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AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services (xuanwo.io) story
by ulrischa • 14 points • 0 comments • 29 minutes ago
Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control (figure.ai) story
by Philpax • 175 points • 100 comments • 4 hours ago
Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering (github.com) story
by alberto-m • 87 points • 15 comments • 3 hours ago
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps story
by jeffreyip • 43 points • 3 comments • 3 hours ago
After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem (quantamagazine.org) story
by isaacfrond • 301 points • 79 comments • 9 hours ago
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library (github.com) story
by ElFitz • 65 points • 15 comments • 4 hours ago
You can't build a moat with AI (frontierai.substack.com) story
by cgwu • 8 points • 3 comments • 34 minutes ago
Show HN: WinCse – Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Explorer (github.com) story
by cbh34680 • 26 points • 7 comments • 1 hour ago
DotSlash: Simplified Executable Deployment (github.com) story
by microflash • 21 points • 10 comments • 18 February 2025
RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports (github.com) story
by klaussilveira • 75 points • 22 comments • 5 hours ago
OpenEuroLLM (openeurollm.eu) story
by richardfontana • 4 points • 0 comments • 26 minutes ago
Do ambiguous images provide psychological insights? Testing a popular claim (peerj.com) story
by thinkingemote • 14 points • 10 comments • 8 hours ago
When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (jazco.dev) story
by cyndunlop • 731 points • 284 comments • 19 February 2025
1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected (tuhs.org) story
by henry_flower • 375 points • 106 comments • 21 hours ago
Customizable HTML Select (developer.chrome.com) story
by dsego • 65 points • 32 comments • 7 hours ago
Show HN: EVMole for Analysing EVM Bytecode (evmole.xyz) story
by cdump0 • 7 points • 0 comments • 18 February 2025
iText PDF Library turns 25 (itextpdf.com) story
by alemos • 41 points • 15 comments • 18 February 2025
A.I. Is Prompting an Evolution, Not Extinction, for Coders (nytimes.com) story
by mikhael • 8 points • 0 comments • 16 minutes ago
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax (kyunghyuncho.me) story
by jxmorris12 • 158 points • 78 comments • 16 February 2025
A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself (nytimes.com) story
by lxm • 114 points • 77 comments • 3 hours ago
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing (scottaaronson.blog) story
by ingve • 269 points • 57 comments • 11 hours ago
Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer? (civileats.com) story
by greenie_beans • 247 points • 664 comments • 21 hours ago
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by rntn • 6 points • 1 comments • 57 minutes ago
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by bookofjoe • 24 points • 2 comments • 18 February 2025
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation (humanaigc.github.io) story
by ToJans • 132 points • 36 comments • 16 February 2025
AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (kanenarraway.com) story
by ghuntley • 168 points • 389 comments • 20 hours ago
The Forecasting Company (YC S24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com) job
by jfainberg • 1 points • 0 comments • 12 hours ago
The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com) story
by rbanffy • 148 points • 93 comments • 16 February 2025
DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com) story
by perihelions • 686 points • 1273 comments • 11 hours ago
F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video] (fosdem.org) story
by mpweiher • 64 points • 35 comments • 17 February 2025
The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025 (amazon.com) story
by gdrift • 184 points • 153 comments • 8 hours ago
Obsidian is now free for work (obsidian.md) story
by hisamafahri • 176 points • 9 comments • 2 hours ago
Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks (scientificamerican.com) story
by sohkamyung • 563 points • 313 comments • 19 February 2025
Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024) (peter.horne-khan.com) story
by jasonjmcghee • 174 points • 15 comments • 19 February 2025
Humane (Or Red Flags to Spot for Next Time) (lmnt.me) story
by mantia • 7 points • 5 comments • 6 hours ago
Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber (2015) (theguardian.com) story
by FinnLobsien • 4 points • 1 comments • 1 hour ago
Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust (newatlas.com) story
by clumsysmurf • 345 points • 173 comments • 19 hours ago
Show HN: A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL (httl.dev) story
by emykhailenko • 41 points • 12 comments • 18 February 2025
Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger (cloud.google.com) story
by karel-3d • 789 points • 274 comments • 19 February 2025
Speed matters (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net) story
by mefengl • 56 points • 24 comments • 16 February 2025
KubeVPN: Revolutionizing Kubernetes Local Development (github.com) story
by naison • 58 points • 15 comments • 14 hours ago
A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython) (blog.reverberate.org) story
by phsilva • 115 points • 81 comments • 17 February 2025
Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway (opsmaru.com) story
by zacksiri • 65 points • 16 comments • 18 February 2025
Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers (github.com) story
by adtac • 346 points • 71 comments • 18 February 2025
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries (blog.sylver.dev) story
by todsacerdoti • 197 points • 22 comments • 20 hours ago
Apple Debuts iPhone 16e (apple.com) story
by dm • 464 points • 778 comments • 19 February 2025
Show HN: MOS6502 in pure Lua running in WebAssembly (carimbo.run) story
by delduca • 47 points • 4 comments • 17 February 2025
Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist (research.google) story
by Jimmc414 • 354 points • 189 comments • 19 February 2025
"Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order (whitehouse.gov) story
by martialg • 673 points • 1213 comments • 19 February 2025
Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson (thealgorithmicbridge.com) story
by kiyanwang • 117 points • 176 comments • 12 hours ago

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Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code (github.com) story
