126 comments • 11 November 2024
Private Cloud Compute Security Guide (security.apple.com) story
by djoldman • 398 points • 212 comments • 6 November 2024
Tracker Beeper (2022) (berthub.eu) story
by gaws • 394 points • 77 comments • 6 November 2024
I quit Google to work for myself (2018) (mtlynch.io) story
by alexzeitler • 380 points • 231 comments • 8 November 2024
Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch (videogameschronicle.com) story
by ashitlerferad • 361 points • 217 comments • 6 November 2024
WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill (recall.ai) story
by tosh • 360 points • 229 comments • 6 November 2024
Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI (github.com) story
by JohannesKauf • 357 points • 47 comments • 9 November 2024
Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs (arxiv.org) story
by JSeymourATL • 356 points • 511 comments • 8 hours ago
Francois Chollet is leaving Google (developers.googleblog.com) story
by xnx • 351 points • 153 comments • 13 November 2024
The EdTech Revolution Has Failed (afterbabel.com) story
by obscurette • 343 points • 499 comments • 12 November 2024

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A Linux Desktop for the Family (chronicles.mad-scientist.club) story
by todsacerdoti • 1 points • 0 comments • 2 minutes ago
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by popcalc • 1 points • 0 comments • 4 minutes ago
Legality of Drug Checking Equipment in the United States (networkforphl.org) story
by bookofjoe • 1 points • 0 comments • 6 minutes ago
TV Networks Embrace Their Aging Audience with a New Mantra: Age Doesn't Matter (wsj.com) story
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