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1.
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
1088 points by milkglass 19 hours ago | 765 comments
2.
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
741 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 520 comments
3.
Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
406 points by chiefalchemist 1 day ago | 286 comments
4.
Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
283 points by Nrbelex 4 days ago | 151 comments
5.
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
533 points by _-x-_ 1 day ago | 178 comments
6.
OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
287 points by tanelpoder 4 days ago | 63 comments
7.
America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
157 points by sleepyguy 1 day ago | 164 comments
8.
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
591 points by elisaado 14 hours ago | 289 comments
9.
Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
278 points by sph 16 hours ago | 79 comments
10.
Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
208 points by iamwil 2 days ago | 54 comments
11.
GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
162 points by zdkaster 22 hours ago | 55 comments
12.
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
329 points by gasull 21 hours ago | 183 comments
13.
Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
146 points by signa11 3 days ago | 23 comments
14.
Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
204 points by yak32 3 days ago | 48 comments
15.
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
545 points by jamesponddotco 8 hours ago | 218 comments
16.
The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
161 points by offbyone42 1 day ago | 24 comments
17.
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
448 points by jeremyccrane 9 hours ago | 616 comments
18.
SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
247 points by kmdupree 11 hours ago | 139 comments
19.
The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
74 points by jger15 3 days ago | 14 comments
20.
Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
81 points by subset 18 hours ago | 11 comments
21.
Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
88 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 55 comments
22.
Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
193 points by j0r0b0 9 hours ago | 120 comments
23.
Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (acm.org)
73 points by tosh 3 days ago | 3 comments
24.
AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
279 points by koshyjohn 5 hours ago | 227 comments
25.
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (ca98am79.medium.com)
383 points by ca98am79 5 hours ago | 216 comments
26.
Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
106 points by 2DcAf 10 hours ago | 29 comments
27.
Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)
497 points by skullone 1 day ago | 300 comments
28.
Issue links now open in a popup (github.com/orgs)
229 points by luckman212 11 hours ago | 122 comments
29.
Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 (dillo-browser.org)
156 points by rodarima 8 hours ago | 24 comments
30.
Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
246 points by berkeleyjunk 4 hours ago | 197 comments

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