by davikr • 1807 points • 386 comments • 18 February 2025
“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” (chadnauseam.com) story
by pie_flavor • 1771 points • 428 comments • 16 February 2025
All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org) story
by lumerina • 1332 points • 416 comments • 17 February 2025
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by mahkeiro • 1116 points • 1119 comments • 14 February 2025
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by Shank • 1113 points • 986 comments • 13 February 2025
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by bookofjoe • 950 points • 261 comments • 15 February 2025
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by b3n • 936 points • 341 comments • 13 February 2025
We were wrong about GPUs (fly.io) story
by mxstbr • 912 points • 574 comments • 14 February 2025
The hardest working font in Manhattan (aresluna.org) story
by robinhouston • 842 points • 118 comments • 14 February 2025
Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme (tintin.dlazaro.ca) story
by dlazaro • 800 points • 153 comments • 18 February 2025
Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger (cloud.google.com) story
by karel-3d • 789 points • 274 comments • 19 February 2025
X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com) story
by confusing3478 • 780 points • 748 comments • 17 February 2025
You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com) story
by tonkkatonka • 773 points • 412 comments • 14 February 2025
I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io) story
by fanf2 • 756 points • 208 comments • 16 February 2025
When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (jazco.dev) story
by cyndunlop • 731 points • 284 comments • 19 February 2025
DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com) story
by perihelions • 686 points • 1273 comments • 11 hours ago
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by bertdb • 676 points • 373 comments • 18 February 2025
"Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order (whitehouse.gov) story
by martialg • 673 points • 1213 comments • 19 February 2025
Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers (uchu.style) story
by NetOpWibby • 669 points • 270 comments • 16 February 2025
Grok3 Launch [video] (x.com) story
by travelhead • 619 points • 1336 comments • 18 February 2025
Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com) story
by picture • 604 points • 58 comments • 17 February 2025
Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died (eurogamer.net) story
by Trasmatta • 595 points • 123 comments • 16 February 2025
XOR (chiark.greenend.org.uk) story
by mariuz • 575 points • 93 comments • 18 February 2025
Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find (techxplore.com) story
by Brajeshwar • 572 points • 499 comments • 15 February 2025
Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport (cbc.ca) story
by jaredwiener • 567 points • 702 comments • 17 February 2025
Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks (scientificamerican.com) story
by sohkamyung • 563 points • 313 comments • 19 February 2025
Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS (caddyserver.com) story
by huang_chung • 561 points • 227 comments • 16 February 2025
LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab (theregister.com) story
by LinuxBender • 552 points • 231 comments • 13 February 2025
Pi-hole v6 (pi-hole.net) story
by tkuraku • 550 points • 293 comments • 18 February 2025
A decade later, a decade lost (2024) (meyerweb.com) story
by ZeWaka • 545 points • 170 comments • 14 February 2025
Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids (desunit.com) story
by desunit • 539 points • 406 comments • 13 February 2025
Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning (phind.com) story
by rushingcreek • 532 points • 191 comments • 13 February 2025
Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model (zed.dev) story
by ahamez • 515 points • 289 comments • 14 February 2025
AI is stifling new tech adoption? (vale.rocks) story
by kiyanwang • 503 points • 425 comments • 14 February 2025
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System (jellyfin.org) story
by doener • 486 points • 282 comments • 15 February 2025
US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago (bbc.com) story
by niuzeta • 484 points • 788 comments • 16 February 2025
My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation (cosive.com) story
by tashicorp • 480 points • 419 comments • 18 February 2025
My LLM codegen workflow (harper.blog) story
by lolptdr • 479 points • 155 comments • 18 February 2025
Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration (cea.fr) story
by mpweiher • 478 points • 486 comments • 18 February 2025
Jane Street's Figgie card game (figgie.com) story
by eamag • 472 points • 117 comments • 15 February 2025
Apple Debuts iPhone 16e (apple.com) story
by dm • 464 points • 778 comments • 19 February 2025
Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes (sqlnoir.com) story
by chrisBHappy • 459 points • 85 comments • 13 February 2025
Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds (e360.yale.edu) story
by Brajeshwar • 449 points • 454 comments • 15 February 2025
The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks (wololo.net) story
by zdw • 449 points • 123 comments • 15 February 2025
The Sims Game Design Documents (1997) (donhopkins.com) story
by krykp • 443 points • 60 comments • 16 February 2025
Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations (scripton.dev) story
by nightcraft • 438 points • 138 comments • 18 February 2025
OCR4all (ocr4all.org) story
by LorenDB • 433 points • 123 comments • 14 February 2025
Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby (github.com) story
by calcsam • 423 points • 145 comments • 19 February 2025
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by Hooke • 412 points • 168 comments • 18 February 2025
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by mikece • 410 points • 211 comments • 13 February 2025

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New Horizons for Julia (lwn.net) story
by leephillips • 1 points • 0 comments • 0 minutes ago
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by gnabgib • 1 points • 0 comments • 3 minutes ago
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Computer science should be called logic (youtube.com) story
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